Yes, Dorin's version 2 is what would be legal. The square must be clear at the top and bottom of each flight. Obviously the gaps in the railings would need to be filled.

Version 1 is unnecessarily large.

<t>Cool! One quirk of British building regulations: A landing area must at minimum be a square, each side equal to the width of the stair. i.e. the middle landing of your Y shaped stair would be illegal. To make it legal you'd need to overlay the 3 squares in the smallest space, if that makes sense ...

Ignore the SPAMMER

<t>Something humorous that I notice in both the above screenshot and Gaudi's video is that the honking big beam appears to be supporting the above wall using a cushion of air. [:))] I'm guessing this is one of those bugs Tofeee is talking about, because it's not there when viewing the file in SH3D ...

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You're using a distro packaged version of SweetHome3D, yes?<br/>
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Packagers like to remove redundant executables and libraries. In this case you appear to be using the systems Java runtime instead of the one bundled with ...

emmascott63 is SPAMMER! Do not click the link.

Nimbus? [:-&] Rather you than me, mate!

Yes, I'm curious to see what is meant by the "new 3D graphics engine".

Come on parlar, give us a peak behind the curtain... [:D]

Hmmm. Had it happen again just now. Deleting all the cookies for the sweethome3d.com domain fixed it for me. Try that if it happens again in the future.

<t>@dorin flatlaf is a Java look and feel that is nicer than for example the default metal look and feel. Just google "flatlaf" and switch to images and you'll see the effect. My system uses a gtk look and feel, so it already looks okay-ish for me anyway.<br/>
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I find the other stuff more ...

<t>Well, if you have done that, you should create a proper GPL fork completely rebranded away from SweetHome3D because (as far as I can see) Space Mushrooms have no interest in further developing the Open Source freely available version of SH3D. The only activity is versions they can monetize that ...