Stair Railings and Arcways Catalog

[dchaley217]

I have been attempting to build a stair case railing that sits on top of a wall but has a newel post on the floor. I have watched Steve Halls videos up to 10 and cannot seem to get the railing to work right in X4. I get them to appear and they look great but when I attempt to resize them to fit the Newels etc... they lose the angle and go wild. I must be the only one experiencing this?

So I am attempting to use the Archway catalog. But both the railing and the shoe rails are come in wrong will not go follow a wall angle. I have attemped to solve this on my own and am very frustated.

Anybody got any help or advise?

Thanks in advance

[sutcac]

It would seem that molding profile is not oriented properly for use as a shoe. I don't know of any easy way to change the orientation. I would suggest taking a cross section view of the molding in a separate plan, lock all the layers except for your default CAD layer and then trace over the view with CAD, make sure you get a closed polyline, rotate that 90 degrees clockwise and add that to your molding library and try again with that. There might be a better solution from someone else. I know there are a lot of shortcomings with Chief's stairs (and 3D molding polylines) if you want this kind of detail.

[moak]

The profile looks like a subrail.

[sutcac]

From another recent post, you can right click on the molding in the library and click Place Molding Profile ( I didn't know that!) and then click in the plan or in a CAD detail, then you can easily rotate it 90 degree and re-save to your library and use it as a 3D molding polyline. Sample plan attached.