No Surface Patterns in Massing Available

[hebloom]

I am making an in-place massing and dividing one of the surfaces to make a curtain wall with a triangular pattern.  After making a simple massing, I select one of the surfaces and divide the surface. When I select this divided surface I do not get any option to select a new pattern.  The pattern button is greyed out.

I know the patterns are a system family but is there a way to reload them?  It seems they have been deleted from our temple that we use.  If I use a out of the box template from Revit the patterns are there.  How can I transfer them or get them back into my file I am working in?

Howard

[ToanDN]

Try Transfer Project Standards from the OOTB template, check everything and transfer New Only.  If that doesn bring the patterns in, then you might want to create mass with different patterns in a OOTB project then copy paste them to yours to bring the patterns in.

[hebloom]

@ToanDN I tried the project transfer but that didn't bring them in.  I also tried copying the mass from the OOTB file into mine.  It comes in with the pattern set to the face but if I then create a new mass I still cannot change the pattern.  It still thinks none are loaded.  The one that came in with the mass I pasted in is only associated with it.  This is very strange.

I am not sure how the patterns which are a system family were deleted from our project template.

[barthbradley]

Weird. Post the family.  

Also, have you tried loading a Generic Model Pattern Based Family?  

[hebloom]

@barthbradley I was doing it as an in-place mass.  We are going to create a conceptual mass family (where the patterns work) and then load it into our main file.  I will try your generic model idea to see if that works.  

I am attaching the file that we are having the issue with so you can see what is happening.

[barthbradley]

What's odd is the fact that Patterns cannot be transferred between Projects using TPS.   BTW: I can easily reproduce your predicament. 

..now, how the heck to I get patterns into this project! HA!  Fun post for a change. 

[barthbradley]

Load a Mass Family into the Project.