Are you ready to unleash the full potential of Revit stairs? Stairs often receive a bad rap, but they are full of exciting possibilities! This hands-on lab will take you on a journey through the Revit stair toolset, where you’ll learn to craft realistic, multi-story stair towers with confidence. We’ll leverage the latest Revit features and explore how to create custom stair and railing types that not only meet building codes but also match industry standards and best practices. We’ll consider the entire package as we create the stairs, their railings and seamless landings. The result will be optimized to deliver on what is required for effective construction documents. If you want to raise your stair game to the next level, this is the lab for you!

• Stairs and Railings Lab Handout (PDF - 6.5 MB)
• Stairs and Railings (ZIP - 322 MB)

Perhaps you have heard that stairs and railings in Autodesk Revit 2013 software have gotten some significant new features. It’s true! Stairs and railings sport many new features in this release. In this class, we will focus on a few new areas that should have an immediate positive effect on your stair and railing modeling workflow. Many commercial buildings include overlapping stairs, such as overlapping egress stairs. Using the new component-based stair, we will explore how we can now create an overlapping stair. Revit 2013 gives us ways to achieve such a stair without the common workarounds. With the new railing features, we can create handrails that include parametric railing extensions. Furthermore, handrails can now have true supports and returns (not balusters masquerading as supports). Stairs and railings are likely to remain an active area of development in future Revit releases, but don’t let this stop you from exploring the many exciting possibilities that Revit 2013 presents right now.

• 2013 Handout (PDF - 2.3 MB)
• 2013 Dataset (ZIP - 23 Pages)