Summary: Existing stairs currently display as all solid, gray lines; completely overridden by the phase display override. It is a long-established standard that stairs above the cutting plane should display dashed.

Description: Stairs have always been drawn as dashed above the cut line. This is a long-standing industry standard. Existing stairs in Revit do not offer this as an option. It really shouldn't be hard to do this, and I am disappointed that this is one of the several graphics issues that Revit cannot handle without excessive and unwieldy work-arounds. The architectural industry has standards for a reason, and we should be able to at least control this.

Currently the suggested fix is to draw two separate stairs on different phases going to and from different elevations to approximate the true existing stair and then overriding the higher stair (on a New Work phase) to display as dashed. This is ridiculously complicated and should be unnecessary.

Product and Feature: Revit Architecture - Stairs

Submitted By: Shelby Urbanek on 05/30/2014