Cant Scale UP Hidden Line Version of a Material

[ldaenen]

I have scaled up the material texture of this stone pattern but it still shows as smaller than I need it to be  in the drafted 'hidden line' mode , I followed these instructions : https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/revit/learn-explore/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/Revit-How-...

Is there a way to scale up the drafted 2d

texture the same way as the colored bump or photographic texture? 

 

 

Much Thanks for any pointers. 

Luke 

[ToanDN]

That article only shows you how to scale the appearance texture. 

To scale the surface pattern, you will need to edit the pat. file.  For this complex texture, I would edit it using pyRevit, HatchKit, or Pattycake's online editor.

[ldaenen · Accepted solution]

Hey Thanks! 

Pattycakes didn't work for this problem but worked for another material I was trying to make .  It kept crashing when I tried to upload the .pat file but was able to make the other from scratch

I solved my problem by going into the .PAT file and deleting the text  line at the beginning with the semi colon followed by the word 'model'     then uploading it as a Detail Hatch Pattern Not a Model Hatch Pattern. 

once the  material was created I could go back and edit the scale of it simply. 

wasn't aware of the distinction between model and detail till now. 

Thanks again 

[ToanDN]

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@ldaenen wrote:

I solved my problem by going into the .PAT file and deleting the text  line at the beginning with the semi colon followed by the word 'model'     then uploading it as a Detail Hatch Pattern Not a Model Hatch Pattern. 

once the  material was created I could go back and edit the scale of it simply. 

wasn't aware of the distinction between model and detail till now. 

Thanks again 

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Be aware that drafting patterns (or detail patterns as you called them) will show with the same size on paper regardless of the view scale.  So if you place a 1:500 site elevation and a 1:10 detail elevation on a sheet, the pattern is exactly the same size on both elevations.

[ldaenen]

Ahh yeah thats it, ' Drafting Pattern ' not detail pattern .

Okay duly noted I don't think that will cause me a problem but maybe down the road !