Halftone of Patterns and not Lines

[dmaughan25]

Is there a way to halftone patterns in for model elements, but not halftone the lines.

For instance a cross section showing soil, I want to see the outline of the soil thick, but see the pattern of the soil on halftone.

The only way I could figure it out was to use raster printing, but they makes curved lines choppy.

[martijn_pater]

Think you mean cut pattern btw, or both cut- and surface pattern. Either way I'll give it an upvote.

So at the moment you have three options, lineweight, greyscale color and third one, not mentioned yet I think, is to adjust the cut pattern to include some more white space. Could help some... so that or use filled region.

[morgan-farrand]

This has been an issue since day 1. Comments like "Revit is not Autocad" are condecending and unhelpful.

Color printing is a solution, but if you model in color on blackscreen, you need to have an extra set of view templates just for printing. It works but its a painful workaround for a simple feature that should have been added many years ago.

[dmaughan25]

Yes, we tried color, but didn't like how painful it was. We are now using filled regions with invisibile lines so we can halftone the filled regions so they do not print so black.

It would be great if they made their filled regions with patterns similar to their solid filled regions where you can control the halftone by the color of gray you use.

[SamuelZapataSHZS]

You could try to duplicate the view. On the duplicate view use the following settings to create a view template.

Isolate toposolid category, adjust topo cut line to desired thickness, remove half tone, uncheck for cut pattern of toposolid, set far clip to minimum, set visual style to wire frame. 

Then place and align duplicate view on top of the original view on your sheet. Reduce crop region so it only encircles the topo in case you need to access the main view.

Cheers 

[LC8SY5E]

I've been achieving this similar to what @ToanDN mentioned below. I've set cut pattern for materials to a half-toned gray (120-120-120) to soften them against linework. That seems to be the best method so far.