topic Re: Hatches don't export to .dwg in Revit Architecture Forum

Hatches don't export to .dwg

albracht — Fri, 21 May 2021 18:00:26 GMT

I can't get hatches to export to .dwg format with Revit 2019 or 2020. My process is importing SketchUp files to be a generic family and setting views to shaded/consistent colors/realistic mode and exporting to .dwg but hatches don't work.

I believe I was using Revit 2017 before this and it worked just fine. Is this a bug in certain Revit versions? If so, is it fixed in 2021 or 2022?

Re: Hatches don't export to .dwg

barthbradley — Fri, 21 May 2021 19:35:34 GMT

@albracht wrote:
I can't get hatches to export to .dwg format with Revit 2019 or 2020. My process is importing SketchUp files to be a generic family and setting views to shaded/consistent colors/realistic mode and exporting to .dwg but hatches don't work.

What are we taking about? That's 3 different Visual Styles - and Realistic doesn't display "hatches".

Re: Hatches don't export to .dwg

albracht — Fri, 21 May 2021 19:50:16 GMT

I was just noting that I've tried all three. I thought "realistic mode" applied a generic solid hatch (obviously doesn't include textures)

Re: Hatches don't export to .dwg

ToanDN — Sat, 22 May 2021 20:35:39 GMT

You are talking about shade and shadow. They are not hatches and they won't export to DWG. Ever.
Hatches are filled regions, materials surface/cut patterns, coarse scale cut patterns. Those can be exported to DWG as actual hatches.

Re: Hatches don't export to .dwg

albracht — Mon, 24 May 2021 16:15:18 GMT

Correct. I meant exporting model faces from Revit into .dwg hatches.

I figured out the issue as @barthbradley pointed out. You have to use the visual style "Shaded" or "Consistent Colors". "Realistic" won't work.

Re: Hatches don't export to .dwg

Anonymous — Fri, 28 May 2021 08:49:38 GMT

Hey,

So the place where I work requires a lot of transfer of files from one software platform to another(generally between Sketch Up, Rhino, and AutoCAD). Here, we use the BIMDeX plugins which helps us with the smooth transfer of the files between these platforms. You can try them as well.