topic Re: Reverse Railing Direction in Modeling

Reverse Railing Direction

Aaron Bourgoin — Tue, 23 May 2023 16:03:39 GMT

Page 1038 of the AC Manual describes how to reverse the reference line of the railing from a command on the contextual menu for the railing tool.

Problem is that I can't find it.

I'm hoping this function would adjust the railing on the right to align its fixings to the wall.

Magic wanting this rail style from either end of the stair has no effect.

Has this command been disabled in 5022 or did it ever exist?

Re: Reverse Railing Direction

felcunha — Fri, 26 Jan 2018 11:00:35 GMT

Select and right-click over the blue line of the railing, and "File railing on reference line".

Re: Reverse Railing Direction

Aaron Bourgoin — Fri, 26 Jan 2018 13:01:14 GMT

Felipe, Thanks! "Flip" is a separate command from the "Reverse" command listed in the manual. I have the Flip command on my contextual menu but not Reverse.

I'm hoping that the Reverse command could mirror railing fixings back toward the wall where they're supposed to be. Not sure why my picture didn't show up in my post. will try and reload it when I get to work.

Re: Reverse Railing Direction

Laszlo Nagy — Sun, 28 Jan 2018 22:48:48 GMT

This is interesting because I have never heard of this command before, it does not appear on my context menu either, but there is a screenshot about it in the Help PDF.
I will ask my contacts at GS about this.

Re: Reverse Railing Direction

Laszlo Nagy — Tue, 30 Jan 2018 17:28:50 GMT

I have received info from GS HQ.
The information in the PDF file is not up-to-date, this command did not make it into the final release.
If you ever find a discrepancy between the program and the PDF documentation, it is a good idea to check the Online Help, since that can be and is continually updated. So the Online Help should be your "source of truth".

Also, if you ever find such issues, please post it here, I will forward it to GS and they will fix the Online Help ASAP.

Re: Reverse Railing Direction

Lingwisyer — Tue, 03 Sep 2019 06:14:27 GMT

And here I just redrew a whole lot of railings to get them all going to same direction... whelp. Thanks for the info. Exactly what I needed. I do think that this should be included on the toolbar much like walls.

Ling.