Thanks guys! Your help is greatly appreciated.

Hey folks, I'm in the process of making a fireplace surround and I'm looking to utilize some curved rails that I intend to make with a rail cutting router bit. What I'm having a hard time doing is having the attached profile follow the contour of the rail. It's a bit hard to explain, but the pictures should make things clearer. Can anyone help?

Curved rail profile.skp

Yeah that might be next on my list!

Hey it worked! I think I've figured it all out. Just need to practice a bit until I feel comfortable. I've been working with sketchup for about 5 years now designing furniture and its probably one of the best tools in my shop. I just discovered this resource so I'm sure I'll be posting questions. What a great site! Thanks again for your help.

-Mike

Thanks very much! I understand now how to use the rails you made for any project. Still working on making my own however and getting them to intersect. Thanks again!

-Mike

Hey Dave, new user her. Really struggling with the intersecting of rails and stiles. I found this thread and I'm attempting to figure it out....could you assist me by chance? I realize it's a old thread so I'm not sure if you even check this anymore.

http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=183%26amp;t=24863

I've watched a video on it, and found a nice model in the sketchup 3d warehouse and I still can't seem to get it from reading the directions. I guess you could say I'm a visual learner. Do you have anything to help me figure out how to:

1. use the model here from the sketchup warehouse: http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=26e0074f414114c5f927dd0b5df2955c%26amp;prevstart=0

and make some rails and stiles.

2. I read on multiple threads that once I have a good rail I can save it and modify the length at a later date. How is this possible by just using the push/pull tab with the curved/coped end of the rail?

Thanks!