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Adding railings

Adding railings - AutoCAD Architecture Tutorial

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Adding railings

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- We're staying in our Vertical Circulation.DWG file. And we're going to have a look now at adding some handrails to the staircase that we've already placed in our AutoCAD architecture model. So you can see we're in the southwest isometric view of the model at the moment. Now, in order to place a hand rail, it's actually easier to jump into a plan view. So you can go here on the view manager drop down and select top there, or you can use the view cube as usual and select top there. Just make sure you rotate it appropriately so that north is at the top as well. Then we're going to zoom in on our staircase here and just maybe pan across a little bit to the right, like so, just in case the properties palette pops up on my screen over here on the left hand side. Now there's various ways of placing a handrail or a railing or a staircase handrail in AutoCAD architecture. The most basic one is the home tab on the ribbon, into the…

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