Please help with custom stair railing

[starrdesigns]

Hello - I am having problems with a custom baluster family.  I have attached the Revit family file, and a Revit project with stairs and custom railings. The custom railing contains a family for the baluster that is a simple extrusion.  The railing will have (1) standard 1 1/2" rail, and several cable rails. I have put in one of the cable raisl, and the top standard rail, but when I try to position the rails the baluster breaks and goes away. You can see in the family file where the rails are supposed to be from an imported CAD file. 

What is also weird is that the baluster family extrusion itself comes in a slightly different shape than it was in the famly, and its shape warps even farther when I make changes to the rail locations.  Not sure why that is happening - is it not okay to build the custom baluster with an extrusion? I don't know how else I would do this custom shape.

Any help would certainly be appreciated!

starrdesigns

[dzanta · Accepted solution]

I looked at your custom railing for your project.  Here is what I found out:

1.  LW3 railing system family is not exactly like LW2 system family...where it differs is in image attachment 1

2.  I changed those settings to match LW2 to see if it would correct the railing usage on the stair and it stopped the warning shown in image attachment 2

3.  I could not figure out why the lower circular railings are showing up incorrectly in the LW3 when used on the stairs (angled)...LW3 works fine when drawn on the slab (horizontal)...as shown in image attachment 3

4.  I used LW2 on the opposite side of the stairs to test it's integrity and the LW2 railing works fine even at an angle...as shown in image attachment 4

5.  Instead of spending crazy time on trying to figure out why LW3 isn't working....make a copy of LW2 and make minor design adjustments to what you want....Not sure what the difference is between LW3 and LW2 other than railing spacing.

6.  See FIXED Revit file attachment

[dzanta]

attachment 4 and FIXED Revit file

[starrdesigns]

Thanks so much!  I have tweaked it a bit to get the inside handrail positioned correctly - attached is the latest.  The "LW-2, LW_3" were just my different attempts at the railing.  It works now for my straight run stairs  - looks like I need to tweak it a bit more for my circular stairs. 

Thanks again,    

starrdesigns