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Railing tool

Lasha97
Contributor
 
 

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

 

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Operating system used: Windows

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CosminF
Advocate

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.


AC 27, running on Windows 10 Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-9700K CPU64, 3.60GHz, 16GB RAM, Nvidia GeForce GTX1650
Barry Kelly
Moderator

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

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Versions 6.5 to 27
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