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botj

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Hi,

This over decade long stringer problem is still here. Revit costs thousands of dollars a year and all they offer on next year is +1 to a title. Oh, and we got slanted walls.

So you might already know that stairs stringer has mutually exclusive options: open and closed. Closed one allows me to chose profile, but profile has no offset. The open one has offset but no profile selection. I have seemingly simple stringer design requirement. Geometry below stringer is railing family and looks like crap. Can anyone help out to solve this? 

Thank you.

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marmiketin1

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Yeah unfortunately there no good way t accomplish what you are trying to do. revit needs to update how it handles profiles as currently the origin refernece planes do basicially nothing. if you have any sort of irregular shape it draws an invisible rectange around it so that all of the profile is enclosed within it and then uses the faces of that invisible rectangle as its outerbounds and nothing can get within that shape. its the same thing with curtain wall mullion profiles.

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elsdg

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Hi Botj,

It is possible to use a false stringer that is say 1mm thick. 

Then for the profile, use a sweep along a 3D polyline / spline?

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elsdg

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Something like this:

To do this, draw a spline / 3D curve in a conceptial mass familly.  Select the spline / curve and tick the "is a refernce line" in properties box.  Then draw your profiles on the workplanes and select profile + curved reference line.  And make a solid.  

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