On Friday 25 September 2015 20:05:54 Brynn wrote:
You're talking about the arrow with the word "Vent" in it? Oh, then you're talking about the Paint Bucket tool!
Yes (well, I am. I don't know about the OP). Sorry for the confusion.
Why don't you just select that path, which forms the arrow, and use a regular Fill?
I would in a real-file situation but I wanted to use this example to explain a limitation of the paint bucket tool.
it, and then re-open the other layers. But the more appropriate vector approach would be to fill the closed path. In my opinion :-)
Indeed this is a bad example because that specific path is closed. But suppose there is no paths at all, just empty space you want to fill. That's the function of the bucket tool. But the bucket tool has no layer context. It cannot act according to the active layer alone. It takes account all limiting entities of the drawing.
Cheers, JFL