How Create Railing from Path

[Dimitar_Venkov]

Last time I looked at railings, we could only add them programmatically to stairs. As Konrad mentioned, Revit 2017 has a new Railing.Create method that accepts curves, but for earlier versions I had to resort to using slab edges. Here’s an old thread with a sample:

Create Slab Edge or Other Profile Family along a Vector

It seems Revit’s slab edge creation method is a bit clunky because it requires a host edge Element to host the slab edge on. The catch is that the API doesn’t expose a good method for querying a slab’s edge elements. Luckily you can also host slab edges on model curves: [Capture2] DEV.SlabEdgeByModelCurve The above gives you a lot more freedom, as long as you don’t mind a few extra model lines(you can’t delete them because that would delete the slab edge but you can freely hide them away ) b…