topic Re: Stairs and Railings - any success stories? in Modeling

Stairs and Railings - any success stories?

Patrick M — Wed, 18 Sep 2024 19:03:21 GMT

Does anyone have a success story using the stair and railing tools? So far, unless I'm doing a super basic concrete basement stair or single run with no fancy trim/nosing/turning/etc., this is what I get more often than not:

Attempt 1 - railings with top rail as solid panel

Attempt 2 - stair stringer as solid panel

At least the stringer shows the full element, BUT is slanting weird, triangulated weirder, just simply doesn't work.

Re: Stairs and Railings - any success stories?

Patrick M — Wed, 18 Sep 2024 19:25:46 GMT

here's another amusing try... was this tool designed to not work on purpose?

Re: Stairs and Railings - any success stories?

Laszlo Nagy — Wed, 18 Sep 2024 22:57:15 GMT

In the "Railing Settings" Dialog's "Segment" page, in the "Segment Settings" panel, is the "Segment Slanting" value set to 90 degrees and "Relative to Vertical"?

From the screenshot, it looks like it is set to "Relative to Perpendicular".

Re: Stairs and Railings - any success stories?

Patrick M — Thu, 19 Sep 2024 15:39:32 GMT

yes, everything was vertical. All connections and ends were zero'd out. I spent way too long trying to get either the stair or railing to do this simple shape.

after about 3 hours, I gave up and used beams, converted to morphs, and adjusted to fit. I'd have thought a simple ellipse stair would be a home run for the railing tool... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Re: Stairs and Railings - any success stories?

Patrick M — Thu, 19 Sep 2024 15:58:16 GMT

even trying from scratch on a simpler curve. There is just always something to these railings. They work when "good enough" is the target, but I don't think anyone is going to say this meets that mark:

Re: Stairs and Railings - any success stories?

Yves — Fri, 20 Sep 2024 14:05:54 GMT

with a single panel without a stud