Can't create railings - 2016

[jladuca]

I'm trying to place a straight section of railing using the sketch a path method on top of a generic floor and I receive this plain and simple error - "Can't create Railings" in Revit 2016.  I'm new at Revit but this seems like as simple as building a wall.  Any ideas? Am I missing something basic?

Thanks

[dzanta]

can you provide a picture of the error and the sketch you create...

FYI...

When creating a railing sketch:

1.  Command will take you into "Sketch Mode"

2.  Sketch Mode dictates the sketch must be a clean line or group of lines connected from one end to another

3.  No stray lines anywhere, no overlapping lines, no segments

[jladuca]

Thank you for the reply.  I believe I am doing what you describe.  See images.  Thanks.

[dzanta]

strange...from your images...it looks correct.

try to use the railing command on a new default architectural revit template file/project to see if you get the same error.  If the error occurs, then do a repair on your revit.  If the error does not occur, then there is something going on with your project file.

[jladuca]

Thank you for the suggestion.  It didn't work using our custom template but did work under default Revit construction template.  In our template the family is loaded.  What else could cause this error using our custom template?  Thanks.

[dzanta]

it could be several possibilities:

1.  The definition of the railing may be incorrectly set

2.  The current workplane in which you draw the railing may be incorrectly set

3.  The host of the railing could be faulty

take the railing defintion you have and see if you can rebuild it in the default architectural template file from scratch.  after recreating it, see if it works properly in the default template file.  if it does still (which I suspect), copy/paste this into your custom template file and overwrite the one you have...test again

[eblackburnEFFVJ]

I frequently use railings for parking stripes because the OOTB line based parking family is so poor. I often find that the vast majority (hundreds) of these will properly drape onto a toposurface (or toposolid, or draped floor). I inevitably will find that a few simply give the "can't create railing" error message. There is no obvious difference of why most of them work using the exact same faceted surface, but these will not. I've tried everything. I usually just spilt the face/region and assign the material manually, but this takes a lot more time.