Stairs and railings!

[Eric Wing]

Hi all! I will be presenting custom stairs and railings at AU this year. If anyone has any examples or really cool designs they have created I'd love it if you shared them up! I'll give you credit, I promise :)

[JamesVan]

Hate to do this to such a busy guy, but if you're going to talk stairs and rails, you need to seek out Phil Read first.

[Eric Wing]

Hate to do this to such a busy guy, but if you're going to talk stairs and rails, you need to seek out Phil Read first.
Well, I was kinda looking for items in general that people may have done...not really methods.

Phil Read? where do I look?

Hey Phil, how's it going?

[aaronrumple]

The basics: What Revit doesn't but should do.

Very basic rail cleanup that has to be done to all commercial stairs:

Add 1' extension separate line from tread to end of handrail at top of run for correct ADA rail extension.
Move the endpoint (move or dimension edit doesn't work) of the rail line 1 tread past the bottom of the stair. This gives the correct slope down past the last riser. And add 1' extra segment to the end this for the ADA horizontal extension.

How to use a floor slab edge at the top of a stair to get the correct nosing and plan representation.
How to make a rail return from one run of stair to the next with a short segment added to the end and start of the rail. (for minimal linework cleanup).

[Eric Wing]

The basics: What Revit doesn't but should do.

Very basic rail cleanup that has to be done to all commercial stairs:

Add 1' extension separate line from tread to end of handrail at top of run for correct ADA rail extension.
Move the endpoint (move or dimension edit doesn't work) of the rail line 1 tread past the bottom of the stair. This gives the correct slope down past the last riser. And add 1' extra segment to the end this for the ADA horizontal extension.

How to use a floor slab edge at the top of a stair to get the correct nosing and plan representation.
How to make a rail return from one run of stair to the next with a short segment added to the end and start of the rail. (for minimal linework cleanup).
Ahh yes. Railing joins. They give you the button! it is a dissapointing little button isn't it? I have spent hours upon hours picking at the ends of stairs. And I do agree about the rest. (Maybe this is why I'm the only who submitted a class on custom railings and stairs).

Thanks Aaron!

[aaronrumple]

Ahh yes. Railing joins. They give you the button! it is a dissapointing little button isn't it? I have spent hours upon hours picking at the ends of stairs. And I do agree about the rest. (Maybe this is why I'm the only who submitted a class on custom railings and stairs).

Thanks Aaron!
? None of those require the railing join tool. Yet no one can figure out how to do them...

[Eric Wing]

? None of those require the railing join tool. Yet no one can figure out how to do them...
I suppose I was looking at the "very basic railing cleanup" part.