Sketching and placing railings

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In

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the raid types are made up of many separate parts.

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Each park contains a nested family and they combine together in

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the railing type to give us the complete railing structure.

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The vertical components of a railing are ballers

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and posts

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with the ballers

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being repeated at regular intervals and the posts positioned at

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the start or end of the railing or at corners.

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When changing direction,

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the ballers

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and posts are 3d parametric families that are nested into the rain

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type.

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The horizontal components are referred to as raus with a non

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continuous rail structure being used to create multiple horizontal components.

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A top rail can be added along with hand rails at different heights.

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And all the rail types use a profile family to define the shape of the rail,

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which gives us lots of flexibility to define custom rail types.

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Looking at the entrance lobby of the building here,

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we can see that we have a balcony that we need to

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have a handrail placed along to act as a guard rail.

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And we also have some stairs in the back here

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that we need to place a railing on.

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I have the crops stairs 3d view already open.

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So I'll swap to its tab to view this.

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And in this view, we have the first floor slab set to be transparent,

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so we can see the stairss better.

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And we can see now on this back wall where

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we need to create the railing along this run of stairs

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to create the Roland. We'll need to make a sketch of its path

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and it will be easier to do this in a plan view.

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I already had the level two plan view open.

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So I'll swap to this view

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and here we can see the stairs and the back wall where we need to place the railing.

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So to do this from the architecture ribbon tab on the circulation panel,

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we'll click on the rail in tool,

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looking at the type selector, we have the rolling handrail pipe type selected

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and we need to create a new one.

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So we'll click on the edit type to access its type properties

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and then click duplicate to create a new type of rail in

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and we'll name this

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handrail war mount

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and then we'll click OK to save that name in the new rail in type.

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Now, we need to make a few changes in here and we'll start in the construction panel

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and we'll edit the row structure first. So we'll click the edit button

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and we can see now that we have all of the

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rails that made up the pipes for that previous railing type.

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So

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we'll select the top one here and then from the bottom of the rails,

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we'll click the delete button.

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Then we can continue to click that until we've deleted all of those routes.

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We'll click, ok to save those changes.

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And now beneath this, we need to click, edit next to the baller

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placement

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as we need to remove the ballers

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as well.

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You can see, we also have some posts

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and these, we can't delete. We need to click on the baller type here

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and then scroll up and choose none.

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And then moving down to the post, we'll repeat this for the start post

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and then again for the corner post

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and finally for the end post

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and then we can click, ok, to save those changes

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looking further down the box, we have the handrail one

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panel here

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and we can see the type is set to none.

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So we'll click this and then from the button that appears,

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we'll open up the type properties of the handrail families here.

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And from the type list at the top, we'll click pipe wall mount

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and then click, ok.

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To assign that into hand row one,

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we need to choose a position. So just above here, we'll click on none.

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And from the drop down, we'll choose the right side for it to be positioned.

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Now, finally moving up to the top row panel,

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we can uncheck use top row

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as we just need the pipe wall mount on the hand rail one created.

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So we'll click, OK to save that new handrail type

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and we can see that active in the type selector. Now,

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looking at the sketch tools in the crate railing path ribbon here,

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we have that set to be a straight line.

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So we'll zoom into the stairs here and we'll

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snap to the bottom of the string support here

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and then moving across up the stairs,

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we snapped to the top of the string.

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Now that's got the path draw.

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We need to make sure the railing is going to be hosted by the stairs.

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So going back to the create railing driven here

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from the tools panel, we'll click on the pick new host tool.

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And now we just need to select the stairs

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for that railing to be hosted by those stairs.

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We can see we have the direction arrows from bottom to top now displayed as well.

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So we'll click finish edit mode to create that rail in.

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And now swapping back to the crops stairs, 3d view.

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We can see that we have that railing along the back wall here.