DesignSeries.pngCreating railings and fences

Tool

Workspace: Tool set

Railing/Fence

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Architect: Furn/Fixtures

Landmark: Site Planning and Furn/Fixtures

Spotlight and Braceworks: Event Design

The Railing/Fence tool creates a railing or fence along a specified path using standard polyline creation modes. You can also create railings and fences along a single, straight 3D line at any angle. Railings and fences can be created using a material resource for an efficient BIM workflow.

Alternatively, create a closed 2D shape and then select the Create Objects from Shapes command (see Creating objects from shapes).

 

Mode

Description

Polyline

Draws a railing or fence along a path using the selected polyline creation options; the object will be placed on the layer plane

3D Line

Draws a railing or fence along a line at any angle; snap the line to a site model object to follow the contours of hilly areas, for example

Polyline creation options

When Polyline mode is selected, selects the method for drawing the polyline upon which the railing or fence is based; see Creating polylines

Symbol Selection

Opens the Resource Selector to select a resource

Preferences

Opens the Railing/Fence Settings dialog box to set default parameters

To create a railing or fence:

Click the tool and mode.

To draw the object along a polyline path, click Polyline, and then click the polyline option to use.

To draw the object along a single, straight 3D line at any angle, click 3D Line.

Do one of the following:

Click Symbol Selection on the Tool bar to select a resource from the Resource Selector.

Click Preferences to open the Railing/Fence Settings dialog box and specify the tool’s default parameters.

The parameters can be edited later from the Object Info palette.

Do one of the following:

In 3D Line mode, click to set the start point, and click again to set the end point of the object.

In Polyline mode, click to set the start point; each subsequent click ends the current segment and begins the next. To complete the object, click the start point again (for a closed object), or double-click (for an open object).

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Railing and fence settings

Editing a railing or fence object

Joining railings and fences

 

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