Can I create a filled region on sheets ( hatch)

[Anonymous]

I'm trying to add a hatch on a sheet , but the Filled Region button is gryed out ??? any ideas

[Marlec]

I think you can only make filled regions on views (any views in the project browser)... not sheets...

I think you're like me a CAD user gone Revit... a lot of thinking to change...

[CoreyDaun]

You'll have to create a Filled Region within a Generic Annotation Family and then load that into your Project for use on your Sheet Views. You can use constraints and instance parameters to control the boundary of the embedded Filled Region in the Project.

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

Thanks everyone, what I did is I created a drafting view that has some details and filled regions then I put that on the sheet.

[ShannonZ]

how did you do this? I am very new to Revit and can't figure a drafting view? (I'm using MEP)

[CoreyDaun]

Hi Shannon, and welcome to the Discussion Groups!

Drafting Views are created by going to View tab » Drafting View. It would probably be easiest to set the drawing scale to whatever your Plan View is set to. Before you create the Filled Region or Masking Region, go to Annotate tab » Detail Line. Draw a couple of random Detail Lines on this View so you can better locate it on the Sheet View.

Open your Sheet View. Locate your new Drafting View in the Project Browser, and drag & drop it from there onto your Sheet View. Overlay it on top of your other Viewport. Next you'll have to get rid of the View Title, so select the Viewport of the Drafting View and click "Type Properties" at the top of Properties. Click "Duplicate..." and name this new Type to something with "(No View Title)" and click 'OK'. Now Set 'Show Title' to "No" and click 'OK'.

Now, back on your Sheet, select the Viewport of the Drafting View again, right-click, and select "Activate View". This will enable you to delete those random lines and draw in whatever Filled Regions or Masking Regions you need. When completed, right-click and select "Deactivate View".

If you run into any issues or problems, don't hesitate to ask!

[ShannonZ]

That was SO much help! Thank you very much! This stuff is just so not cut and dry! (I suppose I used to think about AutoCad too 🙂 )

Again, Thank You! I may be back as I keep running into these little problems!! 

Shannon 

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

Imagine my surprise when after years of using Revit I found out that filled regions can be placed on a sheet (not on a view but in the sheet itself).  How did this happen?  It was baffling to me that this could be done since the filled region is greyed out...  After a little playing the best way I found is to create hatch in AutoCAD and then import the dwg into the sheet. Explode the dwg and you will now have a filled region in the sheet.  Edit the boundary and you have now placed a filled region on the sheet.  You can now copy and paste this on any other sheets in the project or in any other project.  This is very beneficial for doing key plans that have many different shaded regions.  No more needing to create that key plan (Generic Annotation) with many confusing visibility parameters.

This works all the way back to 2012 and yet I wonder why the filled region button is still greyed out and unable to be used in 2015?????

[Anonymous]

Thank you thank you!  Yes this works like a charm!  I never knew this and I'm a Revit 7 year old.

Just like he said, new cad doument, draw a rectangle, put in a solid hatch, IMPORT (not link...so you can explode it), and it becomes a solid region that you can edit the boundary just like normal.  Common Revit, fix yourself!

[Anonymous]

I have an idea...Autodesk could program Revit such that filled regions can function on sheets.  The scale of the hatch would be full scale.  Problem solved.  No?  Crazy workarounds every time?  Okay.  I will go back to pounding my head on my desk and questioning my career choice.

[Anonymous]

I believe you are only able to do it in elevation views. If you do it in elevation, it should show up on the sheets with the referring views. For example, I did a filled region in my North Elevation.. The sheet "north elevation" should have the filled region in correspondence with the elevation.

Good Luck! 

[Johan_Ekstrom]

An easy way to work around this in Revit: 

- Draw a Detail Line on the sheet

- Create a Detail Group of it.

- Switch to a floor plan and place the same group.

- Edit the group and add an Filled Region. 

- Go back to the sheet and Ungroup the Detail Group created.

- Now you have a Filled Region on your sheet and you can copy/paste it to other sheets if you need to.

[Anonymous]

Tired this, however the field region is acting transparent, and the view port is visible through it. Properties are set right, any suggestions?

[Anonymous]

I looked around the thread and I see couple of solutions, however. I have searched littler bit more and came to a solution which is basically most convention, for me at least. Create a family with no view-port, load it in to a project and on sheet where the title is not needed just use this out of properties options?  Just my 2cents. 

[Anonymous]

I believe your first option is way better than this one (using generic annotations) simple because, drafting views have a scale which means that if you have a drafting view with a scale of 1:100

and you have a plan view with a scale of 1:50

you will have the scale label in your titleblock reading the scale as "as indicated" instead of writing 1:50 as the plan's scale.

[Anonymous]

This one is the best solution, we always use it

[Anonymous]

Hello 🙂

I have tried to make a Drafting View. But the hatching

shows only behind the Key figure on the sheet.

How do I solve this?

[ToanDN]

Two approaches:

1.  Create a Legend to draw the filled region.  Legend can be placed on multiple sheets.  See attached.

2.  Draw the filled region in the Titleblock family and add a visibility parameter to turn it on or off in project.

[Anonymous]

Thank You for Your answer, but I need the hatching in front of the Key figure/

on the top of a part of the Key figure I have inserted - not behind!

[ToanDN]

That is even easier.  Just draw the Filled region directly on the Key Figure view.  Make the Filled Region type transparent.