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tim.101799
2008-10-20, 07:32 PM
The issue with the Revit plywood fill patterns is starting to be a real pain in the a$$. After playing around with this way to much I am right back where I started from. The plywood pattern only look acceptable (notice I didn’t say correct) in cut sections for vertical and horizontal elements. But sloped elements like roofs are a different story. I my recent project I have to place a detail component on top of the roof sheathing layer in the Revit roof in every wall section. This has been a real pain in the butt. We went to Revit to avoid this type of thing. Has anyone found a solution to this?

Also, I downloaded this plywood detail components a while back and it works great for details scaled 1-1/2” or higher. But any scale smaller and it prints solid. Does anyone have a plywood hatch patter similar to this that I could edit? I would like to create a similar pattern with fewer horizontal lines and the diagonal slashed spaced further apart so it will read at smaller scales.

And one last question. Is it possible to extract / export a filled region pattern to a txt file or PAT file. I know how to bring PAT files into Revit, but can you go the other way?

hugh.69031
2008-10-21, 12:23 AM
If you are using a DRAFTING pattern you can create an equivalent MODEL pattern to rotate.

Hatchkit can scale small patterns down to be loaded by Revit at 1:1 scale but it's moot as to how small a model or drafting pattern can be before you overwhelm the view.

As to exporting to .PAT from Revit, various ways to do that are discussed here:
http://www.forums.augi.com/showthread.php?t=79856


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