Chamfer railing

[Mathias Jonathan]

Hello everyone.

I have a railing for which I would like to make a corner chamfer (point A).
I was expecting a similar behavior to all archicad tools (wall, polyline, curtain wall...), but the expected result (line B in red) did not appear. Instead, result C appeared: the chamfer acted "after" point A rather than on point A.

Is this a bug? Or inconsistent behavior?

 

[Steve Jepson]

That can be corrected by adjusting the reference nodes of the railing. 

see attached video - https://app.screencast.com/oitajJ51eKreM   The link will only work for a few days.  Then I delete them because my library for that is full and I don't want to pay for more storage 🙂    You can set the distance of the railing reference line to be offset any distance from the railing (if that helps). 

[Mathias Jonathan]

Thank you for the answer Steve, but it seems to be a manual solution when railings should behave like any other tool.

It meens that if i want a "clean" solution, i should draw first a polyline and apply a corner chamfer ? or draw circle at each connection as reference?

It is not optimal.

[Steve Jepson]

I agree that this is not the expected or proper result when using the Fillet/Chamfer tool.  However, are you certain that there is no way to configure the settings of the railing for the desired result?   Even if there is, drawing a circle and stretching the nodes to get the desired bend could be the more efficient way to get what you want anyway.  ? 

" should behave like any other tool...."   It does - it almost does what you need it to do  🙂