Dennis_Gavin Posted January 29, 2015 Share Posted January 29, 2015 I did this with invisible walls and set the stairs to winders and then in another plan had the railing wall follow the stairs and turned off the stairs and exported the symbol. Is this the best method to accomplish a raised railing for deck stairs? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R_Faber Posted January 30, 2015 Share Posted January 30, 2015 Use a ramp and set the top a bottom heights to the same height as the top of the first stair, turn off the the railings on the landing and give the layer a name you can turn off later. Have railings set to follow stairs, and they will adjust to the height of the top of the ramp. Create an invisible wall that is 1/2" thick, and place it between the deck and stairs so the railings don't connect to the deck. In this case I set newels to 0" and placed my own manually at the first tread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dennis_Gavin Posted January 30, 2015 Author Share Posted January 30, 2015 The problem there is that you cannot get a middle newel unless you manually place it and then the balusters are not spaced correctly. Don't know why there is no option for newel spacing on ramps???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R_Faber Posted January 30, 2015 Share Posted January 30, 2015 Yes I agree like others have said stairs and railings need to be improved, at the very least it would be nice to be able to set the top and bottom of a railing wall manually. Your way of creating it may be the easiest way but I like being able to do everything within the plan if I can. The other way I have done this is use the ramp parallel to the railing, so the railing follows the ramp. I then split the railing wall where I want to post to be. (change something in the structure tab so the railing wall doesn't auto reconnect) I then add the post manually Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evergreen Posted January 30, 2015 Share Posted January 30, 2015 That's really nice R_Faber! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dennis_Gavin Posted January 30, 2015 Author Share Posted January 30, 2015 It's a shame to have to do all these work arounds. If Chief doesn't do a big improvement is stairs for the next release there are going to be many ticked off users! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yusuf-333 Posted January 31, 2015 Share Posted January 31, 2015 R-Faber, really nice one. Dennis i agree stair and railing issues need improvements. combination of the ramps,stair and railings follow stairs are those things I was experimenting. Until ca does improvements, I will add one thing to Faber's nice go. I found one quality ramps possess in having controll over the railing top and bottom heights by manually making the the top and bottom heights the same to the stair or if you need to lower/raise the railing subtract/add some kvalue from the top and bottom. Around the landing(decks) make a ramp which its top and bottom height equal to landing(deck) top height(-/+ kvalue). so you will have a 0 slope ramp that you can put surrounding the edges of the landing(deck) with the desired heights. When you finish this step you will choose using the ramp railing or by making off the ramp railing,putting a railing wall to follow the ramp which fully leads us to controlled railing top and bottom height. Regarding the newels, breaking the ramp in to number of segments in line would help also. Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evergreen Posted January 31, 2015 Share Posted January 31, 2015 Yusuf, can you attach an example of this...much appreciated! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yusuf-333 Posted January 31, 2015 Share Posted January 31, 2015 Yusuf, can you attach an example of this...much appreciated! Thanks evergreen. Sure I will, but now here in eastern Africa it is late night and PC a bit far. Just used my smart phone for reply. By tommorow around your 6am and my 5pm I will post an example. Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evergreen Posted January 31, 2015 Share Posted January 31, 2015 Stairs can be challenging in CA and the more you know.... Thanks again! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dennis_Gavin Posted January 31, 2015 Author Share Posted January 31, 2015 Thanks Yusuf. Looking forward to your post. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yusuf-333 Posted January 31, 2015 Share Posted January 31, 2015 here is one example of the concept i posted last night. sorry, i am late guys. deck and stair railing.zip Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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