Pipe Railings

[Anonymous]

I've made pipe railings in both Revit and Autocad Architectural programs. Is there any way to make end corners and mid rail ends not square cuts but welded miters and notched fits? 

[rosskirby · Accepted solution]

Railing joins in Revit are... not good.  They'll look fine in plan, but your elevations will be screwed up.  Unfortunately, in most cases, you'll be stuck using masking regions to clean them up.  We just leave them as-is, and then create a detail callout that references a drafting view where they're drawn/drafted correctly.

[Anonymous]

That's about what I suspected. Thanks! (You're too kind... "not good.")

[dkeeran]

After all of these years and is still the same.  I am sure is a very simple coding change, but AutoDesk doesn't have time to make one the most basic and most common architectural features (pipe railing) and is still doesn't work correctly. 

[dkeeran]

I made a work around by duplicating pipe railing / making two other types of rails (copy past same place) one that is top rail only, the other is posts/balusters and lower rail(s), then set top offset of posts/balusters up to middle of top rail.  Almost faster than starting from scratch and building railing piece by piece.