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                                                                                          Creating StairS    663


                        Figure 15.57
                        Final geometry
                        before nesting
                        into baluster
                        family
































                 Figure 15.58
                 Completed stair
                 and details













                             Figure 15.59 shows the finished stair. Yes, there’s a lot more to the stair than this: the
                           platform, elevator, landing, and so on. At the end of the day, there’s nothing to keep you from
                           modeling the entire stair in the Family Editor and then placing it in the project as a generic
                           model. In some cases, this is exactly the kind of modeling control that complex and sculptural
                           stairs need. Are they stairs? No, they’re probably more like inhabitable sculpture. And trying
                           to design sculpture in a spreadsheet is harder than just modeling what you want in the Family











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