topic Re: Modeling waved railing in Modeling

Modeling waved railing

Bregt — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 13:36:47 GMT

Would there be an easy way to model this kind of railing? It seems you (or just me) can't achieve this with the railing tool.

Re: Modeling waved railing

Ricardo Lopez — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 16:03:00 GMT

Hi @Bregt

The key is to define your repetitive pattern using as many inners posts you need with their top offsets related to empty/blank horizontal rails with the necessary heights to match the wave line.

+ info

Re: Modeling waved railing

Botonis — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 16:29:37 GMT

You can achieve this with a curtain wall, by using the contour in edit mode.

It may be a little tedious with a curved shape though.

Re: Modeling waved railing

mikas — Sat, 25 Oct 2025 16:06:32 GMT

Agreeing with Botonis. It's not that hard if a lot of detail is not necessary. You might need to do those horisontal structures separately though, depending how accurate you need it to be.

Made it in 10 minutes:

Re: Modeling waved railing

Ricardo Lopez — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 21:15:14 GMT

If it is possible, I always try to achieve the goal with the "original" tool and then look for other alternative ones, but it is another way to do it, that's for sure.
😊👍

Re: Modeling waved railing

Botonis — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 20:00:18 GMT

It took me some time to realize that there is no "original tool".

Just use the tool which gives the best result/performance for the 3d element you want to create. Forget the names.

Re: Modeling waved railing

Bregt — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 06:52:15 GMT

Hi Ricardo,
This works perfectly, thanks! It takes some time to set it up but it's easy to handle afterwards.

Re: Modeling waved railing

jl_lt — Sat, 25 Oct 2025 15:41:10 GMT

thats exactly what archicad gurus like Jared Banks and James Murray teach. Once you get past tools labels, modelling flexibility in archicad opens up quite a bit. The same cannot be said about revit.