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AC21 - stairs previously created with Stairmaker

alemanda
Advocate
in AC21, Isn't possible to edit the stairs previously created with stairmaker?
Beside the new stair tool (which is great!) ... why hasn't stairmaker kept for a couple of versions yet to edit moved project from Ac20 to the new versions?
AC 19 and AC21 latest hotfix
Win 10 Pro 64bit
Double XEON 14 CORES (tot 28 physical cores)
32GB RAM - SSD 256GB - Nvidia Quadro K620
Display DELL 25'' 2560x1440
www.almadw.it
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Barry Kelly
Moderator
The old stairs are now just objects and can still be edited by selecting and opening the settings dialogue.
From memory all the old settings are there.

Barry.
One of the forum moderators.
Versions 6.5 to 27
Dell XPS- i7-6700 @ 3.4Ghz, 16GB ram, GeForce GTX 960 (2GB), Windows 10
Lenovo Thinkpad - i7-1270P 2.20 GHz, 32GB RAM, Nvidia T550, Windows 11
Anonymous
Not applicable
Unless I'm missing something, it seems that you can only edit the graphic attributes of a stair object created in v20, but not edit the stairs' structure (i.e. tread dimensions, riser dimensions, etc.)
alemanda
Advocate
Exactly.
I moved a project from Ac19 to 21 to use the new cinerender features and I Noted that theres no chance to edit the structure of stairs but only the graphics.
AC 19 and AC21 latest hotfix
Win 10 Pro 64bit
Double XEON 14 CORES (tot 28 physical cores)
32GB RAM - SSD 256GB - Nvidia Quadro K620
Display DELL 25'' 2560x1440
www.almadw.it
Barry Kelly
Moderator
I see - everything seems to be there except for the "Edit Stair" button where all the sizes are set.
I don't see any way around this.
Apart from cosmetic changes if you need to remodel the stair then it will need to be re-done with the new tool.

In the reference guide in the migration section it says that old stairs will be converted to objects with "limited GDL parameters".

Barry.
One of the forum moderators.
Versions 6.5 to 27
Dell XPS- i7-6700 @ 3.4Ghz, 16GB ram, GeForce GTX 960 (2GB), Windows 10
Lenovo Thinkpad - i7-1270P 2.20 GHz, 32GB RAM, Nvidia T550, Windows 11
alemanda
Advocate
I wasn't expecting stairmaker still there (effortlessly) to edit already modded stairs
AC 19 and AC21 latest hotfix
Win 10 Pro 64bit
Double XEON 14 CORES (tot 28 physical cores)
32GB RAM - SSD 256GB - Nvidia Quadro K620
Display DELL 25'' 2560x1440
www.almadw.it
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