Greg_NY61

Nice Job Glen, Thank you!

Yusuf, This is an awesome way of doing this in CA, I been making them in Sketchup using the following bellow formula and then importing model into CA, now you saved me a s^*t load of time doing this in CA, I just never tried manipulating stairs this way in CA. If you in NY, lunch is on me. This is how I calculate when laying out the stairs in Sketchup I made a template as you using to start in CA, then I use basic guidelines to meet the building code to calculate the stairs. Usually I use rule of thumb and make a 70" diameter staircase, it makes it easier to walk on it. Knowing min tread should be 26" I make it 32"-34 when doing layout (of course depending on the room you have) .The center column and two treads make a total diameter of 70". That would be the 2 treads (2 x 32") and 6" support column you get 70" diameter. Next to find the circumference of the stairway which is diameter x 3.1416 so in this case 70" x 3.1416 = 220" (rounded to the nearest "). So with a 9' ceiling per say that's 14 steps+ landing and 220"÷14=15.7" that will give us the tread width, so with overlapping this and that a 16" wide tread makes a nice comfortable stairway and it will make one full 360-degree turn through its travel.

I agree with you, the stair tools are Ancient and Outdated and need major and I repeat MAJOR overhaul. P.S I like the spindles, where did you find that symbol? If not a secret, please share :-)

I agree with Joe 110%, and the addressed issues he specified shouldn't be submitted as "a feature request"... all this features should be included in there already because the concerns he raised is industry standards.

I might be wrong, but it looks like it calculates 2 different block... one is regular CMU block and the other one is being calculated as Rock Faced Block which is larger in size ( even tho the block dimension shows same for both). therefore it gives you less block, but in CA program they probably changed the size of that block to the correct size, but they never changed dimensions which are being displayed.

If anything they should indicate full pocket depth.