Settings dialog box

Railing properties

Smart Symbol

When you select the Smart symbol option (it is active by default), the elements of the railing are created as smart symbols.
Otherwise, the elements consist of 3D objects.

Note: This value is not saved; i.e. you need to make the relevant setting before you create or modify railings.

Linked

When you select the Linked option (it is active by default), the elements of the railing are hierarchically linked.
When the Smart symbol option is active, the smart symbols (= child smart symbols) are linked with the path (= parent smart symbol).
When Smart symbol is not active, the path and the railing elements are created as a group consisting of 3D objects.

Note: When this option is disabled, the railings cannot be addressed and modified as a single entity after you have created them!
Note: This value is not saved; i.e. you need to make the relevant setting before you create or modify railings.

Hide path

When Hide path is active, the path is not displayed in plan view.

Note: When the path is created (hide path = off), you can hide it temporarily by

selecting Show/Hide on the View menu and disabling smart symbol foil A.

Combined

When you select the Combined option (it is active by default), the horizontal element segments are combined to form a single element (Boolean operation).

Note: To make sure that the railing components are analyzed and evaluated in an optimum manner in lists and schedules, you need to disable this option.

Note: This value is not saved; i.e. you need to make the relevant setting before you create or modify railings.

Element

When you select the Element option (it is not active by default), handrail, posts and fields are combined into one smart symbol each. The elements are then on the individual foils.

Note: Railings created with this option require much disk space when they are modified and cannot be analyzed and evaluated using lists/schedules.
Note: This value is not saved; i.e. you need to make the relevant setting before you create or modify railings.

Y offset

The value you enter defines the offset between the path and the element axis in the y direction.

Z offset

The value you enter defines the offset between the path and the element axis in the z direction.

Post at start (default setting = unchanged)

Irrespective of the division style, you can configure Allplan to create a post at the start of the railing. The following settings are available:

Unchanged: the division style determines whether a division point is placed at the start of the railing (and thus a post is created).

Always: when set to Always, a post is always created at the start of the railing.

Never: when set to Never, a post is not created at the start of the railing even when the division style provides for a post.

Post at end (default setting = unchanged)

Irrespective of the division style, you can configure Allplan to create a post at the end of the railing. The following settings are available:

Unchanged: the division style determines whether a division point is placed at the end of the railing (and thus a post is created).

Always: when set to Always, a post is always created at the end of the railing.

Never: when set to Never, a post is not created at the end of the railing even when the division style provides for a post.

Post in corner (default setting = unchanged)

Irrespective of the division style, you can configure Allplan to create posts in the corners of the railing. The following settings are available:

Unchanged: the division style determines whether division points are placed in the corners of the railing (and thus posts are created).

Always: when set to Always, posts are always created in the corners of the railing.

Rotation, number

These settings apply to corner posts.

Angle/2: only one post is created. The axis of the corner post is aligned with the angle bisector of the corner of the railing.

1st Direction: only one post is created. The corner post is placed so that it is in line with the direction of the railing before the corner (based on the sequence in which you entered the path points). This is the direction of the "arriving" path line.

2nd Direction: only one post is created. The corner post is placed so that it is in line with the direction of the railing after the corner (based on the sequence in which you entered the path points). This is the direction of the "departing" path line.

Both: Allplan creates two corner posts in both directions of the path lines.

Entry

Detailed preview

When you enable this option, the program creates a detailed preview of the railing when you draw it. The elements are displayed as boxes representing the min-max box of the relevant element.
Note: When the number of elements in the preview exceeds a value of 300, the elements are automatically displayed as lines.

Polygonization

Delta Z

The value you enter defines the offset between the polyline's start and end points in the z direction.

Subdivision

You can enter the number of segments for polygonizing 2D curves (circles, splines). When set to 0 (default setting), the number of segments specified in Allplan's options is used automatically.

Minimum offset for spline

When splines are polygonized, points may be very close to one another. The value you enter defines the minimum offset of points (default setting = 0.03).

Note: This value is not saved; i.e. you need to make the relevant setting before you create or modify railings.