Rotatae cable railing on stair?

[2wheeltodd]

I have had this issue before where a cable or glass panel railing is turned on the stair.
I have read a couple of threads where checking 'panel' in the railing dbx. or rotating the symbol is needed to fix this.

I am a new user and cannot for the life of me figure out how to rotate the lib symbol or find 'panel in the railing dbx.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[lbuttery]

for panel see the "rail style" and "newls/ballister" tabs on the railing dbx

select a tab, then hit F1 to see the help manual for that tab

F! displays the appropriate help for whatever is active at that time

Lew

[2wheeltodd]

I was able to save the cable symbol and rotate it. But now I get dots??

[gawdzira]

I have struggled with this and for me the easiest method has been to make a series of custom moldings to represent the cables.

Take an elevation view of the stairs from the side. Then draw a line parallel to the handrail and position it for the top cable (or bottom cable). Convert that line to a molding line and use the round handrail that CA provides in the library. Size it very small (.25") and change the material. Then I use the multiple copy tool at 3" to copy it as needed.

For your stair I would then block that group of cables and copy it over to the other side.

[kenoeightspot]

Take a look at article no.82 in the "Help" section.
http://www.chiefarchitect.com/suppor...p?faqNumber=82

[gawdzira]

Thanks William. I had been by-passing the available information. I have now done this on a test stair but I am wondering if there is a way to get the top rail to work correctly? With the cable panel type I can not get the wall railing to show at all. The red line shown is the panel top rail.

[jcaffee]

Alan, on the Rail Style tab select "Post to rail"

jon

[gawdzira]

The first image in this post shows the post to rail setting with cable panels. Not what I am looking for. The second image is post to rail with full control over the cap and newels but I added the cables by duplicating a molding line. If there is a setting I am missing please let me know because it seems as if this can not be done out of the box.

[2wheeltodd]

I ended up using the instruction from the Alan L. cable video using a wall and changing it into a rail.
This worked great but a less than desirable work around.

Thank you for your assistance. Much appreciated.

Todd