coloring areas in a 2d drawing

I would like to color various areas in a 2d landscape drawing in different
colors.
I seem to only be able to find information about changing line colors. Other
information seems to be about 3d models and i don't seem to be able to apply
it to a 2d surface. is there a way to color various areas in different
clours in a 2d drawing
thanks
leon

 

ACAD is not really intended as a 'rendering' application, especially in 2D.
Depending on your printer, you might
be able to get something with some very clever and extensive hatching, but
I'd suggest picking up another application
which can accept vectors from acad but is designed as a graphics program,
like CorelDraw e.g.,
especially if you're going to do this frequently. (You've only got 255
colors in acad, 200 of them crappy.)

Even if you'll only do it once in a while, you could pick
up Corel Essentials for under $200 and, using HPGL plt files, you can get
vectors into that with a little extra work,
and you'll get their bitmap editor as well.

 

Autocad 2005 added gradient fills for hatching which is nice, still
not the same as a presentation package, but better.

-TIm

 

Many thanks for your suggestions
I was very suprised that i could easily colour areas, as i had bought a
cheap colour plotter
thanks again
leon