Creating the patterns in separate files ensures that if the software is re-installed these files are not over written. Flembond.pat) and placed in the support folder where the acad.pat and acadiso.pat are located.ĭo not edit these files (acad.pat or acadiso.pat) and add the code to them. This should be saved to its own *.pat file (e.g. The edited *.pat file then looks like this:- The first is a series of instructional videos to accompany its guide 'BIM for Masonry, Modeling Masonry Buildings in Autodesk Revit' for architects, engineer. The resulting dimensioned layout is as follows. My new hatch pattern required brick sizes of 240 x 50 and 115 x 50 and a mortar thickness of 15mm.

To understand and verify the offset distances you can create a dimensioned layout of the existing hatch pattern. To fully understand this, I have illustrated each character set. *HBFLEMET,Brickworkflemishbond Free patterns from 0,0,10,0,150,215,-122.5Įach line of code represents a line in the hatch pattern. To edit the *.pat, you open it in Notepad. The file that I found had brick sizes of 215 x 65 and 102.5 x 65 and a 10mm mortar thickness. You can just edit the file to represent the brick size you require. However, the request was also for specific brick sizes. A hatch can only create straight lines, so you need to break your curves down into straight line segments, but then the hard part is that a hatch pattern doesnt work by joining these lines to make it look like a curve, each individual segment just forms a dot dash pattern and the trick is finding where your individual. My immediate response was that if you search the internet you will find one that already exists and I did. I was asked recently to create a Flemish bond hatch pattern.

Autocad flemish hatch pattern