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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
