Re: Array: Not 100x100

On Friday,  9 June 2006 at  0:01:07 +0700, Andrew Mustun wrote:
> For user defined patterns, please make sure to
> construct the pattern 100x100 with the origin at
> 0/0.

This is actually a problem:  Most building compoonents do not repeat in
a 100x100 grid.  It means complicated maths to get the repeats to work.
For example standard UK bricks are 22.5x7.5 nominal (i.e.including a
joint), so stretcher-bond walls have an effective repeat 22.5x15 (in
which you see one whole brick and two half-bricks above it).  Other
countries have other standards.  Paviors and tiles have yet other sizes.

A really workable pattern system would have x and y defined (for example
by a diagonal or a rectangle on a non-printing layer)

And, as I've mentioned before, it would be great to be able to scale all
insertions as well as patterns independently in object x and y axes.

> 
> Hardeep Singh Rai wrote:
> > I have observed that hatch pattern does not repeat 100x100 drawing,
> > rather it repeats by ignoring empty portion around drawn portion. For
> > that reason, grass pattern does not appear in the expected pattren. What
> > could be done to make it to repeat 100x100 sqaure without ommitted blank
> > portion.

I have had the same problem, and had to resort to placing a dot at the
top right corner of the intended repeat (in pen 0, so it barely shows).
I haven't done this recently, though so may be out of date for current
version.

richard


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