Using the Batting Linetype to draw insulation SolentBird. Unsubscribe from SolentBird? AutoCAD: Creating annotative dimensions and multileaders.

I need to be able to adjust the pattern origin location so the hatching is say evenly spaced within the element or region, not just randomly located. In AutoCAD you simply relocate the SNAPBASE point or in new releases use the Origin adjust button in the Hatch dialog box. There's a way to do this in MicroStation too, though I've forgotten how. Torrent. Doesn't seem to be a way to do this in Revit. It is important only from need to create an 'aesthetically pleasing' set of contract documents. But a set of drawings that look like, well I won't say, doesn't help me sell the product.

In the past I've tried various ways of drawing batt insulation and recently came up with a way that works very well for me. I used a Batt Insulation hatch as the main part of a dynamic block. I made the hatch associative with a boundary on the defpoints layer.

I added grips for moving, rotating, scaling and stretching it. The dynamic block is sized so that the initial insertion of 1 would equal a width of 1 unit. In other words, at inserting it at a scale of 1 for imperial units will make a batt that is 1' thick. This allows you to type in the desired width of the batt on insertion (e.g. Typing in 5.5 will give you a 5-1/2' thick batt to fit in a 2x6 wall). The basepoint grip in the bottom left corner allows you to move the block and is the basepoint for the rotation grip.

The stretch grip pointing UP opposite the rotation grip allows you to scale the batt. The stretch grip nearest the basepoint allows you to stretch that side of the batt while maintaining the end angle. The grip at the right bottom (inline with the basepoint and rotation grips) allows you to stretch the other end of the batt while maintaing the end angle. The stretch grip in the corner above it allows you to adjust the end angle. You'll want to scale the width to the correct size before adjusting the length/angles as the scaling changes those other lengths. I appreciate the help I've received from others here in the past. Attached is the block.

Rodeorick - You need to use the INSERT command and then browse to the file I posted and insert it as a block into your drawing. Attached is an updated version that allows scaling of the width without affecting the other dimensions. I also housed the block in a file rather than saving the block as a file so you can play with it more easily. I also reworked the grip layout a little after using the block for a little while in order to make it more user friendly.

Dbroad - the detailing tool is interesting, but unless I'm mistaken there are not any editing options to it once it is placed other than to delete it and start over. Rodeorick, ACA has advanced detailing features, far above those available in AutoCAD alone. To best use these featues, the properties palette must be kept open as many of the prompts that would appear at the command line in an ordinary command are selected via property palette as you might on a dialog box. Otherwise, the commands use defaults. ACA also has a layer keying system that makes sure that each AEC object or component, including notes and dimensions get put on a consistent layer that plots the appropriate lineweight and linetype and appears in a unique way on the screen. AutoCAD only has layers and layer states.

The detailing palette group uses the detail component manager which contains thousands of different components that are well formed and thought out organized according to the CSI MasterFormat. 'Can I copy, paste and scale the same title panel onto an A1 page in another paperspace layout?' I would suggest not. Do you really want the title block on an A1 sheet 4 times as large as on an A4?

There might be room for a larger title block for a bigger sheet but it's not normally scaled. My title block sits in the corner by itself with no larger sheet border. If you can live with that you can just use the same title block. You can also look into Dynamic Blocks on which you can add a selection tag and choose different sheet sizes. Typically the title block might stay on but the different sheet borders would be on different (selections) sorry can't think of the correct term. Learn about sheet sets and fields including custom fields which are excellent tools for auto filling your title blocks. (std autocad stuff btw, not ACA).