Filling shapes

Any shape may be filled with a colored pattern (including the uniform pattern) by first selecting the shape and then choosing the appropriate pattern in the "Fill" tabpane of the Attributes Editor.

The following patterns are available when exporting to PSTricks:

Other tips that may prove useful:

  1. You can also fill an OPEN polygon like
    open polygon
    which results in
    filled open polygon
  2. A triangle made up of three independant lines is not a closed polygon, so that it cannot be filled as is; the workaround consists in selecting the three lines, right-clicking to open the context popup menu, and selecting Join selected curves. Now the three lines form a single path that can be filled like any other path.
  3. A ring section ring section filled can be filled the same way: simply draw the corresponding arcs, select them, and then select Join selected curves (arcs are then converted to Bezier curves on-the-fly).
  4. A ring ring can be filled by drawing to circles, making sure that the innermost circle sits on top (by invoking forward in the popup-menu), and then filling the outermost circle in whatever color you may wish, and finally the innermost one in white.