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Placing the railings for the front porch

Placing the railings for the front porch

From the course: Revit Architecture: Designing a House

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Placing the railings for the front porch

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- [Brian] The next thing that we need to draw will be the railings that go around the front porch. Now these railings serve two purposes. One is to keep people from accidentally falling off of the front porch. It's actually against code to not have those railings up there if the porch is above a certain height. But the other reason is that a railing going around the front porch can also be an attractive architectural element. For this project, go to the architecture tab and then select on railing. Then under the project browser, make sure that you're at the first floor, then for the location of this railing, it'll be base level first level and the base offset will be zero feet, zero inches. Now let's zoom into the lower left hand corner of our first floor just by spinning the wheel of the mouse. Now this railing's been custom made for this project. So it should look good and be in the right location when we start to place them in. The next thing that I want to do is just move over…

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