Railing wall set to 'Follow Stairs'


LevisL
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I just discovered last night that when you set a railing wall to 'Follow Stairs', where the height gets calculated from seems wrong to me.

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Our Canadian Building Code specifies that the height is to be calculated from the tip/tangent point of the nosing.

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After sending this to tech. support, they replied to me that Chief calculates it from the back of the tread and sent me this image.

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Just curious what the IRC/IBC says for you folks in the States? If your code is similar to ours, maybe we can get Chief to change this setting. 

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