Chief Architect Bring Stairs Through Second Floor

Use the different stair tools to create stair cases in a variety of shapes.

Chief architect bring stairs through second floor.

When creating your second and additional floors you will want to set the defaults for that floor s structure. Use the hole in floor platform tool to cut an opening in the floor platform. The contents of the reference plan cannot be edited. On any floor of the plan other than the top floor select build stairs draw stairs from the menu then click and drag a length of stairs in floor plan view.

Using the project browser the project browser is a convenient way to access all of the views that are present in a plan or layout file. However they can be used to position walls stairs and other items in the plan. In order to create a stairwell it is important that the plan have at least two floors. In chief architect x10 and prior program versions this was called reference floors.

The link below will bring you to a youtube video of our quick start webinar. Open a chief architect plan in which you would like to create a stairwell. How to align stairs across floors using copy paste hold position and the floor reference display from the floor below or above. Hello karen thank you for the message.

Reference display this option displays a floor as a reference superimposed over the current floor plan.