Adding and editing railings

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Handouts and balustrades are used for safety purposes

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first for us to hold on to as we ascend or descend the stairs.

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But also to prevent anybody from falling into a stairwell

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or falling over the edge of a balcony

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in rev,

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a railing can be hosted on the project level or

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it can be hosted on objects such as stairs,

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floors, walls and even roofs and topography.

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Let's begin our lesson by opening the file, create rate lens.

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This file will open into the entrance lobby, 3d view

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and at the rear of the lobby here,

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we can see the stairwell and we can see the stairs coming up from level one

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to meet the level two floor.

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And also we have the edge of the balcony here that we need to add a rail to,

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to get a better view of the stairs. In the project browser under 3d views.

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We have the crops stairs view. So let's open that up

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and this has been cropped closer to the stairs

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and it's also had the level two floor slabs set to be

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transparent so that we can see the stairs in their entirety.

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So let's add our railings to our stairs and

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to do so from the architecture tab on the ribbon

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under the circulation panel,

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we'll choose, roll in

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and then place it on stair or ramp.

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Now, on the modify ribbon,

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we have the option to place the railing either on

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the treads or on the stringer of the stairs.

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So this means that the railing will be hosted on each individual step,

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which is the treads

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or will be hosted on the supports on the side,

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which is the stringer,

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which you choose depends on your design.

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For this instance, I will leave it set to treads,

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looking at the properties pallette.

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We have the handrail,

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rectangular type of rail in selected and I'm gonna change this to handrail pipe

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and now to place it, we simply need to select the stairs,

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this places their aliens from top to bottom on both sides of the stairs.

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But we can see we need to extend our railings to

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return back to the wall and protect the stair wall.

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This side

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for the central rail in here.

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We need to extend this across the stairwell and

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across to the back wall on the rear wall.

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We have a complete railing

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when in reality, we only really need a handrail.

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So we will edit this back row in here so that it contains just a handrail,

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but we will leave the full rail in at the bottom flight here and at the top flight too.

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So let's do that first, we'll select this handrail

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and because we need to split this into two separate Rollins

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from the modified tab on the ribbon under the clipboard panel,

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we'll choose copy to clipboard.

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Mhm.

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Now we have that copied, we'll choose edit the path.

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And now we can see the sketch of the railing

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as it follows around the path of the stairs.

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So to edit this, let's open up a floor plan view or go to the level one floor plan view.

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And then as we zoom in,

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we can see the sketch lines following around the edges of the stairs.

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So for this one,

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I just want the railing to come from the bottom of the stairs up to the back wall.

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So we'll simply select the remaining lines and delete those.

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Now I can choose finish edit mode.

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And if I swap back to the crops stairs view,

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I can now see the rolling, finishing at the back wall,

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we'll post the a railing back in and then we'll repeat the process for the top row.

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So from the modified tab

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under the clip board, we'll choose under post

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and choose aligned to same place.

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So that's pasted the original railing back onto the entire length of the stairs.

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So we'll choose edit path once more

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and then we'll go back to our level one plan view

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and we'll delete the lines at the bottom of the stairs and also along the rear wall.

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And I will choose finish edit mode

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to complete that.

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And then looking back at the cropped stairs view,

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we can see the railing coming from the back wall to the top of the stairs.

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So this top rolling we need to extend so that it returns back across the stairwell.

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So let's choose this rolling

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and we'll choose edit path from the modify ribbon once more.

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And this time, I'll go to the level two floor plan

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here, we can see the rolling sketch

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and we need to extend this on a little bit

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further and then return it back towards the wall here.

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So from the sketch tools on the modify railings ribbon tab here,

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we'll choose the line tool

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and then we'll extend the new line on three inches.

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We'll sketch it across this way six inches

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and now we return it back to the wall.

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Mhm.

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So once we've got that completed, we'll choose finish edit mode.

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And once again, looking at the crop stairs view,

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we can now see the railing

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at the top of the stairs returning back to the wall

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which will stop anybody from falling into the stairwells from this side.

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So we'll repeat that process with the central row.

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So let's choose this one here and then from the modify railing, edit path once more.

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And again, from the level two plan view which we have on the tab here,

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we'll add a new line to the end of this one.

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So three inches once more is its length

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and then we'll return it across to the edge of the stairwell here

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and then once more, return it back to the wall.

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So now that's complete, we'll choose finish edit mode.

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And once again from the crops stairs, view on the tabs here,

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we can now see the rolling bending

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from the top of the stairs back around the stairwell,

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which is gonna prevent anybody from falling into the stairs from above.