bohlr Posted June 30, 2014 Share Posted June 30, 2014 Can any one help or direct me to a tutorial or workaround. I am trying to add an "L" landing - straight run - straight landing to a "U stair single landing created with the stair tool. Please see attached Quote Link to comment
SNOJNKY Posted July 3, 2014 Share Posted July 3, 2014 I usually bail on the standard stair and create a new "custom stair". It sucks to have to transfer all of the information, but it is the only way I've been able to do what you're trying to do. Good luck! Quote Link to comment
Joe-SA Posted August 5, 2014 Share Posted August 5, 2014 We've never adopted the 'new' stair tool. When first introduced it was inadequate in many ways I won't get into. Over the versions it became better and better but never good enough to cause us to switch away from the 'old' stair tool now called 'Custom Stair'. Neither is perfect but we still see more flexibility with the Custom Stair. Even with the Custom Stair we sometimes need to 'stack' two separate stair objects on top of each other to make a single, multi-run stair. If you have the stair tied to the layer heights you can still set your offsets from the top or bottom so they show as a single stair. You can also manipulate how they show on both upper and lower floors. We run into this most often when an open tread stair run extends past a wall and becomes a closed tread stair on one side only of a continuous run. Very common residential stair that can be impossible to make with one stair object. This could be fixed if the a setting to 'offset from center' was added to each stair run. Quote Link to comment
JoshW Posted August 7, 2014 Share Posted August 7, 2014 What would be nice is one stair tool that functions correctly instead of two limited stair tools. Quote Link to comment
Tom Klaber Posted August 7, 2014 Share Posted August 7, 2014 We have basically given up on both stair tools. We will occasionally start with the tool, but then it gets drawn line by line because it is too hard to get it to do what you need. I have my fingers crossed for ground up rebuild of the stair tool in 2015! Quote Link to comment
scheven_architect Posted September 20, 2014 Share Posted September 20, 2014 How do you hide the 'up' shown on the stairs while keeping info about raisers on? Can you number the stairs? Quote Link to comment
mike m oz Posted September 20, 2014 Share Posted September 20, 2014 It can be however the user wants it to be. Quote Link to comment
zoomer Posted September 20, 2014 Share Posted September 20, 2014 It can be however the user wants it to be. I had problems with these settings if parts of a stair below were hidden by the floor slab of the current story, where the hidden part should be dashed and the open part have solid lines. I'm not very experienced in 2D plan illustration, so if this is solvable I would try it again. Quote Link to comment
mike m oz Posted September 20, 2014 Share Posted September 20, 2014 You can set which flights you show the information for as shown in the image below. The stair tool is quite user friendly and with each use it gets easier to get stairs the way you want them to be. Also if you develop a stair form that you particularly like then you can save this as a symbol so it is available for you to reuse. Help and the stair movies available will also get you comfortable with the Stair tool. Quote Link to comment
scheven_architect Posted September 20, 2014 Share Posted September 20, 2014 Ah ok, was using custom stair! thx Quote Link to comment
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