HOW TO ATTACH RAILING TO STAIRIn this part of my video tutorial series you can learn how to attach

Railing to your Stair in AutoCAD Architecture.

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ATTILA G. HORVATH — APRIL 22, 2014

In this tutorial I’m going to show you how to attach railing to the stair in AutoCAD Architecture.

At the bottom of this tutorial you can find a video screencast showing you how to attach railing

to your stair.

How to Attach Railing to the StairHow can you attach railing to the stair created in the previous video? You want to attach the

railing to the left edge of the stair.

1. Open the Content Browser (Ctrl+4), within it open the Design Tool Catalog – Metric

[Imperial], and choose from the left list the Stairs and Railings group, and

the Railings category.

Turn to 2nd page and search for the Guardrail – Rect. Balusters + Cap 02 named

railing styles.

2. With earlier known method by using the pipette, drag the rail into AutoCAD

drawing area.

3. Before the real insertion go to the Properties palette and set the Attached

to parameter value to Stair option.

After changing the Automatic placement parameter will be activated, so leave/set it

to Yes, and leave/set the Side offset value to 50 [2”].

4. After it for program prompt select the left edge of the stair and with ENTER finish the

insertion of other railings.

NOTE: This, and the Automatic placement – Yes option are enough to create the

railing by this edge.

5. To see the result, change to 3D view. Click on the Viewport Controls Top view and

choose the SE Isometric from the drop-down list. Clicking on next to it, you can

choose the Hidden visual style from the list on the 2D Wireframe label.

6. For better overview select the stair and the railing on the screen, and then clicking on

the   lamp icon in the right lower corner of the drawing area, use the Isolate

Objects command from its menu.

7. The command effects that all other objects disappeared, only the stair and the railing

will be visible, so you have better condition to see them.

8. From the same icon, but without pre-selection, prompt again to display the menu.

Now you can see the End Object Isolation command there. Click on it to get back

the whole display of the building model.

9. By clicking on the Viewport-Controls Hidden label, choose 2D Wireframe from the

drop-down list. Click on the SE Isometric and choose Top from the list to get back

the plan view.

NOTE: The order of these two commands is important because you can spare a lot of

time with it. So, do not want to display first the plan in hidden visual style, because

you cannot see the same like in 2D Wireframe, and it can make your PC very slow.