topic Re: railing tool in Modeling

railing tool

Lasha97 — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 01:56:04 GMT

Hello,

I have a land plot for which I am designing an open fence along sides. I need to create both interior and exterior elevation drawings of these fences, which I am, of course, generating using the Elevation tool. The fence itself is modeled using the Railing tool.
However, once I open the elevation, it becomes very difficult even to navigate within it due to the railing. Not to mention adding dimensions and annotations. I also tried using the “Explode into Current View” function for the railing, but it does not seem to reduce the complexity—the view remains just as heavy and difficult to work with.
When I hide the railing layer, navigation becomes smooth and works without any lag.
Could you please advise if there is any method to improve this? Or perhaps there is a lighter way to work with elevations that I might not be aware of?

Note:

The first image shows a top view of the fence and the land plot.
The second image shows one of the fence segments that causes performance issues.

Operating system used: Windows

Re: railing tool

CosminF — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 09:16:17 GMT

Hi,

If it is not really necessary to have the individual elements from the railing (all the small components that make up the fence) in 3D, I'd much rather have the railing defined as having panels and set the texture of the panels to be chain link fence mesh or something to your liking (with alpha channel so you can see through). This is for sure way less taxing on the model and you can set the fill to also be to your liking in 2D elevation view.

Quick mockup:

Re: railing tool

Lasha97 — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 09:45:46 GMT

I am sorry I clicked "accept as solution" by mistake.
it is important to fit 3D to elevation view and to be exact as in my screen. now I am thinking that best way should be railing to be shown as "Schematic" in "model view option" and redraw fence by hand (lines and fills) and then multiply it according to fence size.

Re: railing tool

CosminF — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 09:58:19 GMT

Editing MVO options is also a good ideea to simplify the model, you're right.

Drawing by hand not so much. You can at least explode the view if you want a 2D view of the projection. (Hide everything but the railing, save as a separate view, place that on a layout, explode it into lines and fills and bring it back into your elevation). That would at least save you the hassle of drawing it by hand.

Re: railing tool

Lasha97 — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 10:26:59 GMT

Exploding the railing unfortunately didn’t make things easier. The elevation view still lags just as much as before. that is why I decided to draw it by hand 😕

Re: railing tool

cuba — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 18:08:35 GMT

How did you set up the fence with tiny round bars? Just make them square + panels + custom hatch