topic Re: Railing at multi switchback stair in Revit Architecture Forum

Railing at multi switchback stair

GREMMELS1 — Fri, 04 Mar 2022 20:24:52 GMT

I have a stair that switches back 3 times so there are 2 runs at different levels on each side of the stair. I am having trouble getting the rail to show up on the second run above the original.

Normally I would place a rail on the entire host and start deleting the sketch lines but that is not working for this stair. When I try and draw a separate rail it is just flat and the slope commands do nothing. When I then try and rehost to the stair it places the rail back down at the original level.

Re: Railing at multi switchback stair

lucdoucet_msdl — Sat, 05 Mar 2022 20:14:42 GMT

@GREMMELS1

As your stair seems to be comprised of 4 equal runs (or more precisely, two simple switchback stairs) you could create an intermediate level at mid height and use a multi-level stair. This way, the third and fourth runs will reproduce the hand-rails and guard-rails you have modelled for the first and second runs.

Hope this helps,

-luc

P.S. You may want to uncheck the intermediate levels "Building Story" instance parameter and adjust the extents so as to limit where the level shows up.

Re: Railing at multi switchback stair

RDAOU — Mon, 07 Mar 2022 10:41:31 GMT

@GREMMELS1

Use the Split tool and delete the portion which is not required (See GIF Below)

Re: Railing at multi switchback stair

GREMMELS1 — Thu, 10 Mar 2022 13:58:50 GMT

Thanks for the tip. Had to us a rail type that had no extensions to split at first and then I could switch it to the desired rail. I also applied this to the continuous rail in the middle. I get extra posts at the landing in the continuous rail but at least it joins where the stair is not continuous at certain landings.

Re: Railing at multi switchback stair

rpuettS2A35 — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 22:58:42 GMT

Holy Crap...I've been using revit for 20 years and never thought to use the split tool on a railing. This is mindblowing!