Discover the process of creating filled regions in Revit, which are similar to hatches in AutoCAD but with distinct fill patterns. Learn how to apply specific patterns such as a concrete pattern or an earth hatch, and the process of adding a gravel fill layer underneath a concrete slab.
Key Insights
- Filled regions in Revit are comparable to hatches in AutoCAD, but they include a unique fill pattern, which could represent different materials such as concrete or earth.
- To add a specific fill layer (for instance, a gravel layer underneath a concrete slab), it is necessary to select 'Filled Region' under the 'Annotate' tab in the ribbon, enter 'Sketch Mode', duplicate the type, and then import the desired fill pattern.
- Once the fill pattern has been assigned, the edge style for the boundary that contains the pattern can be set. A filled region needs to be a closed loop to complete the command and it is possible to adjust the depth of the fill layer to suit specific project requirements.
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In this video, we're going to create filled regions. And filled regions in Revit are similar to hatches in AutoCAD. But the difference is that filled regions have a fill pattern.
So it could be a concrete pattern, an earth hatch, or some other sort of pattern. And then there's also the edge style of the boundaries that enclose that fill pattern. So to demonstrate this, let's go to our View Section Detail windowsill that we created.
Under Sections, Wall Section, double-click Section Detail, Windowsill. Let's change the scale to one and a half inches equals one foot. And you'll notice, of course, our annotate adjusts as a result of changing the scale.
And what we're going to do is add a gravel fill layer that's going to be underneath our concrete slab. So the first step is to go to the Annotate tab in the ribbon and in the Detail panel, let's select Region. And if you hit that arrow to the right, it brings up two options.
There's the Filled Region, which we're going to go over now. And then the next video, we'll go over Masking Regions. So select Filled Region.
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And you'll notice we're going to go into Sketch Mode that we're all familiar with now. In the Properties window, let's click Edit Type and duplicate this type. And we're going to name it Gravel.
Next to the Fill Pattern parameter, let's click the value that says Diagonal Crosshatch. What we're going to do is we're going to create a new fill pattern, but let's just make sure we have our pattern type set to Drafting. And we'll select New.
And what we're going to do is select Custom. And under Custom here, there's a button called Import. Click that and browse to the files that you downloaded.
And there should be one called Gravel.pat. Select that Gravel.pat file, open it, and you'll notice you get a preview here in the window at the top of the dialog box. And let's change this import scale to 0.25. And you'll notice everything gets scaled down a quarter in the preview. Change the name to Gravel 1 and click OK.
And you'll notice now we have a new drafting pattern called Gravel 1, and you see a preview there to the right. Click OK, and now that's been assigned to our filled region that's called Gravel. Click OK, let's get back to the workspace.
And what we're going to want to do is set the edge style for our boundary that's containing our gravel pattern. We'll go to the top right here where it says Line Style. And instead of doing invisible lines, let's select Wide Lines.
And we're going to draw a four-inch deep layer of gravel. Underneath the slab here, so we can start at that corner, kind of drag it off outside of the crop region so it doesn't really matter where you end. Over here, just kind of click off to the side, draw another line down four inches, and then we'll snap at that intersection of the slab edge, and then close our filled region.
Remember, it has to be a closed loop to complete this command. And then now to finish the filled region, we're going to click on the checkbox to finish edit mode. And now you'll notice we have a four-inch layer of gravel underneath our concrete slab.
In the next video, we're going to take a look at a command called Masking Regions, which is very similar to Filled, with the exception that it's basically hiding anything below it.