Learn how to use the architecture tab to create a stair sketch in a building design, including adjusting stair width, riser numbers, and positioning. This in-depth description guides you through creating accurate designs and making necessary adjustments to ensure functional and aesthetic success.
Key Insights
- The article provides a detailed walk-through of using the architecture tab to start a stair command, adjusting the width and the number of risers to create an accurate design.
- The author emphasizes the importance of correctly positioning the stair, including maintaining space for a clear landing and ensuring symmetry on both sides of the building. The stair element can be copied and adjusted as needed.
- Additional features such as stair path symbols can be used for annotation, and walls can be drawn around the staircase for accuracy. The article guides through setting the right settings for the walls and ensuring they align with the design plan.
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For the stair, what we're going to do is I'm going to go to the architecture tab and start the stair command just like we have in our previous lessons. And we're going to set the width to, this one's going to be a little wider than what we've been doing, but we're going to go with four foot six. And then you can see our desired number is going to be at 24 with our actual height at seven, which is going to be fine here.
And so we'll go ahead and we'll draw that in. And so I'm going to do 12 risers. So you can see, I've got that 18 risers created.
So I want to dial that back until I get to 12. And then I'll just move this over to create the other portion of my stair, like you see here. And at this point, I'm going to go ahead and finish the sketch.
And I know that I have a relationship between this point and this point. And then what I could do is I can move this stair over to where we only have a few inches in between the two. So I'll go ahead and finish the stair sketch.
And then I'm just going to grab the whole thing like that. And then I'll move it from this endpoint to this endpoint right here. Clearly, this is not the stair that we're looking for.
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And that's fine. But what we can do is we can draw a reference plane, say here, and then I can move it over or copy it over, whichever one, four inches, because that's the space that I want between here. And then I can select this stair now, use the edit stairs option.
And then I can move it from the edge of the stringer to the edge of the stringer here. And that gives me the stair that we're looking for, for this project. So I'll finish the sketch.
And now we've got all the space we need in front for a door. We can make sure we have a clear landing here. And that'll make it easy for us to draw in the stair on the other side.
And so I can take the stair element here, and we can copy it over to the other side of the building, knowing that we're going to have seven inches from the face of the stair to the curtain wall. And we want to maintain that relationship on both sides. And so what I could do is I could just use my copy tool and copy it over.
And you see how I went just straight across like that. Now that it's hitting the edge right here, I can move it. So make sure when I select it again, I've got the whole stair.
And now I've got it set up. And so if you look here, the upside is on the exterior door side. And here it's on the outer facing portion.
If I wanted to switch that, you see this arrow right here? That'll toggle the stair back and forth. And so I can pick which is going to be the up portion and which will be the down. And if you're having a hard time telling which one that is, you can always go to the annotate tab.
And then you can go to stair path symbol here. And then we can add that this automatic up down direction to this stair, and it'll drop one in for you. The last thing we have to do here is draw the walls around it.
And so we know where this one wants to go, and then we just have to trace it around on all the other ones. And so if I were to draw walls again, set to finish face interior, I can start from this end point and then work my way around. And then what I'll do is I'll just kind of hit a arbitrary point here, bring it across to the curtain wall, and then I know it's aligned to the face of the column here.
And so I can line that up, and that gives me the stairwell for both sides of the building. I'm going to move this one over and then just make sure that I've got the right settings for all three of these walls here. Set to level two, so I want to change that to roof so it pokes up through level two because it's going to be a continuous wall.
And now I've got the core elements drawn in exactly the way we want them for our project.
