Stair Stringer Extension

[roothcad]

We typically extend steel stringers past the bottom tread to the point where truncating yeilds a 4" vertical edge. This is done to match adjacent 4" high baseboard. I understand that the sketch lines can be extended BUT can it be done with this precision?

Is this beyond the capabilites of Revit?

Cheers

Rooth

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

Try placing  a vertical reference plane in a section or plan exactly where the end of the stringer should stop.

Then in sketch mode, extend the sketch line to the reference plane.

Can you post an image or perhaps a portion of the revit file so we can take a look?

( I'm not actually trying this in Revit at the moment--but it's worth a try.)

cheers

[roothcad]

A touch onerous but yes, it did the trick.

Thanks so much for the tip!

Rooth

[AdamHamilton]

Hate to dig up an old post but after trying this a bunch i found out that after the advent of stair by component in 2013+ this solution is only relevant to Stair by Sketch. The component based stair Support cannot extend passed the Tread. Even if you convert a component to a sketch, and though you can strech the Boundry line past the Tread, once you approve the sketch it will still stop at the face of tread. For this solution to still be valid you MUST start from Stair by Sketch

[PhilvK]

Thank you Adam. Your last sentence is what I was experiencing but was looking for confirmation: "For this solution to still be valid you MUST start from Stair by Sketch".

[emodderman]

This solution does not work anymore. 

[Anonymous]

I concur-- the fix described above doesn't seem to work anymore in 2020-- please let me know if there is still a way to extend the stringers past the bottom riser (to a 4" height)!