2 Replies Latest reply on Apr 2, 2014 7:27 PM by John Sutherland

Smart Assemblies to build a wall?

Stephen Kittner Apr 2, 2014 11:00 AM

Hi all.

My problem....

I have designed a brick and some mortar parts.

Is there a way of creating a smart assembly to add bricks to specific lengths and heights so that it can automaticall create a wall?

I can get so far with linear patterns, but is there a way automate the process entirely from dimensions - possibly design tables?

I know I can use appearances to get a solid looking correct, but I need to be able to scale the brick accordingly and get a brick count into a BOM.

Cheers

Steve

Re: Smart Assemblies to build a wall?

Kelvin Lamport Apr 2, 2014 12:53 PM (in response to Stephen Kittner)

Creating the wall brick by brick could be very resource intensive & cause slow performance.

A simpler method would be to use the surface area of the wall divided by the face area of the brick (including mortar).
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Re: Smart Assemblies to build a wall?

John Sutherland Apr 2, 2014 7:27 PM (in response to Stephen Kittner)

One issue you must resolve is how individual brick walls created automatically, will interlock at corners.

Once I got the hang of where to place the seed bricks, patterning was the least of my worries.

The brick count will be a labour saver but I may have to manually subtract the patterned bricks from window and door apertures which I have created with assembly cuts.
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