brickwork help

can anyone guide me with a tutorial or step by step guide on how to add brickwork inside a square for example.

sorry im a newbie, im doin an assignment for uni and need help. also how can i measure the lines inside autocad itself which will give me what i need in millimeters?

cheers guys thank your for your time:)

brickwork is usually easiest to add as a hatch

sorry, not following what you're asking for with your second question

(but in future can you post one Q per thread so replies don't get muddled, and anybody else with the same problem can easily find the answers by searching - ta )

Most of hatch pattern depend on units and their .pat defination base on 1 unit!So we can't get easy definite !Mostly i used explode hatch and check when i need to know dim of hattch.This example i did two pair rectangle (hatch and explode hatch).Don't forget to base point or ucs origin to move any corner of rectangle before hatch!

brick scale.dwg

First off if I've misunderstood your measuring question I appologise.

To measure in millimetres type in UNITS at the command bar, and make sure your unit TYPE is set to decimal.

and then in INSERTION SCALE select millimetres.

Then to get the measurements just type in DIST and then use your OSNAPS for accuracy

Mostly i used explode hatch and check when i need to know dim of hattch.

you don't need to explode hatch to ge tthe dim. simply set 'osoptions' value to '0' to make osnap work on hatch objects.

Cheer Dipali!....so knowledge for me...coz i love this forum.:)

brickwork is usually easiest to add as a hatch

The AutoCAD patterns, either acad.pat or acadiso.pat (inches or metric) were written in the USA. Brickwork sizes vary from country to country, so if you need to be accurate, and are not in the USA the patterns probably won't work, even if scaled.

If you are in the UK (as I am) I have written my own patterns to suit UK sizes.

Hope this helps.

thank you all for your replys, a1dwg i am in the uk, do you have the patterns? ill up load what im trying to achieve so someone can say which method is best?

the REAR elevation is the one im truly stuck on, the roof work and the brick work i need to replicate that.

any NEWBIE easy to follow rules would be great.

cheers guys

Ground Floor Plan.pdf

Rear Elevation.pdf

I heartily agree, you should always try to avoid exploding hatch patterns. Maybe if it isn't a complex hatch and it only covers a small area then perhaps you can suffer no ill effects. Otherwise what you are really doing is increasing the size of your drawing file and adding a number of little line segments that may cause you any number of headaches later on when moving, stretching, or using other modify commands.

At the scale you are working at would it be acceptable to not indicate the depth of the mortar joints?

what's the subject you're studying and what's the assignment about?

some subjects which would be set such a drawing as an assignment would only require some sort of representation of 'brickwork goes here' rather than mm accuracy on how the bricks fit, and if it's a planning application you're doing, you'll most likely be best leaving off the brick pattern as it makes the drawing too busy and isn't necessary for most applications

now how did you get the position of that window on your rear elevation? where's the finished floor height in the building, and did you check that the kitchen cupboards are going to fit comfortably under the window sill? I could be wrong, but that window looks a little close to the floor level

slickwillwize,

I agree with Strix about showing brick hatch on elevations, they can get very 'cluttered', I usually either shade a small random shaped area, or set the hatch to print in the finest linetype available or in a light grey. Add this text to your .pat file and the hatch pattern should be there ready to use.

*brickele,brick elevation

0, 0, 0, 112.5, 75

90, 0,0, 75,112.5, 75,-75

type 'snapbase' at the command line and click on the bottom left of the elevation - this will set the hatch to start as a full brick, and not part way through.

Note this pattern doesn't have the joints shown (but are included in the overall brick size- coordinating size) to simply the pattern.

Maybe this will help

http://www.theswamp.org/index.php?topic=23425.0

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