Problem with spiral staircase railing.

[Michael_Gia]

I want to achieve this style railing.  

 

 

This is what I have created so far.  How to get the spindles to go horizontal?

If I apply a horizontal tube railing style from the catalogue it does not want to curve and follow the staircase.

 

Is there a style of railing in the catalog that can produce a horizontal 1/2” tube that spirals to follow a spiral staircase like this?

 

 

[ericepv]

In the 'Railing' tab of your DBX,select 'Open with Middle Raii'. From there you can select the specifics if the middle rail.

 

[DBCooper]

Eric's solution will only give you 2 rails.  If you want more, you will probably have to use a "panel symbol" for your railing.  Panels will look terrible with the straight segments though since Chief can't seem to make them curve to follow the stair.  You might be able to get slightly better results by setting your newel spacing to be 2" and your newel height to 0" to fool the program into making 2" segments instead of 8' ones.

 

[Michael_Gia]

2 hours ago, ericepv said:

In the 'Railing' tab of your DBX,select 'Open with Middle Raii'

Ok thanks Eric, and as @DBCooper mentioned I was only able to get 2 rails but then I checked, "include bottom rail" and was able to get at least 3 horizontal rails that follow the spiral staircase.  Not to code yet but maybe close enough to give the client a visual.

 

[Rookie65]

Maybe try as a panel with cable railings and make the cables thick? Don't know if it will follow the curve, as I didn't try it.

[Michael_Gia]

43 minutes ago, Rookie65 said:

Maybe try as a panel with cable railings and make the cables thick? Don't know if it will follow the curve, as I didn't try it.

Panels of any sort don't curve unfortunately, which is what DBCooper predicted.

[Joe_Carrick]

Molding Polylines might work.  I'm not sure but it's worth a try.

[JKEdmo]

30 minutes ago, Michael_Gia said:

Panels of any sort don't curve unfortunately, which is what DBCooper predicted.

 

Was able to approximate the look of curved panel infill by setting newel spacing to 12" o.c. and then setting the newel thickness to 1/16" so that they disappear (material can be set to "air").  Not sure about actual guard post placement.  Maybe manually?  Anyways, maybe you can finesse to make work...

 

 

[JKEdmo]

Ok, here's some more:

 

I made a duplicate of the stair and then tweaked it to show posts only.  In other words, two stairs on top of each other with different settings to achieve the desired look.  Not sure if this is Chief "pure", but my best attempt.

 

[robdyck]

uncheck auto height. Adjust middle rail down. copy the stair and paste-in-place. adjust middle rail up.