Free Pat Files For Revit City
A question I get asked about a lot (and I’m sure you have probably asked this yourself!) is how do I make my own Revit hatch patterns?! Revit comes with a bunch of great out-of-the-box patterns, but every company has there own particular ‘look’ where custom hatch patterns are needed. This is especially true if you are coming from AutoCAD and you want your documentation to be consistent.Creating your own custom Revit hatch patterns is actually quite easy if you follow the steps outlined in this blog post. CREATING FILL PATTERNS IN REVITTo create a new fill pattern, go to the Manage Tab, click on ‘Additional Settings’ and on the drop down click on Fill Patterns. Here you can import any.pat file – those of you who are familiar with AutoCAD will know that the hatch patterns in Autocad are.pat files.
In my previous post on, I mentioned the Revit Idea about 'Double Patterns' being accepted bu Autodesk. Pieter Schiettecatte commented on that post about being surprised Revit could not do this when he first started using Revit.
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Well, he created another super informative handout about Revit pattern (.pat) files. Additionally, he created a Revit source file that contains a bunch of pattern files! Doug was nice enough to let me share it with all of you. Revit relies on pseudo-comments in the pattern definition file to flag whether a pattern is in mm or inches, and whether the pattern is to be read as a drafting or a model pattern - all described in the comments heading Revit.pat (Revit's standard hatch pattern definition examples). Hugh Adamson www.cadro.com.au www.hatchkit.com.au.
His comment inspired this post (thanks Peter!).Although we cannot currently use two patterns at the moment, this is a trick to doing it when really needed. Simply combine the two patterns in the text file, creating a new pattern!Notice, in the sample text file (Test.pat) below I copied the 'Concrete' pattern from the Revit.Pat file (comes with Revit) and the 'ANSI31' pattern from the Acad.Pat (comes with AutoCAD). I then created a new pattern by simply combining those two patterns to make a third option. To use the custom file in Revit, I clicked the Import button shown in the dialog above and browsed to the test file.
There are lots of PAT files for AutoCAD (and Revit, they are just often called Acad patterns online) available via a web search. Revit's Revit.pat file is located here: C:Program FilesAutodeskRevit 2018Data. AutoCAD's Acad.pat file is located here: C:UsersUserAppDataRoamingAutodeskAutoCAD 201?R22.0enuSupportOne more quick note about the dialog above, when a custom pattern is imported the scale can be set via Import Scale.
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This is a one-time opportunity, and if you get it wrong you have to delete the pattern and recreate it.The Import Scale option can be used to create a new pattern without the need to edit the text file. For example, the Revit.pat file comes with a Block 8x8 pattern. Windows 7 oa download. If you need a 6.25' x 6.25' running bond tile pattern, just import the block pattern at the scale factor of 0.78125.