What Revit Wants
HyunWoo Kim describes how to make a Curtain Wall that has actual curved glass panels (uncommon, but possible) by making a Curtain Wall type with a Basic Wall as the Curtain Panel masquerading as Curved Glass. He adds Wall Sweeps to the Basic Wall type to “pretend” to be Curtain Wall Mullions.
I have used a similar method to make curved Balustrades / Railings (making a Rail Type that is actually the glass panel and apply Glass material to it).
Original Post:
Enjoy Revit: Curved Curtain Wall
Having some problems with a Railing that will not show up in a Detail View unless balusters are added to it! Video:
I’m almost certain this is related to this previously posted bug:
Extents of Revit 2013 Railings bug – when no balusters exist in definition
More on Revit 2013 railings:
Automatic and Manual Railing Support locations in Revit 2013
Revit 2013 railings – almost 7 months old, but have you used them?
In Revit 2013, with Component Railings, you can unpin certain elements and modify them. For example, you can unpin a selected component Railing (Top Rail Type or Hand Rail Type) and swap it out for a different type. Similarly, you can unpin and swap out posts. However, you can also MOVE component posts after you unpin them. Some of this functionality is beginning to resemble Curtain Walls…
A word on terminology: pre-2013 we had Balusters. These appeared as a top level element under the Railings category in the Project Browser. In Edit Family mode, the Family Category and Parameters dialog did not tell you ‘this is a Baluster’. You could look in the Properties Palette and it would say Family: Balusters. In Revit 2013, the above condition still exists for Balusters (backward compatibility). However, the new component Posts are termed “Supports” and Supports is a proper sub-category of Railings (properties in Family Editor shows Family: Supports). Confused yet? If you want to dig a little deeper, check out the diagram on this page.
Ok, back to unpinning the posts (supports)–
What you need:
What you do:
I have created a Supports family which allows resizing at both top and bottom – so I can create new types for various situations, unpin and then swap.
For a crash course in Revit 2013 component railings, check out:
Revit 2013 railings – almost 7 months old, but have you used them?
Basically, when all the balusters are removed from a Railing definition in Revit 2013, I have observed that the ‘flip control’ moves far away from the Railing itself, leading to view clipping errors.
Proof in the video below (no sound):
I recently downloaded the Revit (railing) files from Moddex Systems. If you want to access them, go to the following page and follow the links to register:
Moddex – CAD Support
(you can also go direct to this registration page)
These files do not yet take advantage of some of the advances made in Revit 2013, that I posted about last week. However, Moddex are “looking into fast tracking the upgrade”.
I also recently downloaded the free Railing families from BIMstore. Again, these are not upgraded for 2013.
Don’t forget to check out the online ‘master list’ of Revit content at Links to Revit Content online. If something is missing, please register and add it to the page.
A while ago, I posted some in-place and component Stairs and Railings.
If you have any particularly great Railing families that you would like to share, feel free to reply using the comments!
To be quite honest, I haven’t really used the new 2013 features for Railings, perhaps because my recent work has been more on a master planning level rather than construction documentation. In any case, there are plenty of resources out there to get you started.
Here is a quick crash course – in the Type Properties for Railings in Revit 2013, you will see new options for ‘Top Rail’, ‘Handrail 1’ and ‘Handrail 2’. You can set the Type and Height of these.
To make new Types, go to the Project Browser under Families -> Railings and you will see nodes for Handrail Type and Top Rail Type. Duplicate and edit the type definitions you see here to make new 2013 ‘continuous’ railing types.
Once you have applied a Top Rail Type to a Railing Type definition, you can now Tab to select the Top Rail! It is basically separating the Top Rail out as a component so that you can perform advanced edits to it. From here, you can access the real awesomeness of Revit 2013 Railings – a sketch mode to extend and adjust the Railing …
Click Edit Rail and you are in business. It will look something like this:
So, if you haven’t used this feature in the past 7 months, hopefully this post will help you get started with it.
I also found the audio interview linked below quite insightful. It describes the reason railings are undergoing upgrade, including the requirement of railing extensions for accessibility. For me, this has probably caused the most pain with regard to railings in pre-2013 versions.
Also, this interview gives the following ‘insight’ into Revit 2014 and future versions:
Railing features would be upgraded over several Revit releases
| Railings: Hear Jean Foster, Senior Interaction Designer, speak about railing enhancements. Jean describes how the top rail and hand rail elements have been changed to better accommodate continuous conditions. She explains how additional controls allow you to add extensions and different types of extensions to a railing, and how making components within the railing system makes the system more flexible as a whole. |  Interview 6m 09s |
Listen to more interviews at:
New Features Interviews – WikiHelp
via AutodeskBuilding on Youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/user/AutodeskBuilding?feature=watch
I spotted this cool graphic a while ago on Revitez, but it was in French. Ben Malone has gone to the trouble of translating it into English for us – thanks mate!
via
BIMopedia Online
Original post (French):
http://revitez.blogspot.com.au/2012/05/nouveaute-revit-2013-les-familles.html
Stair and Railing Categories
You have installed the Metric content for Autodesk Revit 2013 and found that you are missing two railing template files.
The two missing template files are available for download below:
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Metric_Support.rft (rft – 240Kb) |
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Metric_Termination.rft (rft – 240Kb) |
Interesting tip from the Autodesk BIM Blog – after you upgrade Railings to 2013, the actual extended parameter values are not populated until you Duplicate the upgraded railing types…see image.
This goes for upgraded Project Templates too – you won’t see the additional parameters until the types are Duplicated.
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Google Translate
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http://bimblog.typepad.com/autodesk_bim_blog/2012/05/erweiterte-typenparameter-von-gel%C3%A4ndern-aus-vorg%C3%A4ngerversionen-anzeigen-revit-2013.html
