topic Re: Cleaning Up Rail Hosted On Stairs in Revit Architecture Forum

Cleaning Up Rail Hosted On Stairs

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:04:49 GMT

Hi guys,

So I've been trying to model correctly a specific set of stairs, this has required me to make my own Baluster family and railings profile etc. As I've never worked with the railings tool properly before the results are very messy and was hoping people could help me clean it up a bit.

Secondly: Some of the corner Balusters are not in the desired places. As you can see in this image the red boxes indicate where I would like the balusters to be, not where they have automatically been placed by Revit.So number one: There are issues in that the balusters are sometimes doubling up on the corners. I'm unsure how to correct/remove this as I have already experimented with the "Edit Joins" tool used when editing the rail path.Third: The regular balusters do not angle off correctly with the top rail. Instead they just go into the model.Fourth: I'm not sure if this is the end of start of the top rail, but it isn't finishing where the baluster starts. Instead it just travels right through and is incorrectly visible.Fifth: I am needing to delete most of the railing for the first floor landing, however, when I delete everything that is necessary the railing seems to change host/is no longer hosted by the stairs stringer.

Any help on these would be greatly appreciated, thank you

Re: Cleaning Up Rail Hosted On Stairs

Anonymous — Thu, 31 Oct 2019 10:14:39 GMT

bump

Re: Cleaning Up Rail Hosted On Stairs

JJWGallagher — Thu, 31 Oct 2019 14:42:37 GMT

We did a heritage building a few years ago with similar stair railings that spanned three floors, in the end we just modeled it in place. We couldn't get it to do what we wanted to either, and were sick trying.

Re: Cleaning Up Rail Hosted On Stairs

Anonymous — Thu, 31 Oct 2019 17:04:15 GMT

ah really! I'm also getting sick of wasting time on it haha. I may have to go down the same route as my patience is wearing thin.

Re: Cleaning Up Rail Hosted On Stairs

ToanDN — Fri, 01 Nov 2019 00:20:15 GMT

For this kind of railing, you need to model a railing for each run so that you can control where the posts lay. Then create a copy if the railing type with no posts and use it to fill in the gaps.