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Reverse ArchiStair Stairs?

Anonymous
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I'm feeling like I must be missing something obvious, but I can't figure out for the life of me how to turn a stair I built in Archistair around into going *down* instead of *up*. I've got a main story and a basement, and haven't put in the basement yet, and have all the stair dimensions measured on the main story, and I know that whoever measured the ceiling probably didn't get it right, so for the moment, I need the stair length and height to define the ceiling height of the downstairs so I can just get plans drawn (I'll worry about everything else later), so I built the stairs on the main floor, thinking for some reason they would be going down. So, I'm obviously wrong, so how do I get them to just go down in the same direction instead of up? Or am I simply going to have to rebuild them entirely?

One is a straight run, the other is a dog-leg with two landings, and of course, it's the latter that is far and away the bigger headache, and took forever to get it to fit within the available stairwell because it wouldn't let me adjust the overall dimensions and don't have the dimensions of the landings, but it wouldn't let me put in anything in those boxes anyways.

I'm using AC9; not sure if I updated my profile yet or not.

Wendy
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Djordje
Virtuoso
The stair should be on the floor/storey it goes up FROM.

So, if you want your stair to go from the basement up to the ground floor, place it on the basement storey.

Or did I misunderstand completely?
Djordje



ArchiCAD since 4.55 ... 1995
HP Omen
Anonymous
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Ugh. So there's really no way to fix what I've already got, and I'm going to just have to start again?

It's a problem because it was a bitch to get it set to where it is, which isn't even perfect, but close enough for this particular project.

Wendy
Gerald Hoffman
Advocate
It would make sense if you are going to have a basement anyway to put it in the storeys now. You can place your stair there without any obligation of drawing anything else. Just make the stair visible one storey up and select the appropriate settings to make the stair storey sensitive etc.
Gerald Hoffman
“The simplification of anything is always sensational” GKC
Archicad 4.55 - 27-6000 USA
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