New Grass hardware now available: Dynapro, Vionaro, Nova Pro Scala, Kinvaro and more

Grass is synonymous with beautifully designed yet functional movement systems. We are delighted to have extended the range of Grass hardware available in our cabinet software PolyBoard, pre-configured and ready to use. Let’s take a

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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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How to cut steps and stair risers on winding stairs

Unlike most other woodworking projects, stair building (other than simple straight stairs), often requires cutting and machining weird shaped parts. This can make simple tasks awkward and when they have to be…

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Amateur builds a curved central cut string

M. Paul-Hervé Paquet has just sent me these photos to show the curved stair he has just build using the laminated layers  technique that I explained in my Building a curved central…

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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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How to calculate stringers outside the stair well

Zoran from Belgium has asked how to draw the strings outside the stair well. To draw  the strings outside the well  click on “String board param” in the StairWell Param tool box:…

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Stair blueprints, templates and videos

Using a stair template The quickest way of designing a stair is to just take an existing stair design and edit it to fit your project. You can see examples of stair…

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Using AutoCad with a stair design calculator

Stair caculator software and AutoCAD StairDesigner can calculate and build and draw stairs very fast and efficiently but as with all parametric software whether it is stair software or not, it doesn’t…

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Spiral Staircase and Landing Design

Here we are going to explore spiral stairs design using the StairDesigner software solution. I wrote this article to answer a question from a subscriber to our mailing list who asks if…

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Stair software to modify stair plans

As with all architectural projects, very common annoyances in professional stair building are modifications. This post contains 2 short videos showing how to modify a simple straight flight of stairs to make…

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StairDesigner – the free stair builder app

Is free stair CAD software any good? Is the demo version of StairDesigner a useful free stair builder app? What can you really do with the free demo version of StairDesigner? You…

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