Kaare Baekgaard Posted January 21, 2022 Share Posted January 21, 2022 (edited) I am trying to make a custom staircase guardrail using an Extrude along Path. But I cannot control the orientation of the profile, and it looses its orientation through the corner. I am sure, that I will find a workaround, but it would be nice, if I could lock the up-down orientation of the profile in relation to the world. Edited January 21, 2022 by Kaare Baekgaard capitalization Quote Link to comment
0 markdd Posted January 21, 2022 Share Posted January 21, 2022 (edited) Try setting the working plane of the profile to be perpendicular to the start of the path geometry. Crucially you need the Lock Profile Plane checked and I have found the I get a better success rate by using the Set Working Plane method described below. Extrude along Path with set working plane.mov Edited January 21, 2022 by markdd 2 Quote Link to comment
0 Kaare Baekgaard Posted January 24, 2022 Author Share Posted January 24, 2022 Thanks, Mark, I cannot access the link. Quote Link to comment
0 Tom W. Posted January 24, 2022 Share Posted January 24, 2022 The other thing to bear in mind is that you generally need two joints to get a handrail round a corner: Something the VW Stair Tool doesn't understand unfortunately: 1 Quote Link to comment
0 markdd Posted January 24, 2022 Share Posted January 24, 2022 1 hour ago, Kaare Baekgaard said: Thanks, Mark, I cannot access the link. The video should be visible in the post. (I can see it) Try this download link. https://www.dropbox.com/t/YytSsgBqIYZ2f3Sg 1 Quote Link to comment
0 Kaare Baekgaard Posted January 25, 2022 Author Share Posted January 25, 2022 Thanks again, I will try that out an report back 🙂 Quote Link to comment
0 line-weight Posted January 25, 2022 Share Posted January 25, 2022 Someone at VW needs to sort out the documentation for EAP, which is inadequate and confusing, and this is demonstrated by the number of threads like this asking how it actually works. 1 Quote Link to comment
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Kaare Baekgaard
I am trying to make a custom staircase guardrail using an Extrude along Path.
But I cannot control the orientation of the profile, and it looses its orientation through the corner.
I am sure, that I will find a workaround, but it would be nice, if I could lock the up-down orientation of the profile in relation to the world.
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