'3D line mode' railing tool is creating Z flattened top rails and infill.

[hollister design Studio]

My Wire Rail style works ok with the standard guardrail layout.

 

But when I try and do stair rails or guardrails at a slope all the horizontal members (top rail and all infill) become flattened in the z dimension.

 

Vertical members (posts) are fine.

 

Is the just how the railing tool works, or do I have a setting wrong?

 

Simple file with railing style:

Wire Railing.vwx 

 

 

Both sections are the same style:

 

 

Wider Shot:

 

 

[Tom W.]

I've had many issues with the Railing/Fence Tool in 3D mode (e.g. ...

 

...) but not what you are seeing. I tried with a few of my saved Railing/Fence symbols + couldn't replicate the issue. I don't know what's particular about your configuration to be causing it.

 

Bizarrely, if you take the offending section of fence, rotate it by 180 in Top/Plan, then reverse the height settings so it's -3' at Height Point 1 + 0" at Height Point 2 it displays correctly (albeit with horrible gaps which I think is just an unavoidable feature when the fence is at a steep angle...:

 

 

This can be remedied somewhat by disabling 'Top rail ends at posts' + setting the start + end extension values to 0":

 

 

Best to file it as a bug I guess...