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for color 1 and the ending point for color 2. When a radial gradient is selected, color 1
will occur in the center of the legend box and color 2 will be used at the corner. Choose
from the following color models to control how color 1 will transition to color 2 in your
gradient: RGB, HIS Clockwise, HBS Clockwise, and HBS Counterclockwise. The attached color plate entitled Matte Graphic Effects in Layouts illustrates a variety of mattes
including gradient and radial.
Neat Lines.
Neat lines and other kinds of borders can now be drawn around the entire layout. The
layout can also have a matte fill background for any area not contained in an embedded
group. As noted above, these groups can have their own borders and matte fills or can
be transparent, showing the overall layout’s matte.
Spatial Data Editor.
Tracing Elements Between Layers.
V6.50 provided the ability to snap new lines being created in the active layer so that they
terminate exactly on lines in some other layer, for example, to insure that property lines
of a parcel terminated on a river or polygons already existing in some other layer. V6.60
provides a complementary important feature to auto-trace and copy portions of lines and
polygons from other layers into the editable layer. The portion of the elements traced
and added to the active layer has new start and end points and may simply be added as
part of some new element in the active layer. The traced portion common to the 2 layers has exactly the same vertices.
This new auto-trace option is illustrated in the attached color plate entitled Auto-Tracing
Vector Line Segments. It can be used at any time during a line or polygon edit operation. For example, if you are drawing a new line that you snap to a feature in another
vector layer, you can now simply continue on to add to your line by tracing part of the
feature to which you have snapped. To add a traced portion to a line, enter the autotracing mode by choosing the new “Auto-Trace” icon in the “Mode” section of the
“Line/Polygon Edit Controls” dialog. While in this mode, simply click somewhere on the
line in the reference layer and the tool will “pick up” that section of the line between the
snap point or any previous click in the tool and extend the trace to the new position.
When you have finished tracing, or picking up, the portion of the feature of interest, simply choose another edit mode and continue drawing or otherwise extending your new
line or polygon feature. You can toggle in and out of the tracing mode as many times as
needed.
If you select a point to auto-trace to that provides more than 1 route through the reference vector object, it will not proceed (for example, around both sides of a polygon or
bubble in the line). You will then have to select a new shorter segment that specifies the
desired route (in other words, click on the leg you wish to take around the polygon and
click again on the far side of the polygon). Sometimes you will think that auto-trace is
not working as it will not proceed across a node to the point you have selected on the
line on the far side. If you zoom up on this node, you will find that it is actually a polygon
or bubble in the line and the trace is waiting for you to click on one route through it in
your zoomed in view before it can proceed.
The attached color plate illustrates how in a single sequence of operations a parcel
(which means, a polygon) can be created in a new vector layer using drawing together
with snapping and tracing from a second layer. In this example, the north and south
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