topic Re: Railing tool in Installation & update

Railing tool

Anonymous — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 21:10:29 GMT

Hello

I just started using ArchiCAD a week ago. I am about to make railing for the balcony area, and realized I don't have the railing icon on the tool bar, which is supposed to be right after stair icon on tool bar. Does anyone know how I can get the railing icon, please?

Re: Railing tool

Karl Ottenstein — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 21:24:19 GMT

nevermore219 wrote:
Does anyone know how I can get the railing icon, please?

Is this like a Friday afternoon joke? There is no railing tool.... maybe you could tell us what you are looking at that let you think that there might be one?

Or, are you talking about something inside of Stairmaker?

Karl

Re: Railing tool

Anonymous — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 21:44:40 GMT

well, as I said I am a new user for archicad. I don't know how to make railing in archicad so that I googled it and found a tutorial video on aol site. look the reference image that i captured from the tutorial video. it does have railing tool. i still want to know how to make railing in archicad.

Re: Railing tool

Anonymous — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 22:07:52 GMT

They are using using Stairbuilder - an add-on from Cadimage.

The website mentions it has a separate railing tool, so looks like it appears in the toolbox when installed.

It's mentioned in movie no. 2.

http://blog.cadimagetools.com/2008/06/stair-builder-for-archicad-12-movie-2/

(Looks good by the way)

Re: Railing tool

Anonymous — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 22:21:57 GMT

then how can i create railing for the balcony without using that tool?

Re: Railing tool

Anonymous — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 22:26:41 GMT

You can place a railing using the object tool.

There are several under 'Building Structures' - 'Fences and Railings' (or your localised equivalent)

Hope that helps!

Re: Railing tool

Anonymous — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 22:41:20 GMT

a thanks a lot!

Re: Railing tool

Anonymous — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 06:38:07 GMT

you can also use trussmaker (in my setup located at Design>Design Extras>Trussmaker) to create relatively complex balustrade configurations (although in seperate sections, that is, each one limited to a single direction/plane) as illustraded here:

http://www.archicadwiki.com/TechNotes/How%20to%20create%20balustrades%20using%20TrussMaker

Re: Railing tool

Laura Yanoviak — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 20:37:26 GMT

If your on AC12, you can also use the Curtain Wall Tool (although I have not tried this personally).

Re: Railing tool

Stephen Dolbee — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 18:00:45 GMT

I think a railing tool is a great idea-it could be a tremendous time saver, esp. if it allowed custom rails.

Re: Railing tool

Anonymous — Sun, 28 Jun 2015 10:10:53 GMT

Laura wrote:
If your on AC12, you can also use the Curtain Wall Tool (although I have not tried this personally).

I tried to do so, but the curtain wall tool doesn't allow heights less than 1.00 meter. isn't it so?

Re: Railing tool

David Maudlin — Sun, 28 Jun 2015 12:38:46 GMT

hassan98 wrote:
Laura wrote:
If your on AC12, you can also use the Curtain Wall Tool (although I have not tried this personally).
I tried to do so, but the curtain wall tool doesn't allow heights less than 1.00 meter. isn't it so?

When initially placing the Curtain Wall the limit is 1 meter, but can be reduced after initial placement using the Elevation panel (t & b) in the Info Box, or the Geometry and Positioning panel in the CW Selection Settings.

You should add a Signature to your Profile (click the Profile button near the top of this page) with your ArchiCAD version and operating system (see mine for an example) for more accurate help in this forum.

David

Re: Railing tool

Ferenc_Traser — Mon, 29 May 2017 12:24:44 GMT

And there is one now!