STAIRS

[hauzstudios]

Hello,

I'm having trouble with the stairs for a design I'm trying to achieve. I'm working with a U-shaped stair design. For the lower section of the stairs I dont need rails on the right side adjacent to the wall but for section 2 of the stairs I do need the rails. I have tried multiple ways but it produces rails on both section of the stairs not just the second section going upwards. Also the railing at the top, cant do it either. Screenshot of Chief and the design I'm trying to achieve. Please help! Thanks so much!
Using Chief Premier X17

Thank you!

Carla

[GeneDavis]

The stair tool will draw you a U-stairs with one click.  You'll then manually edit the landing by dragging from one edge to make it half size as in your photo, manually adding one adjacent (polyline > make landing) and editing however you need to get what you want.

 

That's a well-built staircase in your pic.  It's not easy in Chief to get all those details, but keep at it.  

 

I use the stair tool first to draw a simple straight stair, one that reaches the next floor, then fiddle with the treads, locking tread depth at 10", and fiddling with number of risers to achieve a riser height between 7.25 and 7.5 inches.  Armed then with numbers for tread count and riser height, I have what I need to edit my U-stairs when I go to do the editing after one-click placing them.  Openings and walls all come last.

 

Come back to this thread after you have it all solved and show us your result.

[Michael_Gia]

17 hours ago, hauzstudios said:

I dont need rails on the right side adjacent to the wall but for section 2 of the stairs I do need the rails

 

Shitf+Select the stair you need to change.  If you just click the staircase without SHIFT then you will be editing both sections at the same time.

 

Also lookup drawing in the railings independently of the staircase because it is useful in certain cases.

[GeneDavis]

Here is Steve from his Chief Skills channel showing a U-stairs build.