Control Hatch Pattern Line Weights

[Anonymous]

Hello,

I found this being posted by number of people and a lot of answers marked as solutions. But they don't seem to work.

Hatch patterns seem to be understood as taking a default pen width 1. So While playing around for changing these hatch weights, I changed all pen 1 widths to 0.5mm, for all scales, in Manage > Settings > Additional Settings > Line Weights > Model Line Weights - Perspective Line Weights > Annotation Line Weights.

Nothing seems to change hatch pattern or cut surface pattern line weights. Could any sage help?

[scott.mackenzieG4RJ9]

Based on what I discovered (in Revit 2022), the line weight of a fill pattern assigned to a material, such as a 2x2 fill pattern, is hard coded to use line weight #2.  Decrease the thickness of #2 for the scale you want, and the line weight of the pattern will change accordingly.

[RevitRx]

Over 5 years later and this still isn't a feature, let's go Autodesk!!!!!

[RobDraw]

Try Product Feedback or the IDEAS forum if you want Autodesk to hear you. 

[piman_at_kt]

How do I change the line thickness?
thank you

[scott.mackenzieG4RJ9]

...it's pen #2

[jacquesXE8FU]

As far as I am aware, hatch patterns line weights in Revit all uses line style #1 by default. The only way to change hatch pattern line thickness is to change your line style #1 thickness for each scale and all hatches will update with this change.

This means that line style 1 should always be reserved for this use and any customization to your templates should commence from line style 2.

There is unfortunately no way to change individual hatch pattern line weights at this time.

[whp.m.owens]

I know this is six or seven years too late...but I was running into an issue which was related but a bit different.

There is also some misinformation in the posts.

Hatch patterns has already been covered; these are very easy to change through the type settings.

The surface-display is controlled by the object style. This is TERRIBLE programing from Autoesk.

If you want a lighter hatch-pattern on your surfaces, you have to change the projection-pen in the global object styles.

In order to get your heavier outline back, you can override the weights by category in view and/or by filter.

Obviously you can also override by element or line-weight, but no one wants to do that much work.

The section-display is controlled by the lineweights of Pen 1, and are dependent upon the scale of the view.

(In my office, Pen 1 is reserved only for hatches and very fine detail lines.)

EDIT 1 Jan 2025

I have been running into this problem again in Revit; pretty sure Autodesk changed how hatch-weight behave. 😞

Revit 2023

I believe Autodesk has changed how Line-Weights are assigned to hatch patterns in this version. Previously, pen 1 was used for all hatch patterns.

At some point, the hatch-patterns are now assigne via the Projection-Pen in the Object styles.

This is fine if you are using a very siimple 1, 2, 3 pen-designation for fine, medium and thick lines. I am not.

I use 1 for hatches and very fine detail lines, 2 for a reduced projection-line, 3 as a primary projection line, 4 as a reduced cut-line and 5 as a normal cut-line.

My standard settings until this point was basically to assign 5 the cut-lines of all structural elements and 3 to the projection. Doing that gets me a very thick hatch line.

The only way to solve this is to set the projection lines to 1 in the object styles and to override the project-lines in my view templates.

A pain, but it works.

Revit 2024

Information will be added once I check it.

[semi]

Has anyone checked if transparant walls in structure discipline doesn't show hatch patterns in Revit 2024?

See this: https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/revit-structure-forum/hatch-pattern-missing-in-revit-2024/td-p/121745...

[CADastrophic]

Wow, thanks mate you just made my day. This works perfectly!

Controlling line weights/visuals of anything is such a convoluted mess to me. Yes, I'm pretty new to Revit, but this whole hierachy thing in x different menus is just madness. Why isn't this consolidated somewhere? With my limited experience I would still assume that controlling this with filters would be a great solution 99% of times. Just needs to be setup once and would be easy to understand.

But maybe I'm just clueless and missing the bigger picture here...

[whp.m.owens]

The heirarchy is pretty logical and allows you to change things from the macro to micro levels.

When you set a template up, you generally start with the global-settings and work your way down until you get to localized views. After that, users will be required to make adjustments based on project-specific issues.

But I agree, some of the settings are poorly documented, and even changing without notice.

[Lance.Coffey]

Here is a Revit Idea on this topic (vote this up if you would like to see this feature implemented): Lineweight for hatch/fill patterns