I posted this originally on CADTutor and was advised this would be a better choice.
More and more we are getting models that come from Revit or Archicad(IFC) and my job is to get quantities from these, I admit that my skills with Revit are sparse but I can find my way around in a model. I have been asked to schedule the staircase railings and hand rails in a project, these are not modelled. So trying to add these in using Revit I tried adding railings to host, but for some reason the stairs although showing as being a stair under properties are not recognised using the add railings tool, I also have no idea how to add railings using the sketch feature. Drawing lines only works (for me) if you first set a working plane and these stairs have no selectable points I can find to draw along the strings, they also have no lines selectable to select existing geometry, and besides that there are over a hundred staircases and not many are either the same size or even the same orientation. After wasting half a day watching videos and trying various things, I have exported the stairs, walls and floors to DWG and I'm doing this in Autocad, which is so easy using 3dpoly. Is it really so complicted and time consuming in Revit do I have to set a workplane for every twist and turn, or am I missing some simple tricks, all I need eventually are linear measurements and in Autocad it's just a question of pick pick pick done. But it would be nice to have that in Revit so that my collegues can check it using solibri. Attached is one of the stairs just in case I'm doing something wrong with the railings by host option.