Revit Stairs Fixing Floor & Rail Gaps PART 1

In this 4 part series we'll look at how to fix a common Revit problem encountered when creating stairs - gaps between the stairs and floors (landings) and between handrail/guardrails.
PART 1 - Initial Stair Creation
PART 2 - Landing/Stair transitions
PART 3 - Extending rails and creating smooth transitions between floors
PART 4 - Making copies to create a scissor stairwell
Time Markers for PART 1:
1:39 Initial setup with Levels and units
2:34 Stair properties
4:55 Nosing

[@mistorflea4783]

This is the exact video I’ve been searching for. Thank you so much. Quick question, I followed your instructions regarding the ‘begin with riser and end with riser boxes’, but it won’t let me make my relative top height 3500mm. I am using revits landings though as my stairs do a 180 degree turn between level. Any advice?

[@johnhewetson4406]

I am not able to change the Relative Top Height to 3000 without getting the dreaded "Extended Below Base" warning. I followed your example to a tee. The only thing I am able do is to go to the elevation view and drag the stair to the right and it comes up to the 1003 elevation. When I do this the Relative Top Height reads 3176.47 (one extra riser). I am running a trial copy of Revit 2021. Do you know if this is a known bug? Seems there is a ton of discussion about this warning. Any guidance or links would be greatly appreciated.

[@johnhewetson4406]

I really like to follow along with your videos as a training exercise. I have a couple of questions. 1.} Your elevations seem to be in Meters but you set the units to mm. 2.) Also your floors seem to skip the 5th floor? Any reason or is this part of a larger project?

[@TRUSS3D]

Thanks John. Glad you're finding the videos helpful. It's quite common for a building to be described in mm and have its geodetic references (as shown in the Level Datums in the videos) described in meters. I suppose this is because it's easier to say a building's main floor is at 1000 meters above sea level instead of 1000000mm above sea level. It's also because the civil engineers and surveyors that supply that data typically work in meters. As for the question about the 5th floor: that's just where I just to end the building in these tutorials. But, as mentioned in Part 3, having established the correct conditions from Level 1 to 3, you could just copy that set of objects up to as many levels as you need. Hope that helps.

[@johnhewetson4406]

@@TRUSS3D Thanks so much for generous and extremely helpful information. Your narrative style and attention to detail makes these super training material. I will be watching all of your material in the next few weeks so thanks in advance. Cheers John

[@johnhewetson4406]

Please ignore my question 1, I found the answer and it was pretty tricky there was a great video (but I can't post it) that shows you how to edit the level head family and then load it into the project. Perhaps other newbies like me can at least use the term "level head family" to find the appropriate answer in autodesk.

[@TRUSS3D]

No problem John. Here's a link for a video that covers that topic ruclips.net/video/pZoBpBZMhLI/видео.html