Building U-shaped stairs

[jayson]

I'm using Home Designer Pro 2022 on Mac - still new to the software, doing my best to build out a house for the first time.

 

I'm trying to build a U-shaped staircase, as shown in the screenshot. I'm drawing over a JPG of an existing floorplan. 

A photo of what the stairs look like in our house is attached.

 

What I've done so far:

1. Created the second level so the stairs have somewhere to go

2. Build > Stairs > Draw Stairs

3. Drew the first stairs up, and the second stairs up

4. Resized the stairs to fill the stairwell area

5. Tried to add the landing

6. Got lost

 

What's the proper procedure for making stairs like we have in the photo? I've read through the user manual, but can't seem to find how to make these type of stairs. 

Thank you!

[jayson]

11 minutes ago, solver said:

 

 

You can help everyone by adding that info to your signature (see below for how to turn them on) by clicking on your user name at the top right of the page, click Account Settings, then Signature on the left.

 

Doing so makes it always available, and keeps others from having to hunt for it.

 

And, turn on signature display too.

 

 

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Many questions have been asked and answered. The Home Designer website is a good place to start your search.

 

Here is a video about searching the forum: https://youtu.be/dDT6wbrrVRM

 

 

Resources for self help:

 

The built in Help System (always a good place to start)

 

Getting Started

 

Knowledge Base

 

YouTube

 

Home Designer - Getting Started - Setting Preferences and Defaults

 

 

Thanks Eric, I did search the forums as much as I could before asking my question. 

 

By "got lost," I mean that I tried to add a landing, and could not figure out how to do it. I'm new to Home Designer Pro, and was hoping someone could tell me how to build these stairs, as I'm not able to find the answer to my question in the forum or the user guide.

 

 

[DavidJPotter]

Watch this video please: https://www.homedesignersoftware.com/videos/watch/2246/stairs.html

 

DJP

[jayson]

36 minutes ago, DavidJPotter said:

Watch this video please: https://www.homedesignersoftware.com/videos/watch/2246/stairs.html

 

DJP

 

Thanks!

[Jo_Ann]

A word of advice:

Snapping stairs to a landing can be very frustrating.

Keep at it until you get the hang of it.

 

Landings have to be perfectly sized (side to side) to get the stairs to snap to them.

[Rookie65]

If you're using HD Pro 2022, under stairs, they have U shaped stairs already available. The default is 39" width. You can adjust width and the number of treads for each section to get the layout you want. Good luck

[DavidJPotter]

On 5/8/2022 at 4:12 PM, Jo_Ann said:

A word of advice:

Snapping stairs to a landing can be very frustrating.

Keep at it until you get the hang of it.

 

Landings have to be perfectly sized (side to side) to get the stairs to snap to them.

Sharight the above is the best advice there is for this tool.

 

DJP