Stairs below level, How do I add a cut line?

Stairs below level, How do I add a cut line?

Jason_S
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Stairs below level, How do I add a cut line?

Jason_S
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I noticed that Revit likes to show the entire stair going down.  This works for me in a lot of cases but I have a project that the second floor is showing the stair all the way down to the first floor, and there is another stair going from the second floor to the third that I really need to see.

 

Plan regions don't seem to allow me to add a break line below the second floor and see the stair from the second to the third floor.

 

I looked high and low for a solution and am stuck.  The floors are on and the view is set to hidden.

 

The attached png shows the up stairs in blue that I would like to see and the Down stairs I would like to cut at the landing.

 

Thanks for all the help in advance.

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bryceUT3KU
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Ditto. It is shameful that something this basic was not integrally picked up in a release years ago.

This is a instance where technical "progress" is probably not genuine progress. There are so many patchwork mishaps in Revit that, taken together, inevitably frustrate an architect's ability to transcend the medium each day. 

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kahumbert
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I know this is from years ago. Hopefully you still get notifications! How in the world do you get the "stair as seen from level 2" to show the stairs going down with the cut line and dashed linework below? I couldn't find any way to replicate this on another view even though it had all the same settings as what you had from what I could tell...

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Mike.FORM
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make a plan on level 1 and turn off everything except stairs and then override the elements projection lines shown below. Then you can place that view on the same sheet aligned with your level 2 plan.

MikeFORM_0-1749058810744.png

 

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kahumbert
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There it is. That worked. Thank you!

 

The bigger need is one that I don't think can be done, but I'm not sure why Autodesk can't make it happen. I have a switchback stair connecting several levels of a tower and it would be nice if you could just set a plan area at that stair tower, assign a top and bottom cut plane and have it natrually cut the stairs where you set cut planes. It handle's the top cut plane just fine, but that bottom cut plane never works.