A couple of years back I posted on how to create a stair with stepped sides.
I always intended to follow it up with what happens to the handrail, and how to solve it? Well, it is never too late.
Just in case you are wondering how to create the stepped side to the stair run in sketch mode – here is a trick for creating a DIY array in Revit.
When you create a stepped boundary for a stair run, the handrail also becomes stepped, but it is pretty clunky.
Baluster Placement
The first thing to notice is the hideous baluster placement – it is placing one at each change of direction, and one (or more) in the middle of each segment.
To tidy it up:
- we will probably have to create a new railing type (to avoid messing up the straight railing on the other side of the stair
- then edit the railing type properties; and the baluster placement
- Untick the checkbox for ‘Use baluster per tread on stairs’
- Balusters will only be placed at ends of each segment
Alternatively you could try the opposite: keep…