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This question pertains to Revit 2014

My firm is working on a very large project and we've run into a technical issue that is creating some problems for our MEP design.  The fill patterns for the walls in the linked Architectural file are not displaying.  I know that they exist in the Architectural model, as the fill patterns appear on the printout.  

I've tried changing the discipline in the view properties to Coordination.  

I've gone into the Revit Links > Custom > Model Categories and set the detail for the walls to custom.  

Basically, I've spent a little over an hour and a half fiddling with the VG settings, etc., and reading a lot of forum posts.  Most forum posts relating to this problem are actually about turning the fill patterns from the linked file off.  One of the posts from 2012 directly addressed the issue, but whatever fix they applied doesn't seem to work.  

I know that we used a different project template than the Architect to create our project.  My concern is that if this is the case, nothing we will do will make the fill pattern display.

 Source: http://revitclinic.typepad.com/my_weblog/2011/04/filters-with-fill-patterns-on-a-linked-project-in-revit-2011-and-2012.html

UNLESS:  We open the MEP file, then open the Arch file and switch back to the MEP file, then click transfer project settings in the Manage tab.

                Source: http://www.revitcity.com/forums.php?action=viewthread&thread_id=10934

But then my concern is, will transferring the project settings from the Arch model to the MEP model overwrite our own project settings?  

Is there some way to link their .pat file into our model and generate the patterns that way?

If anyone has a fix for this, please let me know.  

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The architect mayy have used an annotative fill rather than a true wall fill.

or   Does the same material for these walls exist in your model and you don't have a pattern assigned?

or   Some fill patterns only show in coarse view... you can change that just for the walls in VG of the link.

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