railing /fence tool

[jnr]

So looks like the same vendor made the fence/railing tool that made the current stair tool. Both are cumbersome, glitchy, uncessarily cumbersome, not scaleable and in general, crap. They're slow to open, entirely too complcated for 90% of what one needs. Forget customizing it. Guardrails drop out completely if you modify the wrong variable. What happened to the old dumb railing tool? Can't find it in the legacy set. Ugh.

[jnr]

I hate the stair tool. guardrails are defective, handrails show to the opposite side. WTF

[Diego - Resuelvector]

I agree, and in the attributes you cannot change several classes at the same time, tou have to do it one a the time.

[jnr]

Agreed. They are both so cumbersome. Despite setting textures in 3d settings of a stair for treads and risers, the texture doesn't show up. To simply get a handrail on side of the stair to display correctly took me an hour. I had to make it a guardrail and turn off the posts. In my book that's called a handrail, which won't show up unless its on both sides of the stair.   Hate to say it, but Archicad has one over on vectorworks on this one.

[Andy Broomell]

In theatre & TV we rarely use both handrails and guardrails, so the way the Stair tool handles them is confusing.