Pattern Manager¶
The Pattern Manager provides a central workspace for browsing, creating, editing and managing Revit fill patterns.
Use it to load approved patterns from the shared library, review patterns already in the current project, build patterns manually or from Revit geometry, export PAT files, standardise project pattern names and work with filled regions.
Open Pattern Manager¶
On the Revit ribbon:
Flow → Model → Patterns
Pattern Manager contains three main areas:
- Pattern Library — browse and load patterns stored in the shared PAT library.
- Project Patterns — review, preview and manage patterns already loaded into the active project.
- Tools — create patterns from a blank definition or selected geometry, and run filled-region utilities.
What do you want to do?¶
Browse the Pattern Library¶
Search the shared library, filter it by folder, preview a pattern and load it into the current project.
➡️ Browsing the Pattern Library
Work with Project Patterns¶
Search and filter project patterns, review their type and library-match status, preview them and access their available actions.
Create or Edit a Pattern¶
Create a blank pattern, duplicate an existing project pattern, or edit its grid and segment definitions.
➡️ Creating and Editing Patterns
Generate a Pattern from Geometry¶
Convert selected detail lines, model lines, curves or a filled-region pattern into an editable Revit fill-pattern definition.
➡️ Generating Patterns from Geometry
Load or Export Patterns¶
Load library PAT content into the current project or export an individual library or project pattern as a PAT file.
➡️ Importing and Exporting Patterns
Standardise Project Pattern Names¶
Apply the ADa naming format to one project pattern or preview and apply changes to all eligible patterns.
Work with Filled Regions¶
Create a filled region from a project pattern, merge regions, or cut one or more regions from another.
Having Problems?¶
Find help with library access, PAT validation, project patterns, previews, geometry generation and filled-region operations.
Acknowledgements¶
The geometry-to-pattern and filled-region workflows build on ideas demonstrated by the Revit development community, including the open-source pyRevit project. Flow provides its own native C# implementation integrated with the wider Flow interface and project workflows.
Getting Help¶
Hover over Patterns on the Flow ribbon and press F1 to open this page.