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Let’s say you have some linked RVT files and you are using ‘By Linked View’ for visibility. What if you just want to hide off a single type of Filled Region from that Linked View? Is it possible? Yep,…
You can use HATCHGENERATEBOUNDARY in AutoCAD to recreate the boundary of a Filled Region that you exported to DWG. You may be asking “why!” Well, if you have a bunch of Filled Regions and their sketch…
Have you noticed this in 2014? If I can borrow some imagery from Caddman13 on the Autodesk Forum, this is what it means:Unticked: Ticked:…
If you have problems with your Revit Filled Region hatch patterns displaying grayscale when they should be black, its probably because Revit thinks that the lines are too close together for the scale …
You have a Revit file with some custom hatch patterns (filled regions / fill patterns) in it. You want to turn them into PAT files for re-use in AutoCAD or some other drafting program. Here’s how: Mak…
Do you love or hate Revit Fill Patterns? Here is a collection of some tips and tricks related to Fill Patterns, or ‘hatching’ in AutocadSpeak. Overview On your system, open up your Revit installation …
Did you know that the Project Browser Families node provides access to more than just traditional component families? Check out this video to see how you can use the Project Browser to quickly select …
The German Autodesk AEC team have put together a step by step tutorial on exporting a PAT file from AutoCAD and then importing it into Revit. They have even shown how to correctly scale the imported P…
The Revit Clinic has posted a nice little display order workaround for Filled Regions in Title Blocks. I have a feeling that this workaround may also be useful in other situations… 1. Start a new Revi…