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Create a fence from a railing type

Create a fence from a railing type

- [Instructor] Maybe you need a fence in your next project, so in this video I'm gonna show you how you can create one by creating a custom railing type. Now here's the final version, so if we take a look at this we can see that it's a railing, there are some nice vertical posts running along the rail at regular intervals. If I hold the shift key down and drag with the wheel to orbit around, on the backside you can see that I have horizontal members running the length of the rail as well. Now there's a couple ways that you can add both the horizontal and vertical members to a railing. So to demonstrate, I'm gonna start by creating a brand new railing here, and I'll just make it 10 feet long. Click modify. Come over here and change it to handrail pipe, and then I'll click finish. So this is one of the standard out-of-the-box railings here. Now if you hover over the railing in one of those middle horizontal members, and you press the tab key, nothing will happen. But if you tab up at…

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