Unique Pen for VECTOR HATCHING

[vfrontiers]

Please, please provide us the option of choosing and override pen for the VECTOR HATCHING in any of the windows (3d Document, Elevation, Section, Interior Elev..)

I NEED to be able to THIN UP hatching lines for graphic production...

[David Maudlin]

Duane:

I suspect you are looking for a global override. The pen can be set under Materials > Vectorial Hatching.

David

[Karl Ottenstein]

Do Pen Sets not help, Duane? If you always want all fills (hatches) to be the same, whatever that might be, in each view, then one pen assigned to fills would do it. Change the width in different pen sets and use those sets per view.

If it is element related, then one of the more complex pen sets (discussed in various threads) can help - where a ramp of pens is assigned for each element type - and the ramp includes a fill pen. Then you can control your wall (e.g.) hatch pen width independently of other hatch pens...

I've wanted Revit's ability to alter an individual element's pen width from time to time (e.g., your technique of emboldening certain outline elements in elevations to make them 'pop'), but find AC's Pen Sets handle global changes per view just fine.

Maybe I'm missing something in the specific case you're talking about though...?

Cheers,
Karl

[vfrontiers]

Yes to both of you, but here's the rub...

The elevations can use ELEMENTS PENS for both, in which case I'd have to set up pens for all the UNCUT ELEMENTS the same(in each elements settings) and then go thru materials and do the OVERRIDING PEN

or

Elevation OVERRIDE BOTH to the same PEN? I guess I just don't get why they would NOT just give the option to vector hatching pens separate from uncut element pens here...

Just a thought..