Materials and Patterns that Follow a Curve in Revit Tutorial

 

This is a quick video I created inspired by a Twitter question.  I'll show you a simple little hack to make your materials and patterns follow a curve in Revit!  The best part is they render correctly, too!

Click here to view the tutorial now... 

Revit Pattern (.pat) Source File

You may remember a handout a colleague of mine, Doug, created explaining view depths.  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.

Enjoy...

Free Brick Patterns for Revit/CAD (.pat) Files!

Eric, an AUGI member emailed me asking if I would like to post about a poll...

Would you like to see more Project Templates from Manufacturer Associations and Reference Organizations? One of the biggest problems facing firms transitioning to Revit is lack of Useful Content. Please find the enclosed PDF for what could become the definitive Revit Brick Template. All content would be contained in a single RVT available to the design community. Calculated Values and Shared Parameters assigned to Families as required to Schedule and “quantify”.


Just click here and vote for the poll at the top of the page... Then download the zip file full of Brick Patterns!

Thanks Eric!

Revit Tutorial - Broken Pattern (Buildz)

Nice little post from Zach over at buildz...
Help! I broke my pattern

User question: "How do you make a smooth, continuously divided pattern across multiple surfaces"

The problem here is that Revit does one divided surface per face, so you can't identify multiple faces and have a uniform pattern across them all by default. This video demonstrates a method for using the divided surface properties to even out your pattern.

Click here to view Zach's video...