Adding individual brick to wall panels

[Margarita]

I work for a precast concrete engineering company. Some of our projects involve architectural wall panel jobs in which we are responsible for showing all of the brick layouts on our panels.

Has anyone done something like this using Revit? So far I know of two ways, neither especially great. The first is just applying a brick material - but this does not allow for the brick count which is essential. The second is I made a detail component and it can be arrayed - but I have not been able to make it "smart" enough to notch at openings and cut brick.

If anyone has any suggestions or past experiences they would be willing to share, I'd love to hear from you.

[patricks]

I don't believe you'll be able to make your brick family cut/notch at openings, etc.

Are you needing an EXACT number or is this more of a takeoff situation? You could easily set up a parameter with a formula that divides the wall area by the number of bricks per unit of area to give you a pretty close number, and then add maybe 10% or something.