I managed to create a somewhat okay-looking curbstone using railings.
The hack I had to add was using balusters to mimic the seams between each curb. Not so nice though.
Is it possible to create splits/divisions in the rail itself?
Any better tip how to create curbstones? Keep in mind that the curbstones need to follow round edges, not only straight lines.
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instead of a Railing, how about a Curtain wall? you cna set the horizontal panel distance to what is needed for a stone. then set the mullions to None. For the "panels" you can select a 10" Concrete wall.
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that was my fist way.
Then I went with railings to achieve this look.
Curbstone in plan view
not so nice in 3d view though
Curbstone in 3d view
Can a railing, which is made out of a profile, have splits ever X cm? Or any other way?
Or can the baluster (the white thing in the screen shot is a baluster) be a void instead? Right now, when I export this to FBX, I end up with those small sticks. Also, its not nice.
@Haider_of_Sweden wrote:Can a railing, which is made out of a profile, have splits ever X cm? Or any other way?
Or can the baluster (the white thing in the screen shot is a baluster) be a void instead? Right now, when I export this to FBX, I end up with those small sticks. Also, its not nice.
"my" answer to both questions is i don't think so, cant say i ever tried though
why doesn't the Curtain wall option work for you? you can create a thin mullion ans set the material to be transparent if you don't want to see it.
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LOL, and i replied thinking that you were saying you had already tried curtain walls..... LOL
well, give it a try and let me know if you have any issues. ![]()
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You can create a mass with spline, divide it, and place a 3-point adaptive family and repeat it.
Finally, I got the time and tried out solving it with curtain walls.
I provide the rvt-file (v2017 - let me know if you use an older version and I provide screenshots of the different steps and such) and maybe others find it useful.
A question though:
Why aren't curved supported? Or am I doing anything wrong?
so like this..... ![]()
use a basic wall for the panel, then they will curve.
i just duplicated an existing Basic wall, deleted all the Finish layers and changed the material of the structure to Concrete. see attached screencast.....
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I knew about using normal walls as panels to make them bend.
The disadvantage is that you cannot have a profile as in my previous post. You might want that.
This is my latest result. Still Curtain walls, still profile. I had to create a new family for the round corner panel, with revolved profiles, predefined with the desired radius.
rounded curbstones
It's a quick and ugly solution. Something with the revolve didn't work correctly, or maybe the family is faulty. For example, I don't see the correlation between the revolve axis-line and the revolved volume's actual centre point.
If anyone could please take a look?
In the screenshot, you can see that the 300mm, which I created with the same principle as the two other, doesn't fit properly. Not sure why.
The upper right corner needs to be fixed as well. A mullion, L-shaped or other will still not work since the profile works up>down. I need a profile that is defined from the side. I guess I'll have to create something similar to above, but corner edge instead of the round edge.
For anyone interested, I provided an updated Revit file (2017) with the solution shown in the screenshot above.
Update (and updated Revit file):
Two of the corners OK, two of them have offsets.
since your using Certain walls, have you considered trying Corner Mullions for those conditions instead of a panel? I've never used them for curves, but may be something to look into. see if you can make a corner mullion as a curve.
https://help.autodesk.com/view/RVT/2020/ENU/?guid=GUID-97612CCF-ADA8-4CF5-9EB3-D6DB37069D06
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For this kind of profile-curbstone, I will stick to my solution for the corners. The corner mullion doesn't support a profile from the side, only top-down.
But what about this offset thing, does anyone have a clue why it happens? Revit-file provided in my previous post
Two of the corners OK, two of them have offsets.
As an alternative idea you could create the curb as structural framing family and pick the slab lines (curves) & slice (manually, which is not ideal I suppose...)
Sorry, I mean take 25 sec to draw the floor, and 5 sec to draw those 2 railings...
Here you go.
It's a Vicroad(Australia) kerb profile.
You can Tab pick edges to quickly place, and also Pick New if the floor level is changed.
Hello again @bin
I updated my Curtain wall approach, this time no need for mullions and the chamfers are built in.
Do you know a way to create chamfers like this when using Railings?
Having chamfered edges is nicer when exporting from Revit to 3dsMax for render.
From what I understand, balusters don't support curved railing path (they don't adapt to the curves or bends in a path), correct? Otherwise, the balusters could've been modelled like a curbstone instead of the top rail being the curbstone.
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