cjanderson66 Posted March 26 Share Posted March 26 I am trying to create a deck rail like this with a 1X4 top and bottom rail w/ 2X2 Balusters in between. Does anyone have an idea of how to create this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JKEdmo Posted March 26 Share Posted March 26 42 minutes ago, cjanderson66 said: I am trying to create a deck rail like this with a 1X4 top and bottom rail w/ 2X2 Balusters in between. Does anyone have an idea of how to create this? Christopher, I'm by no means an expert on this but I gave it a quick try. Might point you in the right direction at least. I drew up the polyline profile for the top built-up rail and then added to library. You can then replace the standard top rail with this library object. By sizing it right and messing around with the vertical offset, seems like you could make it work. I assume this can be done for the bottom rail too. Jim 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cjanderson66 Posted March 26 Author Share Posted March 26 36 minutes ago, JKEdmo said: Christopher, I'm by no means an expert on this but I gave it a quick try. Might point you in the right direction at least. I drew up the polyline profile for the top built-up rail and then added to library. You can then replace the standard top rail with this library object. By sizing it right and messing around with the vertical offset, seems like you could make it work. I assume this can be done for the bottom rail too. Jim Jim, That was a great help and sent me in the right direction. Thank you Chris 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mtldesigns Posted March 26 Share Posted March 26 @JKEdmo Nice job Jim.... that's thinking outside the box for a solution. @cjanderson66 Nice deck Chris.. I forget how the hand drawn lines make a picture look crisp. Bringing in the Simpson components and bolting, gives it a nice touch for sure. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cjanderson66 Posted March 27 Author Share Posted March 27 Michael, Thank you very much for the compliment. This was one of those small/big jobs that I needed to train my brain again to think outside the box. Yes the hand drawn lines are something I always like to add, as it just give that old school look that I just can't seem to get rid of. regards, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JKEdmo Posted Tuesday at 03:44 PM Share Posted Tuesday at 03:44 PM Somewhat related to this, but I needed to model a deck edge bench... I got a reasonable representation by tweaking the standard railing wall settings without any custom profile. Top rail is widened for the bench seat, bottom rail is resized and pulled up to just below the top rail and the middle rail is used as the mirror copy of the bottom rail. Thought I'd share: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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