ADA compliant railing styles!

[psmith.73426]

Why is it that Autodesk can program that can do just about everything other than a simple wall mounted pipe rail that is 1 1/2" dia. and has a 1 1/2" clearance to the wall that it is mounted to. For crying out loud, could it be any simpler? While I am on my rant, how about better documentation of "How to edit an existing railing styles profile".

[Scott Davis]

So should I add this to the list of Families we would like to have?

[psmith.73426]

Absolutely! Something as simple as this should not give the programmers too much heartburn to refine.

Thanks.

[Scott Davis]

"How to edit an existing railing styles profile".

Coming....I saw a Power Point yesterday that might become avaialable.

Did you see the Handrail extensions that are availabe in the Web Library? There is a 1 1/2" dia, 1 1/2" offset from the wall pipe handrail component.....

There is also on the Web Library, a "railing Sample" file and a "Stair Sample" file from which you can cut and paste stairs/handrail types into your project and use. Attached is an example of a stair with a wall mounted pipe handrail.

[psmith.73426]

Thanks for the reply Scott,
However, how can I use Revit information in ADT '06?
It would be nice to have the ability to eidt railing styles easily in ADT.
Pete

[david_peterson]

I'd like to get the ability to have a bullnose tread as well, but I haven't found the option yet. If ADT can do stairs to code (or at least I thought it was supposed to) it should be able to follow them. They aren't that difficult.

[Scott Davis]

Oh shoot! I'm sorry guys, I didn't realize I was answering in a ADT forum!!!

[H'Angus]

I'd like to get the ability to have a bullnose tread as well, but I haven't found the option yet. If ADT can do stairs to code (or at least I thought it was supposed to) it should be able to follow them. They aren't that difficult.

Hi David do you mean for the first tread to have a bullnose to it? Not sure whether this is what you mean but check out a thread where Steve Bennet answered with this:

Sorry not sure how to link to other threads.....

RE: Stairs

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You mean like what I have in the attached file? It's a simple edge customization projection. Just pick the stair, right click, Edge, Project & project it to a polyline representing your curve.
Attached Files stair example2.dwg (116.2 KB, 5 views)

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[david_peterson]

Nope, I'm talking about the ability to show a true bull nose edge on every tread as you would typically see in any nice wood stair.

I saw Steve's post, I thought that only applied to the first step. But then again, wouldn't a check box be nicer that doing all that modifying? I guess I'd also like to be able to choose the profile for the stringers while I'm at it.

[psmith.73426]

Guys,

This is fun to have you talk about bullnose styles on stairs, however there are stiil no answers to my original question.