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

[gnarkill283]

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

[barthbradley]

Is it a Multi-Story Stair?  

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

[ToanDN]

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@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

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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

[gnarkill283]

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

[gnarkill283]

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.

[gnarkill283]

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

[ToanDN · Accepted solution]

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@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

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

[gnarkill283]

YOU DA MAN TOANDN! Thank you!

[ToanDN]

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

[barthbradley]

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@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

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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.  

[barthbradley]

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/...

[gnarkill283]

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

[gnarkill283]

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

[barthbradley]

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