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ledgewood33

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I am trying to create a stair railing system that has only Balusters and no top rail. I would like to use the "use baluster per tread on stair" and have two balusters per tread. but when I attempt this with no top rail the baluster is only a few inches tall. so I created a top rail profile using invisible lines and made the top rail really small. with this top rail it works but the top rail shows in every view even though it says its using invisible lines. could use some help. would like to not have the top rail if possible.

I am attaching a file that shows both examples

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FazioGreg

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It's not perfect, but See the attached for my baluster settings [Top rail type = None].  I do see what you ran into when you switch to Baluster per Tred option.  I'm not really sure what's going on.  I played a bunch with it. and I didn't get it to work.  Hopefully this will be enough for what youre trying to do.

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teafoe5

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Why do you not want a top rail? Eitherway in your baluster placement change your top offset to be the height you want it at.

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pijpiwo

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Teafoe, unfortunately, this won't work with use baluster per tread option selected.

See this.

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