How to make Y-shaped stairs?

[patricks]

Searched through the "insanely great stairs" AU material and didn't see anything like this as an example. Seems like I saw it once in the Revit tutorials but haven't been able to find it.

I'm trying to model an existing monumental stair. It's Y-shaped, in that it has 2 identical lower flights going up to a single landing, then a single flight from the landing up to the 2nd floor.

I know I could use a floor as a landing and 3 separate stairs, but I'd like to keep it as one stair so that the dotted lines above cut line will show on my first floor plan. If I try to draw the stair by sketching boundaries and risers, I get the normal errors about stairs can only have one chain of riser lines or whatever it is, plus I get extra risers when I try to draw the other set of lower steps.

Any ideas?

[tomnewsom]

Do it as two seperate objects. Left and upper flight in one. Right flight in the other. This should keep the upper flight dotted in your plan.

[patricks]

I suppose that will work okay. Only problem is that I don't have the tread nosing at the edge of the landing where the 2nd lower flight comes up. Oh well.

[tomnewsom]

Hmmm, yeah that is awkward. Can you include 1/2 the landing in each flight? So the landing is the top stair? This only works if you don't have any stringers, of course, or they'd show up in the split.

[patricks]

It's a monolithic stair, so I could do that, but then I'd have to go around hiding the separation lines everywhere.