Railing Edit Inclination

[Wessler Camila]

Hi! There is a way to make straight the top part of the railing? I want to make like the red line in the image.

[Barry Kelly · Accepted solution]

Not that I am aware of.

The posts you can extend easily.

But the top rail and panel tops will always be parallel to the railing reference line.

Barry.

[Bruce]

I have the same problem.  I thought I could enter edit mode and tweak a node...but no.

I solved it by right-clicking and turning the relevant elements (panels and rails) to morphs, then rotating etc as required.  It is very much a hack, but I can't find an alternative.

[jl_lt]

Hi! We have done it, but using curtain wall tool instead of railing. So i would stop the railing at the point where you need the horizontal rail, and use a curtain wall which you can edit as you need and can have custom profile to more or less match the ones from the railing. This way, at least you can schedule it and mantain some degree of editability.

[Bruce]

I like your lateral thinking.  Modelling problem solved.

Unfortunately, this creates a problem when trying to schedule, as it's now a curtain wall and not a railing; and also will respond to MVO settings differently to railings.  Labelling sub-elements, too, will require a separate solution.

Good work though!

[jl_lt]

Actually, if i remember correctly, if you add both tools as criteria for the schedule, you can actually select criteria for both tools in the same schedule, albeit in diferent columns, which makes it more connfusing. 

When we encounter these kind of things, with 2 different tools modelling the same concept (for whatever reason)  we basically create 2 different schedules.  Since we always add some neat isometrics with everything greyed out or dotted except for the incumbent element scheduled (in this case, railings), its quite easy to identify it along with the schedule. 

So, Strangely, we have learned to love Archicad and not despair too much.