[GRASSLIST:304] Re: hatching

[Radim Blazek]

On Friday 06 June 2003 00:04, Miha STAUT wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>
> Has anybody of the developers ever thought to add to the d.vect.area and
> ps.map a hatching facility. I think it is very useful if you can print on
> the screen (and on the printer too) more than just one aerial variable. Is
> this difficult? I know ArcView 3.1 has it but overprints one hatch over
> another so that the lower layers are not visible.
>
> I had experience with 8 layers derived from r.poly which were quite big
> (between 50000 and 100000 lines). All the CAD programs stucked. Arcview
> made it in a flash just as probably GRASS would (the same way as colour
> fills the polygons).
>
> Should I add this to the wish list?
> Can anybody indicate a program where broad and fast hatching facilities are
> available?

It is possible to hatch areas in ps.map by 'pat' option.
(usability on usual GRASS level :-)

http://mpa.itc.it/radim/g50/pattern.png

Radim