View Full Version : STAIR RAILINGS ARE SO DIFFICULT!
watson.145302
2007-10-17, 04:14 PM
I have a 10 story building and I'm working my way up through trying to get my railings to meet correctly at the landing and it's very hard. It requires tiny little railings and i feel like I'm making a mess. Does anyone have good solid advice for constructing fire stair railing?
Scott Womack
2007-10-17, 04:38 PM
I'm not sure this is "solid" advice, you can keep each railing as one for each u-shaped portion of stair. You can always "split" the railing line while in edit mode, and tell the system which pieces are flat. It's still a pain, but does work better. We gave up trying to get exact railings from our model, and will use some 2D components in the CD Section view.;)
dhurtubise
2007-10-17, 05:16 PM
Have you tried adding a custom baluster at the end of the railing ?
watson.145302
2007-10-17, 06:00 PM
I'm not sure what you mean by a custom balluster. I've added pieces of the railing that are seperate from the stair railing just so it will connect but it's the same railing type. I just find the constructability of railings to be very challenging...my team is getting frustrated w/ these stairs taking so much time.
Don't forget, if all of your floor levels are the same ht. you can select the stair Properties and check the "Multistory" feature.
watson.145302
2007-10-17, 06:37 PM
we do have some multistory stairs and some that only run one flight because of different floor to floor heights...I generally get the idea with the railings...it's in the unusual instances that I get tripped up on.
dysart
2007-10-17, 07:23 PM
Stairs are tough to work with.
Generally I will utilize the "Multistory Top Level" Constraint option for all mid level equal floor to floor height stairs. I then create my top and bottom versions as needed.
For custom stringers, I use a "rail" set at an appropriate height.
One tip is that for multistory rails, keep the sketch for the rails slightly appart at their joining, 1 inch should do it. Otherwise, they won't stack...
Anyway it's certainly not easy and I know there are many wishlists out there hoping for a better ways.
Attached is an example.
dfriesen
2007-10-17, 08:44 PM
Attached is an example.
Thank you for posting that - I think I've got much to learn from this example.
How do you deal with that 1" gap? Just throw in some masking regions and be done with it?
dysart
2007-10-17, 09:19 PM
How do you deal with that 1" gap?
I just leave it, although that's less than ideal. I just tried to join my sketch lines and found that the upper rails actually behaved with a warning, but when I tried to line up my stringers (actually they are rails) I get undesired results. See attached pfd. Try it your self...
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