Explore the process of customizing stairs in a design project using features provided by Revit. Learn how to adjust the treads and risers, modify the nosing profile, set the material, and create a custom stair piece.
Key Insights
- Revit provides settings to adjust the tread and riser of stairs, allowing for a custom setup that suits the design of a project. These settings include changing the thickness, length, and angle of the tread and riser.
- Revit offers a range of material options to set for the stairs in a design. The tread material and riser material can be set individually, providing flexibility in the design process.
- Along with adjusting stairs, Revit also provides features to create a custom railing. This allows for further customization in the design, contributing to a comprehensive and unique design output.
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Now we can go in and take a look at the nosing of the stair and you can see right now it's got a bit of a profiled nosing with this vertical leg and then this angle kind of coming back. And so if we select the stair again we can go to edit type and then we can take a look at our run type which then has all the parameters that we're looking for for our tread and our risers. So these settings will allow us to make any adjustments that we want to the treads and the risers.
And so when you look at this what I like to do is I take a look at the two different things individually. So the tread is going to be this horizontal piece and the riser is this vertical piece here. And so what we'll do is we'll go in and take a look at some of these settings and change some of the profiles to make it look good.
So the tread was the one that I pointed out here. It's set to the nosing profile of the stair nosing pan, stair nosing pan. You know they like to get creative with the naming but we can change it to something else.
The default one is fine for me because it just gives us a nice edge to it. I prefer that honestly. But the riser we can have it be slanted.
If you were to uncheck this box here it would actually not have a riser which we can't really do here but you could do that if you were doing a residential project. So that'd give you a riserless look. And then slanted is just going to have it be at an angle.
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So instead of having this be vertical it'll be back at an angle there. The thickness on both of these, the length and the thickness, those are all pretty self-explanatory. When you see this this depth here that's what they're referring to as the thickness.
And so that right there is represented by this tread thickness of two inches. And then this the distance from the riser which is this plane right here to the face of the nosing is what you're seeing here as that nosing one inch. The quarter inch riser thickness you can see is that thin line right there.
And those can all be customized to suit your project. So there's a lot of different options that you can do there to make a setup that works for your design. So you can't use the excuse that Revit wouldn't let you do that if you wanted to do a cool stair design because there's literally infinite possibilities for how you can combine these things to create a cool looking stair.
One of the settings that we did not look at previously was the material. If we pop back in here you can see that we have two categories for materials in here. And so if I wanted to change the tread material I can do that.
And I'm going to try to find a wood material so we'll go with I believe we got an oak flooring in here that we could use. And then for the risers we're going to go with a steel. And I'm going to grab this one because it's probably not being used for anything else and that'll give us the ability to change the color and make it essentially look like whatever we want it to.
So those two are set. The other one that we have here that we didn't really talk about though is this extend riser behind tread. And what that'll do is it just drops it down to here.
If I were to change this setting the tread could go all the way back behind the riser. That one has very little impact on the model so we don't really worry about it too much. Okay and you can see it looks totally different now.
And so for our stringers here we can set that material as well. So this HSS stringer type that we created we can set that material type to the same steel. And you'll see the benefit of using the same material for these because we can actually set their appearance when we get to that point to a specific color.
And then we don't have to worry about setting a bunch of different material types. So I'm going to hit okay here all the way out. And now we've created the custom stair piece.
Our next step is going to be to create the custom railing.
