topic Re: Stairmaker in Modeling

Stairmaker

Anonymous — Thu, 25 May 2023 15:33:39 GMT

Hi,
I am trying to create a somewhat special stair with the stairmaker, but a window pops up saying "cannot generate stair with this line of travel". I have no idea what I have to do to make it work.

Re: Stairmaker

Anonymous — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 19:43:45 GMT

The line of travel MUST be made with LINES segments ONLY (in yours case 4), not with Polylines tool!!
And delete those 2 angled lines on the end.

Re: Stairmaker

Anonymous — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 20:21:40 GMT

"Cannot....." message is caused by second segment of the travel line (arc).
Change it to the straight line.

Re: Stairmaker

Anonymous — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 15:00:05 GMT

Thanx a lot, the arc was the problem indeed!

Re: Stairmaker

Anonymous — Fri, 09 Aug 2013 09:22:04 GMT

Hi, I am trying to make a different type of staircase and also get the "cannot generate stairs with this line of travel". However, in my case it is not possible not to use an arc in the line of travel, as it needs to be two stretches of straight steps, connected by 90 degrees of winding steps.

This is for a renovation project, and I'm virtually recreating an existing staircase. Therefore I have no artistic license to make the stairs work in a way that suits the software.

I use Archicad 16

Re: Stairmaker

Anonymous — Fri, 09 Aug 2013 11:36:31 GMT

The line of travel is made by 2 Lines and 1 Arc??

Re: Stairmaker

Anonymous — Fri, 09 Aug 2013 11:39:41 GMT

I tried with: line-arc-line
I also tried with: Line-7lines(used as segments)-Line

Re: Stairmaker

Anonymous — Fri, 09 Aug 2013 13:23:52 GMT

This is what I get with AC16:

Re: Stairmaker

Anonymous — Fri, 09 Aug 2013 13:49:48 GMT

Where I run into problems is how to get that cut line off the stairs. I have 3 risers on a stair and I don't need that cut line but I can not figure out how to make it go away.

Not the real breakline, the one that you can adjust in the preview window. It shows up in my finished stair I built.

Re: Stairmaker

Anonymous — Fri, 09 Aug 2013 16:51:37 GMT

Edit the Stair and select Type 7 to get rid off the break line.

Re: Stairmaker

Anonymous — Fri, 09 Aug 2013 16:53:39 GMT

THANK YOU!, I was looking for a box to turn it off or a line type to change, everywhere BUT where it was.

Re: Stairmaker

Anonymous — Fri, 09 Aug 2013 17:56:27 GMT

andro55 wrote:
This is what I get with AC16:

That's more than I get, but still doesn't quite look right. I Don't understand you don't get the message.

Do you have any control over the distribution of the steps?

Re: Stairmaker

Anonymous — Fri, 09 Aug 2013 19:13:41 GMT

No!
That´s the bad thing of Stairmaker.