Diana Posted February 7, 2005 Share Posted February 7, 2005 The stair tool seems to only be able to make wood stairs. I need metal stairs where the stringers are on the outside of the treads. Short of manually making the parts, is there any other way to do this? Quote Link to comment
mike m oz Posted February 8, 2005 Share Posted February 8, 2005 Diana, you can use the stair PIO to partially achieve what you want: OPTION A - Use the stair tool to make the stair. - Assign a class 'finish' to the stringers and then make that class invisible in the Class Dialog box. - Model your required stringers in 3D - Group the stair object and the stringers you have made to form one object OPTION B - Use the stair tool to make the stair. - Assign the required class 'finishes' to the components - Set the Stringer Width and set the Offset to the -ve value of the width (This puts them outside of the treads). - Go to Top/Plan view and copy the stair - Go to a 3D view and convert the PIO to a group (Organise Menu) - Edit the Group and delete one of the stringers. - Select the other stringer and double click on it, This will takle you into the mode which will allow you to edit its 2D shaoe. - Reshape it using the 2D Reshape Polygon Tool into the shape you want (You could also use Decompose and Compose) - Exit the group which will then give you one stringer as you want it. - Mirror Duplicate this stringer around the centre of the treads to get the other stringer. - Exit Group and go back to Top Plan View - Paste in Place the stair previously copied and uncheck the Create 3D box on the OIP so that you get only the 2D view of the stair - Add any additional 2D linework you require - Select both the 3D object and the 2D objects and linework - Use Create Symbol on the Organise Menu to create a new hybrid symbol of the stair with separate 2D and 3D views. Both methods have the drawback of producing static rather than parametric objects, but there isn't a lot you can do about this. Quote Link to comment
Diana Posted February 8, 2005 Author Share Posted February 8, 2005 Thanks, again Mike. You have answered a bunch of my questions. You are one helpful Australian :-) Quote Link to comment
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