topic Re: Help Modeling Side-Mounted Glass Railing System in Archicad in Modeling

Help Modeling Side-Mounted Glass Railing System in Archicad

AG717 — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 04:26:01 GMT

Hi everyone,

I’m new to Archicad (1 week) and would appreciate some help. I need to model a side-mounted glass railing system around a deck and around a pool (see IMG with to different arrange layouts). Each Option has a different layout, so the design requires different glass panel modules according to each segment.

Attached you’ll find the system reference and the proposed panel arrangement by length:

Teal: 4' 2 1/2"
Orange: 4' 5 1/4"
Green: 4' 3"
Magenta: Varies (depending on the option and how we want to address the endings)

What would be the best way to set this up in Archicad so the panels adapt correctly to each length? Should I approach this with the Railing Tool, Curtain Wall, or another workflow?

Thanks in advance for any guidance!

Operating system used: Windows

Re: Help Modeling Side-Mounted Glass Railing System in Archicad

mthd — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 05:34:50 GMT

Here is an excellent video for tips on using the railing tool from a person who works for Graphisoft. Hope it helps ?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZHVAk5z0uU

Re: Help Modeling Side-Mounted Glass Railing System in Archicad

Barry Kelly — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 05:41:59 GMT

I would use the railing tool, as it is a railing.

Set the inner post distance as your panel length, and set the post to 'None".

Then in the segment settings, make it a fixed panel length, starting or ending with a full panel.

As for the panel fixings, you won't get what you show 'out of the box'.

But you could maybe use a short post with an offset to get something close.

See this post where I mention this and also links to another post where I have attaches a custom post object (still not exactly what you want.

https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Modeling/How-to-model-glass-balustrade-with-spigots/m-p/622342

Barry.

Re: Help Modeling Side-Mounted Glass Railing System in Archicad

Lingwisyer — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 06:45:09 GMT

Given that it looks like the panels are the same design, just different widths, could you not just set a max length, a minimum distance from previous post or inner post, then just use your post positioning to size each segment automatically? This way you could have a single continuous railing without any custom segments.

Ling.

Re: Help Modeling Side-Mounted Glass Railing System in Archicad

AG717 — Sat, 13 Sep 2025 14:07:19 GMT

This is great, thank you for your patience and way to show this.
It was extremely helpful. I end up doing what you shared except for the for the fixing under panels. For, the brackets I model it as an object and just copied multiple time and then group (just in case).