Upper level plan of Custom Stair

[Assemblage]

If 'Overall Height' is specified rather than using 'By Layer Elevations' a plan view is denied in the 'Upper/Lower Floors' tab. Why? Using the stair in a symbol instanced over a number of floors/layers means not using 'By Layer Elevations'...but then no stair will appears in plan on the top floor at all.

[islandmon]

In OIP> " Draw Top Tread" = checked ?

[Assemblage]

Yes. Try clicking 'Overall Height' rather 'By Layer Elevations'. Suddenly..no upper floor plan of the stair. I don't understand why, but it seems intentional.

[gScott]

assemblage

if the layers are not identified using the

'By Layer Elevations' option vectorworks

can't tell which layer is meant to be the

upper floor.

it would be great if it showed some kind

of intelligence + used the file's layer

Z dimensions and the stair's "overall height"

to figure out which layer was meant to represent

the upper floor, but optimistic as i'd like to

be, that isn't going to happen.

and trying to do it as a symbol over a number

of floors is certainly not going to happen

automatically...

your best bet, if you want to use symbols,

is to use the stair tool on each 'lower level'

and make a 2d symbol traced over the top treads

of the full stair, representing the upper floor,

with 2d loci marking the bottom of the stair so

that you can paste it correctly on the upper level

relative to the lower level. then turn the break

on for the lower level of the real stair...

a performance but i can't think of a better way

of achieving it with the limitations of the tool

[Assemblage]

Ok - thanks Gideon