Creating a curve railing

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Hi, I have designed a style of railing but struggling to get it to bend around my mezzanine and curve stairs with out making any gaps. I need to 3d print this so the no gaps is the main issue, Thankyou

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You can use Flowify extension.

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I have tried and wouldn’t work as it needs to sit above the concrete railing

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Did you set it correctly to stay there, as it should normally come out properly?

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it’s supposed to work (I’ve rarely used flowify yet I know it’s a standard case)

could you share your file so (better) users (than me) can check what’s not working ?

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Bgarden mezzanine.skp (1.7 MB)

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You should improve the model as a whole, but you can use Flowify to create the railing (and it will stay there where you put it). I used a simpler pattern to be calculated faster.


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thankyou I appreciate the help! when I get to this part, when following the YouTube tutorial, they flowify and impose grid, that doesn’t seem to work, when i googled the problem it says its to do with scale, did you face this problem too when using my mezzanine? Thankyou

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It’s probably necessary, considering how the geometry you created looks. Search in forum for ‘tiny edges’ to understand why errors occur when you have very small edges.

I recreated the model to have a clean geometry and used a simple railing as an example, so there were no problems with Flowify. However, the railing you intend to create already has a lot of small edges, so besides there being a lot of them and it taking a long time to calculate them, once bent they will generate even smaller ones, hence the error.