brick course in wall families

[haydenwse]

I saw a presentation on how to put brick coursing into a wall family using sweeps so that the grout lines and courses show in sections. I can’t remember where I saw it. Anyone know how to do this?

I know how to do it using repeating detail components but would like it to show in all sections.

[Dimitri Harvalias]

You can nest a detail component family in the profile family that you use for your sweep.

[patricks]

I don't know about y'all but I wouldn't want to have a hundred sweeps going up a 15-foot high wall representing every single brick course. I can imagine that would make a file grind to a halt.

We never show brick coursing in overall building sections. No point in that. The enlarged building details have the brick section detail component for each course, and that's pretty much all that's needed. The small-scale overall building sections read just fine (IMHO better) without all those detail pieces and sweeps for every single brick course.

[Dimitri Harvalias]

Never said I would recommend it, just letting the OP know it could be done:lol:
I agree whole heartedly. A number of our clients use this approach to 'save time' when they create wall and building sections. The problem is, as pointed out, all these sweeps (especially in a building that is mostly masonry walls) do create performance issues. In addition to slowing selection of walls each sweep requires that Revit show the individual grips to edit the sweeps.
When you define the walls you need to allow for as many sweeps as the tallest wall will require. Unfortunately any walls shorter than that will result in an error message from Revit saying it can't create the integral sweep because there is no wall geometry there to place the sweep into.
The sweep is required to contain a closed loop and if that loop is cut the detail component will show in its entirety even though the condition may not warrant it (e.g. a door/window head at an elevation that doesn't coincide with the coursing).
When you look at how long it takes to place a repeating detail, how many exceptions there might be and how many sections you'll need to create I don't see it as a time saver at all.
Maybe it was irresponsible of me :Oops: but I took a look and saw that the OP had all of 3 posts under their belt so I didn't want to overwhelm him with why not to do this. But now that the subject has been brought up :lol: