Custom Hatch Pattern that includes text

[Ian_H]

We have a hatch file that I believe is an old AutoCAD hatch that has the number 2 and diagonal dashes. We are wanting a similar hatch but with 3 instead of 2. I tried stacking the original hatch, a grey filled area, and the number 3 and then using PyRevit but that didn't work. 

PAT files are text documents, so I'm not sure how to get the 3 in there. 

Anyone know how I can go about creating one, have one they could share, or have a better solution? 

I did find the program 'HatchiKit', but was confused on how to use it. 

Thanks

[ToanDN · Accepted solution]

Draw the number 3 using straight line segments (then you can create a fill pattern using pyRevit.

[Ian_H]

This did occur to me as I figured PyRevit just couldn't read the text since it wasn't linework. I just wasn't sure how well I was going to be able to draw out the 3 with detail lines. 

[ToanDN]

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@Ian_H wrote:

This did occur to me as I figured PyRevit just couldn't read the text since it wasn't linework. I just wasn't sure how well I was going to be able to draw out the 3 with detail lines. 

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It's not pyRevit fault.  It is that Revit fill patterns cannot contain anything but straight line segments.

Here is a fill region created using pyrevit..

[Ian_H]

Went down the rabbit hole of recreating all the linework, lol. 

[ToanDN]

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@Ian_H wrote:

Went down the rabbit hole of recreating all the linework, lol. 

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Well done. 

I just tested pyRevit again, and to my surprise, it CAN take non-straight lines (circles, arcs, ellipses, splines), translates them into straight line segments to create fill patterns.