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Adding extensions to railings

Adding extensions to railings - Revit Tutorial

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Adding extensions to railings

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- [Instructor] In this video, I want to dig a little bit into the railing type properties. And specifically focus on adding railing extensions. Now the railing extensions feature allows you to create extensions past the end of your hand rails in order to emulate and meet local building code requirements. So to do that, we have to actually dig into the railing type properties and it's a fairly detailed process to get it set up. So let's go ahead and get started here. So I'm going to select this one over here by the wall. Click Edit Type and then I'll duplicate it. It's going to add number two. I'll remove that and add a suffix called wall return and click OK. I'll repeat that over here. Edit Type, duplicate, remove the two and call this one post return and OK. So now I have two different railing types so that if I modify one, the changes won't affect the other. However, there's another important aspect of the way railings are set up that you need to understand. So if I select one of…

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