Curved Railing at Staircase

[Renerabbitt]

This has been brought up a few times and I just had a face-slapping moment...of-course there is a very easy way of doing this!

 

Simply place a curved railing on top of your staircase. Go to the staircase dbx and at the "rail style" tab, scroll down to "build from" and check the box marked "Follow Stairs." Next, on the same tab under "Specify Railing" check "Panels."

A very simple wainscot panel can be created by placing the "raised panel doors" cabinet door symbol into a plan and pulling a 3d view. In 3d go to the "Tools" menu and scroll down to the "Symbol" drop-down menu and select "create a symbol"

Select the drop down menu and select "millwork" for your new symbol. This will add it to the user library as millwork, which can then be applied to your curved railing as a wainscotting. Go to the railing dbx and scroll to the "Newels/Balusters" tab and under "Panels" select from Library and find the millwork you just created. Make sure to set your newel spacing to something like 16" and your newel size to 0"

Here is a simple result which took 5 minutes to create:

 

plan file for reference:

stair example.plan

Thanks to @TheKitchenAbode for sparking the idea

[Renerabbitt]

@Richard_Morrison For you! hope this helps

Also @Alaskan_Son and @Kbird1

[Kbird1]

29 minutes ago, Renerabbitt said:

@Richard_Morrison For you! hope this helps

Also @Alaskan_Son and @Kbird1

 

It doesn't count if you don't post the plan    we all know your skills with 3D imagery

 

Thanks for pinging me....

[Renerabbitt]

8 minutes ago, Kbird1 said:

 

It doesn't count if you don't post the plan    we all know your skills with 3D imagery

 

Thanks for pinging me....

HAHA, nice, posted here and in original post as en edit:

stair example.plan

The end user will probably get missing texture warnings, I never use stock stuff