since you are attempting a special kind of stair, maybe you could look at 'building' it from smaller components the way it might be in reality?
. . . or you could do it very easily with slabs or complex wall profiles . . .
using the stair tool is often a spectacular waste of time in all but the simplest of circumstances . . .
~/archiben
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