Proper In-Place Revit Stairs: it's possible!

Have you come across a project that required custom in-place stairs? When the stairs by component or stairs by sketch don't cut it, have you used an in-place family? You must have quickly realized that the "stairs" category is missing in the Family Category selector for an in-place family:

I've got good news for you, there is a way to get that in-place staircase into the proper "stairs" category. Here's how:

1. In an empty project, create a staircase without railings.
2. Go to the Revit menu, then Export -> IFC and save it somewhere.
3. Now open that IFC file in Revit. Revit menu -> Open -> IFC.
4. Select the staircase. Notice it's an in-place family BUT it's in the right category!
5. Copy it to the clipboard and paste it into your real project.
6. Now you can modify the in-place family to look like whatever staircase you can imagine!

Comments

[Luke]

I have posted along similar lines at:
http://whatrevitwants.blogspot.com.au/2012/08/convert-all-masses-including-in-place.html
and
http://whatrevitwants.blogspot.com.au/2011/10/create-component-family-with-category.html
and
http://whatrevitwants.blogspot.com.au/2012/03/in-place-and-component-families-of.html

[Vincent Cadoret]

Thanks Luke!