topic Re: Railing down to floor in Revit Architecture Forum

Railing down to floor

Anonymous — Tue, 30 Jan 2018 13:11:04 GMT

Hello everyone,

Just a quick introduction before my post. My name is Gerben Meijer, Live in the netherlands, and am working with revit for about 3 years.

I've been working in simple projects mostly.

Today i had to start on a bit of a difficult railing. See attached image. I want to have a solid railing (cast in place) on a round stairs. But the railing has tot go to the floor. Is there an easy way for this?

I read a lot of threads, but could not find the right one. Some help would be appriciated.

Gerben.

Re: Railing down to floor

Sahay_R — Tue, 30 Jan 2018 13:48:23 GMT

Select the Railing. Go into Edit Type. In Baluster Placement, remove all balusters. Tab-Select the handrail edit it to edit the profile, edit the profile to go down to the stair, accept.

Re: Railing down to floor

Anonymous — Tue, 30 Jan 2018 14:56:57 GMT

Hello Rina,

Thank you for your reply. Unfortunatly, that is already what i did. The problemis, that if i make my profile longer, that it sticks out under the floor.

Re: Railing down to floor

ToanDN — Tue, 30 Jan 2018 15:13:17 GMT

Create a wall by face or an in place wall with a sweep blend.

Re: Railing down to floor

pavilionconsult — Tue, 30 Jan 2018 16:57:04 GMT

Hi Gerben,

I'm not sure if you can use Revit railing to achieve your design intent. I suggest you use Massing (In-place) then wall face the massing. To do this, follow the steps below:

1) Go to plan view, click on massing in place mass

2) Pick the outline of the railing

3) Go to 3D view- select the line and create solid form

5) Click on the corner of the form created and drag up to meet the end of the railing

6) Finish massing

7) Create wall by face and select/modify wall type that matches the railing thickness and material

8) Click on the face of the mass and that gives what you wanted.

NB: Create the straight return rails separately from the round one following the same above steps.

I hope this solves the problem. Let me know if it does and should you have any questions, do let me know.

Regards,

Abdulquadri

Re: Railing down to floor

Anonymous — Wed, 31 Jan 2018 06:57:20 GMT

Thanks for your help Abdulquadri!

This wil work out fine. Is there a big difference with model in place, or creating a mass? advantages / disadvantages?

Greetings, Gerben

Re: Railing down to floor

pavilionconsult — Wed, 31 Jan 2018 13:48:19 GMT

Hello Gerben

I am glad the answer was of help in achieving your design intent.

The main difference is that model in place is a subset of creating a mass. Creating a mass bascially have two options which are - Model in Place and Place mass.

Model in Place - Create a form from your sketches

Place mass - Load a family mass of a particular form into a project ( just like loading a component into Revit)

The advantage of model in place is that - it's flexible to create any particular form and geometry. And its disadvantage is that it's not easily transferable to another project.

Place a mass advantage solves the dissadvantage of model in place. It's easily transferable/loaded intpto any project but it's disadvantage is that the form are rigid and it's only editable in family.

I hope this answers your question?

Regards,

Abdulquadri