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I know this has been addressed before, but it's been several years since the last post so I wanted to see if anyone has figured out a viable solution to this, or has it been improved and I'm missing something?

I want the cut height of my stairs to be different that the cut height of my overall view range.  I made a plan region around the stairs with a higher cut height, it does not change the appearance of the stairs.  I made sure my region was much larger than the stairs.  If I change the cut height of the entire view the stairs show as desired (the rest of the drawings is undesirable though).

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This has always worked correctly in the past.  It looks like an un-fixed bug in 2014.

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Thanks for replying WWHub.  

This is different than what you said back in '09:

"Plan regions don't work well with single story stairs..."

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Figured out my solution.  The stair in question is an L-shape.  An L-shape plan region does not work, even it it is larger than the footprint of the stair.  You have to use a rectangular plan region.

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What I said in '09 was correct for back then.  I had just retested on a multistory stair but I must have crossed the stair and that's why it didn't work.  Your plan region has to include the entite stair.  L shape stairs work as do rectangular.

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