It amazes me that very few Reviteers make use of the ‘Railing Support’ capability that we have had in the software for over 5 years now. In fact, a very large percentage of users don’t even know they exist
Here are some possible reasons why that is the case:
Here are some possible reasons why that is the case:
- If you upgrade a project with the old style railings in it, they are not converted to the new style railings, so you cannot use railing supports in them. To achieve this, you have to copy a new railing type into your project, then swap the old family type to a new one to get access to the support functionality.
- The metric project templates provided by Autodesk do not include any railings that use handrail supports (this includes the Australian and UK templates); they do have some support families – but if you don’t know how to use them, you’ll never figure it out by playing around with the railing samples.
- The sample files that you can download from the Autodesk Knowledge website include only the old method of using…