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Posted by rexkogitans at Nov 3, 2019, 9:37:16 PM

Balcony Railing
How to draw a balcony railing?

I have tested with two different concept, none of them with success.

First I wanted to draw with some kind of repeating pattern. This pattern needs to be transparent between the columns and the top of the railing. There is none in the standard textures, and I did not pursue the idea.

The second approach were those fences and railings provided as furnitures. They have the backdraw that they cannot be expanded (otherwise the railing gets stretched rathen than prolonged). Concatinating several of them would still imply that I have to cut the last one, which is not possible.

So, my question is: How can I draw a balcony railing correctly?

Posted by Mike53 at Nov 3, 2019, 11:10:01 PM

Re: Balcony Railing
I would suggest using THIS plug-in developed by Dorin, its excellent. With it you can create your own railing, horizontal and angled, all matching.

Posted by rexkogitans at Nov 24, 2019, 9:37:07 PM

Re: Balcony Railing
Several weeks later, I found time to try. Starting it, I get a Java runtime error when clicking on the menu item:


Exception in thread "AWT-EventQueue-0" java.lang.IndexOutOfBoundsException: Index 0 out of bounds for length 0
	at java.base/jdk.internal.util.Preconditions.outOfBounds(Preconditions.java:64)
	at java.base/jdk.internal.util.Preconditions.outOfBoundsCheckIndex(Preconditions.java:70)
	at java.base/jdk.internal.util.Preconditions.checkIndex(Preconditions.java:248)
	at java.base/java.util.Objects.checkIndex(Objects.java:373)
	at java.base/java.util.ArrayList.get(ArrayList.java:425)
[...]

Posted by rexkogitans at Nov 25, 2019, 9:15:40 PM

Re: Balcony Railing
I forgot to mention my Java version:


$ java --version
openjdk 13.0.1 2019-10-15
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 13.0.1+9)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 13.0.1+9, mixed mode)

Posted by DanielJ at Nov 26, 2019, 4:38:21 AM

Re: Balcony Railing
Beautiful plugin! Without it, I was so tormented. Oh, now it's convenient, so glad!

Posted by dorin at Nov 26, 2019, 8:30:43 AM

Re: Balcony Railing
@rexkogitans
Your both post are useful for me:
1. I've test again and in some circumstances I've receive some errors.
I'll see what I can do BUT it still working IF You follow the indications from the plugin post.

2. Show me You use the repository version with java 13.
Not only my plugin don't work but a lot of other functions more or less visible will fail.
So, FORGET REPOSITORY VERSION !!!!!
Install locally the version from the download page of this site which came with their java 8 and try again.

PS. For other observations about plugins please post on the corresponding plugin page.
It's hard for me to follow all the posts on all the treads.
Thanks!!
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A computer program does what you tell it to do, not what you want it to do. Murphy's Law
When all else fails, read the instructions. Murphy's Law
If you don't like "AS IS", DIY. Dorin's law

Posted by rexkogitans at Nov 26, 2019, 10:18:52 PM

Re: Balcony Railing
@dorin Now I got it. The Paste Special feature works. I drew the balcony railing by a repetition of green posts of 2 cm time 5 cm, and 100 cm in height, and lay a railing on top of it. For the repetition, I used your plugin.

Thanks!

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