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We recently got Chief Architect, and I am starting to redraw some of our other Preliminary plans in CA out of Autocad. I am struggling to draw this stair case. On one, it side follows an ellipse, the other side follows the typical straight walls. This is a remodel on the house, and we don't have a lot of flexibility in where the staircase is, and we can't move the walls around the staircase. Does anybody have any tips on how to accomplish this?

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Stairs can be set to follow curved walls (including invisible ones) by using the "winders" option.  See picture below.  You cannot draw a true elliptical wall though so you will have to approximate the shape using multiple arcs (or lots of short segments).

 

I suspect that the combination of the starter tread and the winders at the top will also be tricky to model.  I think for these I would use individual landings since they can pretty much be made any shape you want.

 

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35 minutes ago, Dermot said:

Stairs can be set to follow curved walls (including invisible ones) by using the "winders" option.  See picture below.  You cannot draw a true elliptical wall though so you will have to approximate the shape using multiple arcs (or lots of short segments).

 

I suspect that the combination of the starter tread and the winders at the top will also be tricky to model.  I think for these I would use individual landings since they can pretty much be made any shape you want.

 

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Yeah thank you Dermot.

I didnt think of the winders. I imported the ops picture andI was just trying it using stacked landings.

here are the images.

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