Editing Stairs

Staircases can be selected and edited in floor plan view and 3D views. See "Selecting Objects".

Using the Mouse

When a staircase is selected edit handles display. These edit handles can be used to customize the staircase in many ways. The edit handles for stairs are similar to those of other objects. See "Editing Objects".

Straight stair sections are edited like lines. They have additional edit handles for resizing the width of the stair section. See "Editing Line Based Objects".

Curved stair sections edited like arcs and also include edit handles for resizing the stair's width. See "Editing Arc Based Objects".

When stair sections are merged, the edit handles display a little differently depending on what subsection is currently selected. See "Merging Stair Sections".

When moving merged stair sections, all merged stair sections also move.

Several additional edit handles display on a staircase if the Flare/Curve Stairs

edit button was used. See "Flared Stairs and Curved Treads".

Using the Edit Toolbar

A selected staircase can be edited in a variety of ways using the buttons on the edit toolbar. As with most other objects stairs can be copied, replicated, moved, deleted, etc.

The following edit toolbar buttons may display on the edit toolbar for selected stairs.

Click the Open Object

edit button to open the Staircase Specification dialog. See "Staircase Specification Dialog".

Click the Components

edit button to open the Components dialog for the selected stairs. See "Components Dialog".

Click the Make Parallel edit button to align the tops, bottoms and sides of straight stair sections with another straight edge. See "Using Make Parallel/ Perpendicular".

The Center Object

edit button allows you to center stairs and openings along a room edge. See "Moving Objects".

Stair sections can be flared and treads can be curved using the Flare/Curve Stairs

edit button. See "Flared Stairs and Curved Treads".

Starter treads can be created using the Starter Tread edit button. See "Starter Treads".

Click the Auto Stairwell

edit button to create a stairwell automatically. See "Creating a Stairwell".

Click the Lock Center

edit button to lock the center of selected curved stairs.

If a curved stair section is merged with straight sections on both ends, you can use the Make Arc Tangent edit button to join the curved section smoothly to the straight sections and also specify its radius. See "Using Make Arc Tangent".

Adjusting the Radius of Curved Stairs

The easiest way to match the radius of a stair section to the radius of a curved wall is to draw a staircase near one side of the curved wall using the Straight Stairs

tool. The stairs snap to the wall, and the radius of the new staircase is defined.

Existing curved stairs can be aligned with an existing curved wall by aligning their centers, much the same way that curved stairs on different floors can be aligned. See "Aligning Objects".

If there is no curved wall, the radius of a stair section can be aligned to a CAD arc or circle.

To align curved stairs to an object

Align the centers of the CAD object and the staircase. See "Aligning Objects".

Select the curved stairs and move the side nearest to the arc or circle edge using the Resize edit handle.

Finally, restore the stair width by dragging from the other side handle or using the Stair Specification dialog.