Custom Hatch Pattern 222x1200mm gone wrong. Please help

[Anonymous]

Hi all, this is the first time posting an issue.  Usually I find the solutions, but this time I am unable to find the answer in all the forums.

So here is the issue.  I figured out how to create custom hatch patterns for flooring.  However, when I key in the values thats where things go wrong.

I am trying to create a pattern for staggers vynle flooring.  The pattern below is what I am using at the moment.  The funny thing is, if I change the 222 to 200, everything is fine, unfortunately, based on the sample we have, the width is 222.

;%UNITS=MM
;%VERSION=3.0

*HPVCV10T,Paving Staggered www.CADhatch.com

;%TYPE=MODEL
0, 0,0, 0,222
90, 0,0, 222,-300, 222,-600

The first image is what I need to achive and the second is what goes wrong in revit.

Please Help!!!

Thanks in advance.

[Sahay_R]

Have you tried to use HatchKit?

[hugha · Accepted solution]

HatchKit would help avoid this problem in the first place but the posted Revit graphic shows the problem is in the skipped portion of the broken vertical line. Just change the last number as shown: 

;%UNITS=MM
;%VERSION=3.0 

*HPVCV10T,Paving Staggered  

;%TYPE=MODEL
0, 0,0, 0,222
90, 0,0, 222,-300, 222,-666

hope this helps,

Hugh Adamson

www.hatchKit.com.au

[Anonymous]

Thanks a lot.  That was what I was missing.  -666.  I did try it in CAD hatch, but it didn't give me what I needed.  

but why the "666" any idea?

[hugha]

>but why the "666" any idea?

Your planks are 222 wide and the simplest way to depict the vertical joins is to ink across one plank then skip three planks before the pattern automatically repeats along a line extending either way indefinitely.  

Hence down 222, ( -) up 666.

Adjacent vertical lines are spaced 300 apart, with the down/up arrangement slewed by 222 between each.  

hth