Creating Detailed Stair Plans in Revit Structure: A Step-by-Step Guide

Hello, welcome to Revit Structure. Let's get started. Now that we've finished placing our moment frames and braced frames, let's look at some additional detailing we might want to do. One big item that contractors and Architects like Structural Designers to include is detailed stair plans.

Okay, so let's go to our stair plan on our sheet at Level 2.

Let’s get started. The first place we want to go is the View tab. We'll go to Callouts*. Here we have Callouts*—*Rectangular and Sketch*. We just want a simple rectangular callout.

So let's pick Rectangular*. Let's come down to our stair area. Let's draw a rectangle around this stair. Very good. Let's zoom out and find this Level 2 callout. Right here—this is signifying our Level 2 stair callout.

Let's go to Level 3. Let’s pick that. Let's do a typical callout at Level 3. Okay, again, go to Callouts*.

Pick it again—it defaults to Rectangular*. Let's draw another rectangular callout. You’ll see we now have another callout here. What we're going to do with these is place them on a stair plan sheet.

Okay, let's go to Sheets*. Let's right-click and select New Sheet*. You see our title block is set. Click OK*. Here we have a new sheet.

Let’s rename this one. We're going to call this sheet S.3.1. Go to the Properties panel and change the name to Stair Plans*. Very good.

Now that we have our sheet created, let’s pull in our first callout.

Let’s pick it. Let’s drag it in. Okay, here we see our stair plan. Now, let’s clean it up. Double-click on the view to activate the window.

Let’s get rid of the border at the bottom. Hide the Crop Region*. Let’s change the detail level to Coarse*. This gives us a clean layout for the stair. We're at a ¼" = 1'-0" scale, which looks good for this plan sheet.

Okay, let’s move on. Let’s go ahead and tag the elements in our stair. Go to the Quick Access Toolbar*, click Tag by Category*, and turn off the Leader*.

Click to place the tags. When you get a warning, that just means we're tagging outside the View Range*.

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We'll fix that in a moment. Continue tagging. One more here. There you have it.

Now let’s look at the View Range for this stair. We see multiple stair elements. What we want to do is change the View Range to match what we used at the second floor level.

Let’s go back to our Level 2 stair plan and check it out. If you recall, we created an additional view for this area. Let’s open it and check the parameters. The Cut Plane is 9'-0" above, and the Bottom is set to –3'-1".

Now go back to our Level 3 stair plan. Let’s open the callout. Go to View Range*.

Let’s edit it. Set the top and cut plane to 9'-0", and the bottom to –3'-1". It now displays the stair as expected. Very good. Click OK*.

Now let’s clean this up a bit. Let’s add a few notes using text. Make sure your parameters are set.

Let’s place a text note. Rotate it as needed. Label the stair DOWN or UP*, depending on direction. You can either spell it out or abbreviate it, depending on your office standard. Escape out of that.

Now we have our first stair plan. Let’s address the tag that was outside our view. Select the Crop Region and turn it off. This shows the entire structure.

Now, pick the tag and slide it into the visible area. This brings it into the viewport.

Let’s go ahead and turn the Crop Region back on. Now we have a cropped view with all tags properly displayed.

Double-click outside the view to deactivate it. Slide the viewport over as needed. Let’s rename it. We’re going to call this Stair Plan 1*.

Okay, there we have it—*Stair Plan 1*. Let’s go ahead and bring in our Level 3 stair callout.

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Select it. Drag it in. Here we have it. Again, we see the alignment guide appear. Let’s position it. Double-click to activate the view.

Let’s hide the Crop Region*. Set the detail level to Coarse*. The scale is ¼" = 1'-0". Very good.

Let’s continue tagging or adjusting elements.

Let’s drag this tag over. Very good. Let’s find this element.

Very good. Here we have a 2x12, and an additional 2x12. Let’s go ahead and clean this up a little. Move this tag down.

There you have it. Let’s place a couple of notes.

Again, go to Text*. Make sure your parameters are correct. Start here. Adjust as needed. Move this one down, this one up. Escape out of that.

Double-click outside the view. Let’s move our label over.

We’re going to rename this view on the sheet to Stair Plan 2*. Remember, we’re changing the Title on Sheet*, not the actual View Name*, since you cannot reference a view twice.

There you have it—we’ve created a stair plan at Level 2 and Level 3. Go ahead and create the stair plans for Levels 4 and 5 on your own.

Let’s finish this up. That’s it for this video. We’ll see you in the next one.