Extend the bottom constrain of railing to lower edge of stair/landing.

Extend the bottom constrain of railing to lower edge of stair/landing.

prasadienator
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Extend the bottom constrain of railing to lower edge of stair/landing.

prasadienator
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I have a railing family whose lower constrain should match the lower edge of landing and run as the red line in sketch. and then the top of the floor.

prasadienator_0-1604416404938.png

 

I tried with different rail family for landing and stair run but the joint is a problem.

prasadienator_1-1604416495189.png

Any idea how I should proceed?

 

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barthbradley
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Post the file.    

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prasadienator
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here.

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martijn_pater
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You can use landing height adjustment. edit: doesn't do the trick, it will require some more tweeking to baluster bottom/top to rail and host then I thought...

 

Landing Heigh adjustment propertyLanding Heigh adjustment property

 

 

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prasadienator
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I thought i could too, that offsets the top rail as well.

 

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martijn_pater
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hmmm here's what I'm thinking atm, which is you need to do panels if you don't want to have the height correction for the (top) rail: https://www.autodesk.com/autodesk-university/class/Designing-Custom-Railing-Panels-Revit-2017

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lim.wendy
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Hi @prasadienator,

 

Thanks for posting. It looks like the AU class shared by @martijn_pater may help, did you get a chance to try it? 

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barthbradley
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is this what you are trying to do?

 

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martijn_pater
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@barthbradley(How) did you keep the rail height at 1m on the landing? It's a lot easier not to do so (possibly way to go...) But if it should remain at 1m on the landing, perhaps you've found the setting I'm overlooking... 

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prasadienator
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Yes Yes Yes!!! @barthbradley 

How were you able to maintain 1m on top? Am I missing out on something obvious?


I would nevertheless watch the AU video @martijn_pater sent. and learn more.

 

Thanks a lot Barth, Martijn!

 

 

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barthbradley
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@prasadienator wrote:

Yes Yes Yes!!! @barthbradley 

How were you able to maintain 1m on top? Am I missing out on something obvious?

 


 

Make your rail from one continuous sketch line and use the settings shown in the screenshot I posted.  Bada Bing.   

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prasadienator
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I had tried like that before.

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my top of the rail is not 1m frm finish anymore. I am gonna go through the video Martijn sent and try get a hang of how to control top of the rail independently.

 

 

Thanks again. 🙂

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martijn_pater
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You could also model it in-place in railing category, if not otherwise.

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martijn_pater
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So, tried to get you started on a panelling solution if not already. It's a bit more trickier then you want it to be tbh. Anyway, in the process I figured out you could sort of force such a panel using a nested generic family, setting it as start post which sort of forces it in position, which is a neat trick I suppose... 'panel' height in railing just needs some value other then 0 just to get that working with a nested family... But honestly it's easier to model in-place, or nest in-place in railing category (or possibly use curtain wall as railing)... 

 

Stair railing using panelling, railing 1m continuous on landingStair railing using panelling, railing 1m continuous on landing

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prasadienator
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curtain wall was my last resort.
in-place is not feasible, its a mid-high rise with different floor heights and 3 staircase cores.

 

I will study the material I already found on AU and the nested generic family. Eventually I will post it here.

 

Thanks a ton! have a good week!

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