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    How to make Wrought Iron Balustrade and Gate

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    • A Offline
      Acheampong
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      Can anyone write or suggest a link on how to model these wrought iron shapes for gates and balustrades in sketch up.
      I experimented with Draw metal, I am able to use fairly,when i create the spiral with curve maker and taper maker my model file size increase astronomically,even though I use 12 sides for the cross section it stills ends given my model a big file size and then slows it down.

      I want to know if the sketch up native tools can do the wrought iron shape or there is an alternative plugin I can use.

      I want to able to trace the curve from a photo and model to get my spirals.
      Attached below is what I intend to replicate in sketchup


      Ornamental Stairs Railing .jpg

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        TIG Moderator
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        Look in the SCF Plugins Index for this guy's tools, specifically made for making this kind of metal forms...


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          Acheampong
          last edited by

          Thanks a lot .
          I as was saying a,I can use the Draw metal plugins however it creates so many faces for the spiral thereby increasing my file size big. how do I address that?

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