topic Re: Pick host with sketch railing goes to bottom of stairs not current floor! in Revit Architecture Forum

Pick host with sketch railing goes to bottom of stairs not current floor!

gnarkill283 — Thu, 23 May 2019 16:46:34 GMT

I have a continuous stair on multiple floors which I need to add railings to. When I pick railing>place on stair, the railings can not be modified whatsoever without receiving this error:

Really cool Revit! So then I figured out I can sketch the railing and then pick a host, but when I try to add the 2nd floors railings while sketching on the 2nd floor, the railings appear at the bottom of the stairs on the first floor. Am I really going to have to break up all these stairs by floors? Please say no

Re: Pick host with sketch railing goes to bottom of stairs not current floor!

barthbradley — Thu, 23 May 2019 17:45:24 GMT

Is it a Multi-Story Stair?

...honestly, the error message tells the whole story -- as well as offers a solution. Have you tried separates?

Re: Pick host with sketch railing goes to bottom of stairs not current floor!

ToanDN — Thu, 23 May 2019 17:54:53 GMT

@gnarkill283 wrote:

I have a continuous stair on multiple floors which I need to add railings to. When I pick railing>place on stair, the railings can not be modified whatsoever without receiving this error:

Really cool Revit! So then I figured out I can sketch the railing and then pick a host, but when I try to add the 2nd floors railings while sketching on the 2nd floor, the railings appear at the bottom of the stairs on the first floor. Am I really going to have to break up all these stairs by floors? Please say no

2018 or older:

- Don't use sketch railing then pick host

- Draw one railing by place in stair, copyclip

- Edit sketch and get rid half of it (figuratively speaking), the remaining sketch should be a continuous string, accept

- Paste aligned in place, edit the second railing sketch and get rid of the other half (again, figuratively speaking), accept

- now you have separate railings on a single multi-level stairs (not to be confused with multi-story stairs)

2019 and newer:

Use Split tool to split the railing, then delete the segments you don't want

Re: Pick host with sketch railing goes to bottom of stairs not current floor!

gnarkill283 — Thu, 23 May 2019 18:25:56 GMT

Did you read my entire post? I said I tried sketching them separately but they always fall to the bottom of the stairs

Re: Pick host with sketch railing goes to bottom of stairs not current floor!

gnarkill283 — Thu, 23 May 2019 18:29:59 GMT

I actually have to use sketch railing because I need 2 different kinds of railing on either side. So my question is when I use sketch and pick the stair as host on the 2nd floor how can I keep the railing on the second floor? If that's not possible and there are no other solutions, I will just break up the stairs by floor - just want to know for sure that's what I have to do before doing it.

Re: Pick host with sketch railing goes to bottom of stairs not current floor!

gnarkill283 — Thu, 23 May 2019 18:32:06 GMT

Or I'll try to split out one side of railing - do another railing by stair and split its other side out - lets see if that works

Re: Pick host with sketch railing goes to bottom of stairs not current floor!

ToanDN — Thu, 23 May 2019 18:34:19 GMT

@gnarkill283 wrote:

Or I'll try to split out one side of railing - do another railing by stair and split its other side out - lets see if that works

It works. After split you can change them to different railing types.

Re: Pick host with sketch railing goes to bottom of stairs not current floor!

gnarkill283 — Thu, 23 May 2019 19:14:49 GMT

YOU DA MAN TOANDN! Thank you!

Re: Pick host with sketch railing goes to bottom of stairs not current floor!

ToanDN — Thu, 23 May 2019 18:49:35 GMT

I normally create them myself. What are specific styles do you need? Can you show a photo?

Re: Pick host with sketch railing goes to bottom of stairs not current floor!

barthbradley — Thu, 23 May 2019 18:51:12 GMT

@gnarkill283 wrote:
Did you read my entire post? I said I tried sketching them separately but they always fall to the bottom of the stairs

Yes I did; a few times. And, it is still unclear to me what you are doing. The workflow that you described is correct, but obviously something is missing from your description because you are getting an error. So, asking questions is where troubleshooting begins. I notice you didn't answer my first question.

Re: Pick host with sketch railing goes to bottom of stairs not current floor!

barthbradley — Thu, 23 May 2019 19:15:44 GMT

So, by the look of it, segmenting the railing sketch worked. So,I guess my original question was spot on.

FWIW: Autodesk Revit Rail Samples available here:

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/revit-products/getting-started/caas/CloudHelp/cloudhelp/2019/ENU/Revit-GetStarted/files/GUID-899499DB-C96A-4C66-8500-0CC4E3FD62B1-htm.html

Re: Pick host with sketch railing goes to bottom of stairs not current floor!

gnarkill283 — Thu, 23 May 2019 19:40:24 GMT

I just need a standard egress stair single pipe handrail that attaches to the wall - thought I had found it so I edited my response but it doesn't work

Re: Pick host with sketch railing goes to bottom of stairs not current floor!

gnarkill283 — Thu, 23 May 2019 19:57:14 GMT

Nvm I modified one to work - would be nice though to have a solid wall mounted fire stair handrail

Re: Pick host with sketch railing goes to bottom of stairs not current floor!

barthbradley — Thu, 23 May 2019 20:02:33 GMT

..so, this one doesn't work for you?