topic Re: sloped slab and railing in Modeling

sloped slab and railing

Anonymous — Tue, 23 May 2023 16:08:07 GMT

How to place on a sloped slab (not horizontal) a railing that follows the slab?
The sloped slab i made it with mesh. Is that the best way?
Why on earth archicad doesnt support sloped slabs!!!!!!!???????
Why somenone cannot rotate a slab in the xy plane???

Re: sloped slab and railing

Anonymous — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 13:08:02 GMT

Most of the railing objects have a inclination angle. This adjusts the slope. Try setting up a temporary elev/section looking face-on to the railing. You can then measure the angle needed exactly. Unfortunately there does not appear to be a hotspot to adjust the slope graphicly, which would be really useful in these situations.

ArchiCAD does support sloping slabs. They are called roofs! They have identical settings to slabs but can slope, and individual edge angles can be adjusted.

The mesh-to-roof goodie may be useful to automatically convert your existing meshes. The link to the goodies is on your 'help' menu in ArchiCAD itself.

Hope that helps!

Re: sloped slab and railing

Erika Epstein — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 17:20:37 GMT

Another solution, which may or may not work for you here, is to use the stair tool and then choose RAMP rather STAIR.
The ramp will have the same railing choices as any stair made with stairmaker.

Re: sloped slab and railing

Karl Ottenstein — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 19:37:31 GMT

Erika wrote:
Another solution, which may or may not work for you here, is to use the stair tool and then choose RAMP rather STAIR.
The ramp will have the same railing choices as any stair made with stairmaker.

Great idea, Erika!

K