Placing hosted railings on walls

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In

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the railing tool is often used to

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create objects other than handrails and balustrades,

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linear repeating objects such as solar shading fencing barriers and

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even hedges are often created using the railing tool.

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This is made possible by the ability to host

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railings on objects other than stairs and ramps.

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And we'll start by placing a fence along the line

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of the wall here at the top of the site.

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As there's a large change in level,

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we need this fence to prevent anything from accidentally falling over.

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It will be easier to create the rolling in a plan view.

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So from the project browser, we'll open up the site plan view.

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Now zooming into the top of the screen,

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we can see the walls where we need to place the fence.

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So to do this, we'll go to the architecture ribbon tab from the circulation panel

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or click on the rail in tool.

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Looking at the type selector,

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we can see that we have the fencing post and

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boards type active and this is the one we'll use

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and looking below this, we can see the base level parameter is set the first floor.

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So we'll click on and we'll change this to second

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floor as that coincides with the top of the wall,

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looking at the create rolling path ribbon if the lines gets tall labeled.

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So I'm gonna change this to be the pick lines tool.

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And now

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we can zoom in a little here and just click on the

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center line of the walls to trace those for our railing path.

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Looking at the vertical line here,

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we can see this extends the entire length of the wall.

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So we need to trim this back a little.

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So from the modify ribbon tab on the modify panel

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which use the trim extend single element to

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and now we'll zoom in and we'll click this edge of the mall here as the boundary

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and then we click on the top side of the line here,

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I stood side to keep.

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So now let's trim that off to the right side.

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Looking at the sketch line that follows down the slope of the wall.

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We can see this goes right to the very end of the wall

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and we need to just drag this back a little.

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So we can see we have the control at the end of the line.

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So we just drag this back slightly.

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And now once we've released it,

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we can edit the temporary dimension to be exactly six inches.

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So now that we have those sketch lines created,

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we'll click finish edit mode to create the road in

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straight away, we can see that created in the plan. We can see the post here,

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we'll swap back to the site 3d view.

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And here we can see the railing following the

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line of the wall up at the second floor level

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and we actually now need it to follow the slope of the wall.

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So to do this with the rain selected,

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we'll go to the modify rains

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ribbon tab

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and from the tools panel here, we'll click pick new host.

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And now we just need to click on the wall

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straight away. We can see that fence follow the slope of the wall down,

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zooming into the top of the slope. Here,

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we can see that where it changes angle,

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the actual balls themselves also kink and this isn't a realistic situation

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so we can edit the railing path to fix this.

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So I swap back to the site plan view.

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And now with the railings selected

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from the modified railings ribbon,

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we'll click edit path

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and we can see that this is one continuous sketch line along this wall here.

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And actually what we need to do is to break it

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at the change of angle for the post to be created.

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So we'll go up to the modify ribbon and from the modify panel,

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we'll click the split element tool.

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Now zooming in,

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we just need to click on the sketch line at the location here

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where it changes angle and then that line will be split into two.

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So now having done that, we'll click, finish edit mode

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and straight away, we can see that that split in the sketch gives us a post here.

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We'll swap back to the site 3D view.

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And again, we can see now we have that post at the change in angle

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with the boards meeting at the post and

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giving us a much more realistic representation.