topic Trim wall to bottom of a stair ? in Modeling

Trim wall to bottom of a stair ?

Anonymous — Tue, 23 May 2023 13:26:42 GMT

Is there a way to "trim a wall" to a long stair, with several landings, as can be done with a "trim to roof" command.
Yes the work-around of sectioning the wall to landings and slopes that are then aligned with a roof so that they can be 'trimed to roof' can work, BUT ?

Re: Trim wall to bottom of a stair ?

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 19:35:19 GMT

Make all the stair flights and the landings operators,
make the walls targets, and SEO with upwards extrusion.
Peter Devlin

Re: Trim wall to bottom of a stair ?

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 19:42:05 GMT

Thanks Peter -
However your good instructions are not yet understandable to this substantially less than geek AC10 user.....
What is an operator, a target, and SEO etc. ?

Again thanks for the directions

Re: Trim wall to bottom of a stair ?

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 20:19:29 GMT

Hello Atelier,
I apologize. I made the assumption that you knew about SEO.
SEO stands for Solid Element Operations which is a capability
introduced in AC 8. In versions prior to AC 10 this command
is found at the bottom of the edit menu. In AC 10 it is found
in the design menu.
Please read up on it in the AC 10 reference guide starting on page 202.
Thanks,
Peter Devlin

Re: Trim wall to bottom of a stair ?

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 20:23:55 GMT

Peter -
Many many thanks for your directions.

BTW in French - Atelier is a Studio
Thnaks again Paul

Re: Trim wall to bottom of a stair ?

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 20:37:04 GMT

Hello Paul,
Sorry, another wrong assumption on my part.
I assumed, despite it's meaning in French,
that Atelier was your first name.
Thank you for letting us know your name.
Peter Devlin

Re: Trim wall to bottom of a stair ?

Anonymous — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 12:07:20 GMT

Peter wrote:
Make all the stair flights and the landings operators,
make the walls targets, and SEO with upwards extrusion.
Peter Devlin

Unfortunately it won't work if your stair was created with an Archistair add-on and has two flights

Re: Trim wall to bottom of a stair ?

Anonymous — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 15:17:12 GMT

archimax,
Your statement implies that SEO will work with an Archistair object
that has only a single flight. Is this true ?
Thank you,
Peter Devlin

Re: Trim wall to bottom of a stair ?

Anonymous — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 21:50:48 GMT

Peter wrote:
archimax,
Your statement implies that SEO will work with an Archistair object
that has only a single flight. Is this true ?
Thank you,
Peter Devlin

I've just printed here :
"Yes, it is. Single flight stairs work perfectly with SEO... but U-shaped stairs are killing me "
...and I was going to post that reply but an experiment with an empty AC10 Template file has totally confused me...... Everything is OK there! But I wasted half an hour today without any result trying to win the battle with a U-shaped stair and a wall below it. And I was forced to create a custom library object 😕
And now everything works fine! Maybe the problem was that my file was converted from AC9. I'll try tomorrow to merge it to an empty file and report the result here...

Re: Trim wall to bottom of a stair ?

Anonymous — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 06:16:09 GMT

Sorry, Peter, but I don't get what's wrong with my stair... 😕
You can try to fight it yourself )

Re: Trim wall to bottom of a stair ?

Anonymous — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 06:17:30 GMT

round 2

Re: Trim wall to bottom of a stair ?

Anonymous — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 17:19:32 GMT

archimax,
I downloaded both of your files and found both of them empty.
They were both 4 Kb and were .pln files not .pla which they
would have to be to contain the stair object you are talking about.
Sorry,
Peter Devlin

Re: Trim wall to bottom of a stair ?

Anonymous — Sat, 02 Sep 2006 10:54:04 GMT

oooooooooooooph..... I've cleared up the puzzle!!!
The problem was in bad parameters of the railing. Turning the railing elements off has cut the wall at once! I haven't found the definite parameter guilty of my problems... but now it doesn't matter, I'll use Stairmaker next time ))))

P.S. I don't know why there were problems with downloading the file... And there is no need in PLA if you have Archistair, because it uses its own library. Anyway thanks for help and trifling away your time