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Railing tool

Anonymous
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Hello

I just started using ArchiCAD a week ago. I am about to make railing for the balcony area, and realized I don't have the railing icon on the tool bar, which is supposed to be right after stair icon on tool bar. Does anyone know how I can get the railing icon, please?
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Karl Ottenstein
Moderator
nevermore219 wrote:
Does anyone know how I can get the railing icon, please?
Is this like a Friday afternoon joke? There is no railing tool.... maybe you could tell us what you are looking at that let you think that there might be one?

Or, are you talking about something inside of Stairmaker?

Karl
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AC 27 USA and earlier   •   macOS Ventura 13.6.6, MacBook Pro M2 Max 12CPU/30GPU cores, 32GB
Anonymous
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well, as I said I am a new user for archicad. I don't know how to make railing in archicad so that I googled it and found a tutorial video on aol site. look the reference image that i captured from the tutorial video. it does have railing tool. i still want to know how to make railing in archicad.
railing2.JPG
Anonymous
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They are using using Stairbuilder - an add-on from Cadimage.

The website mentions it has a separate railing tool, so looks like it appears in the toolbox when installed.

It's mentioned in movie no. 2.

http://blog.cadimagetools.com/2008/06/stair-builder-for-archicad-12-movie-2/

(Looks good by the way)
Anonymous
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then how can i create railing for the balcony without using that tool?
Anonymous
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You can place a railing using the object tool.

There are several under 'Building Structures' - 'Fences and Railings' (or your localised equivalent)

Hope that helps!
Anonymous
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a thanks a lot!
Anonymous
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you can also use trussmaker (in my setup located at Design>Design Extras>Trussmaker) to create relatively complex balustrade configurations (although in seperate sections, that is, each one limited to a single direction/plane) as illustraded here:

http://www.archicadwiki.com/TechNotes/How%20to%20create%20balustrades%20using%20TrussMaker
Laura Yanoviak
Advocate
If your on AC12, you can also use the Curtain Wall Tool (although I have not tried this personally).
MacBook Pro Apple M2 Max, 96 GB of RAM
AC26 US (5002) on Mac OS Ventura 13.5
Stephen Dolbee
Booster
I think a railing tool is a great idea-it could be a tremendous time saver, esp. if it allowed custom rails.
AC19(9001), 27" iMac i7, 12 gb ram, ATI Radeon HD 4850 512mb, OS 10.12.6