topic Re: How do I extrude a profile along a sloping curve? in Modeling

How do I extrude a profile along a sloping curve?

PetrichorPerry — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 01:51:29 GMT

Attempting to replicate what's shown in the top photo. I've drawn a low wall and made it sloped by using a roof plane. I want to extrude a profile along the top but gathered that it's not possible using the beam tool. Downloaded the Profiler add-on but that's not helping me either because everything has to be drawn in plan so even if I could rotate it to be sloped easily, it would be misaligned.

What's the correct way to do this?

Operating system used: Windows 11

Re: How do I extrude a profile along a sloping curve?

Lingwisyer — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 02:50:10 GMT

You cannot do curved sloping Beams. I would be tempted to do the SEO and the capping as a Railing Profile. Alternatively, you could do an extruded Morph.

Ling.

Re: How do I extrude a profile along a sloping curve?

ryejuan — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 04:48:36 GMT

You can also do a complex profile for railings, change the top or handrail to a profiled rail. hope it helps you. 😎

Re: How do I extrude a profile along a sloping curve?

Lingwisyer — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 05:12:03 GMT

The main issue with that is that the bottom slopes too. I have used a SEO on the bottom of a railing though.

Re: How do I extrude a profile along a sloping curve?

ryejuan — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 06:18:21 GMT

I guess you can just cheat that part by over extending the profile then SEO the excess part.

Re: How do I extrude a profile along a sloping curve?

PetrichorPerry — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 21:41:49 GMT

Magic wand settings

Achieved it in the end, with some imperfections. Profiled railing was the technique used. I extended the wall up a little bit higher to compensate for the weird gap. Not sure why the angle ended up different, the stairs and cut plane have their gradient matched. An important thing in the end was to update my magic wand settings from some previous modelling when I was making an octagon shape. I've shown my settings used when applying the railing. Don't know what to do about the twist at the end. Gotta say, this would've taken me two minutes to model in Rhino.

Re: How do I extrude a profile along a sloping curve?

SenecaDesignLLC — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 00:35:48 GMT

Message me, I have an object for this