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Ever noticed how the Graphic Surface Pattern of a Material will override a Walls surface in a Realistic (ie. materiality / render check) view, but not the edges? Firstly, I don’t think Graphics values…
I previously posted a way to generate PAT files from an exported DWG file. One of the comments to that post gives a great alternative method – so unique it actually made me smile. You may have noticed…
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…
I love to see Revit tools used in somewhat unintended ways. In this case, Jay Holland divides an In-Place Mass Face and applies a Pattern Based Roof Tile to the divided surface – cool! His sample file…
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 …
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…