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Railing Configurator - Important Notes

'Civil Engineering functions' docking window > Steel Engineering >Stairs + Railings > Railing> Railing Configurator (Railings along beams)

Please note the following when using the Railing Configurator, especially when creating workshop drawings for railings:

Requirements

The drawing must contain a main assembly. If this is not the case, a corresponding message will be displayed. Extensive information on main assemblies can be found in the topics Assemblies, Main Parts and Sub-Parts, Part Drawing or Assembly Drawing and Edit Part/Assembly Structure. If no main assembly exists, the following message will be displayed.

Click OK and create a new main assembly and call the function again.

The beams along which the railing is to be placed must form one continuous "path". Possible are I-, U-, L- and C-beams.
The axis of the active coordinate system is the direction axis for the posts, which means that the beams must not run parallel to the Z-axis of the active coordinate system. If you are not sure, select Drawing > Others > World CS before calling the Railing Configurator.
The beams must be straight.

Feature log

DEpending on the selected railing function, a feature log item called

Railing along beams or

Railing along edges, respectively,

will be entered into the feature log.

To process an already existing railing, identify one of the railing elements and double-click Geländer entlang Kanten or Geländer entlang Profilenin the feature log. The Railing Configurator will then be started.

Assembly

An assembly called Railing will be created for the railing. This assembly is made up of sub-assemblies called Segment, which in turn contain the railing elements of the individual beams. The Segment sub-assembly is subdivided into the following sub-assemblies:

Posts
Main part: Pipe (or similar)
Further parts
Handrail
Main part: Pipe (or similar)
Further parts, e.g. elbows
Skirting board
Main part: L-profile (or similar):
Further parts
Infill
Filling parts (Boom, Vertical rods, Knee rail, …)

Important:

If there are several beams in succession that are aligned in the same direction, the railing elements of these beams will be combined into one segment assembly. As a result, continuous hand rails and knee rails will be formed on these beams. The updating and modification of existing railings (before Version 2016 SP2) will still be performed with separate segment assemblies and non-continuous hand rails and knee rails.

Example:

Let us assume that you want to place a railing on beams (1) - (6). The beams (3) and (4) are aligned in the same direction. In this case, the assembly "Railing" will consist of 5 "Segment" sub-assemblies. As a result, the railing elements of beams (3) and (4) have been combined into one railing segment, with continuous hand rails and knee rails.

Versions before HiCAD 2016 SP2 would have created 6 "Segment" assemblies, with two separate railing segments for the beams (3) and (4), i.e. one for beam (3) and one for beam (4).

BOM-relevance of assemblies

The BOM-relevance of the assemblies to be created by the Railing Configurator can be set in the Configuration Editor (isdconfigeditor.exe), at Steel Engineering > Products > Railing, separately for

the railing assemblies,
the segment assemblies, and
the component assemblies.

The default setting is as follows:

If you deactivate the BOM-relevance for the component assemblies, no assembly main parts will be defined by the Railing Configurator.

Assemblies, Usage, BOM-relevance and behaviour in case of drawing derivation

Assembly	Usage	BOM-relevant? *	CONFIGKEY	Utilized configuration *	Consider for drawing derivation?
Railing	Railing	Yes	RAILING	RAILING	No
Segment	Railing segment	Yes	RAILINGSEGMENT	RAILINGSEGMENT	Yes
Post	Post	No	POST	POST	No
Assembly main part	Post profile	Yes	POSTPROFILE	DEFAULT (Steel pipes)	Yes
Handrail	Handrail	No	HANDRAIL	STRINGER	No
Assembly main part	Handrail profile	Yes	RAILINGPROFILE	DEFAULT (Hollow profiles)	Yes
Infill	Infill	Yes		FILLING	No
Boom	Boom	Yes		STRINGER	No
Kneerail	Kneerail	Yes	KNEERAIL	STRINGER	No
Vertical rod	Vertical rod	Yes	WEBMEMBER	DEFAULT (Steel pipes)	Yes
Skirting board	Skirting board	Yes	SKIRTING	STRINGER	No
Assembly main part	Skirting board profile	Yes	SKIRTINGPROFILE	DEFAULT (Flat steel)	Yes

*: ISD default setting when using Steel Engineering configuration

The configurations for railings created via drawing derivation are stored in the Configuration Editor (isdconfigeditor.exe) at Automatic drawing derivation > Production drawing > Usage-dependent. The dimensioning rules for the railing segments can be found at the respective Set of dimensioning rules entry, e.g. Automatic drawing derivation > Production drawing > Usage-dependent > RAILING > Set of dimensioning rules.

Coordinate systems of the assemblies

The assemblies Railing, Railing segment, Handrail, Post and Filling possess reliable coordinate systems which can be used for the determination of the views and the dimensioning of derived drawings.

At the time of assembly creation, the origin of the assembly coordinate systems is located in the origin of the world coordinate system.

Railing
The part coordinate system of the railing is selected in such a way that in the first segment is appropriately displayed in the front view of the workshop drawing (Z-axis = Z-axis of the world coordinate system; the X-axis is selected in such a way that the routing direction of the first segment will be in the XZ-plane)
Railing segment
The part coordinate system is selected in such a way that the segment will be located in the XZ-plane of the Segment assembly. X points in the routing direction.
Infill
The part coordinate systems of the Infill assemblies are identical with those of the segments.
Handrail
The part coordinate system of the Railing assembly is identical with that of the segment.
Skirting board
The part coordinate system of the Skirting board is identical with that of the segments.
Post
The Z-axis is that of the world coordinate system. The XZ-plane will be selected according to the construction direction of the segment.

Fitting position or Processing position

Railing segments can be displayed in fitting position or in processing position in workshop drawings. The fitting position makes sense for inclined railings, the processing position should be used for railings in X-direction, i.e. with horizontal handrail.

Designation of the vertical rods in the segment views of the workshop drawing

When assigning designations to the vertical rods in the Segment views, only one designation (Item number) will be generated for several identical parts, i.e. identical rods in one view will obtain one designation (item number), while the other parts of the railing will be designated individually.

Annotation tags of the Railing assembly

The main annotation tags of the Railing assembly are defined by the template file WSD_RailingAssembly.FTD. The file contains the Usage and Item number attributes. Sub-part tags are defined by the template PosNummerSTB_Nebenteile.FTD.

Please note that the German or English names (not the key names) of the tree structure are used for references to the Configuration Management!

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