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23 On the Rendering dialog, under Display, click Show Model.
24 Close the Rendering dialog.
25 Click File menu ➤ Save As.
26 Navigate to a folder of your preference, and save the file as m_Settings-in progress.rvt.
27 Proceed to the next exercise, Creating and Applying Fill Patterns on page 84.
Creating and Applying Fill Patterns
In this exercise, you create a new pattern and apply it to the material you created in the previous exercise.
There are 2 types of fill patterns: model and drafting. Model patterns represent actual element appearance
on a building, such as brick coursing or ceramic tile on a wall. Model patterns are fixed and scale with the
model. Drafting patterns represent material in symbolic form, such as steel, which consists of a
double-diagonal hatching pattern. Drafting pattern density is fixed. Both pattern types are created and
applied in a similar way.
TIP Drafting patterns represent materials in symbolic form. Model patterns represent actual element appearance
on a structure. You can align, rotate, and move model patterns. You can also dimension to model pattern lines.
NOTE This exercise requires the completion of the previous exercise. Use the project file that you saved at the
end of that exercise, m_Settings-in progress.rvt.
Create a new fill pattern
1 In the Project Browser, expand Elevations, and double-click West.
Notice that no model surface pattern displays on the wall.
2 Click Settings menu ➤ Fill Patterns.
3 Under Pattern Type, choose Model.
4 Scroll down the list of patterns.
Notice that a concrete surface model pattern is not available.
5 Click New.
6 In the Add Surface Pattern dialog, click Custom.
7 Under Custom, click Import.
8 Navigate to the training folders installed with your Revit Structure software.
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