Railings are objects that interact with stairs and other objects. You can add railings to existing stairs, or you can create freestanding railings.
Railing Components
Railings can have guardrails, handrails, posts, balusters, and one or more bottom rails. Additionally, you can add custom blocks to railings.
Railing components
Railing Shapes
You can attach railings to one or both sides of a stair, and you can wrap them around a landing. You can also attach railings to any other type of AEC object, like a massing element. You can create a custom railing by converting a polyline. Therefore, railings can have a variety of shapes and can be anchored to a straight stair, a multi-landing stair, a U-shaped stair, or a spiral stair.
Custom Railings
You can create custom railings by specifying custom blocks and profiles to be used for individual railing components. You can assign profiles to railing components by style so that you can reuse the custom portion to create detailed railings.
Railing Styles and Their Properties
You can use a railing style to control properties for all railings that use that style, rather than changing properties for each railing in the drawing. Various styles exist in the templates for common railing configurations, such as guardrail pipe, handrail grip, and handrail round. Within the railing style, you can specify the rail locations and height, post locations and intervals, components and profiles, extensions, material assignments, and display properties of the railing.
Materials in Railings
In AutoCAD Architecture 2022 toolset, you can assign materials to a railing. These materials are displayed in wireframe and working shade views, or when rendered. Materials have specific settings for the physical components of a railing, such as the various types of rails and posts, and the baluster. You could, for example, create a wooden railing with a stainless steel handrail and bottomrail.
Railing in 2D wireframe model and rendered views
AutoCAD Architecture 2022 toolset provides a number of predefined materials for common design purposes, which contain settings for railings. You can use these predefined materials “as is”, or modify them to your special designs. You can also create your own materials from scratch.