Stairs

• Adding Flares or Curves to Stairs

  Some of the advanced stair editing tools in Home Designer Pro and Architectural will allow you to create curved and flared stairs.

• Changing the Riser Height of Stairs

  With Home Designer Pro you can customize stairs even further by specifying specific values for the number of treads to affect your riser height.

• Creating a Curved Staircase

  Home Designer's curved stair tools are a quick way to create curved stairs. You can also create custom ones by modifying straight stair segments.

• Creating a Landing Between Two Sets of Stairs

  A landing can be created between two separate stair segments within Chief Architect.

• Creating a Masonry Landing with Stairs and Handrails

  You can utilize the stair tools, deck or porch rooms and geometric shapes to create a variety of specialty stairs, including a solid landing with stairs.

• Creating a Room under a Staircase

  Once you have placed stairs in your plan, you can create a usable room below them can add additional storage space to your area.

• Creating a Split Level Entry

  Combining multiple stair segments at a common landing and modifying floor and ceiling heights in rooms allows you to create a split level entry structure easily.

• Creating a Staircase

  The stair tools in Home Designer allow you to easily create a staircase that can automatically adjust it's height to reach the next floor.

• Creating a Stairwell for your Staircase

  Once you have created your staircase, Home Designer can automatically generate a stairwell for you, opening the floor platform to the next floor.

• Creating a Stone Stair

• Creating a T-Shaped Stairs

  If you need to model a stair system that has three stair segments that all meet at a common landing, Home Designer can easily accomplish this.

• Creating Stair Winders in Home Designer Pro

  With Home Designer Pro you have the ability to create more complex stair systems such as Winder Stairs.

• Creating Staircases Connected by Landings

  When you have a staircase with multiple segments connected by landings, Home Designer can create the needed landings for you with a single click.

• Creating Stairs in Sloping Terrain

  Exterior stairs can be created with many Home Designer products on a sloping terrain using a combination of stairs, retaining walls and landings or rooms.

• Creating Stairs in Sloping Terrain with Home Designer Pro

  Home Designer Pro has advanced polyline conversion tools to allow you to easily add exterior stairs on a sloping terrain.

• Customizing Stair Landings

  Once you have placed a landing for your stairs, the shape of the landing can be edited with curves and breaks to whatever shape you need.

• Drawing Curved Walls Next to and Under Curved Stairs

  After you create a curved staircase, you can use the curved wall tools to create walls that follow the arc of the curved staircase with all Home Designer titles.

• Drawing Stairs Connected to a Deck or Porch

  Drawing stairs that go down from a deck or porch to ground level is automatic with a single click of the Click Stair tool.

• Making Stairs Transparent in Floor Plan

  If you have items below a stair that you would like to be visible in plan view, you can make the stairs transparent in Home Designer Pro.

• Message: Please break or extend this landing edge to match the end of the stair section it is against.

  This Information message will display when a stair section is connected to a landing along an edge that is not the same width as the stairs.

• Moving or Deleting a Stairwell

  An automatically generated stairwell can easily be edited to the size you need or even deleted if you need to modify your staircase.

• Placing a Spiral Staircase and Stairwell

  Curved stairs can be created with the stair tools in Home Designer, but for a true spiral stair you will want to use a symbol from the library catalogs.

• Using Open Below Rooms to Define an Opening to a Lower Floor

  When you need to create a loft area or a grand entry, you can use an Open Below room type on the floor above to remove the floor platform from that area.

• Using the Click Stairs Tool

  When you have two floor platforms of varying heights on the same floor, the Click Stair tool will place a stair that fits the space automatically.