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How to Create a Basement Stair and Bulkhead Door

In order to efficiently model a basement stair and bulkhead door (i.e. not creating extra cutting bodies) elements need to be created and cut in a specific order. These steps are listed below 1. Make sure that a mesh has been placed around the outsid...

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How to Create a Railing with Evenly Spaced Posts on a Mesh

Follow the steps below to create a railing with evenly spaced posts that follows the contour of a mesh. 1. Create a poly line where the railing will be. 2. Open the Set Snap Point Values dialogue box. 3. In the Snap Point Values dialogue box, set the...

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Greater Flexibility and Standard Compliance with Stair Tool Enhancements

Creating and editing stairs requires to handle and consider multiple- many time contradicting- requirements. Ensuring all these factors across the design changes is challenging task for all architects. Archicad 25 brings improvements to the Stair Too...

L and U-shaped Stairs with Stringers

In certain cases when users are modelling open or closed stringer stairs, the corner stringer piece does not get created, or gets created but the geometry of it is faulty. The reason behind such issues always lies in some kind of geometrical controve...

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Stair Tool Basics - Stair Turning and Segment types

Turning stairs can be constructed in 2 different methods: using turning type method or segment type method. Let's have a quick look at the main aspects of those two types. Turning Type Turning type can be used in 3 ways: Landing Winder with Equal Ang...

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Stair Tool Basics - How to create Stairs with Equal Going/Run winders

In a previous Article we have explained how Stair Segments and Turnings work in General. In this article we will show you 2 examples of how to use them to create Stairs that have winders with Equal Goings/Runs. About Winder Options You can open the w...

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Stair Tool Basics - How to create Stairs with Equal Angle winders

In a previous Article we have explained how Stair Segments and Turnings work in General. In this article we will show you 2 examples of how to use them to create Stairs with Equal Angle winders, and explain how this winder type works in general. How ...

Railing Tool Basics - How to create a 2D symbol for a custom Railing Post?

The new Stair and Railing Tools use GDL sub-elements (such as posts, rails, etc.). Many of them are pre-defined and available by default through the element and component settings dialogs. You can find several default objects in the stock ARCHICAD li...

Railing Tool Basics - How to create a custom Railing Post?

The new Stair and Railing Tool include GDL sub-elements. Many of them are pre-defined and available by default, through the element and component settings dialogs. To create your own sub-element, you can create and customise an element and save it as...

Stair Tool Advanced - How to create a Ramp using the Stair Tool?

There are many ways for creating a ramp in ARCHICAD (eg. Ramp Object), but in this article we are going to show you how to create one with the help of the Stair Tool. Here is what you will need: a complex profile a Stair with stringers that's all Str...