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Rigid Insulation Pattern (Triangular insulation pattern)

haider.al-marayati — Wed, 23 Dec 2020 17:17:46 GMT

Hi,

I've been wrestling with creating a triangular insulation pattern, which denotes rigid insulation (xps, eps, hard rock wool etc.) in our region.

Through a bit of hassle, I can create a material pattern that works correctly in one scale (per element thickness, in the case of the image for example it's a 100 mm panel) at a time by using a diagonal hatch pattern with the correct scaling like below and aligning it with the element:

However, when you start playing with detailing views of a different scale, it goes all out of whack:

I've solved this by creating a solid white region (as shown on the top element) and drawing the rigid insulation using detail lines. Which as you can imagine is beyond infuriating.

I would love to be able to have a rigid insulation pattern that scales correctly in all views. Also, a different insulation annotation pattern (as well as the existing insulation batt pattern) with a 45° triangular pattern would be perfect for a lot of detailing work.

Here's a detail image of a steel-wool-steel element to show you how the pattern is used. The regular batt pattern is a soft insulation pattern.

Re: Rigid Insulation Pattern (Triangular insulation pattern)

syman2000 — Wed, 23 Dec 2020 18:00:12 GMT

If you are doing it for detail, you may want to use filter and override the cut pattern to larger size. Sadly the drafting pattern doesn't have one size fits all. It may look great larger scale and it scale differently at detail scale.

Re: Rigid Insulation Pattern (Triangular insulation pattern)

syman2000 — Wed, 23 Dec 2020 18:16:45 GMT

As well if you are using wall, you can assign two different hatch for course and medium/fine detail. For course you set the hatch to the one you have currently.

For medium/fine detail, change that to detail scale hatch.

You can override the wall detail if your current view is set to medium/fine detail for larger scale drawing.

Re: Rigid Insulation Pattern (Triangular insulation pattern)

TripleM-Dev.net — Thu, 24 Dec 2020 16:37:09 GMT

If you want the Revit element cut view like in the AutoCad drawing create a custom pattern, the AutoCAD patterns can be used in Revit.

Create new Fill pattern (drafting) > Option Custom > Browse to pat file, and set the import scale to desired value.

Also see: To Create a Simple Hatch Pattern

Attached a sample drafting pat (pattern) file with a 30-60 degree angle (units in 1mm).

For example (see image) a wall 50mm thick, at a scale of 1:100, the scale would be 0.5

Override (view filter or so) the walls cut pattern for views with other scales then the main one (in this case 1:100)

- Michel

ps. Remove the ".txt", ".pat" files are blocked here!

Re: Rigid Insulation Pattern (Triangular insulation pattern)

Ric_Weber — Fri, 28 Apr 2023 17:13:26 GMT

See the following Revit ideas for various ideas regarding cut patterns and other items. Vote these up!

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/revit-ideas/use-model-pattern-type-within-cut-pattern/idi-p/8184873

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/revit-ideas/different-patterns-for-horizontal-vs-vertical-cuts/idi-p/7417295

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/revit-ideas/cut-pattern-in-materials/idi-p/6350523