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Stairmaker presets (and basic stair types)

Rick Thompson
Expert
While the new AC12 Stairmaker improves thing, it is a lot to define each and every time you make a stair. I, for one, repeat the same input each and every time for the 2D level and attributes. everything except the geometry and rail settings. So, I wish Stairmaker would store your settings and be done with it.

Also, why can't we have a stair "Type" with a single bottom and/or top landing. Just a single step up to a landing.. (now required 2 risers min). This is a very typical situation. You can't use all the new fancy features when you need this stair since you first have to make a slab for a bottom or top landing (the way it should work that is, you have to manually draw the walking lines etc). Simply put, Stairmaker, with all the improvements is severely limited for a professional level CAD software. I would trade all the new "options" for setting controls to be able to make the stairs I need.. that are very normal stair solutions.

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Rick Thompson
Mac Sonoma AC 26
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For residential work, I've been finding that the discrete stair objects often work better than Stairmaker.
Richard
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Richard Morrison, Architect-Interior Designer
AC26 (since AC6.0), Win10
Karl Ottenstein
Moderator
I'm voting essential, of course. SM continues to be pretty infuriating.

While we can keep dreaming that GS would purchase ArchiStair from Cigraph or the Cadimage stair thingy, sometimes it's worth just buying such a thing, especially now that Cigraph has essentially guaranteed that the update for 13 will be available when 13 is released:
http://archicad-talk.graphisoft.com/viewtopic.php?p=144285

ArchiStair 2 looks excellent, and it has the parameter transfer that you want (I think?) Rick. Watch video number 8 ("Transfer the Settings") comparing the standard ArchiCAD eyedropper/syringe to the ArchiStair eyedropper/syringe:

http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=D2001221C4197EFF

Cheers,
Karl
One of the forum moderators
AC 27 USA and earlier   •   macOS Ventura 13.6.6, MacBook Pro M2 Max 12CPU/30GPU cores, 32GB
Barry Kelly
Moderator
Rick,
Have you tried saving a stair as a Favorite?
Barry.
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Rick Thompson
Expert
Barry wrote:
Rick,
Have you tried saving a stair as a Favorite?
Barry.
I do, it's the next one, and the next one... having to reset a zillion parameters that I would like to avoid. Plus, the issue of not being able to make some basic common configurations without having to resort to building landings with slabs. That just ridiculous at this point of a professional CADs evolution to not provide every basic option. I completely understand you can't provide templates for everything, but a single landing at the top of bottom or a stair run? Why on earth do they set them up with a minimum of 2 risers before a landing????
Rick Thompson
Mac Sonoma AC 26
http://www.thompsonplans.com
Mac M2 studio w/ display