Stair Design

Enhancing StairDesigner models with ProgeCad

Here’s the third video in my using Progecad with StairDesigner series. StairDesigner does a very good job of calculating and technically drawing the stair and you get all parts and working documents…

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Free stair design tool and download

Serge is a subscriber to our email list and had no previous experience in stair building. He has built himself a stair using only StairDesigner, our free stair design tool, and resources…

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How to Design Curved Strings and Handrails using StairDesigner and Progecad 3D

Some people have been asking me how to build solid curved parts using StairDesigner. To answer I have made a short video that shows how to use StairDesigner DXF files and a…

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How to build a 3D stair project with StairDesigner and ProgeCAD

This is a short video to show how I use the StairDesigner DXF export functions to use Progecad or Autocad to build a complete 3D project with the rendering tools supplied in…

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Farm house stair building

Following last week’s article on curved strings and handrail here’s a short example of a wreathed string built with laminates, that I’m actually building in the workshop. This stair is being built…

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How to build curved stairs and handrails

People often ask me how I make curved parts for stairs. These parts have such strange shapes that are far from the usual shapes worked by the average wood worker that they…

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Building mezzanines and platforms with StairDesigner

How to use StairDesigner to build a platform and horizontal railing Several people have asked me how to draw platforms and mezzanines with StairDesigner. In reality StairDesigner is not really made to…

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How to make curved stairs with a central cut string

This is an article that is not really about stair software but a visitor on my blog asked about making curved stairs. I have developed several techniques for different types of curved…

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