topic Chamfer railing in Modeling

Chamfer railing

Mathias Jonathan — Mon, 27 Nov 2023 16:39:53 GMT

Hello everyone.

I have a railing for which I would like to make a corner chamfer (point A).
I was expecting a similar behavior to all archicad tools (wall, polyline, curtain wall...), but the expected result (line B in red) did not appear. Instead, result C appeared: the chamfer acted "after" point A rather than on point A.

Is this a bug? Or inconsistent behavior?

Re: Chamfer railing

Steve Jepson — Sun, 10 Dec 2023 18:26:11 GMT

That can be corrected by adjusting the reference nodes of the railing.

see attached video - https://app.screencast.com/oitajJ51eKreM The link will only work for a few days. Then I delete them because my library for that is full and I don't want to pay for more storage 🙂 You can set the distance of the railing reference line to be offset any distance from the railing (if that helps).

Re: Chamfer railing

Mathias Jonathan — Mon, 11 Dec 2023 10:46:07 GMT

Thank you for the answer Steve, but it seems to be a manual solution when railings should behave like any other tool.

It meens that if i want a "clean" solution, i should draw first a polyline and apply a corner chamfer ? or draw circle at each connection as reference?

It is not optimal.

Re: Chamfer railing

Steve Jepson — Mon, 11 Dec 2023 20:19:41 GMT

I agree that this is not the expected or proper result when using the Fillet/Chamfer tool. However, are you certain that there is no way to configure the settings of the railing for the desired result? Even if there is, drawing a circle and stretching the nodes to get the desired bend could be the more efficient way to get what you want anyway. ?

" should behave like any other tool...." It does - it almost does what you need it to do 🙂