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Free tile hatch patterns

Square grids at 300, 600 mm, 12 and 24 in, 600 × 300 at half and third offset, 12 × 24 in, subway, herringbone, hexagon, octagon and dot, and 25 mm mosaic.

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patterns
12
works in
AutoCAD · Revit · Bluebeam
units
mm + inch

Before you hatch Model or drafting

A model pattern is a material at its real size; a drafting pattern is a symbol at a fixed size on paper. Every card says which one it is.

Model

Bricks, tiles, planks, ceiling grids

Drawn in real millimetres or inches. Hatch at scale 1 in a drawing in the same units; in Revit it scales with the view like the wall it sits on.

Drafting

Concrete, earth, insulation, section lines

Drawn for paper, ⅛ in between section lines as in ANSI31. In AutoCAD set the hatch scale to the drawing scale; in Revit it stays the same size on every sheet.

Load them in AutoCAD, Revit or Bluebeam

AutoCAD & LT

  1. 1Put the .pat files in a folder, for example C:\CAD\Hatch.
  2. 2OPTIONS, Files tab, Support File Search Path, Add, browse to the folder, OK.
  3. 3Type HATCH. The patterns are in the pattern gallery under their names; restart AutoCAD if they are not.
  4. 4Model patterns: scale 1. Drafting patterns: scale = drawing scale (50 for 1:50, 48 for ¼ in = 1 ft).

Revit & LT

  1. 1Manage, Additional Settings, Fill Patterns.
  2. 2Pick Drafting or Model to match the pattern's type, then New, Custom, Import.
  3. 3Choose the file (all-metric.pat from the ZIP lists every pattern at once) and the pattern.
  4. 4Import scale 1, OK. Use it in a material's surface or cut pattern, or a filled region.

Bluebeam Revu

  1. 1Draw any rectangle markup, then Properties toolbar, Hatch, Manage.
  2. 2Select a hatch pattern set and click Modify.
  3. 3Click Import AutoCAD Pattern and open the .pat file.
  4. 4OK to close the dialogs. The pattern is now in the Hatch list.

One file with every pattern: all-metric.pat · all-imperial.pat. Good for Revit's import dialog and for pasting into acad.pat; AutoCAD's Support File Search Path wants one pattern per file, which is how the ZIP and the buttons above give them.

Questions About tile hatches

Why a third offset?

Long tiles are slightly bowed from firing, and a half offset puts the high middle of one tile next to the low ends of the next. The US installation standard (ANSI A108.02) therefore caps the offset at 33% for long tiles unless the manufacturer says otherwise; recent editions apply it from 15 in, older ones from 18 in. So both offsets are here.

Where do I start the tile grid?

In Revit, select the floor, Tab to a pattern line and Align it to a wall or a centre line. In AutoCAD, set the hatch origin to the point where the first full tile starts.

Do the same files work in AutoCAD and Revit?

Yes. Each file is a standard .pat with Revit's ;%UNITS line at the top and a ;%TYPE line under the pattern name. AutoCAD reads both as comments, Revit reads them as settings, so one file serves both. There is a metric and an imperial copy of every pattern.

Should I take the metric or the imperial file?

The one in your drawing's units. A model pattern is drawn at real size: in a drawing in millimetres, the metric brick hatched at scale 1 shows real 215 × 65 mm bricks; in a drawing in inches the imperial file does the same. Revit reads the units from the file, so either works there.

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