pat file location and ini file

[Ning Zhou]

for unknown reason, my modified pat file (under C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Revit Architecture 2011\Data\) doesn't work, i've already specified type of Model or Drafting for each new hatch pattern, maybe need to specify a path in ini file? or missed something else?

[Ning Zhou]

looks like new pat has to be imported one by one manually, can anyone confirm it? thanks

Edit: besides, anyone has stone pat files to share, i just need a few typical ones.

[Alfredo Medina]

I have not tried, but I think you should be able to copy paste hatch pattern code between files, to customize the default Revit .pat file. (Not tested, though).

Anyway, just in case, attached, there are some 4 stone model patterns from AutoCAD

[twiceroadsfool]

You can customize them a lot, by copying and pasting. Thats what ive always done.

Revit doesnt path to .pat files the way AutoCAD does, you load them in the Project or template by manually locating the .pat file. Once its *in* the file, its there.

[Ning Zhou]

thanks Alfredo for your pat file.

thanks Aaron for your input, i assume the new revit.pat and/or revit metric.pat should take effect when i restart revit, but it's not, so i have to manually import each new pattern, looks like that's the way Revit works.

[twiceroadsfool]

You dont have to restart Revit, just rebrowse to the file when youre in the Custom > Import dialogue box. Yeah, it doesnt remember where it is... It doesnt path at all.

[Alfredo Medina]

I see your point now. You were expecting (as I was) to see an updated drop down list of hatch patterns immediately after making changes to the .pat file. But the list updates only after importing patterns, one by one. Yup, it seems that this is the way it works.