Message: The stairs do not reach the floor above.

[caneisha]

Hi, 

 

I have this staircase that has a landing that sits outside. So I drew the room and then used a room divider to create to seperate spaces but when I draw my stairs I get this message "The stairs do not reach the floor above." Do I need to make the space it's on floor? Has anyone done anything like this? Thank you for your help! 

[DBCooper]

All that message means is that the program couldn't make the automatic heights work.  Either it did not find the right start or end height, or it is not long enough so that the risers will be too high.  You can always turn off the automatic heights and manually set the start and end height to whatever you want them to be.

 

Stairs need to find a floor platform or landing at both ends in order to make the automatic heights work.  If you are using a landing, the stair needs to butt up to the side of the landing for it work.  If you are using floor platforms, then the stair would normally butt up against the platform edge at the top but it can sit on top of it at the bottom.

 

It's hard to tell what the stair is finding just from your pictures.  Since it is embedded in the floor platform, it probably isn't going to work like that.  You might want to post your plan so someone can poke around in it.

 

Also, this tech article might help:

https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-00587/creating-a-split-level-entry-or-foyer-with-a-landing.html