Ein neues Symbol erstellen
Neue Symbole können erstellt werden indem man Neu im Symbol-Menü auswählt. Das Dialogfenster Neues Symbol erscheint. Selektieren Sie einen der sechs Symboltypen und klicken Sie auf die Schaltfläche OK.
Ein neues Punktsymbol erstellen
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Ein neues Liniensymbol erstellen
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Ein neues Flächensymbol erstellen
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Ein neues Textsymbol erstellen
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Ein neues Linientextsymbol erstellen
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Ein neues Rechtecksymbol erstellen
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Schaltfläche bearbeiten
Choose the Icon command in the Symbol menu to edit the icon of the selected symbol. Alternatively, you can click the symbol in the symbol box with the right mouse button and choose the Icon command. The Icon Editor dialog box appears.
Draw the icon in the 22x22 matrix. You can use different drawing tools:
Pen: Draw single pixels
Line: Draw a straight line
Rectangle: Draw a rectangle
Filled Rectangle: Draw a filled rectangle
Ellipse: Draw an ellipse
Filled Circle: Draw a filled ellipse
Fill: Fill an area (bordering pixels with the same color) with the selected color.
Before drawing choose one of the 26 colors.
Alternatively, you can choose a predefined icon from the Symbol icon palette. Choose one of the colors from the color palette to change the color of the symbol icons. Select an icon and click the Use selected icon button or double-click to overwrite the current one.
You can use the following editing tools:
Pick Color: Pick a color from the 22x22 drawing area
Select: With this tool you can select some pixels. After the selection you can move them or copy and paste them.
Rotate Counterclockwise: Rotate the whole icon counterclockwise
Rotate Clockwise: Rotate the whole icon clockwise
Copy: Copy a selection of pixels
Paste: Paste a selection of pixels
Open Paint: This button opens the Paint application of Windows. You can draw an icon in Paint. Make sure, your Paint document has the dimensions 22x22 pixels to get a satisfying result. When you are finished with drawing, select and copy the icon. Now you can paste it in the Icon Editor of OCAD.
There is an easy way to get an icon for a point object. Simply use the Make screenshot for symbol icon function in the Symbol Editor.
Neue Farbe definieren
When displaying maps, OCAD uses the colors in the color table in a specific order; objects which use the lowest colors in the table are drawn first, objects which use the colors at the top of the table are drawn last. The advantage of this technique is that lines or areas can be omitted automatically. This is especially beneficial when drawing road junctions (cf. below).
- Select New in the File menu.
- In the New Map dialog window, double-click empty Symbolset.ocd.
- To edit the color table, select Colors in the Map menu.
- To create a new color, select Add in the color table and enter the name (e.g. pictogram white foreground) and CMYK value (e.g. blue 0/0/0/0) of the color.
- You can change the position of the colors in the color table by clicking the Move up and Move down buttons.
Roads are often displayed using two lines with a color filling between these lines. If two roads intersect, the side lines in the area where the roads cross each other must be omitted.
If two roads intersect at an under or overpass, only the lines of the lower road should be omitted. By moving the position of the color upwards or downwards, you will be able to influence these effects:
- Intersections: If the color of the filling is located above the color of the side lines in the color table, the side lines in the area where the roads cross each other will be omitted automatically.
- Overpass: To ensure the side lines are not omitted automatically, a new color must be defined for the side lines of the overpass. This color must be located above the filling color in the color table.
Learn more about colors on the Farben page.
Symbole in Symbolkasten markieren
To select one symbol, click the desired symbol.
To select a consecutive group of symbols:
- Click the first symbol.
- Press and hold down the Shift key on the keyboard and click the last symbol.
To select a non-consecutive group of symbols:
- Click the first symbol.
- Press and hold down the Ctrl key on the keyboard and click all the additional symbols.
Präferenzen
Default symbol folder: Set the default symbol folder here. When a new file is created the symbol sets available in the New Map dialog box are loaded from this folder.
Symbol box:
- Selected symbol blink: If this option is activated the icon border of the selected symbol in the symbol box is blinking.
- Lock symbol position: If this option is activated it is not possible to move symbols with drag and drop in the symbol box
- Auto select symbol when selecting object: If this option is activated and you select an object on the drawing area, the corresponding symbol is automatically selected.
If you would like to assign a color which does not yet exist, to the new symbol, a new color will need to be defined. Each symbol must have a unique symbol number between 0.001 and 999999.999.
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