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Figure 15.75
The completed railing

Creating Glass Railings with the Curtain Wall tool
The most challenging railings often require exceptions to the rules. This usually means
you’re trying to manually locate balusters or use panels that are not part of the routine railing
definition. If you tried to define each of these exceptions as a different railing type, your project
would be overflowing with railing types. The best solution for these types of railings is to
diverge from the Railing tool and use the Curtain Wall tool.
By using the Curtain Wall tool, you’ll be able to create railings by modeling the balusters
and panels inside the Curtain Panel family template (Figure 15.76). Another nice feature about
this technique is that the railing is a room-bounding element because it is actually a wall. That
makes this perfect for mezzanine conditions that require area calculations—certainly more
efficient than creating redundant room-separation lines!
Figure 15.76
Curtain panel as
a railing

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