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Stair Edit

Anonymous
Not applicable
Think I found a bug in 12 stair dialog.
Created stair and saved it.
All ok so far.
Then when I select the stair and go back to edit stair, and roll
over the edit stair button, the little pop up says "create stair"(wrong).
If I go ahead and click the edit stair button, it wants me to save the
stair again, even though I had just done that.
Then of course it tells me a stair is already using that name
and if I want to over write it, which of course I go ahead and do
even though I should not have to.
Only then will it let me edit my stair.
Bunk, to say the least.
Anyone else see this behavior?
Bier

Bad Edit Stair behavior.png
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Karl Ottenstein
Moderator
It's possible that you're seeing this because you've loaded the stair from a (read-only) PLA? What happens if when you open the PLA you allow the library parts to be unpacked into a folder?

Karl
One of the forum moderators
AC 27 USA and earlier   •   macOS Ventura 13.6.6, MacBook Pro M2 Max 12CPU/30GPU cores, 32GB
Anonymous
Not applicable
Thanks for the tip Karl
I'll check that out.
Bier
Wokka
Contributor
I had this problem a bit as well. The only solution that's worked so far is closing down and restarting ArchiCad. It needs a little nudge.....
Warwick Lloyd-Martin
3 D E N V I R O N M E N T
http://www.3de.com.au
Windows 11 Pro 64bit
ArchiCad 4.55>27 AUS
Lumion 12.5/2023
D5 Render
Anonymous
Not applicable
I have had the same problem. Mine happened when I copied a previous stair, renamed it, opened it and made a few changes etc. then when I went to open it back up again it didn't give me the option to edit the stair just create a stair. I will have to try the restart next time.
Djordje
Ace
I had this problem with the stairs coming from previous ArchiCAD versions. Sometimes, it was not even recognized as a stair, just an object, after editing in 12.

Duly reported, will see ...
Djordje



ArchiCAD since 4.55 ... 1995
HP Omen
TMA_80
Enthusiast
Hi !

i'm having this problem as well, any solution ?
AC12_20 |Win10_64bit|
Anonymous
Not applicable
hmm...I have seen this behavior ...and noticed that it happens mainly when I copy the stair from a level to another one, try placing it again. mostly it works.
TMA_80
Enthusiast
and noticed that it happens mainly when I copy the stair from a level to another one, try placing it again
thanks for the answers, it is probably the case...

i hope that GS will give us a hotfix for this annoying bug ;

... and by the way i've noticed that stairmaker takes more time to create the stair then in the previous versions of Archicad
AC12_20 |Win10_64bit|
TMA_80
Enthusiast
ok ...i think that i've found a workaround :

instead of opening the selected stair option , i open the object through the file menu and then, it will force the stair editing...

hoping for a fix...
AC12_20 |Win10_64bit|
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