- [Instructor] We're staying
in our metal plate 001.DWG file.
And in the previous video,
I showed you how to place a hatch pattern,
which is that nice magenta colored crosshatch
on the section view that you can see on the screen.
What we're going to do, we're going to change layers
in the layers panel.
So we're going to click on the little dropdown
and we're going to select gradient fill.
Now you'll notice the layer color is the same
as the hatching layer,
but you don't need to worry about a layer being used
for gradient fill,
because gradient fill has its own separate colors.
I'll show you what I mean.
We're going to go back to the draw panel
and click on the flyout where hatch is
and select gradient.
Now you'll notice, we've got the hatch creation tab up there
on the ribbon again, the contextual tab.
And you'll notice, I could go up here
and just change from gradient to pattern
and I'm back in my hatch command again.
So those icons on the ribbon just basically take you
from one different type of hatching to another.
Make sure that you've got gradient set here though
in the dropdown.
Now what we're going to do we're going to use the same workflow
as the hatch pattern but place a gradient fill.
So we're going to change some settings.
We're going to use GR Linear, which is this one here.
Don't use cylinder or inverted cylinder use GR Linear,
that one there.
It'll show as default.
If it doesn't, use the arrows to find it like so
and select GR Linear.
We're then going to change the colors of our gradient fill.
So I'm going to go here click here and select a nice pale blue
for the first color.
See the colors change in the preview here.
And then the other one is going to be a gray.
I'm going to dark gray.
Can you see that gives us a nice metallic effect
on those gradient fills?
Last but not least we're going to change the angle.
So just double click where it says zero type in 90
and press enter,
and you'll see the patterns here change in the previews,
in the thumbnails.
Make sure it is associative, which it is at the moment.
That associative should be blue and on.
Click on the little flyout here
and make sure that create separate hatches is off.
It should not be blue like that.
Click on it to switch it off
so that you create only one gradient fill.
So what we're going to do now,
we're going to do the same as we did with the hatch command.
We're going to use the pick points option.
So there's pick points on the end of the ribbon.
If it's not selected, just click on it
and we're going to come in here.
And as you can see, one, two, three
and then four, five, six.
When you're done, you can either press enter
or click on close hatch creation.
Now something you'll notice is our hatching has disappeared.
That's because we've placed our gradient fill
on top of the crosshatch hatch pattern.
How do we fix that?
Well, we're going to look at that in the next video.
So just make sure that you've come out
of the gradient fill command and that your drawing looks
like this before we go into the next video.