Hatch aligned with curved lines
Oh, I hadn't thought of approaching the solution through linetypes. I was searching for a hatch. There was an extension online from UrbanLisp. I bought it, loaded, but then the command didn't work. So that was a complete waste of money.
Then I tried to ARRAY the bricks, but that turned out pretty funky. The adjacent bricks didn't align to create the running bond pattern and bits of the array flew all over the place. Anyway, that seemed like a dead end or a solution that would take a massive amount of futzing.
I'm not that familiar with LINETYPE. I think it has to do with making your own custom line--I've done this in the past, but it's not something I do regularly. It does make sense tho as an approach so I'll give it a go.
Thanks for responding. It's very kind of you to take the time out to offer a solution. Here's the sort of path I'm trying to detail.
The linetype approach, at least using the ones I could supply, will certainly still require some futzing at the ends in the outlines version, because it can only put in entire Shapes. The single-line version could do something such as in your picture pretty well, used along with Offset Arcs and end-of-path Lines. I don't yet have, but could easily make, running ones [with the bricks lengthwise instead of crosswise], to handle the middle runs here that don't show joints yet [the perimeter joint lines are in the linetype]:
A little bit of adding a Line [see lower left], and you will end up with a tiny dot in some places [see upper right], but a lot easier than constructing it all piecemeal.
A Hatch pattern, just because of how they work in AutoCAD and how they are defined, would never be able to do that kind of thing.
Kent Cooper, AIA 
I went back to my school notes and realized I can't do in AutoCAD LT (my version) the thing we did in the student version re: custom line creation. My other option is to "...create a .lin file in a text editor that saves ASCII format", but I have no idea what that means.
I have been working on this all day--actually several days--and all of this time is spent means I'm working for free more or less. Sometimes when I think I'm going to learn something new, I don't mind putting in the time, but in this case, there is clearly no easy method or skill that will make this easy in the future.
I've definitely been fiddling around with offsets, but there is one other complication, the beginning width and end width are not the same, so it means there will need to be variable spacing along the way. The client doesn't want a triangular brick in the middle where the two curves meet, she wants the same number of bricks at the beginning and the end with extra space between them.
What I'm going to do is, draw the first several rows of blocks in AutoCAD (beginning and end of path) and then make the "inspiration photo" in photoshop.
I wonder if Land F/X can make this work? I've been looking for an excuse to dive into that software and considering I have three projects suddenly with curved brickwork, it might be worth checking out if folks think it might be better. (They might have a plug-in, possibly to make this simple?)
Anyway, thanks for thinking about this and suggesting some tips. It's very kind of you to take the time to offer advice.
-Doug
Oh, here's where I'm at so you can see my dilemma.
@katrinaBK93T wrote:
what commands did you use to create this? I need to create something like this. Thanks
If you are referring to Message 22, it's just Lines and Arcs, with the brick-joint cross-lines being also done as Lines and Arcs using a custom Linetype with a Shape making the perpendicular lines. See Message 9, and also Message 20. The image in Message 22 uses the linetype in Message 9 called BRKEDG2C, which uses the Shape called JOINT.
Kent Cooper, AIA