How to create a custom railing with archicad.

what's up everybody naylan here at night tech studios so today we are going to look at just how to achieve this custom rail look which is a classic style staircase so if you're new here consider subscribing give this video a thumbs up and let's jump right in so let's import in our reference image and for that we want to be in the navigation tab let's go here under worksheet and create a new independent worksheet so i'm going to name this as reference image i say okay and we have a space here where we can import in our image so find it wherever you have downloaded it link is in the description below so i have this right here which i want to use and i'm going to bring and position it around this area where we have our hot spot but i need to first verify whether it's the right scale so with that i'll use a line so let's make it red so you can see it and i need the whole stair to be a meter high and you can see it's very big the image is so big but to change the scale i'm going to just rescale the image by ctrl k and i say okay and i will begin from the very beginning here and stretch all the way i want the whole of this there to be one meter so all this needs to come down to that and that will be what we will work with so let's bring this and put it around the hotspot area so the trace i will need to come and get this image right click and show as stress reference and it i can't see anything actually you can see just the line that we have on this thing and by the way i can delete it because i don't need it and i saw some issues here i think we need to first fix how this thing is so let's come in here just make sure it's vertical because currently i can see it's not so i'm going to ctrl e rotate and i think that now looks fine all right so i have it used as the trace stress reference for the ground flow but currently we can't see it and if i also delete this reference line you can see that we can see a thing so we can't see it because by default if we go to the trace reference here let's get the dialog box the figure is by default turned off so when you come here if you go to figure here it's turned off so we need to turn that on and now you can see that it shows across so that's that's all you have to do in order to be able to see our reference image and as well you have options here to choose what you want it to look like maybe you can choose that and turn it down a little so that it doesn't overshadow your work but let's remove this we want to concentrate on this work we'll begin by making this post here so how do we make this pose we want this to be about 40 [Music] in my opinion and then i need a spline so for this i'm going to make half of this and that is achieved by using just the blind spline so i'll go ahead and create a basic shape around it and that looks about it you can see that if i mirror this by ctrl shift m uh it's it's kind of similar and it will give us that shape so how do we create the shape that we want let me pick this line and use it to close this shape and what we are actually going to use is a morph tool so you click here to on the move tool choose the material you want to see metal iron for our case and that would be it so space click in order to capture this shape and go ahead and create the with this as the axis center of axis first click the first point and the next and you have this reversion angle which is going to be 360 for this case and we have ourselves the first shape so when we select this shape and press f5 to go into 3d let's fit the window you can see we have ourselves this nice beginning or beginning of this post which is kind of cool so we need to build to make our way across the whole post next is going to be this rounded thing and for that i like to use a beam because it's a horizontal member and this beam i'm going to make it rounded like it should be but i haven't yet found out how thick it should be so i'll measure this it's a it should be around 15 marks so i'm going to come here and make this 15 cool very well and you can definitely dictate how high it's going to be when we come here in positioning we need to have it at around zero yes maybe i think this will work so i'll make this come all the way up to there so we have that so in order to appreciate this we may need to create a little section so let me let me go to settings and change a few things all right so i'm going to go ahead and draw a simple section here so let's see what that looks like open with current view we have also something going on here and this is going to be the center great so that's cool so for the next shape here it's a bit of a challenge we need this all the way up to around 166 and it should be about 15 yeah maximum post thicker for us to achieve that we need to go to the object and all you have to do is type in spiral and you see something cool here which is this object here and that object is going to help us to create that spiraling shape so what we need to check out is under custom settings we need to find the sweep angle so the sweep angle is how many times we wanted to create this shape let me first find out how many these are this is one two three four so i'm going to make this a product of four so what is um form by 360 it's about 1 000 for 440 so i need to have 1 440 as the sweep angle and of course that should sweep across the 166 that like we discovered on the height of the thing but then we also need to know the radius of that axis the radius of that axis should be max we had the maximum of 15 so that means that the inner radius would be around seven or seven point five and the radius of the tube should be around five let's see what that looks like so let's see that gives that around 19. that's um a little too much because we needed to to to boil down a bit so i think i'm going to use five yes 15 will work and as well i need before i leave to go back here under rotation axis and it hit 90 because for now we are working on the ground plane on the x-axis so when i place that you can see but it is going the wrong way so we can select it and mirror by ctrl m to have it there and now we have something exciting going on but we also need to create another loop that comes through this so in order to create that we need to make a copy of this ctrl d so let's make that copy you can see that i have created a copy but this copy now is supposed to overlap onto this one and in order for it to do that we need to make this a little longer uh so let's add another sweep so in order to add another sweep we need to add another length by which it's going to sweep so this 166 is not enough so if i bring back my calculator for this so the 166 it was giving us four loops yeah so it we all we have to do is to add this to the 166 and we have another loop which is going to be 207.5 so let's just put that in so once we have that 208 we need to add also the 360 on this one which will give us 1 800 i guess yeah so that now we have another loop added so we say okay and now you can see that this adds another loop so we need to overlap and in order for it to overlap we don't bring it the way it is we half of what 42 is 21 something like that and we need to bring this and overlap it here and now we have something cool going on here in order to see what we have done ctrl a to select everything f5 this is cool so if we go to settings we can definitely change what it's going to look like on the surface here so make sure to choose iron like we decided before and we have this cool stuff so we need to go to section and bring it to its position all right so the rest here is a repetition the beam tool and the move tool [Music] [Music] so if we go to 3d now we can see that it's developing well all we have to do is to get the colors right [Music] so again we will need the spiral but we need to measure how much this is this is supposed to be around 89. so make this 89 and it's supposed to spiral for only 360 degrees and the axis the angle here let's put in 20 for now and see where it takes us we will decide that in section so of course we need to mirror this and we know that this is supposed to start from around here [Music] so we bring this down to the ground and this is about 40 and it should be halfway through so i need to know how much this is this is 66 so i need it to be 20 so i need to reduce this to something like 15 because i need this to be 20 it needs to be half which is going to be 10. yeah that's that should be able to work yeah so we have the 20 and 20 below [Music] and of course for this one we may need to reduce how thick it is three millimeters will work in my opinion and we can right click and convert to morph so that is converted one of these elevations so i'm going to use this this elevation right here and select this morph [Music] yeah be sure to to give it the metal ion like i decided to and i need to control you in order to rotate to rotate that distribute around three copies and i need to rotate them to path i say okay and if using this as the center i can decide yeah and that should work yes yeah that's cool so i need to join it to the rest of the body [Music] [Music] so there you have it we have ourselves the railing post so in order to do the baluster we want to go to let's bring back this stress reference thing and i will choose this icon here such that i'm able to drag this on the side so we leave that independent let's close it again and we begin to draw over this so some things are similar so we will pick them for example this base and it's under here let's drag a copy by ctrl d to there we will spread this all the way to right there and we also have this other now let's do the next form which we are going to do like we saw before with a spline so i will pick that spline and just be sure to go around making not so many points but as few as you possibly can such that it's going to be easy for us to pick the shape so we will pick this one right here and space click to pick that form and automatically it will be picked although we need to reduce the diameter of that feel like it was about eight yeah that looks just about it the next form as well we pick the spline go ahead and draw all over around this and to avoid interlocking forms you might need to make a copy of this so we pick this one here and it's what we will use by space clicking this shape and there we have it call pick our form and bring it back to position right there and we need a copy there ctrl shift m to mirror a copy and ctrl m to mirror it the other way around we bring this to somewhere right there that looks just about right and we need copies of these in the junction areas so i'll go ahead and kind of rotate them to place where they are supposed to be and of course these two up here again cool and we are done with the next shape so let's see what it looks like f5 pretty awesome right so now it's time to realign these things because currently they are in the horizontal position and that may not be helpful for us so let's begin with this one which we finished before f5 to go to 3d so i'll select everything right click and convert into morph selection into moth i say okay and continue anyway we go to settings and i like to unify it by having one uniform and cut line pen so i'll choose like 8.1.8 pin and of course since it's a morph we have the ability to reorient it by making it stunned so we will just open this weave current view settings and in here rotate this shape with ctrl e using something like this base there you are so let's see what that looks like pretty cool go to file library is an object then save selection as a railing post right there useful so when i save that we can save this as zero one post and we will save that because that is going to be our post we say okay and we'll do the same for this other one right here we might need this section as well so we'll transfer it to a new location but before we get there so in order to be sure i'll mark you and go to see all of it in 3d select everything right click convert everything into a morph continue anyway right then i unify it with one pen so in settings here uncut pen i'll choose like 8.18 as we did before and now that looks awesome let's rotate it using the section that we created so select this ctrl e to rotate and we have that in a vertical position which is good for us [Music] with it selected we go to file libraries and objects save selection as railing post as well and we say okay but our post is going to be zero one uh baluster because we will use it as a baluster and that would be it say okay and say okay so now let's create a simple staircase that we are going to use so we will pick a simple stair here nothing that we shall change let's do the first half which should be at around 15 i can turn around using a simple landing here should turn from around 2.5 yeah and it should go again like that obviously i need to change how it looks like although in the settings i'd like to fix the trade the trade something here the trade to be 300 i prefer uh that's because we will use it for our railing so once i'm sure that is going to happen yeah it will restate somehow because now i know that we are going to use that 300. so now we need to create a [Music] a railing on this default stair so we will go to the railing settings and we go through the most important things that we need to change so let's come here and of course we don't need a hundred we can remove that one we don't we need this top rail to be this option right here let's chain link such that uh on a max this should be around 80 in my opinion and i will use a timber material for that next we don't need this rail we just need this one here and we can choose that it should be a post yeah which it is and it loads inside there yeah you should be able to see what it looks like here in this view display and for the baluster we just need one of it which is going to be at a spacing of 150 remember and of course we need to make sure that this is 300 yeah 300 because we need one per trade so this so once we have that as 100 this one needs to be 150 but then also we need to fix it so in balance the position and distribution let's fix it and have it placed at the center of these things obviously we need to choose what it should look like in the settings here let's create this as a baluster yeah and it will load it inside here which is cool really cool what it looks like there so the rest is fine we need to also go to the post here and be sure to choose post because a we need also end posts yeah right there awesome so those are the main thing that you need to watch out for the rest i'm happy just me to make sure it's associative on both sides and let's put it somewhere okay okay let's put it somewhere like there see what happens all right first attempt is a little bit weird we have them placed in different positions this one looks to be reoriented in a different position but it's pretty exciting what we have well in order to fix that we need to come back get this guy this moth guy uh which is our baluster ctrl e and rotate it by 90. so be sure to rotate this guy by 90. yeah and with it selected go to file wiper is an object save selection as a railing post and just be sure to override this baluster thing yeah let's save and replace that one and we say okay and that should update so let's kind of look at what it looks like here i'll go to 3d to see it it should reorient yeah that's super cool and i am already stand at what is happening here although we have some issues uh it just starts to become a little bit too much i need to go to settings and just make sure in the baluster options here i increase just a little bit here in this this distance let me make it about 155 so we don't have it doubling at some points yeah yeah so now it starts to become a little bit more minimal i hope you can see that that's cleaning it out a bit but of course we have uh some issues going on so it's a matter of tweaking tweaking tweaking for example we could as well uh edit this further by going into edit mode so be sure to click on edit and we have this for example selected right click and we say connect solid element operations so we want to be able to choose that as an operator those two rails and then we select these things which are popping through and i like to this is kind of not easy to select but just have to be patient change your angle view right i have them selected then those will be the targets yeah and the operation is going to be subtraction with upward extrusion i say execute so now it should be chopped from extruding and that's pretty exciting huh let's do the same for this part right here [Music] get us operator this guy right here get as target we upload extrusion and we execute clean and nice [Music] get this guy as operator and these little guys has targets subtract with upward extrusion [Music] and there we have it so we can exit the edit mode and we have ourselves a nice and clean staircase so it may not work out at the very first point but trust me just go ahead and you know tweak it tweak it until you get it to look like what you want it to see so overall i'm pretty happy with the result so thanks so much for watching and i'll see you next time [Music] [Music] you

Channel: Nalitect Studio

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Keywords: wrought iron stair, custom stair archicad, model cast iron railing archicad, nalitectstudio, grafisoft archicad, archicad beginner tutorials, staircase archicad, morph tool archicad, shaping with the beam tool

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Length: 29min 36sec (1776 seconds)

Published: Sun Jul 04 2021