Need help with building a railing on this continuous ramp

[joyyakob11]

Hi guys, 

Any help would be appreciated. I'm currently a student and my teacher suggested to build our ramp by creating a floor and then modifying its sub elements to create the slopes we needed.  

I now need to add a balustrade, but I don't know the best way around this as this is a continuous ramp. 

Let me know, Thanks!

[ToanDN]

Railing can attach to floor to follow the slopes.

[joyyakob11]

Hi, 

how do i make it attach? The railing always attaches to a flat surface.

[joyyakob11]

I've gotten it attached to the base of the ramp but how would i go with drawing the rest of the ramp if i'm unable to see in floor plan?

[RDAOU]

@joyyakob11 

See GIF Below - After you model the rail,

• Select the rail
• From the Ribbon: Use pick new Host 
• Select the Floor element

If the floor element is uniform and continious, so will be the rail. Otherwise you wil need to model it in segments. 

[joyyakob11]

How could i make this a concrete blustrade?

[RDAOU]

@joyyakob11 

Option 1: Use a Slab Edge (since you have modeled the ramp as a floor). You would need to model the profile load it into the model and create a slab edge type using that profile

Option 2: using railing

• Model the profile in a profile family template (H= the height of the concrete parapet) similar to option 1
• load that profile into the model
• duplicate the Railing type
• remove all balusters
• use the profile you modeled as a rail 

[Mike.FORM]

It is possible to model the railing as one run by editing the slopes of the sketch lines.

This is single railing that has the first section of sloped floor as the host. Then the line for the second sloping bit has been adjusted by editing the path, selecting the line and modifying the parameters as shown in the context bar. at a 1/12 slope spanning 6000mm the height change is 500mm.