topic Re: Brick Soldiers Arched Entry in Modeling

Brick Soldiers Arched Entry

Kumar Jo — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 19:24:25 GMT

I need some help here how to model this soldier brick for a porch entry. The project was designed in 2017 with an another modeling software and used only the 2D representation for soldier course. Now I have transitioned to AC in 2024, I am recreating the old projects in AC. All the bricks are modular 7 5/8 length x 3 5/8 width x 2 1/4 height. Mortar 3/8 thick.

My workflow: Core walls as basic or composite (if either sides with gyp. board), sheathing skin to finish skin as CP Wall w Offset modifiers. This gets easier to offset the sheathing and other skins to mud sill and the bricks' skin to foundation ledge.

Operating system used: Windows 11-25H2

Re: Brick Soldiers Arched Entry

AllanP — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 05:17:09 GMT

i would look to see if there is a setting like this in your loaded libraries...

Re: Brick Soldiers Arched Entry

Lingwisyer — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 06:08:33 GMT

Note: The Masonry Arch option will not do the vertical sides, just the arch itself. I believe it also just radiates the joints from the arc centre rather than rotating actual rectangles and filling with wedges of mortar.

Re: Brick Soldiers Arched Entry

Kumar Jo — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 14:53:07 GMT

@AllanP , yes I have it, I use US library and INT library as well when some of the door setting options not there in US library. As @Lingwisyer said, the inbuilt settings are for only the arch and not the entire entry. And there is no way how you want to align/array the bricks. After I switched to AC, I started loving it but I couldn't sometimes.

Thank you @AllanP and @Lingwisyer