Extend Stair Stringer?

[PhilvK]

I have a short stair that needs to have the stringers extend horizontally to a landing. I created a component stair in Revit and added a short section of “beam” (yellow) to get from the stair to the landing, see 1st image. I would really like to have the stringer be continuous as I have shown in the 2nd image, which is an Autocad section. Is there a way to do this is Revit using the stair functions, or does this need to be a special mass model?

[Keith_Wilkinson]

Have you tried just adding a short landing onto the flight?  I looks like it should give you what you want.

[PhilvK]

Yes, I 've looked at creating another run so that a landing is created, then delete the extra run, but then I run into editing issues. Do you know of an easier way to just extend a short section of landing?

[Keith_Wilkinson · Accepted solution]

You can just create the landing manually. I'll be honest sometimes I find this tool a little flakey too but in this instance it should work okay.

Short screencast here  : Manual Stair Landing

HTH

K.

[PhilvK]

Thank you. Your screencast helped. I’m getting closer, see below. For some reason, the side at #1 worked great, but at #2, the channel is higher / offset. I’ll continue to work with it, and thank you again.

[Keith_Wilkinson]

That's odd - can you post a file at all?

[PhilvK]

Absolutely. Thank you for looking at this.

[Keith_Wilkinson · Accepted solution]

Okay, it's just the sketch for your landing that's slightly out of line.  

Edit the stair, select the landing and edit the sketch.  Zoom in on the right hand side and use the align tool to align the edge of the landing to the edge of the stair - that should sort you out.

K.

[PhilvK]

Perfect! That did it.

[Keith_Wilkinson]

Excellent.

(good thread for me - 2 kudos and 2 solutions!!  😉 )

[PhilvK]

Well worth it!

[ARSBAM]

Hey there, I have the same problem with my own stairs. Maybe you could help me to solve the problem?. I tried the same way as you told but without results. 

[PhilvK]

@ARSBAM - I pulled up one of the old stair practice files I was working on when I posed this question. Back then all I had to do was to get the stringer into sketch mode and extend and/or add to it to get the stringers to extend correctly. I'm using Revit 2024 now and am having trouble converting stringers to sketch. I'll update when I figure it out.