How can i make a railing of this type?

[aaronlogan]

I have no idea where to start on this one. I hope it's even possible. The elevation and detail I posted should be enough to give you the idea of what I'm looking for. Thanks alot for any direction.

[SkiSouth]

Aaron. Is this for a 3d presentation, or are you doing a 2d presentation /WD?

Use a hatch to define the mesh on a railing panel if not 3d, and draw your section 2d. You could do this, but it would take some time. Kinda hard to read your posted images in section though.

[cadkiller]

How would you model this type of rail if you had to?
Would be nice if we had a 3D model hatch pattern capability.
Could be used for chain link fence, expanded metal, welded wire, bird screen, etc.

[sbrown]

You do have that ability, create a material called mesh, set it to have a crosshatch pattern(surface) set the transparency in the shaded box of the material to 100.

Note: I know it will be transparent in 3d, not sure about elevation.

[PeterJ]

Not in elevation, I think.

[Rhythmick]

I had those issues with a screen porch made with curtain panels. In elevations I turned the curtain panel visibility off and replaced them with transparent filled regions. I don't see how you can turn the railing panel visibility off though. Perhaps the railings could be built with the curtain wall tool. Also in Isometric plotting I had to use raster to maintain the transperency of the panels.

[aaronlogan]

i only need this to work in the renderings...thats it. Thanks for the suggestions, I think im going to try and model everything using extrusions and sweeps though. I'll let you guys see how it turns out...thanks.