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mightystorm

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Can anyone tell me what the best hatch kit/builder software there is to download. Also, in these software programs, are there pre- loaded (downloadable) patterns or do you have to create your own from scratch each time?

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I have heard a lot of good things about the Hatch22 program

http://www.revitcity.com/forums.php?action=viewthread&thread_id=22618 

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I've used Hatch22 a few times and it seems to work just fine.

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hugh

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Today we are pleased to release a public beta of HatchKit 2014 for all interested to try and perhaps comment while we ready final release versions.Link: http://www.hatchkit.com.au/hk2014betaofferform.phpHatchKit 2014 Beta will work alongside existing HatchKit installations.

HatchKit 2014 Beta works as a standalone application or will integrate with the HatchKit Add-In for Revit that is available from the Revit store at Autodesk Exchange. Link: http://apps.exchange.autodesk.com/RV...kitadd-in%3aen

The HatchKit Add-in for Revit allows large patterns exceeding the constraints on scale imposed by Revit's pattern import wizard to be loaded. HatchKit 2014 and the HatchKit Add-In for Revit work together to allow building a hatch pattern template (the entities repeated to for a pattern) within Revit, manage its passage to HatchKit for pattern arrangement and generation and, on return, bring the finished pattern into Revit for immediate use within the current project.

regards,Hugh Adamsonwww.hatchkit.com.au 

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Our HatchKit Add-In for Revit 2016 is now available from AutoDesk's Revit Exchange:

https://apps.exchange.autodesk.com/RVT/en/Detail/Index?id=appstore.exchange.autodesk.com%3ahatchkitforrevit2016_windows64%3aen

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Here is a Youtube video I made to show how to make a custom pattern in Hatchkit:

https://youtu.be/sDxt3Adn1d4

Thanks for the Hatchkit customer service tip on how to do this.

I do wish it was easier to figure out on my own, but it still worked great for me today.

Edited on: Sat, Nov 26, 2016 at 5:52:50 PM

Edited on: Sun, Nov 27, 2016 at 4:09:44 PM

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hugh

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These observations and others posted elsewhere are based on 40 minute's experience with HatchKit and reflects dismay with its lack of an explicit  othogonal freehand sketching ability.

However:

1. HatchKit for Revit allows pattern templates to be prepared with Revit's full set of 2D drafting cpabilities in a similar fashion to hatch-22 but is not restriicted to a rectangular tile.
2. the HatchKit editor allows rectangles to be drawn freehand and unwanted sides to be deleted or entitiies to be snapped to an othogonal grid

I welcome suggestions as to where our further forum presence would benefit - apart from a long-standing interest right here at RevitCity and further YouTube video will come, possibly in time for Revit 2018 for which we expect to provide a corresponding add-in. 

BTW our latest version of the add-in for Revit 2013 to 2017 is free and now allows creation of rescaled or rotated versions of any existing pattern within a project - even in the absence of HatchKit itself.

Edited on: Sun, Nov 27, 2016 at 12:45:49 AM

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