To create a new fill pattern, go to the Manage Tab, click on ‘Additional Settings’ and on the drop down click on Fill Patterns. This will bring up the Fill Patterns dialog box which shows you all the fill patterns available. To the right, click New to create a new pattern. Here you can create a simple line pattern, basically a bunch of repeating parallel or intersecting lines (pretty boring stuff!). I’m guessing this is probably not the kind of hatch pattern you wanted to create! So click on Custom and click on Import. pat file – those of you who are familiar with AutoCAD will know that the hatch patterns in Autocad are. So if you have a hatch pattern that you like in AutoCAD then you can easily import it into Revit via this method. However, if you really really want to make a custom hatch pattern, here is the easiest way I have found: pat files you can download for FREE ( for example) so if you’re after something in particular you can search the net, download then import into Revit. Pat file in a text editor you will see they are full of numbers like this: These numbers basically describe each line in a patterns length, origin, angle etc… and in my opinion is way to time consuming to try and create yourself! (Although you can certainly give it a go if you want). Here’s the easiest way I have found to create.
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