I am on Relese 2013 and it is still an issue. I just sent a support request to Autodesk prior to reading this. Still have not heard back but it has only been a few hours. To have work arounds for this is not a simple solution. It is not just plywood that it happens on. We actually had a contractor ask us why we only put the ct tile on two sides. Turns out the tile on the other two sides the pattern didnt show up because it was in the same direction as the tile. almost cost us some money if it was not caught in time. This needs to be figured out by Autodesk.
SH
Actually opening the plywood detail family and creating a duplicate filled region with a rotated pattern and aligning it and locking it works great for the time being. Then create two new visibility Yes / No instance parameters to control which one is on and which was is off.
The trick is you cannot just rotate the fill pattern in the detail familiy any more than you can in the project file. First you have to modify the actual revit.pat file then you have to import that pat file and apply a pattern to a filled region type. One for the horizontal plywood and one for the vertical plywood fill region type.
Below are my two new fill patterns within the *.pat file. Note the only thing that is different are the angles where I simply added 90 degress to the original numbers.
These are the metric version BTW
*Plywood Horizontal, Wood: Plywood pattern
;%TYPE=DRAFTING
0, 0, 0, 0, 1.2495
315, 0, 0, 0.88353, 0.88353, 1.76706, -1.76706
45, 0, 0, 0.88353, -0.88353, 1.76706, -1.76706
*Plywood Vertical, Wood: Plywood pattern
;%TYPE=DRAFTING
90, 0, 0, 0, 1.2495
45, 0, 0, 0.88353, 0.88353, 1.76706, -1.76706
135, 0, 0, 0.88353, -0.88353, 1.76706, -1.76706
I just made a model pattern from an existing pattern by changing = DRAFTING to = MODEL in the Revit.pat file. I made custom plywood pattern from this model hatch definition. You have to use a scale that doesn't give you an error. I used this pattern in my plywood detail family and it works perfectly. I had to align the pattern in the family so it is centered in the plywood.
Still doesn't look like it's resolved since the original post in 2007...
ToanDF, When I load in your detail component family file I only see the two ends. The pattern and the other two sides of the rectangle representing the plywood section aren't visible.
Any idea why?
@ToanDN wrote:I created my own plywood family and pattern to avoid all the troubles.
The pattern was built based on feet-inch unit. You are Metric by any chances.
Our HatchKit Add-In for Revit can clone patterns completely within Revit allowing patterns with different scales and rotations to be created on the fly from existing patterns without recourse to originating .PAT text files. Attributes such as Orientation, Type and Name can also be changed at will.
cheers,
Hugh Adamson
This detail component is a life saver! Thanks you so much for creating this. Do you by chance have the .pat file that you used to make the hatch for this detail component? I want to make some minor adjustments and I can't find the associated .pat file that came with the family you shared.
Thanks in advance.