Implementing common bond brick

- When we're dealing in brick,…we need to plan on having a lot of it.…There's many cities that have entire blocks…where the buildings are made all of brick.…What we see there is a mix of face brick,…where it's nice looking on the front facade of the building,…and the sides have common brick and a common bond,…where it's a structural brick wall that has to look…decent enough for the side of the building,…but nothing special, and certainly not nearly…as expensive as the face brick on the front.…What we want to do then is develop…a common bond brick texture.…

That takes a little extra math to get it working,…but then we can get our header…and stretcher course in the right place.…I'll look at some reference imagery,…and see exactly what it is we're trying to make first.…When we look for common bond brick,…what we get is fairly straightforward.…In common bond, also known as American bond sometimes,…the bricks are laid in standard courses,…where we've got stretchers for five courses.…Where it's different is that the bricks…