select your spline, go to modify panel, open up rendering tab and select "Enable in render" and "Enable in viewport" you can select what kind of shape do you want, rectangular or radial, also adjust thickness and so on...

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Oh I see! so making a closed spline wasnt even part of it, its just a long string of spline that you can fill out to a 3d string. Very useful for the future thanks!

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have u tried using "loft"? its kinda easy way to have a rope but not that real thou .. sorry i posted even its already solved

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Yeah, a loft can give you some really interesting results. Example: You have three or four tiny circle splines and one long spline that follows the contour of the rope you want to make. Then you can loft the cricles up the spline and then in the loft modify tab there's an option for "twist." Play around with that and you'll get some nice looking rope.

Of course, the rope just has to be there, I doubt you'll ever have a scene where the rope of the focus. Just using a spline and enabling it to be rendered and then putting a "rope" material on it should be enough.

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