Stringers on Winder Stairs are not at the same angle

[Catherine_Roberts7ZMR5]

1_Top view2_Front view3_Front right view4_Right view5_Back view6_Back left handrail view

Hello everyone, I hope you can help me. I have created a winder staircase using the "stairs" command (not by sketching). It goes from the second floor to the ground floor. It looks weird because the two stringers are at different angles relative to the ground floor. The railings don't look aligned either, at the top of the stair. I've included some screen shots:

1_Top view - a view of the winder stairs.

2_Front view - as you can see at the red lines, the stringers are not in alignment. Also, the top of the upper stringers are not at the same height.

3_Front Right view - is this normal? (see the area in the red circle)

4_Right view - the vertical portion at the end of the stringers (on the ground floor) are not the same height.

5_Back view - just another view where the stringers are not in alignment.

And one more, unrelated:

6_Back Left Handrail view - the handrails are not aligned at the joints.

I've had one semester of Revit, and I'm trying to learn how to make stairs on my own. I'm using Revit 2022 on a Windows 10 machine.

Any help you can give me would be much appreciated!

Catherine

[ToanDN · Accepted solution]

It is a winder stair so one side is shorter than the other, so the stringers cannot be the same angle when you look at the stair on an elevation.  

[Simon_Weel · Accepted solution]

If you want both parts of the stairs to have similar stringers, you need to use a landing halfway the stairs. That also means you have to add treads as well, making the stairs bigger.

Anyway, stairs in Revit are most of the times not what you want. For a straight stairs, it's ok. But as soon as you start using angled (don't know the right English word) treads, things get messy, especially the stringers, as you point out. It's the way it is - don't waste time figuring out how to get it right - you won't. If you need a correct stairs, the only way is creating it as a generic model.

[handjonathan]

Hi @Catherine_Roberts7ZMR5 

Thanks a lot for posting your question to the forums!   Have the solutions suggested by @Simon_Weel @ToanDN helped with your issue?
 
We look forward to hearing back from you with more information so we can help you as a community! 

[Catherine_Roberts7ZMR5]

Thanks, I decided to make a U-shaped staircase with a landing between the two runs. It works fine!