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Create Hatch in Revit
Create Hatch in Revit
Create Hatch in Revit
A friend came to me today with an interesting Revit task: She needed to show the ADA
clearance on a refrigerator, but needed to be able to have it visible in one view, while
suppressed in others. Additionally, she wanted to show the clearance areas with a hatch pattern
in plan view.
There are a few steps to getting this right.
1. I created a clearance family, that nests into the
host family (so I can use it over in other
families)
2. You need to make a new subcategory
3. You need to make a new material
4. You dont NEED to make a new fill pattern, but
I recommend it (for more control)
If you dont use a new fill pattern, this would be the
scale of your hatch lines, should you plot at =10
Elevation View
Go back to your model, select your extrusion. In the properties pallete, go to subcategories
parameter, pull down and assign your newly created ADAClearance to the object. You should
see your color change on your extrusion object.
Now, you have to assign this material to the extrusion object as well. (similar to assigning the
sub-category).
Go to your model, pick the extrusion, and assign the newly created material to the object.
NOTE: I have not been intermittently testing this family as I build it (which is unusual when
building parametric families, you should frequently test, or FLEX, your family in a project). The
reason is, when I load this family into a project, its going to load my custom material,
subcategory and as I am about to show, custom fill pattern. If that happens, and you change
any of those items, you have to transfer project standards from the family to the project, or
modify them manually, in all locations ... in short, it can get a little tricky.
Finally, go back and Re-Assign your materials surface and cut patterns (see above if you need
a refresher) to use the new ADAClearance style.
Save your ClearanceArea Family.
Next, you need to Map your parameters from the ClearanceArea family to parameters in your
host family. (Refrigerator.rfa). Start by selecting your Clearance Area Family. You will see your
Clearance Parameters you made earlier (as long as you made them instance parameters!) in
the properties palette. Theres a tiny button next to them - which is what you will push to assign,
or MAP those parameters to new parameters in the current host family.
A picture is worth a thousand words... so here ya go...
I like to assign my adjustable parameters to the constraints category, so the appear at the top of
the properties list for end users. Keeps them from having to hunt for them - or change
parameters they shouldnt!
Repeat this for all three parameters. When finished, your family types dialog should look like
this:
I also assigned the ADAClearanceHeight to be equal to whatever the height was for the
refrigerator type.
Using the visibilty graphic override to change visibility on different views of the same project.