From the course: Archicad: Architectural Design Techniques
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Rails for design - Archicad Tutorial
From the course: Archicad: Architectural Design Techniques
Rails for design
- [Instructor] ArchiCAD's rail, like the stair tool, is very detailed. Generally, it's preferable to auto generate an ArchiCAD rail to suit a stair. However, rails can be created independently from stairs and adjusted in equally great detail. In this video, we'll review the basic functions of the rail tool and explore how to use favorites as a shortcut to achieve the desired design outcome. If we select the existing stair that we created, we see that we can't add a rail once it's already been made. Therefore, if we want to add rails, the fastest way sometimes is to pick up the settings and redraw the stair. As we redraw the stair, or go into the settings, we can see that we can add or choose to add rails. I can then draw the stair, select the rail. View it in 3D. In this case, we see it's a hand rail only. Or I can select the stair and the rail and view it all as one. In this instance, we see that the rail, while…
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