Stairs
Plan3D allows you to draw most kinds of
stairs in your plans.
Contents
Draw Stairs
Changing Stairs Properties
Stair Materials
Putting Stairs in Plans
Stairs with Landings
Draw Stairs
Choose Build> Draw Stairs
and draw shape on the current grid level.
Where you click down with the mouse is the bottom of the stairs. Where
you let up is the top.
When drawing stairs you work in two different modes:
Wireframe
Mode: When you draw stairs you'll see a rectangle with handles
and a wireframe showing area and height. Drag handles to resize.
Realistic Mode: Click
gray rectangle to see stairs in Realistic Mode. Click again to see other
handles for manipulating.
Changing Stairs Properties
You can change the type of stairs in several ways by right-clicking
it and choosing "Properties" from the pop-up menu.
Stair Materials
Drag and drop carpet, tile, wood and other materials to
the stairs as needed. You can apply different materials to the step, step
edge, riser and supports. See Materials
and Textures for more information.
Putting Stairs in Plans
Tips for using stairs effectively.
Stairs snap to closest floor
level when raising height handle.
Stairs draw on the current
Work Grid level.
See Build> Draw
Stairs for detailed information.
Use Build> Cut
Hole to cut floor holes for stairs.
Stairs with Landings
Landings are used to fit stairs into restricted spaces,
L- shaped stairs
for example, for aesthetic purposes and to meeting zoning requirements
like keeping a stair span to no more than 12 feet.
Stairs with landing are created using the following steps:
Draw a floor the size of
the landing.
Raise landing up to proper
height and position.
Use pageUp or pageDown to
set Grid to floor level where lower stairs go.
Draw lower stair span up
to the landing.
Drag the stairs blue handles
to set the width.
Click stairs to set to realistic
mode - so you can see how they look.
Line stairs up with the landing
in overhead mode or blueprint mode.
Raise or lower top corner
handle so height of stairs matches landing.
Press pageUp to move grid
to landing level.
Draw upper span of stairs
from landing up to next level in L or other shapes.
Examples of Stairs with Landings:
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