Middle stringers offset below the side stringers...

[gregcashen]

I can't figure out why all of my stairs with middle stringers show the middle stringers offset below the side stringers...any ideas?

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[aggockel50321]

Do you get the same condition in a 3-d view?

[gregcashen]

yes...and there is no setting for the middle stringers separate from the outside stringers so I see no way to change this...I have removed the middle stringers in the meantime and I will draft them in the elevations... :(

[David Conant]

Please post an image of your star properties settings.

[gregcashen]

Here you go...

It appears as though it is trying to attach the bottom of the risers on the upper run to the top of the risers on the bottom run of this u-shaped stair. But it only does this on the middle stringers and not the sdie stringers. If I have missed something obvious here, please feel free to kick me or laugh out loud.
:)

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[David Conant]

It appears you have found a bug. :cry: Now reported to Development.
I could recreate this condition only after setting all my type properties to match yours and then applying a positive "Base Offset" value in the stair's instance properties. This is designed to move the bottom of the stairs up. In this case, it does that along with the side stringers, but not the bottom of the middle stringers. Using a negative value did not create the problem and moved the base down along with all the stringers. I could fix the condition by returning the Base Offset selection to 0 then going to the plan view, selecting the stairs and then editing their run lines by dragging an end away from its position and then dragging back. After finishing the edit, the stringers appeared correct, and I could change the Base Offest to either positive or negative values without a problem.
If I changed the Base Offset before adding stringers to the stair type, the problem did not occur.
There might be other ways to create the problem. If you have any memory of the steps you took before this condition appeared, please send them to me.

[gregcashen]

David, I already had the base offset set to 0, but re-editting the stair worked. Thanks for the quick fix!

I have fiddled with the stairs so many times I don't know what may have caused this.