fix handrail to conctete slabs

[Anonymous]

Is there anyone who can tell me how to draw/fix handrail to the top of a concrete slab which is positioned on top of a steel platform.

New to Advance Steel.

Shaun

[Kirk_bailey]

I've made a ScreenCast for you if you follow along, you'll learn the simplest way to create railing along concrete.

[múinteoir]

You cannot run the railing macro and use a concrete stair as the host. It will only work for beams. As @Kirk_bailey has shown its best to use a concrete or steel beam.

[Anonymous]

Been away.

Very close, its an old building, the slab sits on top and covers the existing steels.

Shaun

[múinteoir · Accepted solution]

Is this something that you are looking for? Im essentially adding a dummy beam to host the railing.

[Anonymous]

Thats it thanks for the demo.

I will be fixing the handrail to the top and will delete the dummy beam.

Cheers Shaun.

[AleckGiles · Accepted solution]

Hi,

If you delete the dummy beam you will break the Handrail macro making it hard to edit in future. Instead do the following in the dummy beam properties:-

• Naming tab:- Model Role = Not Visible; In the UK install this means the part is automatically ignored / not drawn in GA views.
• Behaviour tab:- Single Part > Used for numbering = Empty; the part won't be assigned a part number
• Behaviour tab:- Single Part > Used for Bill-of-material = Empty; the part won't show on BOMs.
• (No need to worry about equivalent settings for assembly if both the single part ones are empty).
• Display type tab:- Off; part doesn't show on model until turned back on.

Then the railing stays an editable joint.

By the way: The railing post base connections inside the macro all use bolts for going onto steel beams. If you want to use anchors into concrete then you can leave the post bases off in the macro and then apply the normal base plate joint to each post (the base plate joint uses anchors). Currently there are no standard joints suitable for palm plate mounting so you might have to look at user connections if / when you need them.

I hope that helps.

Regards,

Aleck Giles

Application Engineer

Graitec, UK.

[Anonymous]

Thanks for the info.

Regards

Shaun.

[Anonymous]

besides the concrete beam, will a handrail work on an isolated concrete footing or continuous footing?

[johnjmbennett]

Hi,

for a isolated foot no it will not work, this is because it is not a beam type object.

for the isolated footing it will work because this is a seen as a beam object, it has a shape and a system line.  Just select it like you where applying it to a normal steel beam.