Surface Pattern Files

[david.jennings]

Hi,

Is there anywhere online where I could find more surface patterns for Revit?

There must be something online similar to a Cad blocks exchange site, but for Revit, but I'm yet to come across one.

(btw: At the minute, I'm looking for a blockwork pattern of 150high x 440wide, with every fifth or so course being 75x440, in stone, if anyone can help.)

Thanks

[dhurtubise]

Did you try Revit city ?
Another way of doing it is to create the pattern in acad, then import that into a blank project and explode it. It now appears as a pattern in Revit. Simply use Transfer Project Standards to gt into your working project. Don't so it in your working project since the explode would also bring a lot of unnecessary stuff.

[sbrown]

Read the revit.pat file in your program directory. You will see any acad hatch pattern can be used as a revit model pattern by adding a single line of text in front of it. %type=model. Here is my file for your use, it has lots of patterns.

[david.jennings]

Thanks both,

Our previous CAD system was Microstaion, which I think has a different way of handling patterns etc, so our old library is now redundant - so thanks very much for that Zip file.

I shall have a good browse on Revit City this afternoon - thanks for the tips!

[hugh.69031]

Microstation stores patterns in .CEL files (and, since V8, in .PAT files such as archpa.pat).
You can edit .PAT files (as mentioned above) to allow them to be accepted as Revit MODEL patterns.

Otherwise you may find some of the hatch pattern collections linked to here of interest
http://www.cadro.com.au/hatchkit/HatLinks.html

- or you could draw your own pattern (such as in the attached file) and possibly save some of the time spent searching for a suitable pattern.


Hugh Adamson
www.cadro.com.au/hatchkit/ (http://www.cadro.com.au/hatchkit/)