topic Re: Horizontal Railing Spacing in Libraries & objects

Horizontal Railing Spacing

Anonymous — Tue, 30 Jan 2018 14:49:44 GMT

Am I correct that the new railing tool (AC 21) does not allow you to have constant horizontal railing spacing, and that you have to do it manually?

Re: Horizontal Railing Spacing

Laszlo Nagy — Tue, 30 Jan 2018 15:50:31 GMT

Your question is pretty short so I am not exactly sure what you are asking but I will try to answer to what I think the question is.
If you activate the Balusters page of the Dialog, then on the right side, in the Baluster Pattern Settings panel you can choose the "Fixed Pattern Length" option for pattern distribution. Then in the Baluster Settings panel you can set the distance between the Balusters in the "Distance From Previous" field.

Re: Horizontal Railing Spacing

Anonymous — Tue, 30 Jan 2018 16:29:56 GMT

I have a railing with horizontal members, I clicked the '+' sign to add the horizontal members individually and calculated the desired spacing. That's how I got the railing shown here. I have tinkered with the Baluster Pattern Distribution setting to give me a constant spacing, but it does not seem to work. The Baluster Pattern Distribution setting seems to work only for the vertical pickets.

Re: Horizontal Railing Spacing

Laszlo Nagy — Fri, 18 Feb 2022 16:25:34 GMT

Yes, OK, so I did misunderstand what "horizontal railing spacing" means.
No, you cannot set a fix distance between horizontal Rails.
What I would do is I would use the "Profiled Rail 21" Rail GDL Object, which can use Profiles created in the Profile Manager.
Then in the Profile Manager I would draw the number of Rail profiles at the desired spacing and use that.

Re: Horizontal Railing Spacing

Anonymous — Mon, 15 Jul 2019 13:22:16 GMT

I'd hoped this was not the case but I came to the same solution as you Laszlo.
Surely there should be the option of horizontal balusters that behave the same as the vertical balusters, the current workflow is very inefficient.

Re: Horizontal Railing Spacing

JohnJay — Mon, 20 Jul 2020 19:38:01 GMT

ponaelius wrote:
I'd hoped this was not the case but I came to the same solution as you Laszlo.
Surely there should be the option of horizontal balusters that behave the same as the vertical balusters, the current workflow is very inefficient.

Can only agree this is a major oversight. I've been messing for the last couple of hours thinking I must be missing something obvious only to come and read this.

The 'balusters' options support making whole panels by specifying size and spacing. It seems such a logical thing to have the same option available for the rails?

Even the old fence object made this really easy...

Re: Horizontal Railing Spacing

runxel — Wed, 22 Jul 2020 13:07:34 GMT

True, it seems like a major oversight.
On the other hand railings like these are forbidden basically everywhere (since childs would be motivated to step on them like a ladder).

Re: Horizontal Railing Spacing

Hmooslechner — Wed, 22 Jul 2020 16:37:28 GMT

horiziontal railings look great but children can climb on it and fall down on the other side and if there are used small diameter Niro Material - then they are bent forever - what does not look good from then on. We never used it for that reasons..

Re: Horizontal Railing Spacing

JohnJay — Wed, 22 Jul 2020 20:10:11 GMT

I was trying to build fencing panels, either with no gap or with a small gap so no danger. Something like this:

Re: Horizontal Railing Spacing

Brett Brown — Wed, 22 Jul 2020 21:01:53 GMT

I'm sorry but seems Graphisoft yet again miss the boat on the basics, and another one that comes up regularly, multileader labels. Just some of the little basic improvements that wouldn't take much time to add and would save us hours in frustration.

Re: Horizontal Railing Spacing

Barry Kelly — Thu, 23 Jul 2020 01:28:26 GMT

But now in 24 (Windows version only at this stage) you now have Param-o that can do this easily.

I agree though that it would be a handy inclusion to have an automatic rail spacing in the rail tool.
It is only a problem safety wise when the railing is above a certain height of the ground - so that is no reason not to have the option.

Barry.

Re: Horizontal Railing Spacing

Laszlo Nagy — Thu, 23 Jul 2020 14:49:47 GMT

Someone care to make a wish for this feature?
If you do make a wish, please post its link in this thread.

Re: Horizontal Railing Spacing

Barry Kelly — Thu, 28 Sep 2023 12:40:58 GMT

LaszloNagy wrote:
Someone care to make a wish for this feature?
If you do make a wish, please post its link in this thread.

OK, a wish has been created.
Please go and vote.

https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Wishes/Automatic-rail-spacing-like-balustrades/td-p/264452?f=25&t=70322

Barry.

Re: Horizontal Railing Spacing

JohnJay — Thu, 28 Sep 2023 12:40:33 GMT

Barry wrote:
OK, a wish has been created.
Please go and vote.

https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Wishes/Automatic-rail-spacing-like-balustrades/td-p/264452?f=25&t=70322

Done - thank you

Re: Horizontal Railing Spacing

Anonymous — Wed, 03 Mar 2021 18:12:52 GMT

Still no solution here in AC24?

Re: Horizontal Railing Spacing

Liamthanks — Fri, 18 Feb 2022 04:57:53 GMT

Still nothing by the looks of it. Such a pain!