Stairmaker

[Anonymous]

I know that this has probably been asked before, but I couldn't seem to find it. Can you now trim a wall to the bottom of a stair (in my case a curved stair) in 8.1?

If not, what is the best way to do this?

Thanks,

Don Lee

[Anonymous]

Try the SEO (solid element operation) subtraction with upward extrusion. This did not work reliably in AC8.0 (particularly with StairMaker objects) but I haven't tried it with 8.1 (no projects with spiral stairs).

[Link]

This did not work reliably in AC8.0 (particularly with StairMaker objects)

Still as unreliable in 8.1 as in 8.0 in my experience. A bug that I've personally reported using the official channels.

Trim to roof seems to be the best solution at this point in time.

Cheers,
Link.

[Stephen Dolbee]

Stairmaker has always been lacking-still is. Hopefully Graphisoft will do some serious work on this important feature.

Steve

[Anonymous]

There is a web site which I seem to remember has a turtorial on something similar to your question. It is a good web site for general AC stuff so worth a long browse.

------------>http://www.arkiklub.com/ShowDocument.asp?DocumentId=82

Trimming walls to stairs, and much much more.

[SeaGeoff]

This recent thread has an official comment on the StairMaker bug, http://archicad-talk.graphisoft.com/viewtopic.php?p=3626&highlight=stairmaker#3626.