Is there a solution to prevent balusters overreaching rail?

[Anonymous]

Hello,

I've been struggling to find a way to prevent the end balusters from going past the end of the railing. The closest solution I could find is adding extensions to the end of the railing and drawing the rail path line smaller. I just want to make sure I'm not missing a better solution, since making the rail path line smaller to accommodate for the extension would be a pain with all my railings. 

The CAD drawing shows what I'm trying to reproduce in Revit

 

 

[ToanDN]

Without seeing your railing baluster/post settings, one way is to draw the railing shorter and extend the top rail only.  It can be done via top rail  type extension properties (image) or via editing the top rail sketch line (screencast).

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/community/screencast/06cf51ad-444e-4bdf-bf67-c511e90b2c78

[Anonymous]

Yes I'm familiar with this way. I was hoping there might be another way so I don't need to redraw all my railing paths to accommodate for the extension. 

If this is the only solution though, I'll make do. 

I've attached my type properties too. 

[ToanDN]

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@Anonymous wrote:

Yes I'm familiar with this way. I was hoping there might be another way so I don't need to redraw all my railing paths to accommodate for the extension. 

If this is the only solution though, I'll make do. 

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No they are not the only solutions. 

Can you use Spread pattern to fit for baluster placement?

[Anonymous]

Weird. That image (did you remove it?) is exactly what I need. But mine is doing this weird thing where the start and end is at the ends of the railing vs the start and end posts. See image. 

EDIT: No I cannot do spread pattern to fit. I need a specific distance between them. 

[ToanDN · Accepted solution]

There is another way to control exactly where balusters populate but it also involves editing railing sketch so you won't like it, but I throw it out here just in case.

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/community/screencast/8987315f-b794-43d2-b53f-0bebb9b671f2

Some other possibilities:
- Baluster panels
- Curtain wall with custom panels
- Line based family with nested component array
- Adaptive family with nested component hosted on nodes of a divided path

[Anonymous]

Thanks for the other options. 

I appreciate the help @ToanDN .