topic Re: Railings in ARCHICAD in Documentation

Railings in ARCHICAD

Tazo Kikoria — Wed, 04 Sep 2024 12:03:55 GMT

I was trying to get maximum of Railing Tool. But there's a thing. I constructed a railing according to my country's standards and it has this 3D overlappings. When I open the section it doesn't look good.

Here's the 3D view:

And here's the section view:

Operating system used: Windows 11

Re: Railings in ARCHICAD

Barry Kelly — Thu, 05 Sep 2024 01:54:02 GMT

You would think that the connection would trim automatically, but they don't.

However, if you go into 'EDIT' mode you can select the various components and perform Solid Element Operations on them to subtract one from the other.

Another trick that is a little more automatic is to make the railing fractionally larger that the post (or the other way around) so one will cover the other.

Barry.

Re: Railings in ARCHICAD

Tazo Kikoria — Thu, 05 Sep 2024 10:37:27 GMT

Woah, I never thought about Solid Element Operations in ARCHICAD. That turned out beautiful. Thank you!