Style Examples

 

 

 

Example: Format a Drawing using the Style Pane

In this example we provide a first, step by step look at how to format areas in a drawing using the Style pane.  We can specify the same formatting for all areas or use a field to automatically set formatting, a process usually known as thematic formatting.

Example: Format the Size of City Points by Population

A common GIS task is to format the size of points in a drawing based on some value.  For example, the size of points that represent cities might be formatted based on the value of the city's population, with cities that have larger populations being marked by larger point icons.  This is an example of thematic formatting and is easy to do using the Style dialog.

Example: Formatting Tricks

The visualization capabilities of Manifold using Style can be exploited to provide many visual effects.   This topic provides some examples of how to use Style in unexpected ways to create a range of more elaborate effects.

Example: How Not to Format a Drawing

When using Style to format a drawing it is a really bad idea to use the same color for objects that is used for the background color.    It can also be a bad idea to use transparent color for objects.   This topic illustrates why.

Example: Add, Delete and Edit Thematic Formatting Intervals

This topic provides a step by step example of adding, deleting and editing intervals in the Style dialog that are used for thematic formatting.

Example: Style Overrides

Working with style overrides to individually style areas, to use or not use style overrides, to find all records using style overrides and to clear style overrides.

Example: Complex Point Style using a Circle Box

This example creates a complex point style, which uses a variety of different colors within the different effects tabs in the Point Style dialog.

Example: Point Style using Move and Rotate

The Move parameter for symbols allows us to move symbols in an angular direction even as we rotate them.   This example shows how to create point symbols that are clock faces with hands, using Move and Rotate.

Example: Line Style with Multiple Effects

We can use effects from all of the Line Style dialog tabs to create a more complex line style.  This example shows how to create a line style with an arrowhead symbol at the end of the line, a symbol at the beginning of the line and accessory lines in different colors to the left and right of the main line.

Example: Fill Areas with Bitmap Images

We can use bitmap images as "fill" symbology for areas, including for the fill of the area itself, or as fill for Inner or Outer effects.  In this example we use Style Overrides to fill different areas in a map of provinces with a different bitmap image pattern.

Example: Use Repeating Images to Fill Areas

Areas are often filled with bitmap images that form a seamless pattern when tiled.  If we like, we can use any bitmap image that can be used as a symbol, which will repeat within the area.

Example: Inner and Outer Effects using a Bitmap

The Inner and Outer effects with area styles can use bitmap images for fills.   We first illustrate an Outer effect using a bitmap, and then add an Inner effect.

Example: Style Properties in the mfd_meta Table

Style properties for drawings such as colors for areas are stored in human readable JSON values as properties in the mfd_meta system table.   This example shows how we can copy formatting from one drawing to another by simply copying values between records in the mfd_meta table.