topic Re: Staircase in Modeling

Staircase

Blue — Fri, 11 Apr 2025 12:29:17 GMT

I have adjusted a stair to how it is in real life - but I should probably adjust the length of the sides before I adjusted the steps.

Are there now any way I can set the sides correct now, without changing the steps?

Re: Staircase

Matteods — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 21:54:12 GMT

I don't know if I get the point. Can you explain better your final goal? Anyway with edit you can enter into the stair and select just the side and adjust it as you want.

Re: Staircase

Blue — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 07:23:42 GMT

When I tried to adjust the sides - to make them add up with the stairs - the steps followed and became narrow/changed its size..

I did not manage to adjust only the side.

Maybe I did it wrong..

Re: Staircase

Barry Kelly — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 08:28:38 GMT

Is your problem just that the model does not seem to match the blue reference line in you image?

If so, that could be because your model is very far away from the Project Origin.

Barry.

Re: Staircase

Barry Kelly — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 08:30:44 GMT

This is what happens to the same stair if I move it a long way from the Project Origin.

Barry.

Re: Staircase

Blue — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 09:57:28 GMT

I guess I should have made sure the size of the stair was correct (the blue line) before I started modeling the steps.

Cause you may model and move the steps with no reference to the blue line - but the sides follow the blue line no matter. And if I shrink the model by the blue line I also shrink all the steps. I thought maybe I could shrink the sides, and then the blue line would follow..

Re: Staircase

Matteods — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 12:49:51 GMT

Hi Blue,

if you enter in edit mode, working on a top view. Did you try to adjust the size of the stair? If you select one side you can adapt the perimeter of your stair. If this doesn't work for you and you don't want to do the stair from the beginning then you can try to work with a complex profile for your side and you can assign it to the stair side command.

Re: Staircase

Blue — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 10:13:57 GMT

I have now made the stair again, in two different ways.

Still, I need to be able to adjust the side, because it always gets too short on one of the sides. But I find no ways of doing this..(?) Maybe it is something I do not find?

The stairs you cand edit as much as you want..So I guess the sides should be able to adjust as well-..?

Re: Staircase

Barry Kelly — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 11:53:46 GMT

Can you show in plan what you are trying to achieve?

Barry.

Re: Staircase

Blue — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 06:09:19 GMT

Thank you for responding 🙂

Re: Staircase

Matteods — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 06:13:10 GMT

Hi Blue

Are you splitting the stair in different pieces?

I think the problem is coming from this. Is better to draw as a unique stair.

Greetings,

Matteo.

Re: Staircase

Blue — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 06:26:01 GMT

Thanks for your answer, yes, I did it in pieces, I could not figure out the mid-part when I did it in one piece. But I will try again. Still, I would like to be able to adjust the sides...This is maybe not a "correct" stair from an archicad-point of view - but I would like it to look like the original, since that is what this project is dealing with. I have now made the sides from morphs, maybe at the end that is the best solution 🙂 (But since I am not super friends with the stair-tool I thought of it as an opportunity to learn more about it 🙂

Re: Staircase

Matteods — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 06:36:36 GMT

Yes I understand stair tool is really a difficult topic.
I suggest you to have a look to this video. It's better if you draw it as a unique stair then you can control the side directly in stair command.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-BUaxPziy8

Turning type option can help you to have the shape that you need.

Otherwise if you are happy with the stair that you have right now you can think to create the side with a beam made with complex profile. It's not the best method 🙂 but it's good if you need just to achieve the design.

Greetings,

Matteo.

Re: Staircase

Blue — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 06:57:00 GMT

Thanks a lot, I´ve saved the video in my playlist and will take a more close look at it, looked really step-by-step and explaining.

If I could model the stair without the sides, cause that was part of the problem, getting the stair correct in order of the shape of the steps and the mid-repo.

I don´t mind making the sides in morphs or as you propose, complex profile, if I could get the steps correctly.

Thanks again 🙂