Hi, I have been trying to draw QTY 5 panels of glass that will fascia fix to the side of some curved steps and am struggling to do so. I have drawn the plan view of the proposed lay out and made several duplications trying different methods and also watching many you tube videos but am starting to…

[image] kceng: I have tried cutting a plane I did say there are many ways and that this was a simplistic demo. The cutting plane need not be flat. So here is a very manual version. [900]

as you have the outline drawn you could try “curviloft” to skin that and then “joint push pull” to thicken?

There are many ways to do what you want. The very basic one is to create a cutting plane where you want it and chop through. This is a very simplistic version. [Slice] By the way, in future it is better to add .jpg images directly to your post.

If you want the same at the bottom, just copy it down. [Bottom]

[CUTTING PLANE] Hi, Thanks for the replies, I have tried cutting a plane but due to the steps being curved I cant achieve 900mm above the toes of the steps.

Thanks for this, I am going to try this out. I’ll post my results

If you offset the front corner of each step along its adjacent glass panel the height of 900mm, (use the ‘Tape Measure’ tool) you get guide points that indicate where the curved top edge of the glass needs to go through. There might be a plugin that stitches them nicely into a “smooth” curve of conn…

not a very well modeled stair, but to show idea of curviloft skin (as you already have a profile) and joint PP to thicken. [stair glass]

Here’s another simple option. Using Thomthom’s Truebend. [Truebend stair] In case you are wondering, this is how that looks in plan. [Plan view]

[3D WITH RAKED GLASS] Man that was embarrassing how long that took me :sweat_smile: Thank you for all the help!!! Its still not quite right :anguished:

Looking for help to produce drawings of curved raked glass

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DaveR January 11, 2020, 9:36pm 4

How about uploading your SKP file?

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