To Lengthen a Flight to Align a Tread Edge With a Winder Turn Center

Use this procedure to lengthen a flight to align a Single Point winder style tread edge with a winder turn center.

The winders within the turn zone are set to an angle converging on the Turn Center grip.

1. Select a 1/2 turn or 1/4 turn stair to activate grips.
2. If the Winder Style is balanced, select the circular Edit Turns trigger grip. The Select Winder Style dialog box is displayed.
   Note: Only the winder styles present in the drawing are displayed.
   

   Select Winder Style dialog box

3. Select a Single Point style from the list, and click OK.
   Note: To select the style from the Properties palette, click the Design tab, expand Basic, expand General, and select Single Point for Winder Style.
4. Select the Edit Turns trigger grip.

   Note the initial flight length of the existing stairs.

5. Select the Lengthen Flight to Align Tread grip.

   The flight is lengthened as the tread edge is now aligned with the turn center.

   

   Lengthening a Flight to Align a Tread Edge with Turn Center

   Note: To have the converging point on the edge of the stair, you must clear the Use Riser Lines setting.
6. When you have finished editing the flight length, you can click the Exit Edit Turns grip to return to the default stair edit mode, or right-click and click Deselect All to turn off grips.