CV Tutorial!!

OK!!!


SO this is what I did to get the railing


First, under Create, select CV or EP curve. Both are equally confusing at first but once you get the hang of them, you'll find your favorite. I personally like the EP curve. Here I used the cv curve.



now you're goign to click from point to point on the grid. You can do this on any viewpoint. It's actually better to do it in the front view than the perspective like I did. When using CV, it gives you straight lines along the curve, So in the middle of a curve, you'll have a point.



Next rotate your curve off of the grid. If you did it in Front View, don't rotate.
Now create a shape that you want to extrude. In this case, I used a cylinder.



If you used a cylinder or a shape that has multiple edges along the side that needs to be extruded, delete the faces on that side.




Now go to fill hole under the Mesh menu. This will create one big face.



Now put this new face of the object on the starting point of the curve.



Go to Edit Mesh> Extrude options box



These are my components, but you can adjust and apply as you see fit. Make sure 'Extrude along Curve' is selected, and also make sure your taper is set to 1.0000. this makes the shape stay the same size as it follows the curve. Hit apply.
This is what I got!: