Modifying U-shaped staircases

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Zoom in a little closer.

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We can see that they're just of a concrete finish.

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And we'd like to add a wood tread on to there.

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We'd also like to make them a bit thicker. So

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with them selected, we'll go to the properties palette and click edit type

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and then we duplicate these to make a new stereotype.

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So we'll click duplicate

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and then we'll name these wood tread mono stare and then we'll click,

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OK to save that new stair type.

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Now,

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we can see we have the calculation rules panel.

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We don't need to make any changes here.

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And in the construction panel, we see we have the run type and landing type

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and these are actually nested families.

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So if I click on the three quarter inch nose in here,

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you see, we get the ellipses button.

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And if I click on this,

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this will open up the type properties of the three quarter its nose in family.

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I move this box across slightly.

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So it becomes more obvious that we're editing a separate family.

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But again, we don't want to edit this one as it may make changes to other stairs.

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So we'll click duplicate to create a new run type

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and we'll name this three quarter inch nose in wood finish.

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We click. OK,

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to save that new type.

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Now,

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looking at tight parameters will change the

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structural depth parameter to six inches.

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And now looking further down at the treads panel,

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we'll check the box to enable the treads.

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You can see they have a thickness of one inch

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and there's already a material applied of wood stains.

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So we don't need to make any more changes. So we'll click. OK?

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And now we can see that three quarter inch nose

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in wood finish is assigned as our run type.

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We'll change the landing type two. So we'll click on the seven inch landing

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and then from the ellipses button that appears,

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we'll click to open up the type properties of this.

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However, we already have the correct 10 inch thickness landing created.

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So from the type list at the top here,

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we'll click on the drop down and pick 10 inch thickness.

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We can see this has a monolithic thickness of 10 inches. So

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we'll click OK to assign this on to our stairs

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and now we'll click, OK. Once more to save our new stereotype.

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Looking in the view here,

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we can see that we have our new stair type with its thicker structure

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and the wooden finish on the treads.

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And that completes making the U shaped stairs