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Fix Railing Toprail/Handrail Inside Corner Transition

Fix Railing Toprail/Handrail Inside Corner Transition

Please fix the ongoing problems of how railing 'Top Rails' and 'Handrails' transition around the inside corners of stair landings.  The old railings used to be pretty bad at handling these transitions, but the newer 'Top Rails' are actually much worse.

Refer to my blog post on this subject:

weird-stuff-with-revit-railings-top-Rail

 

We need Revit to be able to create a very simple transition around tight corners - because that is how they build them on site, especially on fire escape stairs where space is kept to the absolute minimum and we don't care how elegantly designed the transition is.

Offset 25mm Top Rail none.JPGOffset 25mm Top Rail gooseneck.JPG

 

It is possible to get this to almost work by messing around with various offset properties in the railing but it is really difficult - and then when you have it looking ok in 3D, it gets screwed up in plan and you get warning messages.

Offset 05 top rail none.JPGOffset 06 top rail none plan.JPG

 

And as for that gooseneck setting, I have never seen a goose that has orthogonal transitions in its neck - it is laughable

goose-neck.jpg

 

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 Probably the number one reason why we have to resort to model in place. Would help out a lot it this worked better.

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