topic Re: How to control material Hatch pattern line weights ? in Revit Structure Forum

How to control material Hatch pattern line weights ?

Anonymous — Thu, 15 Nov 2018 01:03:28 GMT

Hello from Egypt,
How to control (material) Hatch pattern line weights ? its weight is always the same as host instance.
Only (Filled region) Hatch pattern line weights can be controlled.
I looked for solutions and found no solution at all !
Attached image explains the problem.

Re: How to control material Hatch pattern line weights ?

L.Maas — Thu, 15 Nov 2018 11:26:59 GMT

There is limited control of the lineweights of patterns.

It is scale dependent and controlled by the lineweight matrix (row 1)

HERE a blog article discussing this topic in more detail and some potential ways to work with this

Re: How to control material Hatch pattern line weights ?

Anonymous — Thu, 15 Nov 2018 13:46:30 GMT

As i understood, there's no solution. Changing the instance and its pattern line weight with each other is the only solution. Is that right ?

Re: How to control material Hatch pattern line weights ?

L.Maas — Fri, 16 Nov 2018 10:19:40 GMT

At the end of the blog the writer gives a potential workaround.

What does it all mean?
This is another example of the software writers deciding what is good for us! We have no choice or control that I can figure out. All I can recommend is to reserve weight 1 for material pattern hatching. It is probably wise to put all filled region hatching in weight 1 too, so that when you apply those nasty little filled region patches in section, they blend together. Normally I do not approve of that, but when it comes to pads and earth hatching in section it is pretty much unavoidable!

Re: How to control material Hatch pattern line weights ?

Davidminkov_work — Sat, 19 Oct 2024 19:07:25 GMT

Very helpful, thanks