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Adding railings

Adding railings - Revit Tutorial

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Adding railings

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- [Instructor] 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 guardrail 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 could 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 going to come over here to the offset feature on the options…

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