Extend Stair Stringer

[dboggs]

How do you extend a stringer past the stair treads? I am using half walls and I want the half wall to extend past the treads so that I have a wall surface to attach my railings to (see attached). I would also like to figure out how to extend the half wall down to the slab in order to support the stair. The half wall currently follows the stair, but in real life this makes a half wall that is difficult to support by typical carpentry methods.

[dzatto]

How do you extend a stringer past the stair treads? I am using half walls and I want the half wall to extend past the treads so that I have a wall surface to attach my railings to (see attached). I would also like to figure out how to extend the half wall down to the slab in order to support the stair. The half wall currently follows the stair, but in real life this makes a half wall that is difficult to support by typical carpentry methods.
I would make the wall and stair two different components. It seems you have the wall as part of your stair object.

This will also fix the problem of the wall not being able to extend to the slab. Once you separate the wall out of the stari object, just draw a wall normally. You can then create the angle along the stair line by either projecting the wall roofline to a polyline (right click menu on the wall object), or you can go to an elevation view and use the grips to create the angle. Either way will work and both are simple to do.

As for your handrail, it will still be anchored to your stair object, but will "float" until you draw in the wall. Then it will be look correct.

Is this what you were after??

[dboggs]

Thanks for the help. It seems to be relatively simple to create the angle wall to be a stair half wall. The only problem I have now is the cut through the stair. When a wall is angled it does not seem to respond to the cut plain at all. The wall above the cut plan looks the same as the wall below the cut plane. Any Ideas?

I was also able to modify the stringer in my first method with a body modifier. The stair object is designed to accept different body modifiers, and stringer is one of them. It seemed to work well.

[dzatto]

Thanks for the help. It seems to be relatively simple to create the angle wall to be a stair half wall. The only problem I have now is the cut through the stair. When a wall is angled it does not seem to respond to the cut plain at all. The wall above the cut plan looks the same as the wall below the cut plane. Any Ideas?

I was also able to modify the stringer in my first method with a body modifier. The stair object is designed to accept different body modifiers, and stringer is one of them. It seemed to work well.
If I understand you correctly, the wall is extending to the finished floor along the entire length of the wall. That's why it looks the same in the cut plane. As the stairs go up, so does the top of the wall, but the bottom is still at the finished floor. So when the stairs transition from below cut plane to above cut plane, the wall wouldn't. Does that make sense?

The only way to do it would be to angle the wall as well and not have it extend down to the finished floor. You could also use 2 walls butted against each other; but I don't think that's the look you want. I could be wrong though.

Yes, you could make the stringer a body modifier and get it to extend down to the finished floor. I guess I look at it differently. In my eyes, it's a wall, not a stringer. ~shrug~