topic Re: Railing tool in Modeling

Railing tool

Lasha97 — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 08:13:50 GMT

Based on your experience, can I use ArchiCAD's Railing tool to create an almost identical fence, including its slope?

Operating system used: Windows

Re: Railing tool

CosminF — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 18:07:17 GMT

Hi!

Wouldn't it be more resource-efficient to just make a "plain" model and apply a alpha-channel texture with the tiny wiring on top of the base model? (i.e. something akin to the fence chain link texture in the basic library)

I assume making it out of railing would generate a very complex geometry and maybe it will unnecessarily take up space in your model.

Re: Railing tool

Barry Kelly — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 01:24:37 GMT

Create a custom balustrade to get the kinks and then add rails where required.

But as CosminF suggests, you may take a big hit in machine resources with all of the polygons it will generate.

Barry