topic Re: Slope Bottom Rail, Flat/Level Top Rail in Modeling

Slope Bottom Rail, Flat/Level Top Rail

pbg — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 16:20:56 GMT

I know I am missing something... How can I get the top of a railing to be flat/level, while keeping the bottom of the rail sloping/following a pitch?

Thanks in advance!

Operating system used: Windows latest

Re: Slope Bottom Rail, Flat/Level Top Rail

Lingwisyer — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 07:37:29 GMT

You are not missing anything...

Re: Slope Bottom Rail, Flat/Level Top Rail

cuba — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 09:59:12 GMT

Select the railing en click on edit. Select the top rail en stretch the height of it.

Re: Slope Bottom Rail, Flat/Level Top Rail

Barry Kelly — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 10:26:15 GMT

I didn't know it could do that.

I always assumed the rail was always parallel to the reference line.

Thanks for the tip.

Barry.

Re: Slope Bottom Rail, Flat/Level Top Rail

pbg — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 15:13:56 GMT

Thanks cuba!!!

Looks so easy, but when I do the same key/button command I move the entire top rail up, not just the node... Is there an internal setting in the railing which is preventing this?

Thanks again, there's hope!

Re: Slope Bottom Rail, Flat/Level Top Rail

Barry Kelly — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 01:31:10 GMT

It seems that it will only work if the sloping railing is extended in the same line.

If there is no extension or the extension turns at an angle to the loping rail, then it will not work.

So you will need to have a portion of the rail that extends horizontally to begin with.

I also notice that if that extension is not horizontal, then the adjusted rail will not be horizontal either.

It will match the angle of the extended rail.

So it really only works when there is a horizontal, in-line extension to the railing.

Barry.

Re: Slope Bottom Rail, Flat/Level Top Rail

Lingwisyer — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 01:47:07 GMT

Wait, what? Hm... apparently this "worked" in AC22, weird things happen, and it has been smoothed out since. Now I just need to be able to curve it vertically. I have been doing seperateTop Rails combined with Morphs this whole time...

Re: Slope Bottom Rail, Flat/Level Top Rail

Lingwisyer — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 01:38:12 GMT

It will elevate the entire Top Rail if you go above the top level of the rest. The easiest way seems to to snap the elevation to another node of the Top Rail.

Ling.

Re: Slope Bottom Rail, Flat/Level Top Rail

pbg — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 13:19:00 GMT

Wow, thanks Barry! Super interesting about the railing being in the same plane... Seems like an odd behavior, but what do I know?! Not much. 🙂

Thanks for all the help everyone!