Railing Tool for Curb and Gutter

[gdford]

Is there anyway to get the joints to grow together better?
Note attached pic
Thanks!!

[Lingwisyer]

I am assuming that is the result of a "corner connection". Depending on the alignment, which looks pretty simple, you maybe able to just use the edit mode to delete it.



Ling.

[Barry Kelly]

The connection type may be set to 'gooseneck'.
Try changing it to 'continuous' with no offset values.

Barry.

[gdford]

YES !!! The problem was in the top rail connection settings. Now it works like a charm.
I had not drilled down to that setting. Thank-you so much.

[Carstenem]

This tutorial will explain this in a bit more detail.

[AK3463]

Hi, does anyone know if using the railing tool for adding associative curbs would work on a slab that is embedded into a mesh?

In the attached image the parking lot slab is embedded into the ground mesh. I'd like to add a curb around just the parking lot. When I try it only wants to select the ground mesh perimeter. When I turned off the ground mesh, it allowed me to select the parking lot, but it placed the curb at the original flat plan of the slab, and not its embedded height at the mesh.

Any ideas? Thanks!

[Lingwisyer]

Have you intersected the slab with the mesh?

[Barry Kelly]

If the perimeter of the parking area is a contour in the mesh or is a hole cut in the mesh (Solid Element Operation with the slab), then you can just magic wand the rail (curb) to that contour and it will follow the heights.

Barry.

[AK3463]

Thanks Barry. The contours run through the parking area, so there isn't one at the perimeter. The parking area slab is intersected with the overall ground mesh, and then it's subtracted with upward extrusion so that the surface shows correctly. Any other thoughts?

[Barry Kelly]

You can create a contour around the parking slab.

Select the mesh, with the mesh tool active magic wand (space bar) on the slab perimeter.

You should get a dialogue asking if you want to create a contour or a hole (obviously you want a contour).

I think this will work even after an SEO - but I don't have Archicad running to test at the moment.

That will create a contour with heights set to follow the top surface of the mesh.

Now you can magic wand your railing to that contour.

Barry.