Discover how to approach an issue that arises when a floor opening for stairs is missing in an architectural design with this informative resource. Learn how to modify your floor boundary and use tools to adjust your sketch and create the necessary opening.
Key Insights
- The article outlines the process of modifying a floor boundary in an architectural design when a floor opening for stairs is missing, a common issue in architectural modeling.
- Using tools such as the lines tool and the trim tool, you can adjust the sketch of your design to create the necessary opening for the stairs.
- Warnings may appear during the process; specifically, the guide advises against attaching because it could disrupt other elements of the design, like a curtain wall. It's essential to pay attention to such warnings to avoid potential errors.
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Now that we've added the stairs, if we go to level two, we can see how they look, and I see a big issue there. Well, the problem is we don't have a floor opening for these stairs, so what we need to do is we need to modify our floor boundary, and since we've created the floor with this edge right here, we can easily go in, select that point, we can say edit boundary, and then we can edit the floor boundary to go around the stair, and so what I'll do now is I'll adjust my sketch using the lines tool here, and I'll just go along the center of the wall above, and then I'll draw a line that goes vertically at the nose of the stair, and then using our trim tool, I can go in and I can trim to create the opening around my stair here, so I'll do the same thing on the north side, and in case you're wondering could I have used the mirror pick axis tool, I absolutely could have, and so I'll just go through and trim to create the opening here as well, and then I want to adjust my floor opening at this location to match what we had talked about doing before, so it'll come all the way to this edge right here, and so now that I've got everything set, I can finish the sketch, and remember these warnings here, we want to not attach, because that is not good, it will mess up this curtain wall if we had it attached there, so now we have our stair in place, we've got our floor opening ready to go, and we're ready to jump into refining our plan with some families and components.
