Problem with Railing object

[Gerald Hoffman]

I have placed numerous railing objects in a rectangular form. These were selected from included Favorites railings. When closing the railing on the fourth side the railing ends shoot past each other and won't join properly. See screen shots of plan and 3D view.

 

 

[runxel · Accepted solution]

A well known problem. Nobody thought about that 😄

Official recommendation is to put the end not at a corner, where it would need to miter, but somewhere on a straight, so it's less obvious.

[Gerald Hoffman]

Thanks. I guess that’s a solution but it would be better if they fixed the problem as it indicates an underlying issue which may also show up in other circumstances when least desired.

cheers,

[Potato Farmer]

This was reported during the beta period of the railing tool’s initial launch. It was acknowledged but never addressed, then or since.

[Jim Allen]

I've been using Runxel's solution since I discovered this issue.

There are a number of problems with railings.

There's a discontinuity between the location of the setting-out line in 2d and 3d and there's the weird gooseneck connections that the tool always wants to make at corners.

The bug where curved complex profile rails weren't working when the endpoints did not share the same z axis seems to have been fixed though.