Stairs Tool (WIP)
Parametric stairs design tool for yachts
Designing stairs is one of the major building blocks while designing the layout / general arrangement plan of a yacht. They are absolutely fundamental for setting up the flow and movement through the decks. However drawing them manually is quite time consuming and frustrating. Therefore I have been working on an automatic stairs generator with different modules. It is still in progress, but the final tool will have straight stairs, L shaped stairs, U shaped stairs, and a custom stairs generator, outputting both 2D and 3D.
Client
Services
Computational Design
Industries
Yachting
Date
2025
The straight stairs generator also have multiple modules. The automatic straight stairs solver which works just with deck height, and then calculates the treads and rises automatically based on Blondel's Law and the company standards of Damen Yachting. L type stairs gets the tread and rise calculations (automatic or manual) and gets the number of steps before or after the turn as input - then calculates the rest automatically. The turn can be sharp, chamfered or with a radius. Custom walkline generator generates a walkline that is highly modifiable with several variables.
