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Stairs modeling: how to make Flight - Stringers lower than Tread

Anonymous
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The wish is to model stairs that has ~10cm flight stringer and tread finish slips over it (like in the picture). However stair reference line is at the top of a stringer.
Don't know why, but nosing tool doesn't work as well.
Maybe I'm not seeing something?
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Laszlo Nagy
Community Admin
Community Admin
Yes, it seems there is a (maybe unnecessary) limitation that the Stringer cannot go below the Treads, so the "Height above Treads" field does not allow a negative value.
In the case of Landings, I say I would even understand this limitation, but in the case of Flights, it seems unnecessary to me.
I will forward this to Graphisoft for their consideration.
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Laszlo Nagy
Community Admin
Community Admin
Yes, it seems there is a (maybe unnecessary) limitation that the Stringer cannot go below the Treads, so the "Height above Treads" field does not allow a negative value.
In the case of Landings, I say I would even understand this limitation, but in the case of Flights, it seems unnecessary to me.
I will forward this to Graphisoft for their consideration.
Loving Archicad since 1995 - Find Archicad Tips at x.com/laszlonagy
AMD Ryzen9 5900X CPU, 64 GB RAM 3600 MHz, Nvidia GTX 1060 6GB, 500 GB NVMe SSD
2x28" (2560x1440), Windows 10 PRO ENG, Ac20-Ac27
Barry Kelly
Moderator
I don't have Archicad running at the moment to test, but try using beams instead of stringers.


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Anonymous
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Barry wrote:
I don't have Archicad running at the moment to test, but try using beams instead of stringers.


Barry.
Thank you, it needs calculations to match the points, but it helps to reach the needed result!
Minh Nguyen
Graphisoft Alumni
Graphisoft Alumni
Dear All,

Thank you for sharing your ideas and opinions regarding this request!

I'm glad to say that we took notice and we have added this Wish into our Wish database.
(For future reference, you can refer to it as IDEA-1468)

I hope we see this get implemented in the future!
Have a great day!

Best regards,
Minh

Minh Nguyen
Technical Support Engineer
GRAPHISOFT