topic Re: raiuls added to handrail not showing in 3d or elevation in Libraries & objects

rails added to handrail not showing in 3d or elevation

heathldesign — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 06:54:51 GMT

hello folks,

i've created a custom railing and i've tried to add some additional rails in the rail selection settings and they are there, but do not show in the model. what am i doing wrong here? in the screen shot you can see the selected rail in the rail settings dialogue and the hole in the elevation where it should be.

Re: raiuls added to handrail not showing in 3d or elevation

Laszlo Nagy — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 20:12:46 GMT

In the Model View Options dialog, Railing Options panel, is the "Railing 3D and Section/Elevation" set to "Full"?

Re: raiuls added to handrail not showing in 3d or elevation

heathldesign — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 20:29:51 GMT

yes it is.

Re: raiuls added to handrail not showing in 3d or elevation

Laszlo Nagy — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 21:02:29 GMT

Can you start from scratch and just add a few Rails (like 4 or 5) and check if it displays correctly in 3D?

Then keep adding 2 or 3 more at a time, each time checking if the 3D is still OK?

This way, you might see when the 3D display goes wrong. There may be a limit on how many Rails can be displayed...

Re: raiuls added to handrail not showing in 3d or elevation

heathldesign — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:03:00 GMT

no problem. 20 rails i the test fence, mine only has 15.

and if i try to copy my railing, and transfer all settings, the copy has similar features, like the rail dimensions, but over all is nothing like the original.

Re: raiuls added to handrail not showing in 3d or elevation

Barry Kelly — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:38:25 GMT

If you look next to "Segments", there is a little yellow warning triangle.

This means your rail has more than one segment and one (or more) of those segments is set differently to the other segments.

Probably the missing rails.

So, you need to go into 'Edit' mode and select each segment to check the settings for it - if you want to keep them individual.

Or you can select the entire rail as you have done, make the changes you want, then select the 'Settings' title and at the bottom you will se a reset button.

This will reset all segments to have the current settings you have in the settings dialogue.

Barry.

Re: raiuls added to handrail not showing in 3d or elevation

Lingwisyer — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 05:17:39 GMT

As soon as anything in a segment is modified to be different from the overall railing options, it becomes completely unique and hence will not follow any changes done outside of it's segment settings... super annoying when sometimes all you wanted different was it reference offset...