Fire Wall Pattern Graphics Mystery

[skyeg321]

Hello everyone. Hoping to get some help solving this mystery I'm having...

I am trying to copy this effect to show fire rated walls from a project. I made a YouTube video to demonstrate the issue here:

https://youtu.be/8jmCZKqtYXw

I am using a cut wall pattern graphic override to show a specific fill pattern based on a wall instance parameter. As you can see in the original project the graphic show fairly well at different zoom levels but in my project its just not showing up right and I did try to print it to PDF and it is just showing no pattern. Does anyone have any suggestions to get this working? Or if you have a better way to do fire rated wall patterns - I'm all ears...

Thanks for your consideration.

[barthbradley]

Sounds like a scale issue to me.   Drafting Pattern is too dense to show.  

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/revit/learn-explore/caas/CloudHelp/cloudhelp/2019/ENU/Revit-C...

...just a thought: have you tried rescaling the patterns?  

[ToanDN · Accepted solution]

Overridden cut pattern via filters or by elements only work for solid and non-directional patterns.  Assign the fire tape patterns via edit Wall Types > Coarse scale pattern then they work for all wall orientations.

[skyeg321]

Works well enough for me. Thank you.

[ToanDN]

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@skyeg321 wrote:
Works well enough for me. Thank you.

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Another place to look at that may fix your pattern orientations if you want to use filters.

[skyeg321]

Aaaand the struggle continues. We have a section going through these bathrooms and we want that view to be set to detail level fine. Obviously the course fill doesn't work on fine detail level. I'm trying to use the filled region tool to manually put a filled region over the wall which works fine on the ceiling but not on the wall and it doesn't look like the orientation of the pattern will rotate. Setting a pattern to Orient to element doesn't make it rotate on filled region. How are you guys doing fire rated walls in section view on detail level fine?

[ToanDN · Accepted solution]

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@skyeg321 wrote:

Aaaand the struggle continues. We have a section going through these bathrooms and we want that view to be set to detail level fine. Obviously the course fill doesn't work on fine detail level. I'm trying to use the filled region tool to manually put a filled region over the wall which works fine on the ceiling but not on the wall and it doesn't look like the orientation of the pattern will rotate. Setting a pattern to Orient to element doesn't make it rotate on filled region. How are you guys doing fire rated walls in section view on detail level fine?

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Duplicate Wall Core Material and assign each new material's cut pattern with a fire tape pattern.  Then edit the wall types and change their core to use one of the material above.

[skyeg321]

Works great. Thanks.