Hello. I am trying to make a curved stairs handrail with Follow Me function. The native Sketchup function rotate the extruded surface. I tried Eneroth Upright Extruder, but I can’t keep it perpendicular on path. I tried FollowMeAndKeep, but the rezult is very jerky. There is some plugin/extension that can help for making some smooth result? Thanks in advance.
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Upright Extruder will work if you create the entire path and extrude from the end. Give it a straight run at the strat with the profile perpendicular to that first segment.
The curved part of the path appears to need some help. Do you really want that hard bump where the curve transitions to the upper straight run?
I think you’d find it easier to work in your model if you turn off Length Snapping in Model Info>Units and switch the camera to Perspective. Save Parallel Projection for scenes for output.
I can’t see that hard bumb in path. Only in the result. I tried to make the handrail in one unique path, but I still have that bump. 
Without lifting a finger as yet, I know from experience that juncture is always problematic. For each of the straight runs, the rail has a simple rise-run-rise-run slope to it, but the inside corner of the landing stacks two rises with no run in between, so there’s this abrupt step up that has to happen somewhere.
You could try this too: extrude the path vertically and PushPull the surface horizontally (Vertex Toos and Fredo JPP).
That curved part of your rail has 54 segments in 46 centimeters. I think you are hitting the small face problem.
If you make the lines and the face to extrude a component, move + copy it to the side, then use the scale tool to make it 10x larger (leaving the original where it is) - then run follow me on the large version it might work cleanly…
It still is a weird bump…
Sorry, I tried but i didn’t obtain a decent result.
If you put guide lines on the straight lines you’re trying to merge, you see then never intersect in 3D space.
I know they don’t align on the same plane. I didn’t intend for them to. I just want to join them with a curved line—using “Follow Me” or something similar—to create a handrail for this type of staircase.
After reading Mike’s message I realized that it should have been the first tip, but out of habit I redo the curves with Fredo Spline to have equal segments to avoid the problems created by too many segments for a small distance and some of them being very small. I automatically avoided such a situation.
You’re welcome!
The model you shared only had the railing.
Fredo Spline
Connecting the two lines by means of two arcs instead of one works pretty well together with Upright Extruder, but I like @mihai.s approach with splines or bezier.
Thank you. I'll give it a try tomorrow.