Modeling waved railing

[Bregt]

Would there be an easy way to model this kind of railing? It seems you (or just me) can't achieve this with the railing tool.

[Ricardo Lopez · Accepted solution]

Hi @Bregt 

The key is to define your repetitive pattern using as many inners posts you need with their top offsets related to empty/blank horizontal rails with the necessary heights to match the wave line.

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[Botonis]

You can achieve this with a curtain wall, by using the contour in edit mode.

It may be a little tedious with a curved shape though.

[mikas]

Agreeing with Botonis. It's not that hard if a lot of detail is not necessary. You might need to do those horisontal structures separately though, depending how accurate you need it to be.

Made it in 10 minutes:

 

 

[Ricardo Lopez]

If it is possible, I always try to achieve the goal with the "original" tool and then look for other alternative ones, but it is another way to do it, that's for sure.
 😊👍

[Botonis]

It took me some time to realize that there is no "original tool".

Just use the tool which gives the best result/performance for the 3d element you want to create. Forget the names.

[Bregt]

Hi Ricardo,
This works perfectly, thanks! It takes some time to set it up but it's easy to handle afterwards. 

[jl_lt]

thats exactly what archicad gurus like Jared Banks and James Murray teach. Once you get past tools labels, modelling flexibility in archicad opens up quite a bit.   The same cannot be said about revit.