Stair Display in Plan

[castoldistephanie]

Hello, I am having a really hard time displaying my stairs correctly in plan. The stair is generally a stair tower (however I did not create it using the stair tower tool- the stair system is made up of 4 separate flights) and I want it to display so that at each level it shows the stairs starting at that level's landing (I used slabs for landings) and going either up or down. 

For instance, the second level is at 9'6" and the third is 19'. FOr the second floor plan I cut it at 12'6" but it shows the stairs starting at opposite landings. I have attached a floor plan showing this. I want it to show where the stairs go from the second floor, so both circles of the stair paths are at that 2nd floor landing. 

I manually created linework to represent the stairs for my floor plan views, so the second attachment is the ultimate goal that I am trying to achieve with my stair display. 

So, how do I go from the first attached file to making it look like the second attached file without manually creating lines for the stairs?

Thank you!!

PS I have messed around with the stair display for a while, but I do not want to have to alter my stairs/ stair display drastically everytime I produce a floor plan. There has to be a more time efficient way to do this?

[dbroad]

Without seeing your drawing, its just a guess.  Here is a drawing that works like I think you want. ACA 2017.

[castoldistephanie]

Yes exactly! 

[dbroad]

If that solved your problem, be sure to mark it as a solution so others will know.

[castoldistephanie]

So, I have been trying to mess around with it; comparing and contrasting the demo you sent me and my stairs, but I still cannot get it to display correctly. I have attached the dwg I am working with. I have set the display to default just like yours and changed the orientation to match the demo and the same cut plane; I do not know what I am doing wrong. Maybe I am just not understanding stair display?

I really appreciate your help; thank you.

[dbroad]

Places to look to learn from my sample:

1. Display representation (in status line)

2. Properties palette: Click on each stair and look at each stair's properties.

3. Right click on each stair and edit the stair style.  Look at the display representations. Wherever there is a check mark, a style override was created.  It is best to use style overrides rather than to override the built-in style settings.  I drew one stair up and one stair down from the level in question to the intermediate landing.