Bricks on wall

Tekla Structures

Not version-specific

Tekla Structures

Environment

Not environment-specific

Usage

Adding bricks and/or a surface (brick pattern) on a input part.

Examples

Picking order

Select the wall.

Tab	Description	See also
Picture	Defines the shape, the position and a possible offset of the bricks and/or the surface on the wall.	Picture
Top layer	Defines the dimensions of the bricks in the top layer. Also defines the brick pattern and the properties of the surface treatment.	Top layer
Bottom layer	Defines the dimensions of the bricks in the bottom layer. Also defines the brick pattern and the properties of the surface treatment.	Bottom layer
Soldier layers doors	Defines the soldier layer and the used pattern for doors.	Soldier layers doors
Soldier layers windows	Defines the soldier layer and the used pattern for windows.	Soldier layers windows
Soldier settings	Defines the soldier settings for the soldier layers.	Soldier settings

Tab Picture

Option	Description
Create	Defines the objects to be created. The options are: Image
Surface and brick Image	Bricks in edges Image
Surface Image	All bricks Image
Surface objects Image
Cut out bricks from surface	Defines whether bricks should be cut out from the surface. The options are: Image
Yes Image	No Image
Add bricks to wall	Defines whether bricks should be added to the main input part's cast unit. The options are: Image Notice: Once are parts added in an assembly then those parts usually stick with that assembly, even if option No is selected.
Yes	The toolbar Selection is set to Select assemblies to visualize this option: Image Image
No	Image
Bricks rotation angle	Defines the rotation angle of bricks: Image
Filter on selected object	Use the option Filter on selected objects combined with a selection filter to define which objects are used. For example the “wall_filter” to only run this plugin for walls: Image

Option

Description

Create

Defines the objects to be created. The options are:

Surface and brick

Bricks in edges

Surface

All bricks

Surface objects

Cut out bricks from surface

Defines whether bricks should be cut out from the surface. The options are:

Yes

Add bricks to wall

Defines whether bricks should be added to the main input part's cast unit. The options are:

Notice: Once are parts added in an assembly then those parts usually stick with that assembly, even if option No is selected.

Yes

The toolbar Selection is set to Select assemblies to visualize this option:

Bricks rotation angle

Defines the rotation angle of bricks:

Filter on selected object

Use the option Filter on selected objects combined with a selection filter to define which objects are used. For example the “wall_filter” to only run this plugin for walls:

Option	Description
Image	Defines the offset of the bricks/surface treatment regarding to the input part edges.
Image Image
Image	Image Defines the offset of the bricks/surface treatment regarding to the doors and/or windows in the wall. Image
Image	Image Defines the plane in depth (option B) which is used for examination of input part shape. The origin for this plane can be calculated from the front side (option A1), back side (option A2) or from the middle (A3) of the wall. The options are: Image Image
Example Image
Image	Image
Image	Image
Image	Image Defines the side of the wall on which the bricks and/or surface should be positioned. The options are:
Image	Image
Image	Image
Image	Image Defines the position of the individual bricks on the edges of the recess(es).
Image	Image
Image	Image
Image	This option creates only one complete brick on front left corner of the input part as reference brick for brick handling machines.
Image	Image This option creates only one complete brick on every edge of wall shape and openings.
Image	Image This option creates one brick on every edge of wall shape and openings.
Image Image	This option manage which edge should have edge brick. Image Image Combo box on the bottom manages if bricks should be created on the edges which are not on the shape extremes. Values: Every edge - every brick is created Image Bounding box - only bricks that lays on bounding box are created Image Shape extremes -only bricks that lays on shape extremes are created Image
Image	Image Defines the offset between the wall and the bricks.
Image	Image

Tab Top layer

Option	Description
Material	Defines the material of the bricks.
Name of Bricks	Defines the name of the bricks.
Name of Corner bricks	Defines the name of the corner bricks. Because of the L-shape, corner bricks cannot be handled by the machine and, hence, need to somehow be filtered out. Use this value field to specify the name of corner bricks.

Option

Description

Material

Defines the material of the bricks.

Name of Bricks

Defines the name of the bricks.

Name of Corner bricks

Defines the name of the corner bricks.

Because of the L-shape, corner bricks cannot be handled by the machine and, hence, need to somehow be filtered out. Use this value field to specify the name of corner bricks.

Option

Description

Defines the dimensions of the bricks in the top layer.

Defines whether regular bricks or corner bricks are used and defines the dimensions of the bricks on the edge of the pattern on the left side. The options in the list box are:

Defines the width of the bricks.

Defines the length of the bricks.

Defines whether regular bricks or corner bricks are used and defines the dimensions of the bricks on the edge of the pattern on the right side. The options in the list box are:

Defines the dimensions of the mortar and the position of the half brick in the pattern.

The options in the list box are:

This option does not create any pattern:

The position of the half brick in the pattern can be defined by entering the value in the associated field:

The position of the half brick in the pattern can be defined by entering the value in the associated field:

The position of the half brick in the pattern can be defined by entering the value in the associated field:

If the option Create is set to All bricks on the tab Main:

also the following two options are available in the list box

to define more detailed dimensions for the bricks:

Options adjust, exact and target defines how is calculated mortar width:

Exact

Mortar width is created exact according to a dialog
Residual brick can be created with length on interval (0; standard brick length + mortar width]
Mortar width is same for entire wall

Recommendation: For easy discovering bricks with atypical size use advanced class setting.

Examples:

Image

Image

Adjust

Mortar width is slightly adjusted in cases when remaining gap is too small
Residual brick can be created with length on interval (0; standard brick length)
Mortar width is same for entire wall

Recommendation: For easy discovering bricks with atypical size use advanced class setting.

Examples:

Image

Image

In this case residual brick would be bigger then 200, therefore mortar width is adjusted.

Target

Mortar width can be adjusted according to a situation
Residual brick is not created at all
Mortar width can be different for odd and even row

Example:

Image

Defines the pattern properties of the bricks of the surface treatment in the top layer.

Name

Defines the name of the bricks.

Surface treatment name

Defines the name of the surface treatment. The options are:

Tile color

Defines the color of the tiles. You can use any value between 0 and 255 for the shade “red” (Option A in the picture below):

Mortar color

Defines the color of the mortar. You can use RGB values for this color.

Examples

Color	RAL code	RGB value	Example
Black	RAL9005	003 005 010	Image
Brown	RAL 8011	071 038 028	Image
Gray	RAL 7040	158 163 176	Image

Calculate Surface bricks

Defines whether the bricks are calculated or not. The options are:

Example

The option is set to Yes:

Number of bricks:

= 20

= 8

Total = 36 bricks.

Inquire panel:

You can use the number of bricks in templates and reports:

Define a reference point for the surface treatment. The options are:

By dialog values

The surface treatment is positioned on base of the settings in Bricks in Top Layer

and Advanced brick lengths

By picked points

You can position the surface treatments of several walls by a picked point. This is applicable to multiple walls in line where you want to continue the bricks in the pattern (the surface):

Result

Class - defines the color of the bricks.

For options "All bricks" and "Surface objects" exist possibility to set different classes according to bricks geometry.

Button on picture above activate dialog with settings.

Result:

In case that Bricks on wall property mortar width is set on exact option and pattern is set on any complex pattern can be created residual brick with surface area bigger than surface area of standard brick.

Complex patterns:

Defines that it bricks will be created with only full or partial size defined in the dialog.
This option is available only for "All bricks" and "Surface objects".

Tab Bottom layer

Option

Description

Defines the dimensions of the bricks in the bottom layer.

Defines whether regular bricks or corner bricks are used and defines the dimensions of the bricks on the edge of the pattern on the left side. The options in the list box are:

Defines the width of the bricks.

Defines the length of the bricks.

Defines whether regular bricks or corner bricks are used and defines the dimensions of the bricks on the edge of the pattern on the right side. The options in the list box are:

Defines the dimensions of the mortar and the position of the half brick in the pattern.

The options in the list box are:

This option does not create any pattern:

The position of the half brick in the pattern can be defined by entering the value in the associated field:

The position of the half brick in the pattern can be defined by entering the value in the associated field:

The position of the half brick in the pattern can be defined by entering the value in the associated field:

Defines the height of the bottom layer (A).

Example

Brick height (B) * number of bricks: 50 * 8= 400.

Mortar height (C) * number of mortar: 10 * 7 = 70.

Total height of the bottom layer (A): 400 + 70 = 470.

Defines the pattern properties of the bricks of the surface treatment in the bottom layer.

Name

Defines the name of the bricks.

Surface treatment name

Defines the name of the surface treatment. The options are:

Tile color

Defines the color of the tiles. You can use any value between 0 and 255 for the shade “red” (Option A in the picture below):

Mortar color

Defines the color of the mortar. You can use RGB values for this color.

Examples

Color	RAL code	RGB value	Example
Black	RAL9005	003 005 010	Image
Brown	RAL 8011	071 038 028	Image
Gray	RAL 7040	158 163 176	Image

Calculate Surface bricks

Defines whether the bricks are calculated or not. The options are:

Example

The option is set to Yes:

Number of bricks:

= 20

= 8

Total = 36 bricks.

Inquire panel:

You can use the number of bricks in templates and reports:

Class - defines the color of the bricks.

For options "All bricks" and "Surface objects" exist possibility to set different classes according to bricks geometry.

Button on picture above activate dialog with settings.

Result:

Complex patterns:

Defines that it bricks will be created with only full or partial size defined in the dialog.
This option is available only for "All bricks" and "Surface objects".

Tab Soldier layers doors

On this tab page is needed to set soldier pattern and one of nine soldier setting from soldier settings tab page.

Option	Description
Image	Defines the type of the soldier layers at the doors. You can define the height (H) of the soldier layer in tab Soldier settings: Image The options in the list box are:
Image	Image
Image	Image Image
Image Image
Image	Image Image
Image Image
Image	Image Image
Image Image
Image	Image Image
Image Image
Image	Image Image
Image Image

Option

Description

Defines the type of the soldier layers at the doors. You can define the height (H) of the soldier layer in tab Soldier settings:

The options in the list box are:

Tab Soldier layers windows

On this tab page is needed to set soldier pattern and one of nine soldier setting from soldier settings tab page.

Option	Description
Image	Define the type of the soldier layers at the windows. You can define the height of the soldier layer in tab Soldier settings: Image For the options in the list box, see option Image in tab Soldier layers doors.

Option

Description

Define the type of the soldier layers at the windows. You can define the height of the soldier layer in tab Soldier settings:

For the options in the list box, see option

in tab Soldier layers doors.

Tab Soldier settings

Option

Description

Setting number

Defines the setting number that is used in the tabs Soldier layer doors and Soldier layer windows.

Tabs Soldier layer doors / Tab Soldier settings.

Soldier layer windows.

H is defined by

Defines how the height of the soldier layer is calculated. The options are:

For examples, see option

in tab Soldier layers doors.

Value

This value defines the height or the number of horizontal bricks of the soldier layer. It is parameter H in Soldier layer doors and Soldier layer windows tab pages.

Soldier brick class

Defines the class (color) of the soldier layer.