Creating hatched cells in a resized table\tabular

Question

I'm writing an elsevier els-cas article and am trying to hatch some table cells for a table\tabular setting. It seemed to work fine until I used \resizebox and set the table size to \textwidth. The Tikz hatched cells don't seem to scale correctly. I looked at previous solutions such as hatching table cells fails when using positioning and Correctly scaling a tikzpicture but the solutions don't seem to suit the table environment I'm working with.

For the MWE I wasn't able to fit any hatch correctly in one cell, not to mention two. I'm looking for something like this (see attached picture).

The MWE:

\documentclass[a4paper]{cas-dc}
\usepackage{makecell}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage{multirow}
\begin{document}
\begin{table}[]
\resizebox{\textwidth}{!}{%
\begin{tabular}{c|ll|llc|cccc|}
\multicolumn{1}{l|}{\multirow{2}{}{}}                                  & \multicolumn{2}{c|}{\multirow{2}{}{Unit}} & \multicolumn{3}{c|}{Time}                           & \multicolumn{4}{c|}{Non-uniformity}                                                              \ \cline{4-10} 
\multicolumn{1}{l|}{}                                                   & \multicolumn{2}{c|}{}                      & \multicolumn{1}{c|}{1} & \multicolumn{1}{l|}{2} & 3 & \multicolumn{1}{c|}{1} & \multicolumn{1}{c|}{2} & \multicolumn{1}{c|}{3} & 4                     \ \hline
\multirow{3}{*}{\begin{tabular}[c]{@{}c@{}}Single-\ part\end{tabular}} & \multicolumn{2}{l|}{x}                     & \multicolumn{3}{l|}{}                               & \multicolumn{3}{c|}{}                                                    &                       \ \cline{2-10} 
                                                                        & \multicolumn{2}{l|}{y}                     & \multicolumn{3}{l|}{}                               & \multicolumn{3}{c|}{}                                                    &                       \ \cline{2-10} 
                                                                        & \multicolumn{2}{l|}{z}                     & \multicolumn{3}{l|}{}                               & \multicolumn{3}{c|}{}                                                    & \multicolumn{1}{l|}{} \ \hline
\end{tabular}}
\end{table}
\end{document}

Which looks like this: But I hope to create this:

The colortbl package may be useful here. That is a plain color (not hatched) but if you choose a light shade of grey or blue it would be a similar effect. — Marijn, Aug 12 '22 at 12:05
Many will say to you that it's usually not a good idea to rescale a tabular with \resizebox because you will have inconsistent rule widths. — F. Pantigny, Aug 12 '22 at 12:06
never do \resizebox{\textwidth}{!}{% there is no possibility of getting reasonable output if you scale each table by a different arbitrary value. — David Carlisle, Aug 12 '22 at 14:08

F. Pantigny · Accepted Answer · 2022-08-12T13:34:40.407

If you actually want to resize a tabular with \resizebox a tabular with hatched cells, you may try {NiceTabular} of nicematrix.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{nicematrix,tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{patterns}
\usepackage{lipsum} % for dummy text
\begin{document}
\sffamily
\lipsum[1]
\tikzset{mypattern/.style = {pattern=grid,pattern color=lightgray}}
\noindent
\resizebox{\textwidth}{!}{\begin{NiceTabular}{ccccccccc|}[hvlines-except-borders]
\Block{2-1}{} & \Block{2-1}{Unit} & \Block{1-3}{Time} & & & \Block{1-4}{Non-uniformity} &&&\
& & 1 & 2 & 3 & 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 \
\Block{3-1}{Single-\part} & x & \Block{1-3}{} & & & \Block{1-3}{} \
                           & y & \Block{1-3}{} & & & \Block{1-3}{} & & & \Block[tikz=mypattern]{}{} \
                           & z & \Block[tikz=mypattern]{1-3}{} 
                                               & & & \Block[tikz=mypattern]{1-3}{} \
\Hline
\end{NiceTabular}}

You need several compilations because nicematrix uses PGF/Tikz nodes.

But it's probably better to use X columns (in the style of the X columns of {tabularx}).

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{nicematrix,tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{patterns}
\usepackage{lipsum} % for dummy text
\begin{document}
\sffamily
\lipsum[1]
\tikzset{mypattern/.style = {pattern=grid,pattern color=lightgray}}
\noindent
\begin{NiceTabular}{cc*{7}{X[c]}|}[hvlines-except-borders]
\Block{2-1}{} & \Block{2-1}{Unit} & \Block{1-3}{Time} & & & \Block{1-4}{Non-uniformity} &&&\
& & 1 & 2 & 3 & 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 \
\Block{3-1}{Single-\part} & x & \Block{1-3}{} & & & \Block{1-3}{} \
                           & y & \Block{1-3}{} & & & \Block{1-3}{} & & & \Block[tikz=mypattern]{}{} \
                           & z & \Block[tikz=mypattern]{1-3}{} 
                                               & & & \Block[tikz=mypattern]{1-3}{} \
\Hline
\end{NiceTabular}
\end{document}

Amazing worked like a charm! Thanks a lot! – JimV Aug 14 '22 at 07:48 — JimV, Aug 14 '22 at 07:48

Creating hatched cells in a resized table\tabular

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