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3 Desperately enhancements to the AST Railing Macro

3 Desperately enhancements to the AST Railing Macro

Hi Group,

 

The AST railing macro needs  a couple of enhancements imo.

 

1)  "Distanced between faces" picket spacing setting (including from the Rail Post too along with the individual pickets!!)

 

2)   Top of rail distance setting from nosing line, (should be a no brainer but if you want to nail 3'-6" rail ht on a slope in the model, it's either trail and error or you get out the  const. calc. and use trig to figure out what the numbers should be to compensate for the stinger/nosing offset before you input them.  It's ridiculous!!! 

 

3) Post extension in -Z axis for modeling and drawing rails that need to be core drilled into concrete.  We do many commercial jobs with this post condition and to have to extend the post manually with (shorten at UCS) or explode the macro and pull points is a waste of time.

     

A geek workaround is to set your reference object for the rail at a lower elevation but then you get mired down in all of the manual calcs to get the rail and intermediates at the proper ht for a code compliant rail. Another "death to productivity by a thousand re-edits issue"

 

These three items would greatly enhance the rail macro in my opnion and should be a breeze for the development team.

 

PLEASE CODE THIS IN to the next update...... (yes... I know I'm dreaming) 

 

Regards

Craig

ECMS

3 Kommentare
bukko
Collaborator

Dang...... I misspelled the crap out of the title.  Sorry

Rob_Merriman
Advisor

This would be a great feature, all of the clients i have worked for wanted equal gaps between infill bars (Balusters) from the inside face of the posts, to comply with building regaulations (UK) the gap between bars has to be <100mm

 

We used an excel formula where you would input the clear gap between the posts (960mm) input the infill bar size (12mm) and the fomula would give you the clear gap between infill bars that were less than 100mm. we would then model them manually

Shawton2000
Contributor

Macro needs a serious look at to become an efficient tool on all types of railing.

Just not user friendly at the moment and modifications usually boil down to trial and error to achieve what's required.

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