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Chief Architect X10 Reference Manual

of the stair sections against walls. This • Uncheck Open Underneath to add a
baseboard follows the slope of the stair. skirt below the staircase along the two
• Check Single Stringer to form a single 5- sides. It looks like a wall in 3D, but only
inch (125 mm) thick stringer in the center has a single face. Base molding does not
of the staircase. Checking Single generate along the bottom of the skirt,
Stringer automatically checks Open Ris- and doors cannot be placed in it. In most
ers and unchecks Stringer at Wall and cases, the recommended way to enclose
Closed Stringer. the area beneath stairs is to use walls. See
“Rooms Below Staircases” on page 752.
• Check Closed Stringer to raise the tops
of the exposed stringers to cover the sides • Check Open Risers to eliminate the riser
of the treads. If this is checked, no central face under each tread and expose the
stringer is applied to open riser stairs. stringers. If Closed Sides is also selected,
This setting only affects those stringers no central stringer is supplied.
that are not against a wall. Specify the attributes of the staircase’s
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• Check Large Stringer Base to widen the carpet Runner. A runner is added to all
stringers at the foot of the staircase. This sections connected by unlocked landings.
is helpful when walls are created below Only available when Open Risers is
the stairs. unchecked, above.
• Specify the Runner Width. The default
value of 0 does not create a runner.
• Uncheck Runner Tucked to have the
runner drop straight down from the tread
front to the riser below. This is checked
by default.

Large Stringer Base shown at right Winder - Define the Max Tread
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Contraction, which is the amount a
• Extend Stringer Top is checked by tread’s width may be reduced when it meets a
default and extends a triangular portion wall. See “Partial Railings” on page 748.
of the stringer under the landing or plat- This option only takes effect when the stairs
form at the top of the stairs.
are specified as Winders on the GENERAL
2 The Open Options control whether the panel.
selected stairs have open risers or an Specify the characteristics of the
open underside. They are not available when 5 staircase Treads. See “Anatomy of a
Single Stringer is checked, above.
Staircase” on page 728.
• Specify the Side Inset of the skirt below • Specify the Tread Overhang, which is
the staircase. The default value of 0 the distance that each tread overhangs the
aligns the skirt with the outside of the riser.
surface of the stringers. Only available
when Open Underneath is unchecked. • Specify the Tread Thickness.

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