Hatch type change with detail view scale

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Hello :slight_smile: ,

For context, I work as an architect producing models and plans, and the following question is about drafting/documenting design.

I happened to have several times wanted to use a clipping section of just a 2D drawings from Rhino and use the drawing at different scales.
However if I have hatches (let’s say a ANSI 35 to represent a concrete wall) I like that hatch pattern to be visible at scale 1:5/1:10/1:20, probably max 1:50, but if I make a 1:100 drawing I would like that wall to be a SOLID dark grey maybe.

Is there a way to tell Rhino to display different hatches depending of the details view scale ?

Ideally to make that a setting saved as a template ?

Of course I exagerate my exemple here : I would usually have 2 different drawings if have to show something at scale 1:10 and 1:100 - but you can see the edge case between 1:50 and 1:100 which have happened several times to me, sometimes a linked referenced file is used both for overall drawing and detail.

Let us just discuss, what are your methodologies, or suggestions to make that process smoother (and if possible avoid 2 dual drawings that you need to update in parallel when design changes)

Thomas

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Hi Thomas -

There is nothing in plain Rhino that lets you do that, no.
-wim

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Ok, Thank you Wim.

Rhino 9 WIP has some updates on hatches; maybe that could be added in the future as a toggle in the hatch property with a display-scale threshold and a remplacement hatch when that condition is met ?

Or with a master “Detail level” kind of feature like in revit ? (a switch button that changes how objects are displayed depending of the detail level value, ref : Help // note that in revit that goes much beyond hatch diplay but diretly to each “block” (family) type.. That could be interesting as well for blocks, but I believe that is a whole different topic)

Thank you

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Hi Thomas -

Thrown onto the heap as RH-90682 Annotation: Hatch: LOD Setting Request
-wim

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