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How to Add Color or Pattern Fills to Your Drawing

Use the Fill tool to add color or pattern fills to closed areas of your drawing. This is useful for highlighting rooms, materials, zones, or sections of a layout.

Overview

Use the Fill tool to add color or pattern fills to closed areas of your drawing. This is useful for highlighting rooms, materials, zones, or sections of a layout.

Availability

  • Supported Platforms: iOS, Android, Windows

  • Web: Not supported (drawing tools are not available on Web)

Steps

  1. Tap the Fill icon on the right-hand toolbar.

  2. Choose a fill mode from the submenu:

    • Pick Internal Point: Tap once inside a fully sealed (closed) area to fill it.

    • Select Boundary: Tap the individual edges of a sealed object. Once enough edges are selected, the enclosed area fills automatically.

  3. Tap Fill Style at the bottom of the screen to open Fill Settings, where you can set:

    • Transparency

    • Fill Type: Solid Color or Pattern

    • Scale and Rotation (for patterns)

    • Color

    • Border line weight
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  4. Tap the boundary toggle at the bottom of the screen to control how shapes inside the area are handled:

    • Shape as Boundary (default): Shapes act as boundaries and are excluded from the fill.

    • Tap it again to switch to Shape Ignored: Shapes are ignored, and the fill passes through them.

  5. Tap Cancel (X) to back out of the fill operation at any point before it's applied.

Change an Existing Fill's Settings

  1. Tap the fill to make it active.

  2. Tap Fill Style to adjust its settings.


Tips

  • Fills only apply to fully closed (sealed) shapes.

  • Use Fill Style to adjust how the fill appears.

  • Enable Shape Ignored if you do not want certain shapes included in the fill area.

  • Tap Undo to remove a fill you recently applied.

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