Glass railing for stairs?

[sapien.nyc]

Hi! I am quite frustrated with this. All the glass railings and all the tutorials I could find do not work well for stairs. Does anyone have a good glass railing family like this, sitting on double stringers, with handrail and adjustable height? I would really appreciate it!

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[lucdoucet_msdl]

@sapien.nyc 

I understand your frustration as revit stair and railing families are complexe beasts. This said, making your own will be helpfull when you have to model more complex conditions than a strait run or a swithback stair.

This Autodesk university course from 2017 is still an excellent resources for learning how to create panel filled guard rails whether they have post supports or not:

https://www.autodesk.com/autodesk-university/class/Designing-Custom-Railing-Panels-Revit-2017

Note: the course doesn't have a ready made family for download though.

Hope this helps,

-luc

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@sapien.nyc wrote:

Hi! I am quite frustrated with this. All the glass railings and all the tutorials I could find do not work well for stairs. Does anyone have a good glass railing family like this, sitting on double stringers, with handrail and adjustable height? I would really appreciate it!

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The best advice is to - give up. No, really.

I.e. give up on trying to create it as a functioning railing family. It can be done, I used to do it, but you'll waste ridiculous amount of time, and you'll have to create new type for every single railing length, because you'll have to manually calculate distances between posts, panels wont work as you want them, and you'll come to hate the world.

Instead create a railing type which has just the posts and railing.

Crate glass panel as a wall, and edit its profile to follow the stairs.

If there's a part of Revit that needs to be updated from 1998, it's stairs and railings.

[Mike.FORM]

Do not make the glass as a panel but instead use the top rail element and create a tall and thin profile applied and set to glass to create the glazing.

Then the handrail can be set under handrail.