Brick Coursing
Run 1: read a height off the Coursing Chart and use it in Revit. Run 2: check a wall elevation with the Coursing Checker, fix the off-course window and label the dimensions. Follow the notes, or just play.
These tutorials are made for a computer screen. On a phone you can look; to try them, open this page on a laptop or desktop.
Autodesk Revit 2025Garden Studio.rvt
NimDeck › Masonry:
Elevation: North
Elevation: North · 1:50
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NimDeck — Brick Coursing Chart
SEARCH RESULT
LOWER COURSE RANGE
UPPER COURSE RANGE
MANUFACTURING
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VERTICAL GAUGE
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Create Brick Preset
CUSTOM COURSING PRESET ⓘ
Preset name
Brick length mm
Brick width mm
Brick height mm
Mortar joint mm
Course increment
Vertical gauge
NimDeck — Brick Coursing Checker
MANUFACTURING
Tolerancemm
No selection loaded.
ACTIVE VIEW PREVIEW In Checker Exact side Tolerance side Off-course side
Below formatCJ reviewmm
Existing Dimension Below text
Dimension Below already contains text
How it works
- Coursing Chart lists the Midland Brick tables: LENGTH (bricks × 240 − 10), OPENING (length + 20; a * marks values derived from the manufacturer note, not published) and HEIGHT (whole courses, 7 courses to 600 mm for brick, 100 mm per course for blockwork). Search one column; it shows the nearest LOWER and UPPER values, or EXACT. Right-click a result or a cell to copy it without units.
- With C on (the default), a number up to 100 is a brick count and the chart shows its length, opening and height; larger numbers are millimetres in the chosen column. + makes a local preset from brick size, mortar and a whole/half/third increment; the two Midland presets are read-only. Chart and Checker share one profile.
- Coursing Checker reads the selected Walls and Dimensions. In an elevation a Wall gives its length and its height; a vertical dimension is a Height, a horizontal one a Length marked “Length?” (right-click to treat it as an Opening). Rows are Exact (√, green), within Tolerance (yellow) or Off-course (×, red); LOWER/UPPER show the ideal values, the nearer one in bold.
- The Checker watches the elements it read and the elements its dimensions point at, so moving the window refreshes the rows by itself. Selecting an element in Revit moves its rows to the top: blue bar = this row's own element, purple = a row it affects.
- In the view, click a dimension value to type a new one. As in Revit, an element moves: the selected element the segment refers to, otherwise the free end (the floor and the wall start stay put). The Checker rows update.
- The coloured preview is temporary graphics: no model change, no Undo entry. Write Below is the only model change: it writes the course label into empty Dimension Below fields (exact and tolerance rows only).
