Here is yet another problem with Revit Stairs that really needs to be fixed by Autodesk:
The view ‘Detail Level’ display in section is not consistent between walls, floors and stairs (not to mention ramps!):
View Detail Level
When a view is set to Medium or Fine detail level, sections of most categories display the correct materials:
When the View detail level is set to ‘Coarse’, the cut hatching display of some elements is overridden by the Type properties ‘Coarse Scale Fill Pattern’
This capability is available only for certain categories – meaning that the display of stairs is pretty hopeless at Coarse scale
Workarounds
What to do about this? There are several possible ways to resolve this lack in Revit, but none is very good!
Visibility Graphics
You can over-ride the cut pattern of stairs – but this requires several steps (excuse the pun) on top of just changing one View Detail Level setting:
Due to the fiddly nature of changing this in the view (similar settings may need to be…