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Best practice for modeling brick walls with colored coursing stripes?

dnathanc
Participant

Trying to determine the simplest and cleanest way to create exterior walls which have a primary / base color brick yet a single horizontal accent color row every ~9th course.  Same type / module of brick and all within same main wall plane.

 

Prefer not to create separate walls or beam elements for the accent courses as there will be quite a few of them.

 

Operating system used: Mac Apple Silicon Sonoma 14.6.1

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Lingwisyer
Guru

Photoshop a texture to include your accent which covers some interval of 9 courses?

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JeffH
Advocate

Here is a snip from a complex profile for an exterior wall, where the courses alternate from type 1 to Type 2.

 

There is also a minor corbel.

 

Each fill is linked to their respective Building material, which reads their individual Surface.

 

 

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That has been our method the last several years.

One exterior wall, spanning multiple stories.  

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Eduardo Rolon
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Another workflow:

https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Libraries-objects/Load-bearing-masonry-solution/m-p/270880

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