Balusters have always been completely confusing in Revit Railings. However, one baluster property used to be quite straightforward: the baluster Height, which Revit seemed to handle quite well – providing the baluster top constraint was set to the appropriate rail element. In earlier Revit days, baluster height could be set as an absolute value, or could be attached to one of the rail elements:
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| Revit Railing Rail Element Definition |
Each of the named ‘Rails’ were available as a top constraint for balusters – whatever names you gave to the Rails were shown in the drop-down menu
In the old Revit railing method the highest ‘Rail’ usually represented a handrail or top support/fixing rail of some kind – and this would be a good constraint for the balusters – if its height changed, all the balusters would adjust accordingly. It didn’t really matter what you called the Rails (but it does matter now – see below).
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