From the course: Revit 2021: Essential Training for Structure (Metric)

Creating stairs - Revit Structure Tutorial

From the course: Revit 2021: Essential Training for Structure (Metric)

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Creating stairs

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- Normally we see the architect adding the stairs, but a lot of times they're a structural item. What I want to do is add a multi-story staircase. We're going to first add a staircase to the first floor to the second floor then from the second floor all the way up to the fifth floor. To get started let's go into revit. Let's go to open. Browse to where you're keeping your exercise files and I'm going to open structural 39. The first thing we need to do though is copy and paste our floor slab up to the rest of the floors. So go to a 3D view. Let's do a couple things in this view. Type VG for visibility graphics. For model categories, I want to scroll down to structural reinforcing. Let's turn off structural area reinforcing. Let's turn off structural rebar. It kind of gets in the way. Click on apply. Go to analytical model categories. Click all. Let's turn off all of our analytical surfaces. Click apply. Click okay. Let's set our detail level to find. Let's set our visual style to hidden line. Zoom in on your floor. Once you hover over it you'll see right here you can select it. Notice that it's cut nicely out of the elevator shaft. On the clip board panel, click copy to clipboard. The paste icon becomes active. So click the pull down menu underneath the paste icon and select align to selected levels. Let's go up to level three, four, and five. Click okay. There we go. Now let's go down to structural plan level two. Zoom to the front portico area. Go to the architecture pad and click stair. Let's look at some choices. For the location line I'd like to pick run left. For the offset, let's type in negative 178. For the run width, let's go 1219. Perfect, now in the properties base level is going to be level one. The top level is going to be level two. But the problem is we had to offset our concrete slab 178 millimeters to compensate for our top of steel. Top offset wants to be 178. And we click apply. Let's try on the stairs. What I want to do is click on this intersection right here. And when we move our stairs out, notice that revit will count how many edits we have created and how many we have remaining. Don't want to pull it out 2,000 millimeters or until it says nine created, eight remaining. So we're going to pick this point right here. Move your cursor up in alignment with the end point of the run we just put in 'til we hit this column line. Pick this column line and bring it back into this slat. Notice I'm going well in excess of where we really need to pick. Just make sure it says eight rises created, zero remaining. And pick this point. Hit escape a couple times. We're done. Click on finish edit mode. And revit has a problem with the railing, but that's okay. We'll make the architect take care of that. Close out of this. Hit escape a couple times. Now notice we got an ankle breaker here. So we need to physically move our stairs into the face of the slate. Select your staircase. Click the move button. Click this point here. And move it straight in til we hit the face of that slat. Hit escape a couple times. Go to a 3D view. And it looks like we need to turn the stairs on. Perfect, we know how to do that. Type VG. Scroll down to stairs, turn them on. Click apply. Click okay. Here we have our stairs sitting on the slab. Let's make sure we're sitting on the slab up here. That distance to there is the same as that distance to there. And we're good to go. Let's go back to level two. We need to now put a staircase going up to the next levels. Select the stairs. Pull down your control key and select the railings that are on it. Click on your little temporary hide, isolate button. Let's select hide element. It's going to be out of our way. It gets confusing. We're going to do the same exact thing here. So go to stair. The base level is level two. The top level is level three. That's what we want. But the problem is now our base offset and our top offset have to both be 178. This compensates for the offset in our slab. Perfect, let's model it in. Zoom into here. Hit this same intersection. Nine created, eight remaining, 2,000 millimeters. Pick there. Come straight up. Pick that. Come straight in to our building. Hit escape a few times. Click finish. Revit doesn't like the rail problem, but that's okay. Select your stairs. Click move. And move it into the face. Perfect. Now for temporary hide isolate, I want to set this as permanent, so click temporary hide isolate and let's apply hide isolate to view. Perfect. Now I'm going to cut a section through the stair here so click on the section button, pick a point here. Pick a point here. I'm going to grab this little grip and drag it. Hit escape a few times. Let's open this section up by double clicking on it. Now we want this stair to be continuous going up, up, up. So select the stair here. Click select levels right here. Hit your control key. Select level four, level five. Click finish. Hit escape a couple times. Go to a 3D view. And there you go. Good job. That's how you add stairs.

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