One of the benefits of the Railing macros, available in PowerPack for Advance Steel, is that the library of profiles used to create the railing can be extended.

In other words, the user can add any section to the Railing macros from the Stairs and Railing Vault.

This feature is available starting with version 2021.1 of PowerPack for Autodesk Advance Steel.

All the Graitec railing macros can be configured to use records from the Autodesk Advance Steel AstorRules database – JointsGUIAllowedSections table. This behavior is like some Advance Steel standard joints.

This flexibility of the macros offers the users to go beyond existing restrictions and extend the list of available sections in the profile selection controls, for each type of main railing element such as:

• post
• top rail
• middle rail
• kick rail

To make this work, the following strings (names) for the JointName and JointControl columns in the table, for each railing macro and each main element type inside the macros, must be used:

How it works?

1. Open the Table Editor from MANAGEMENT TOOLS – AstorRules database – JointsGUIAllowedSections table.
2. Create a new table entry for the desired user section.

Add a new entry inside JointsGUIAllowedSections table:

Example: add half round solid sections to be used for the top handrail inside the Standard railing macro

Update the database and reload it in Advance Steel using the Reopen database option. Next time the Standard Railing macro is opened, the new type of profile section can be used inside the railing: