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Adding railings

Adding railings - Revit Tutorial

From the course: Revit 2020: Essential Training for Architecture (Imperial)

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Adding railings

- In this video we're going to look at the railing tool and add both guardrails and stair rails. I'm in a second floor plan and I've got this open to below space here with this floor edge and I'd like to add a guard rail along the edge of that floor. So, to do that I'm going to go to the "Architecture" tab and on the circulation panel I'll click the drop down button next to the railing, and I'll choose the first option here, "Sketch Path". You use "Sketch Path" when you want to create a freestanding handrail or guardrail. So, all of the normal sketch tools appear, and I could sketch this out line-by-line, but I often like to use the "Pick Lines" wherever possible because this allows me to click on existing geometry. So, like the edge of the floor and I can just trace it directly. But before I click that, I don't really want to put my sketch right on the edge of the floor. I want to set it back a little bit. So, I'm…

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