Stair Stringer

[david_peterson]

I hoping that I can find it, but I haven't seen it yet.
I'm looking for that toggle for stairs that allows you to start on level 2 and finish on level 1, like you can in ADT. Here's the thing. I do a lot of platform for production facilities. I know the top of platform, and I don't care where exactly the stair ends. I know that sometimes, I may need a landing, and I don't care where the landing usually goes. So if some one can point me to the "draw stairs down" toggle that would be great.
Thanks
(oh I'm using RS 2 so maybe it's just a toggle that's not available there)

[david_peterson]

Here's a question about stairs.
How do you go about creating a mitered stair stringer (typ HSS12x2) for your landing?
Also, is it just me, or should you be able to draw stairs (with the stair tool) starting at the level you are on, and working your way down. To me it just makes more sense. I hate to say it, but you can do it in ADT.

[sbrown]

there is a little blue arrow if you highlight the stair that changes it.

[david_peterson]

When I did that, I lost my railing. Thanks for combining my posts, but I still have the question of mitered joints on stair stringers.

[Steve_Stafford]

I've merged your cross posts, a moderator should know better :wink:

You can draw a stair from a level down, up...part way...whatever you want, you just need to tell Revit what you want. Before you finish your sketch, click Stair Properties and define the bottom, top constraints and any necessary offset.

The RUN tool is the quick and simple way to layout a stair and using the RISE and BOUNDARY tools is the slower and more deliberate way. Even if you draw the stair the wrong way, just use the little flip arrow Scott mentions, select the stair first to see it.

We can't specify a profile for stringers yet but we can make the basic stringer shape match the overall proportions. When you say miter where are you referring to, the connections between landing and stringer or where the stringer touches down at a floor? Either case is possible, all hiding there in the properties of the object and how you sketch the stair. Mitering like in the attached image perhaps?

RS has a tutorial for stairs if you didn't know already. Help menu > Choose Tutorials > Working with Architectural Building Components

The attached pdf is available at Autodesk Revit's knowledge base.