Once completed these fill patterns can be assigned to filled region styles or materials as desired. The elements will need to be renamed but it is only a once only process and doesn’t take too long to do. The explode process converts the AutoCAD hatch objects to Revit fill patterns. Within this legend view import the saved AutoCAD hatch pattern drawing and explode it. Once the drawing is saved, start Revit and create a new legend view, and name it, AutoCAD Hatch Patterns or similar I created a series of boxes about 250mm in size and adjusted scales to achieve a similar pattern density. Within AutoCAD, create a swatch of desired hatch patterns like the image below But they can be easily transferred by performing the following tasks. Just copy and paste the section below to a notepad file and save it as 'Alside Board and Batten.dhp' Save it into your Hatch Patterns folder. The origin is the center of the 5-1/2' wide portion and the pattern was defined to be a scale of 1. It is 5-1/2' wide with another 1-1/2' for the seam. However, there is an easier method use AutoCAD!ĪutoCAD has some useful hatch pattern definitions that do not exist with some of the out of the box Revit templates. Here is one I set up based on Alside Board & Batten. However, it can be a difficult and tedious process, getting the correct format and syntax. On a previous post:, I talked about how a hatch pattern can be created in Revit using notepad.
