topic Re: Connecting Two Different Railings in Modeling

Connecting Two Different Railings

Anonymous — Tue, 23 May 2023 16:00:36 GMT

Hi there, I have a staircase which requires two different types of railings (photo below). I have a hand rail running along a wall which need to connect to a balustrade railing. After some heavy duty manipulating, I got the two railings to connect, but it looks sloppy (photo below). Is there a better way to go about connecting the two different railings to one another? Thank you

Re: Connecting Two Different Railings

rjwilden — Mon, 23 Sep 2019 21:19:07 GMT

Morph is possibly your best method. Very difficult to get it to work by adjusting the parameters

Re: Connecting Two Different Railings

Anonymous — Mon, 23 Sep 2019 23:31:13 GMT

rjwilden wrote:
Morph is possibly your best method. Very difficult to get it to work by adjusting the parameters

That's what I was thinking as well. After digging through the parameters of my rail for almost an hour, I figured morph might be the best option. It will just be a bit time consuming.

Re: Connecting Two Different Railings

Carstenem — Mon, 23 Sep 2019 23:52:59 GMT

To speed things up, just draw the main handrail all the way to the bottom, so the connection of the wooden corner should look good. Then only select the bottom handrail - convert to morph and delete anything you don't need, that should be fairly fast.

Re: Connecting Two Different Railings

Lingwisyer — Tue, 24 Sep 2019 01:13:58 GMT

There is not really a need to convert it to a morph. Edit the segment instead? In the lower segment, you can just turn off the balusters and change the fixing type.

In that was it stays associated to your stairs and if you need to change anything, you can reset the rail rather than redraw it.

Ling.

Re: Connecting Two Different Railings

Carstenem — Tue, 24 Sep 2019 04:42:08 GMT

Nice one Ling that should work !

Re: Connecting Two Different Railings

Anonymous — Tue, 24 Sep 2019 23:39:11 GMT

Lingwisyer wrote:
There is not really a need to convert it to a morph. Edit the segment instead? In the lower segment, you can just turn off the balusters and change the fixing type.

In that was it stays associated to your stairs and if you need to change anything, you can reset the rail rather than redraw it.

Ling.

Thanks Ling, that is a very good idea. I will give it a try.