How can I do this?

I have a bunch of long 200 foot plus lines laid out for some brick walls. I need to segment the lines every 3 feet to represent the cap pieces of the brick wall. Some of the lines are at angles and some are filleted at the corners. Thanks.

Your question is a bit vague and incomplete so maybe someone with experience doing brick wall layouts can contribute more but to help clarify this a bit; by "segment the lines" do you mean break the lines every three feet?

Sorry if it was vague..... basically I have long empty rectangles representing the brick wall. I would like to fill in the long rectangles with vertical lines representing the joints between the 3 foot sections of capstone.

Use the Array command.

ReMark you beat me to it! Grrrrrrr

Are you creating an elevation of a brick wall? You can use the brick hatch pattern and fill in the area you are working with.

The OP said capstone. The way I figure it Array will work whether it is a plan view or an elevation.

use the rectangular array instead of polar and you'll be on your way.

I'm trying to replicate this style here

It seems it would be hard to get the correct angles from the plans that I am trying to work with using an array command. I was hoping I could select the long rectangular shapes(brick wall) I have and fill it somehow with lines perpendicular to the edges every 3 feet to represent the joints.

Mason. you can do this easily with the fillet + offset commands.

draw two lines and use the fillet command right click to set the radius to your need and then use the offset to finish your drawing.

Thanks, that works for my angled lines but I'm not sure how to do it(besides manually drawing each joint line) for the filleted section. Right now, I have the 3 parallel lines, i'm just trying to put the joint lines in at every 3', the offset doesn't seem to want to keep the next offset pieces within and perpendicular to the parallel lines on the curved filleted section.

You can make the cross-lines follow a curve by using the "measure" command. Make a block of the joint line, which would be a short horizontal line, with the insert/base point at the midpoint. make your capblock line a single polyline. Now use measure, "block" option, "align with object" and it will be placed evenly along it.

I am still a little unsure what your attempting to accomplish, however, if your trying to divide an arc segment such as you depicted... I would use Polar array and Trim.

KC

I like the suggestion for using the Measure command. I think that would work the best.

Thanks for the tips, I was able to get the cap work done.

My next question is how to write the piece amounts directly under the dimension line. I switched my DIMSTYLE to have the dimensions to display above the dimension line but I was wondering if there was an easy way to write in the piece amounts/sizes under the dimension line like the example?

Thanks for the tips, I was able to get the cap work done.

 

My next question is how to write the piece amounts directly under the dimension line. I switched my DIMSTYLE to have the dimensions to display above the dimension line but I was wondering if there was an easy way to write in the piece amounts/sizes under the dimension line like the example?

right click on the dimension line and go to dim text position. and pick out the one you want. hope this help.