Date: 7/23/2008 11:38 am
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Hi all,
first of all thank you for all that we get on your show, what a great product this is. Wow! -
I have a question for Mike possibly : I watched the episode on stairs and got a lot from it but I would like to know if there is anyway to do this: when I design a set of stairs for a client I find myself restricted by some parameters due to position of doors or ceiling height and also here in the UK we are restricted to 42 degrees max for private houses and 38 degrees for public buildings.
Any ways to restrict or adjust this on or while drawing the plan??? also for info: 220 mm. max for risers and 220 mm. minimum for the steps ( goings) themselves for the safety regulations to be respected. Hope you can help on this. it could be part of a Podcast perhaps...
Keep up the good work
Pierre
Date: 7/23/2008 9:58 pm
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Pierre,
Thank you for the compliments about our site. Glad to hear that you find it to be a useful resource.
to answer your question about the slope of your stairs, i can't think of a way to 'restrict' the slope of the rise/run per se. another one of our videos - Episode #6: Follow-Me Tool Roof, explains a bit about the Protractor Tool. I think you'd probably find it to be most useful if you were to use the Protractor Tool to create angled reference guides for the 42 Degree and 35 Degree maxims.
Then, while modeling the stairs you'll have a visual reference if/when you've exceeded the max allowable slope.
in SKP it is also not really possible to 'restrict' the height / depth of the individual stairs. you would just have to have those in mind as you were working.
-mike