Model any Shape of Stair in Revit Tutorial

what's going on guys Balkan architecture and in today's tutorial I'm going to be showing you how to model pretty much any shape of a staircase that you want in Revit and we're going to be using doing this by using the stairs and create sketch tool but before I get started I would just like to ask you to like this tutorial it helps me out a lot and if you haven't already I suggest you subscribe because I make tutorials like this every day and in this tutorial I'm actually I'm just going to be talking about the shape of the stairs so here I've got this weird shape and you can create any type of shape of stairs by using this tool but if you're actually interesting interested in the design of the stair like something like this I suggest you check out my advanced stairs tutorial that I've got up on my patreon it's the tutorial or advanced course for this week so check it out first link in the description and you can get access to the full one hour course ok so let's get started with this weird stair design so here I've got this kind of weird Z shaped stair design and maybe if I remove the relay to look better yeah so this is really not I I wouldn't call it an order ordinary staircase but it can be modeled in Revit and I'm just going to be showing you how to do something like this so let's delete this for the beginning and let's start off from scape from scratch so here I am and level 1 and before we create a staircase by sketch I suggest you first figure out what your staircase is going to look like and not leave that for one and the stair tool so I suggest you go with either with a model line or here on the annotate tab you have detail lines so you can use that as well so for this one I'm just going to use the model line so let me just zoom in a bit and let's create a rectangle that's I don't know something like 300 by 120 so this is going to be that center part of the staircase then maybe let's like the whole thing go co4 copy copy it off to the side maybe make this one it's smaller so maybe it would alright no 120 okay so let's go with something like this and I'm just going to rotate it a bit by something like sixty degrees yeah like that and now let's just move it Emma V is the shortcut for move yeah kind of like that okay so we're going to have one segment over here and one segment over here so first let's add the individual steps so for that again go here into the model line tool I'm just going to use my clients with an offset of 30 centimeters because all the steps are going to be 30 centimeters so just go like this you can use the array tool if it's a bit quicker but it's there is not that many stairs so who cares okay now I'm just going to select this whole element mirror it so just go DM for draw mirror or for drawing an axis and make sure that copy is on for the first mirror so just go mirror like this okay now go draw mirror again or pick access one of those let's go with pic access now so just go with this one and now uncheck this copy so when your mirror to the other side yeah it's now going to leave two of those okay so now let's go with trim and extend and trim and extend this part and trim and extend this part okay now let's maybe fill it to these edges so for that I can go into the model line tool go with the fill at edge let's go with the radius 40 click once click twice there you go do the same thing on the other side yeah now let's go with a radius of 160 okay click once click why is there you go click once click twice there you go okay so once we have these in place now we can delete these two lines there's actually going to be it's actually going to look a bit different and now let's use trim and extend and trim to extend this and do the same thing on the other side now go back to model line and just go with the line like this and make sure that it's at 20 degrees one more over here that's at 40 degrees so we have something that looks like this then you can kind of reduce it yeah kind of like that okay so once we have those let's return these to their original position and do the same thing on the other side so model line or if you hover over it as you can see the shortcut is Li for model line so I can just type in Li and there we go so this one should be if this is at 120 this one should be at 140 I'm talking about this angle over here so 140 like that and one at 160 there we go let's reduce it reduce it here do the same thing on the other side so we're creating that curvature that Z curve like that and there we go now we've got a staircase like this now let's counter the steps so it's 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 oops 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 okay we need a couple of more steps I can I miscalculated so let me go here in the model line and just do a line like this and a line like this so this one is at 30 so that's alright let's dress trim and extend this and do the same thing on the other side but we have to kind of address this distance 2 3 and there we go now we have 23 steps or risers and now the reason why I went with 23 risers is before this I went into this into the stair tool and I just went with the monolithic stair and here I scroll down and here for the dimensions as you can see the desired number of risers for this current level height from level 1 to level 2 as you can see here base level is a little one top level is level 2 so what rabbit offers us as the desired number of risers is 23 so that's why that's why I have 23 risers over here I just checked this before this tutorial so that's how I got that number so what I suggested you maybe first go into the stair tool check that number then escape the stair tool created the sketch go back to the stair tool and now we can start creating our stair it's important to have a sketch it's just going to make it a lot easier and it's easier to play around with the model lines than with these sketch lines within the stair tool ok so now let's get started in turning this ugly sketch into a cool-looking staircase so for that we need to go here for a run and also I suggest you go with the monolithic stair ok the assemble stair can work also the precast there but the monolithic stair is well it's monolithic it's one piece of concrete I think in it fits this shape properly the best in the best way ok so let's go with the monolithic stair and then here instead of going with a run or with this regular straight run or one of those options here we have this create sketch and by using this it's going to allow us to create this cool-looking Z shaped staircase so first we need to create a boundary now boundary is only these outside lines also you can consider the boundary something like the stringers those construction elements on both either side of the staircase so that's the boundary so I'm just going to use the PICC lines tool because we already have these lines so just like this boundary like that and then you do it on this on the other side just make sure you don't select any of the risers accidentally and don't close it like this it's not going to work so you have to have it open at both ends ok the next thing is we need to create risers so you just follow this natural hierarchy so first the boundary then the risers then the start path I think that's the best way to go about it so let's go with risers again in spec lines and here the important part is to follow this text over here so it says 0 risers created 23 remaining so when I click once now it's going to say one riser created 22 remaining so just take a look at that and if in any case when you create a new riser and oops ok and if you click on a riser and here the number doesn't change then that means you have a problem so just for each riser make sure you keep an eye on that number and it needs to rise after every click so if it doesn't change if the number stays the same even though you're creating a new line that means the tribe it isn't recognizing that line as a riser and there's a problem with your staircase that you need to kind of change ok now it says 20 to create a zero remaining debts that's always good to hear and let's go with the stair path now for the stair path in order to create it in an accurate way you need to start off from the bottom and then work your way up so because we have this kind of a weird shape you can either go with arcs or you can just go straight so you just go straight like this and then hit the scape or uncheck the strain then you go here straight up and then you go here straight to the end then you go click escape go into trim and extend address the TR and trim and extend these lines so just go like that now you might want to go with with a Phylis tool but actually you don't really have to and just make sure your that you're here on stair path so here I messed up a bit so let's go back so when you go here and you start any of these again it's going to go first to boundary so make sure you switch to stair path and then you can maybe create a fill out this should be if this is 40 this is 160 this should be somewhere in the half which is like 120 100 let's see what that looks like okay yeah let's go with a hundred again it says boundary let's go with start path and here maybe for radius let's go with 100 okay there we go so we've got our stair path we've got our risers who have got our boundary so all of the elements of the stairs are created so now we only have to hit to finish to finish the stair let finish one more time wait for a second for Revit to calculate everything and now if we go into 3d you can see we've already created our staircase now what you can do is you can select everything go here into a filter go with track none then check maybe these lines hit apply okay and then just hit delete to remove all of those ugly lines and there we go we've got our monolithic stair our receive shapes there and you can use pretty much of this tool to create pretty much any shape of stair actually when one tutorial I created this weird warped staircase using this tool and it looks kind of like this and if you want to track that out I'm going to leave a link to that in the description as well as well as some others they're tutorials that I have created so far and if you want to get the full advanced stair course where you learn to create all sorts of these interesting types of staircases that that aren't only a weird shape but they also are of a weird type the weird construction weird materials and it all looks very nice and if you want to learn that again as I said check out my patreon first link in the description for only $15 a month you can get access to all of my advanced courses and for five dollars a month you'll get access to all of my project files like the staircase that I just created if you want it check out my patreon first link in the description ok that's pretty much it for today's tutorial thank you for watching please subscribe like and share this video and if you have any questions comments or suggestions make sure to leave them in the comment section below thank you for watching and have a nice day [Music]

Channel: Balkan Architect

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Length: 12min 43sec (763 seconds)

Published: Thu Feb 14 2019