Wondering if anyone knows how to go about drawing a spiral staircase.
Spiral Staircase
#2
Posted 09 September 2015 - 11:31 AM
Above 359 degree sweep, you might have to do it as 2 stairs.
#3
Posted 09 September 2015 - 11:36 AM
Go to DRAW > STAIR > SKETCH > CURVED. Set the HEIGHT, RADIUS (that would be to the outside), and staircase WIDTH to suit. Adjust sweep and angle as necessary.
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#4
Posted 09 September 2015 - 11:36 AM
Draw a curved staircase and edit the sweep to 360 degrees and the radius to the required amount to give you the desired effect. I just tried it myself and seems to work fine.
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#5
Posted 09 September 2015 - 11:36 AM
It's just a curved staircase with a 359deg sweep or whatever you require and make the radius the width of the stair you want plus half the diameter of the post you want up the centre. Now here's a question for someone else. I mocked up these stairs practicing my 3p's and I can't get the spindles to change to white any idea why? Only the top little triangular piece changes to white, I've opften have the opposite happen where I can't get the little trianglular piece to change but the spindle does but you can hardly see it so I've never bothered to trouble shoot. it.
You beat me to it Yvon and Keith and Martin but I'm still going to post this.
#6
Posted 09 September 2015 - 11:36 AM
Wow. Three answers in the space of a few minutes!
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#7
Posted 09 September 2015 - 11:37 AM
Make that 4!
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#8
Posted 09 September 2015 - 11:39 AM
Damn cross posting again ...
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#10
Posted 09 September 2015 - 11:48 AM
Bearing in mind that you have a landing at the top, unless you have really high ceilings, you will probably run out of headroom if you have it too big a sweep. Also under Ontario code, you have to have a minimum 6" tread on the inside, so it gets really wide, and almost impossible to actually use.
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#11
Posted 09 September 2015 - 11:54 AM
Anthony, that colour phenomenon happens regularly to me too - but ONLY on spindles. SURFACE COPY/PASTE doesn't seem to work. As you say the only thing that seems to work is exit and reload.
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#13
Posted 09 September 2015 - 12:03 PM
I'm going to say it hasn't Yvon, although it might be my graphics card i've seen some pretty weird things, just have to remember the first rule of computer troublshooting, restart or reboot.
Back to the spiral staircase Keith and Yvon that have you ever been allowed or tried to get allowance by a municipality to incorporate a spiral staircase if it is a secondary exit?
#15
Posted 09 September 2015 - 12:20 PM
I've had a couple projects where we were going to see if we could get the municipality to allow them (one was a rooftop hot tub that would have been pretty nice) but the projects got canned so we never got to the permit stage and I was wondering what other Ontario designers might have experienced.
#16
Posted 09 September 2015 - 12:32 PM
I ran into that same problem with the spindle color. The solution was to use an alternate stair finish (finish 6 or 7 etc) and apply the new finish to the stair components. It gets rid of the odd color spindle tops.
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#17
Posted 09 September 2015 - 12:35 PM
Any time I've tried a spiral in the past,the municipalities have insisted on the 6" minimum tread, which effectively makes a 30" ish core. which makes a spiral take up too much room.
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#20
Posted 09 September 2015 - 12:55 PM
I think they get away with it with the overlap which varies so from the outside to the inside providing the 6" for the foot but not based on a 1" nosing since it's open. They also play with rubber surface which defines the thread. Don't know that you can actually draw an exact rendition with Softplan because of the various centres.
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