Hatch/Fill Patterns

[funkman]

Gooday one and all on this Sunday morning! I have two questions:

1. I am trying to find out if anyone has a pattern as attached.

The first is for a wall model pattern that has (seemingly) random lengths with a constant height between.

The second is also a model pattern for a (seemingly) random lengths and heights.

2. I would like to view .pat files without having to import a pattern file to view in Revit. Is rather laborious. Does anyone know of a pattern file viewer? And one that works with x64 - the hatchkit from cadro.com does not work with x64 machines.

Thanks all!!

[Melarch]

Do you have these patterns in an AutoCAD hatch pattern file or can you go to the Internet and search Revit City or Internet in general for AutoCAD hatch patterns to match your illustration.

Once you get an AutoCAD hatch pattern file copy and paste the code for the hatch pattern to the Revit hatch pattern file. Read the instruction at the beginning of the file in order to change the starting two lines of information to provide on the first line an asterick (*) the pattern name followed by a comma (,) the pattern description. On the second line start with a semi-colon ( percentage symbol (%) the word TYPE (no spaces) an equal symbol (=) followed by the word MODEL.

Example - AutoCAD Hatch Pattern
*AR-BRSTD, Standard brick elevation stretcher bond
0, 0,0, 0,2.667
90, 0,0, 2.667,4, 2.667,-2.667

Example - Revit Hatch Pattern
*AR-BRSTD, Standard brick elevation stretcher bond
;%TYPE=MODEL
0, 0,0, 0,2.667
90, 0,0, 2.667,4, 2.667,-2.667

This is how you can include any pattern from an AutoCAD hatch pattern file

[funkman]

Thanks so much Mel for that, that would have taken some time. Although, I don't use Autocad, and never have so I don't have any patterns from there. I have looked at Revitcity hoping I would find a hatch to use, but couldn't see any that were apt.

I downloaded a heap of hatch patterns, but it is quite difficult loading each one up and looking at each one individually in Revit, that is why I was hoping there was a viewer available for these things. Anyway, none of those patterns had one that was similar to the one I need, and I have no idea about how to make a pattern.

[Elmo]

Hi there, bring in this family into a project. It will bring in a lot of hatch patterns but I do know that it has the ones you are looking for already done.

[Martin P]

There are quite a lot of hatch pattern creation pieces of software you can get, but none I have found for free!! I think they are all pretty cheap though? Most will create the Autocad types, but as Mel has shown above its easy to convert them...

[jcdecastro]

When I edit the Revit pattern file in (c programfiles revit9 data) it doesnt update in when I open a new drawing. Do I have to import the patterns one by one into a template then overwrite the template?

[Martin P]

yes, you have to go hatchpattern>custom> then import - should work then.

[funkman]

Hi there, bring in this family into a project. It will bring in a lot of hatch patterns but I do know that it has the ones you are looking for already done.

wow, thanks Clinton!

[Elmo]

wow, thanks Clinton!

Pleasure Funkman!

[Melarch]

Try StoneCAD on the internet, they have a bunch of stone related hatch patterns and here is an AutoCAD hatch pattern file I have used and added to for years when AutoCAD/ADT wa my primary CAD software and now use to import into Revit hatch patterns. But everyone who responded is correct that there are some inexpensive Hatch creation programs that will make life easy to create hatch patterns on the fly without owning or understanding AutoCAD's hatch pattern development.