topic Re: Fuzzy Solid Fill Hatching in Revit Architecture Forum

Fuzzy Solid Fill Hatching

Anonymous — Wed, 05 Feb 2020 14:51:14 GMT

We are having a problem with our logo:

When I create a Solid Fill hatch for our titleblock (regardless if I use 'Invisible Lines' or 'Thin Lines') the hatch does not extend all the way to the defined boundary. The first snippet is a printed PDF and the second is within Revit.

I have tried all possible Print Settings and even on Presentation Quality the hatching is still fuzzy when vector plotting. I also tried Importing a CAD solid fill hatch with the same result. I have tried two different PDF Drivers (PDF Creator and BioPDF)

We have received comments on the way our Company Logo looks when zooming in and it looks unprofessional.

The radius of the first arc is 21/64"

Has anyone experienced this issue?

Last resort would to be use an image but I don't know why Revit can't properly fill in a Solid Hatch region.

Re: Fuzzy Solid Fill Hatching

hmunsell — Wed, 05 Feb 2020 16:21:13 GMT

this is normal when dealing with solid fills and arcs. my company logo does the same thing, but when it is printed normal size you cant tell. you can only tell if someone zooms way in to the electronic image.

in a PDF, i have to zoom in 200% to start seeing it....

Re: Fuzzy Solid Fill Hatching

MostafaElashmawy — Wed, 05 Feb 2020 19:45:17 GMT

Why don't you remove the boundary.

keep the fill only.

Re: Fuzzy Solid Fill Hatching

Anonymous — Wed, 05 Feb 2020 20:02:44 GMT

That was first solution I thought of and tried. The result was still the same and the arcs were not defined.

Re: Fuzzy Solid Fill Hatching

ToanDN — Wed, 05 Feb 2020 20:40:02 GMT

Edit the filled region and split segment the arches. The more segments the better.

below is an example of a 1" radius filled circle with nearly no gaps between the boundary and the fill.

Re: Fuzzy Solid Fill Hatching

hmunsell — Wed, 05 Feb 2020 20:32:18 GMT

@Anonymous i don't know about you, but in my case, In the family it looks fine. the gaping only happens when you place the family in a view/sheet.

the top image is in the family, the bottom image is after it is placed in a view.

Re: Fuzzy Solid Fill Hatching

ToanDN — Wed, 05 Feb 2020 20:30:46 GMT

@hmunsell wrote:

@Anonymous i don't know about you, but in my case, In the family it looks fine. the gaping only happens when you place the family in a view/sheet.

Of course, sheets matter. The screenshot is from a Sheet.

Re: Fuzzy Solid Fill Hatching

hmunsell — Wed, 05 Feb 2020 20:36:42 GMT

that image above (bottom image) is from a detail view, the original one i posted is from a title block on a sheet.

Re: Fuzzy Solid Fill Hatching

ToanDN — Wed, 05 Feb 2020 20:43:00 GMT

Don't you think OP want the titleblock's filled regions to print correctly from a sheet?

Re: Fuzzy Solid Fill Hatching

hmunsell — Wed, 05 Feb 2020 20:46:09 GMT

Absolutely :-). i was just pointing out that its odd that in the family it looks fine, no gaping no mater how close you zoom in. it is only after you load it into a project file and place it in a view that it acts like that.

Re: Fuzzy Solid Fill Hatching

martijn_pater — Wed, 05 Feb 2020 21:25:51 GMT

Try to offset the edges inwards and then apply thick(er) lines on the edges instead of invisible lines, that might work...