Revit Stairs and Railings

[rjcrowther]

We are currently enjoying an ATP on roofs and the next major bug bear for me is stairs and railings. Is there anyone who has the knowledge and time to give this the full treatment - preferably something that goes beyond the shipped tutorials.

Thanks,
Rob

[RevitRockstar]

I thought you may want to know I’m presenting on Revit Stairs and Railings during this week’s “Rockstar Hour”

Learning Objective
Learn how Revit creates Stairs, both the basic and the advanced concepts. See how Revit Creates Railings and uses Rail Baluster Families. Not for the faint of heart, this one is going to be intense.


The “Rockstar Hour” is a free hour of Revit training. Every week I come up with an hour long presentation on some issue or concept I’ve helped one of my clients with. I’ll show my screen and present the good, bad and ugly side of the problem. Including the concepts behind the tools, the process using the tools and key terminology.

The Web-base training is archived for you to at your convenience until the following weeks webinar is posted.

Join the meeting here.
https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/353233504
Rockstar Hour:
9:30 AM – 10:30 AM PST every Wednesday
Hope to see you there,

Will Harris
www.will2play.com

[revitmaster]

Revit stairs need a lot of work, I DEMAND more control and there needs to be a better interface.

Revit railings are by far the most overlooked part of the program and in my opinion should be stripped out and redesigned/ reprogrammed. The current program is so restrictive I have had to come up with many work around solutions for just a simple landing at floor level. For typical egress/ back of house stairs the best advice and solution I have found so far is to forget there are balusters (start/corner/end) and just show the railing. Draw the balusters /posts in section only, this will save so much time..... Trust me.

I want complete control of each baluster x,y & z, the start/corner/end concept is just the biggest pile I have ever tried to use. I want complete control of each railing end to shorten or extend.

If this problem is not solved soon, I will start modeling stairs as a generic model and use solids to get the effect I require.

If anyone out there would like to discuss this issue in more detail please let me know and I will schedule time for a phone discussion.

[Ken.Leary]

Revit stairs need a lot of work, I DEMAND more control and there needs to be a better interface.

Revit railings are by far the most overlooked part of the program and in my opinion should be stripped out and redesigned/ reprogrammed. The current program is so restrictive I have had to come up with many work around solutions for just a simple landing at floor level. For typical egress/ back of house stairs the best advice and solution I have found so far is to forget there are balusters (start/corner/end) and just show the railing. Draw the balusters /posts in section only, this will save so much time..... Trust me.

I want complete control of each baluster x,y & z, the start/corner/end concept is just the biggest pile I have ever tried to use. I want complete control of each railing end to shorten or extend.

If this problem is not solved soon, I will start modeling stairs as a generic model and use solids to get the effect I require.

If anyone out there would like to discuss this issue in more detail please let me know and I will schedule time for a phone discussion.

This is not the right place for this post as it will not be served well here, this is a forum for requesting ATP courses and not for demanding changes to the program.

I would move your post to a better location but I don't believe I have the rights to it move it to one of the Revit forums.

If you are interested in the course I would suggest reading the archived course from October 2007, ATP208 - Revit Architecture Stairs and Railings. It does a good job of covering the subject.