Philosophically, I think there are two ways to approach this.
1: The railing is defined such that the sketch line is either at the center of the railing, or the edge/face near the wall. in either case, the sketch line is "about" the railing itself.
2: The railing is defined such that the sketch line is at the adjacent wall or other "control" surface. If you want to move the railing further away from the wall, you change the definition, rather than change the sketch line.
My preference is for the second, as we do lots of very consistent stuff, and we want everything to update if anything does. There really would never be a condition where a railing would be the same profile, but a different distance off the wall.
For a very custom railing I would go the other way, making sure that the sketch line related to the railing itself. My guess is we would be 90% "sketch along the wall" and 10% "sketch along the railing".
Just wondering how others do it and what the logic behind the decision is.
Note that the OOTB railings do neither. The pipe railing actually has an offset of 1", for a 1 1/2" railing, putting the sketch line an arbitrary .25"outside the wall side of the rail. My guess is the rail was 2" when first made 10 years ago, and the 1" offset meant the sketch was on the wall side edge, then someone changed the rail to 1 1/2" because that is the more common condition, the offset was never updated, and users have had a bad example OOTB ever since. Yeah, I think the OOTB content could use a little polish.
Gordon
1: The railing is defined such that the sketch line is either at the center of the railing, or the edge/face near the wall. in either case, the sketch line is "about" the railing itself.
2: The railing is defined such that the sketch line is at the adjacent wall or other "control" surface. If you want to move the railing further away from the wall, you change the definition, rather than change the sketch line.
My preference is for the second, as we do lots of very consistent stuff, and we want everything to update if anything does. There really would never be a condition where a railing would be the same profile, but a different distance off the wall.
For a very custom railing I would go the other way, making sure that the sketch line related to the railing itself. My guess is we would be 90% "sketch along the wall" and 10% "sketch along the railing".
Just wondering how others do it and what the logic behind the decision is.
Note that the OOTB railings do neither. The pipe railing actually has an offset of 1", for a 1 1/2" railing, putting the sketch line an arbitrary .25"outside the wall side of the rail. My guess is the rail was 2" when first made 10 years ago, and the 1" offset meant the sketch was on the wall side edge, then someone changed the rail to 1 1/2" because that is the more common condition, the offset was never updated, and users have had a bad example OOTB ever since. Yeah, I think the OOTB content could use a little polish.
Gordon
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