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Rethink Hatch / Fill Patterns

Rethink Hatch / Fill Patterns

Isn't it time to devise something a little more modern for patterns? Hard to believe that the 35 year-old PAT file format is still the "technology" of choice for this. Would love to see a modern pattern creator that could do any kind of pattern. Including: rectilinear, random, and especially radial. It is just silly that we have to use model lines and arrays or material hacks to simple brick arches or radial floor patterns. 

 

A new pattern technology and editor please... 

116 Comments
lpendergraft
Enthusiast

Couldn't agree more. Seems like an oversight that .pat files are still the only way to create custom patterns without plug-ins in 2023. 

wr.marshall
Advisor
ahmadfiroozi000
Advocate

Many architects use brick patterns in their designs but Revit does not have enough patterns and if you want to add patterns it should import from Autocad they are limited, so I think Revit should have a part to create special hatches based on our ideas.

o.a.sokolovskyi
Advocate

It would be cool to create hatches through a separate dialog window by graphical way.

elisa.schierbaum
Community Visitor

Hallo, immer wieder verfolgt mich das gleiche Problem mit den Schraffuren und Linienstile. Gerade

wenn es um die Detailplanung geht, vermisse ich einige Funktionen und Darstellungen wie z. B. 

Abdichtungsbahnen, Dampfsperre, Unterspannbahnen und alle anderen dazugehörigen Gruppen. Zwar gibt es die Funktion, es als Familie einzufügen, aber die Anwendung erschwert sich im Detail, weshalb ich mir mit Linien und Schraffuren aushelfe.

Dies sollte in einem Architektenprogramm nicht der Fall sein und vor eingestellt zur Verfügung stehen! Des Weiteren 

nshe ich ein Problem bei den Schraffuren. Mann kann nur schwer neue erstellen und wenn man vorhandene ändern will, ändern sich die gleichen Gruppen mit, obwohl man die Schraffur dupliziert hat. Zudem sollte sich das Spektrum

der Auswahlmöglichkeiten erweitern.

 

Somit wäre es super, wenn in Zukunft die gängistn Linien, Schraffuren und Musterlinien schon

vorprogrammiert werden!

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James_lB2
Contributor

We use Revit alot for master planning. So adding some features that are in Adobe Illustrator would be great

vojtech.zufnicek
Contributor

And seven years later, still Gathering Support, nothing more from Autodesk 😕 

pyRevit is great for easily creating custom patterns. But I agree autodesk could still vastly improve this. 

nmarcelis
Advisor

all hail the king ".pat"!

trevor.clarkM88RA
Enthusiast

The drafting hatch pattern is one of the most commonly used tools in Revit, was already outdated when Revit was bought by Autodesk, and remains unchanged decades later barely useable, despite many acknowledgements in the forum on their massive shortcomings.
1. Users should have the ability to tab and shift to select the drafted material to move and rotate it relative to its host object, be it model cut display, model projection display, detail component, or filled region.

2. When nested in a detail component, the drafting hatch should have two options to align with the host or align with the sheet.

4. Hatch thickness applied to an object should be controllable, so CMU walls can be bolder than other walls, and not hard set to LW1...or LW2 (why ceiling hatches, why?).

5. The patterns set in a detail component should be independent of the project versions in the same way hatches are, so that the pattern doesn't switch if there's already a pattern with that name in the project.
6. Drafting hatches should have solid areas, so you could make a checker pattern or Fire Rated hatch in a wall display that doesn't melt a PDF printer with thousands of lines to simulate a solid block.
7. Custom patterns shouldn't require a 3rd party tool or esoteric text doc to make but should have a simple editor with a graphic interface, like a $3000/year per seat software should reasonably have.

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trevor.clarkM88RA
Enthusiast

Revit 2024, still failing at hatches...Autodesk what are you doing? Take whoever is in charge of making "Liker" badgers or colorizing API plug-ins and get them to work on the basic functions of making construction documents.

kh_jea
Advocate

I've started creating support cases for things that Revit is lacking. I suggest we all start doing this instead of creating/voting ideas. Flood their support with stuff they should have implemented/fixed years ago.

GA-LT
Advocate
trevor.clarkM88RA
Enthusiast

It's 2025 and filled regions, literally the basis for objects are represented in print, is a trainwreck. As a BIM Manager, I'm constantly told by staff what a garbage program Revit is for architects and frankly, it's hard to argue when watching someone make details for something as simple as a pitched roof with plywood underlayment. It's embarrassing. I hope Autodesk is as embarrassed as I am as BIM Manager.

craig
Advocate
I'm a Bim manager also. You are better building families to handle the items you are talking about. The Staff these days are also just getting lazier. I come from hand drafting, to Autocad 2d, to Autocad 3D to Revit Bim which helps knowing how to do the old school drafting in the digital worls but the kids these days don;t have that.

I agree totally with your comments though. Keep the list going - Text, Text Columns, Text Control, Stairs .................. It's amateur hour at Revit HQ I feel........
akesh
Enthusiast
I am a BIM Manager as well and I hear you. Also from the old school drawing board days, and honestly, I do miss those day.
I agree with you, the "kids" of today are too lazy, it is like everything must be done for them. Let's give them a drawing board, some gateway paper, a 2mm lead pencil and a set of drawing pens, and see how they manage it.
Yes, Autodesk is the lacking on so much that users have been "BEGGING" for, for so many years, and not producing. Just throwing us breadcrumbs for each release with minor cosmetic tweaks. And let me tell you the 2026 release is nothing to look forward to.
We need a new player on the market to really shake things up, and it might be something that is coming.

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