Pattern Editing Tool

Deprecated since version 4.0: The pattern editing tool has been removed in 4.0, currently there’s no way to edit pattern fills for vectors.

The Pattern editing tool works on Vector Shapes that use a Pattern fill. On these shapes, the Pattern Editing Tool allows you to change the size, ratio and origin of a pattern.

On Canvas-editing

You can change the origin by click dragging the upper node, this is only possible in Tiled mode.

You can change the size and ratio by click-dragging the lower node. There’s no way to constrain the ratio in on-canvas editing, this is only possible in Original and Tiled mode.

Tool Options

There are several tool options with this tool, for fine-tuning:

First there are the Pattern options.

Repeat:

This can be set to:

Original:

This will only show one, unstretched, copy of the pattern.

Tiled (Default):

This will let the pattern appear tiled in the x and y direction.

Stretch:

This will stretch the Pattern image to the shape.

Reference point:

Pattern origin. This can be set to:

• Top-left

• Top

• Top-right

• Left

• Center

• Right

• Bottom-left

• Bottom

• Bottom-right.

Reference Point Offset:

For extra tweaking, set in percentages.

X:

Offset in the X coordinate, so horizontally.

Y:

Offset in the Y coordinate, so vertically.

Tile Offset:

The tile offset if the pattern is tiled.

Pattern Size:

Fine Tune the resizing of the pattern.

W:

The width, in pixels.

H:

The height, in pixels.

And then there’s Patterns, which is a mini pattern docker, and where you can pick the pattern used for the fill.