Railing Overview

Railing Overview

As a follow-up to our recent in-house lunch and learn, the below is meant to document the items reviewed and be a future reference.

An overview of the components/organization of railings.

• Railings are comprised of both continuous and non-continuous horizontal members, vertical balusters, supports and terminations.  The newer system families are the top rail and handrails (see Fig-1 below) and the new user created families are supports and terminations.

Fig-1:  Railing Type Properties Dialog Box

• It is important to note, that there is no family template for the user created supports or terminations.  To create a new support or termination family, the recommended practice is to start with a generic model family (unhosted) and change the family category (Fig-2) to support or termination (Fig-3).

Fig-2:  Family Category

Fig-3:  Railing Categories

A graphical representation for the Railing Typology is included below (See Fig-4).

Fig-4:  Railing Typology

For information on creating/modifying railings, see the next post "Creating Railings"