Question about a tricky elevation detail from a job in Denver last month

I was working on a set of shop drawings for a custom metal stair in Denver last month, and the architect's detail called for a 1/4 inch reveal at every tread-to-stringer connection. My usual method of just offsetting the line in the CAD file left a weird gap at the winders that the fabricator flagged. I ended up having to model each tread as a separate solid and do a boolean subtraction to get it right, which took me almost three extra hours. Has anyone else run into a similar problem with complex stair details and found a cleaner way to handle it in your drafting software?

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kim_nelson7d ago

That Denver detail sounds rough. I just offset the stringer line and hand-drew the corrections at the winders, took maybe 20 minutes.

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lee7336d agoMost Upvoted

Used to think you had to calculate every winder. Seeing @kim_nelson just offset and sketch it out changed my whole process. Way faster.

gray_schmidt85d ago

Offsetting the stringer is the only way to go.