Zoom in on the lower right hand corner. If you are not sure which is which, or up from down, the origin plane should be going in the Y- direction or downwards.
You can also pause your cursor over the Stile Profiles sketch in the browser which will highlight the sketch till you remove the mouse. It should look like this...

Now that we are certain that we have the right corner, repeat the
process that you used to create the Stile Sketch Plane. Get the Work Plane
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tool, then click on the lower right point, then on the exposed YZ pane to create
the new plane. Name it Rail Sketch Plane. Because all of the geometry has
been created in the Y- direction, this plane will also face downwards.
The next step is to Create 2D Sketch
on this plane and call it
Rails Profiles. Project the same point that you just used to
create the plane as well as the one in the center top. Click on the View
face tool located under the View Cube, and click on the YZ plane in the
Origin folder to look directly at the sketch (normal to it's plane). The
leftmost projected point is the start for the bottom rail sketch. Draw the
top and bottom rails exactly like you did for the stiles except use the
bottom_Rail_Width and Top_Rail_Width parameters for the longer (width)
dimension, and don't forget that the bottom rail sketch goes downward and to
the right, and that the horizontal and vertical constrains will be the
reverse of what it looks like they should be. Also, when you start
dimensioning, do the upper Dimension
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with the formula first as it should still be
in the 'recent' list.
| (Late) Tip; to keep your sketch from flipping out (as much as possible), draw it close to the correct size to start with by looking in the lower right corner at the status bar while sketching---it gives angle and length info in real-time. |