In 2017 the new feature that railings can be hosted to walls and floors is getting all the attention. However there have been some subtle things that have been added. One thing that myself and Tim Waldock have been requesting is to see the termination families in plan views. This wish has been granted, or quirk has been fixed, depending on how you look at it.
The first image below shows a family in Revit 2016 R2 the second image is Revit 2017
As I am preparing to teach another session on Revit Railings I noticed another small quirk. Again in this example I am using railing supports to act as balusters, a great option when dealing with glass panel.
In this image I have a support to look like gasketing material as well as glass supports, these are associated to the U track handrail. This allows for the glass seam to be unpinned and moved to any desired location.
The quirk arises when the handrail has a value for a fillet radius, even though the Default Join is set to Miter. If the support is unpinned and moved it will move along the radius as if the value were set to Fillet no Miter.
I have been teaching and using the hack to use railing supports in leiu of baluster or to use them for gates etc. Yesterday a client told be about an issue with Railing Supports, they do not abide by phasing graphic overrides. In cases where the supports are simple brackets (as shown below this probably isn’t that big of a deal.
However when you are utilizing support for balusters or for gates (as shown in the two images below) this becomes a big issue. This has been reported to Autodesk and I was able to reproduce the issue in both Revit 2017 & 2016, I didn’t test it in older versions of Revit.
