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Today we are testing sheathing, cladding, gypsum and rainscreens: Yesterday we tested tee intersections.

Custom or “complex” walls are really no different than complex roofs or floors. They are defined by an array of points. I was just going to adapt my current “Outline Edit” method for Custom walls but I felt like it was time for a bit of an upgrade. I’m hoping people will find this new tool a bit more intuitive. After I fully test it I may incorporate the same logic/tool into the other plugins for the following: Complex Roofs, Floors, Slab-on-Grad foundations, Polyline Stemwalls and Railings.

Testing garage doors and doors:

The custom wall "draw" tool is going to be a little bit different from the existing wall tools. Currently I have it so that can select a face (grouped or ungrouped). The face has to be vertical, in more precise terms this means the face normal vector must be perpendicular to the Z axis. Also note that as you hover over the face the nearest vertex is highlighted with the light green circle: This indicates where the "origin" or start point of the wall will be drawn from. Once you select the face, the tool then goes to phase 2, which allows you to project along the face in one of two directions. This will determine which side is the interior or exterior of the wall: The thick blue line indicates the ray or vector that is being used to determine which way the wall is facing, also the 3D wireframe indicates the wall's general envelope or geometry.

**Tutorial 91**: Curved Stairs II - (17:37 min.) https://youtu.be/8ZNcJTEPSvA

Version 4.6.7b - 06.26.2026 - Enabled deck railing for spline railing assemblies. - Added a "GLASS" baluster option for spline railing assemblies. - Added a "CABLE" baluster option for spline railing assemblies.

Version 4.6.7 - 06.25.2026 Added a “GLASS” baluster option for curved and straight rail assemblies. Added a “CABLE” baluster option for curved and straight rail assemblies.

As I've stated in the recent tutorial the regen time of this spline railings can suffer because of the large poly handrails and/or shoerails. In the next update I will be introducing and option where the user can toggle a "split" option for both the handrail and shoerail. This will split those two curved solids into separate segments (at the intermediate posts). For larger spline railing assemblies my internal testing has shown an almost 100% performance (draw, edit, regen). These two parameters will be found in the intermediate post sub-menu, see image below:

Version 4.6.6 - 06.23.2026 Added a Curved Segment option/tool for railing assemblies. Added a Spline Railing tool into the Stair Toolbar. Spline Railings enabled using a Centripetal Catmull-Rom spline algorithm with user selected start and end tangency points

Turns out there are many possible solutions to the problem when you go from a single arc to a Hermite biarc solution. Of course not all these solutions are useful, especially where they intersect or collide with other segments of the polyline. Quite the education on this topic between Wikipedia and ChatGPT yesterday. Here as some solutions to the biarc and single arc problem:

Version 4.6.5b - 06.19.2026 - Added a “CABLE” baluster option for curved stair assemblies (circular and elliptical).

Version 4.6.5 - 06.18.2026 - Added a "GLASS" baluster option for curved stair assemblies (circular and elliptical).

Version 4.6.4b - 06.16.2026 - Added preview thumbnails into the stair draw and edit menus for posts, balusters and baluster shoes. - Added a "None" handrail profile for deck railings that effectively disables the cap rail.

Version 4.6.4 - 06.15.2026 - Added a "deck" option to the railing module. Note that when Railing Type is set to "Deck" there will typically be a cap rail along with an upper and lower rail. The upper and lower rail provide the support for the balusters or pickets. I will probably need to enable an option to disable or turn off the cap rail.