Gyp Bd under stairs

[crarchitect]

Hello Revit Community,

Can someone please tell me where I saw the tutorial on adding gyp. bd. to the underside of a stair? I know I saw this somewhere, but I can't for the life of me find the info.

I need to add 1 or more layers of drywall to the underside of an accessible stair for fire safety reasons. Not too sure of the right way to do this. Do I need to create a flat gyp. bd. profile for a "railing" sweep ?? Any help is greatly appreaciated.

Thanks,

[Paul P.]

Assuming that you stair is a constant angle you could you not use the ceiling tool to create this.

HTH.

Regards, Paul.

[christo4robin]

A railing object is one option - define a profile thatt matches the width of your stair. Use that profile to define the "rail" of your railing object. Set all balusters/posts to "none". Draw the railing, use set host and pick the stair, then adjust your railing up and down as necessary to get it in the right spot.

[crarchitect]

Hey thanks Paul.

Sloping ceilings! What will they think of next? I need to spend less time doing plain old project work and more time scouring the help file for cool features. I still think there was a "adding ceilings under stairs" tutorial- has anyone seen this?

New methods bring new challenges: are there any experts who know why my slope arrow properties "height offset at tail" values do not match the actual height offset required? I need to fudge the slope arrow values to match actual conditions.

EX: The ceiling starts at Level 2 -6 3/4" and goes up to Level 2 +4'- 1 5/8" but I have to fool around with the slope arrow pretties numbers to get the ceiling aligned with these locations? Head offset must be = -7 1/2" while Tail = +4' - 6 15/16" to get it looking right...

Anyhow, thanks all the help everyone. AUGI is three for three over the last few days; a Very good resource for How-To info.

[christo4robin]

Note - railing is the only way to pull this off on curved stairs.

[crarchitect]

Good input on the railing "profile". problem for this stair is that it has a landing, and thus a non uniform stringer height, and it expands width slightly at the bottom. I figure those two variables might interfere with the tricky gyp.bd. as profile trick.

Great input though. Thank you.

P.S. Chris, Go GATORS!! I saw Studio HT written up in the last Alumni propaganda. Looks like a fun outfit you have there in CO. Drop me a line if you are ever in S.F. We can commiserate about the closing of the Purple Porpoise... Of course I was a Salty Dog man myself. Barch 1995.

Small World, getting smaller.

[dhurtubise]

Here's one, from Chris Price (Mr Spot)
There is also one on Steve Staffor's blog ( http://revitoped.blogspot.com/)

[Paul P.]

Chris, another option instead of using slope arrows is to define a slope, select the appropriate sketch line and use the define slope check box on the options bar. You can specify the angle as you can with a roof and in the ceiling properties you can control its offset from the level in which you draw it.

Regards, Paul.