Railing Tool and Inner Posts -- what am I missing?

[Laura Yanoviak]

In the attached screenshot, inner posts are set at 4'-0". The railing shown is 12'-0" long -- shouldn't there be 2 inner posts (instead of just the one shown)?

What am I missing?

[Laszlo Nagy]

Laura,

In the Segment Pattern Settings panel of the Segment page of the Dialog, there are additional settings about Pattern distribution which can override this. Maybe the Segment is set to have 2 Divisions which can cause the Railing Pattern to be generated this way.

[Laura Yanoviak]

That was it! Thank you so much Laszlo!

[Laszlo Nagy]

You are welcome!

[Laura Yanoviak]

Here's another one for you:

In the attached screenshot, Posts are indicated by green lines and the Inner Post by the red. Both Inner Posts and Balustrades are set to "Equally Distribute Pattern" -- neither are distributed equally. I've tried adjusting the "Pattern Continuity" parameter and there's no change.

(I question the screwy landing in another post): http://archicad-talk.graphisoft.com/viewtopic.php?t=56887

[Laura Yanoviak]

On another note, looks like I may have to model handrails separately, too.

I don't need a handrail at the landing, only at the stair, so I've deleted the handrail from the landing segments. It looks like End Settings are exclusively for the end of Railing NOT end of Rail/Handrail.

Of course, if I end up modeling the landing separately (and thus end up with 2 separate Railings) this issue may be solved.

[Laura Yanoviak]

...still not working.

[Laszlo Nagy]

Laura,

If you can save the Stair and Railing in a stripped down ARCHICAD file, save it as PLA and put it up on Dropbox or similar, I could take a look at it, but from these screenshots I cannot pinpoint what could be causing this behaviour.

By the way, the Railing context menu contains the Convert Pattern to Segment Length command. If you use it, each Pattern repetition will be considered a separate segment and you can move each Inner Post to the desired position.

[Laszlo Nagy]

Laura wrote:
On another note, looks like I may have to model handrails separately, too.

I don't need a handrail at the landing, only at the stair, so I've deleted the handrail from the landing segments. It looks like End Settings are exclusively for the end of Railing NOT end of Rail/Handrail.

Of course, if I end up modeling the landing separately (and thus end up with 2 separate Railings) this issue may be solved.

This is again handled by the "Convert Pattern to Segment Length" context menu command. Using the command will make Handrail segments of Flights and Landing independent of each other so they can be modified individually.

[Laura Yanoviak]

laszlonagy wrote:
Using the command will make Handrail segments of Flights and Landing independent of each other so they can be modified individually.

This is more information than is provided in the Help (see attached).