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Adding stairs

Adding stairs

- [Instructor] In this video, we're going to begin looking at the stair tool and add some basic stairs to our model. So the first thing I want to do is here on the Architecture tab, I'm going to click on the stair tool. And what I'm going to do initially is accept all of the defaults, come over here outside the building out in front, and click a point. And then I want you to start moving your mouse, and you can go any direction you like. And what I want you to pay attention to is that little message down at the bottom that says 18 risers are created, zero are remaining, and as long as yours says zero are remaining, I want you to click your second point to create that run of stairs. Then go ahead and click Finish, and you're going to see something appear. You might need to zoom in to see it a little better, but there is a stair complete with one, two railings. And if we go to our default 3D view and zoom in, not too bad for two clicks of the mouse. Okay, so what I'd like to do now is…

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