Forums >> Revit Structure >> Technical Support >> Railings - So Useless After All These Years

Beaucoupnice

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Ok, I have done quite a bit of Revit modelling over my 11 years, but have to admit when it came to railings, I was never that good. For the past 2 days though, I decided to make a truly valiant effort into making a complete railing for a three storey stair at a Leisure Centre I'm modelling. I had been given a design in 2D AutoCAD and I suceeded in creating the correct railing balusters, handrails etc. I then proceeded to host that railing to the concrete stair and run it up the building.

And the result? Pish! Absolute 16 hours of drawn out frustrated Pish!

No matter what I did, I could not get the infil balusters to have the exact same spacings as the AutoCAD 2D Drawing.

No matter what I did, I could not get the main balusters to sit correctly where they needed to be at each landing and half landing.

No matter what I did I could not make the railing height transition vertically between 900 and 1100mm at each landing.

No matter what I did I could not get the railings to vertically rise at the half landing.

No matter what I did, I could not get the infill balusters to fill the gaps between the main balusters at the ends and half landings.

No matter what I did, there were just times when the sketch linework would not be able to find the host stair, even though it was sitting right on it.

Please, please, please can anyone tell me that they have managed to fully understand the railings tool and are able to faultlessly model any typical steel framed railing to the exact construction and design definitions that have been given to them?

I need to know if trying to make it work is just a waste of time as the railing tool is simply inflexibly hopeless or if I just need more training?

Thanks ( in complete desperation)

Beau

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Railings are a pain but they can be done if you think outside the box.  Sometimes you have to segment your railings and sometimes you have to use multiple railings in the same place - each with different components.  I know that most of my users in our office can't do anything special.

Keep trying and look for more training.

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KiwiRoss

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I, after many frustrating years, simply created a new family and made the stairs - shapes and extrudes - and made the railings. You get what you want.

I can spend an hour making the stairs, but every item in it is where you want it.

My two cents worth.

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