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Sunday, November 26, 2017

Stair & Railing Designer for Advance Steel

From the Autodesk App Store:

GRAITEC Stair & Railing Designer for Advance Steel enables new types of stairs and railings to be modelled quickly and easily. Combining the full functionality of the Railing Designer this App is perfect for Advance Steel users looking to create stair and railing systems in Autodesk Advance Steel including:
  • Saddle stairs
  • Balanced stairs
  • Ball post safety and hand railing systems
  • Standard railing systems
  • Wall-mounted railing (also works on curved walls)

**Compatible with Autodesk Advance Steel 2017 versions**

This is the full version = 12 month Desktop Subscription.

A FREE 5-day trial version is available from the Autodesk Store here! 

Languages available on installation: English, French, Czech, German, Italian, Polish and Romanian.

Multi-year, network and bulk subscription options available from GRAITEC direct: graitec.com/world

GRAITEC Stair & Railing Designer for Advance Steel makes it possible to rapdily model new stair and hand railing types. A key enhancement is the ability to place railing along a straight or curved 2D line or polyline (such as a 2D underlay), making the Railing Designers even more flexible and versatile that ever before. Complete with several worldwide supplier catalogs and with the ability for users to create their own configurations, custom libraries can be quickly developed for any region, making it adoptable globally.

Suitable for commercial, residential, mining, utilities, power, plant and petro-chem industries as well as personal safety barriers across the wide spectrum globally, the Stair & Railing Designer can be used in conjunction with Autodesk® Advance Steel stair macro bringing new degrees of flexibility, to the drawing office.

New stair systems:
  • Balanced Stair Systems - Winders automatically adjust to suit
  • Saddle Stairs Systems - Stringers can be created from section profiles, flat or cust from plate

New / updated hand railing types:
  • Ball Post Railing Systems
    • Lionweld Kennedy (UK)
    • Webforge (Auz / NZ)
    • Nepean (Canada / NA)
  • Standard Railing Systems
  • Wall-mounted Railing Systems

Key Features:
  • Railings compatible with Advance Steel Stair Macro
  • Add railing to a line, polyline or by specifying points (straight or curved)
  • Continuous top rail option (as a single polybeam) ensures more accurate fabrication documents and take-offs
  • Works on all Advance Steel objects, including concrete profiles
  • New anchors for post connections
  • Posts can be aligned with the mid-point of the tread edge (Stair Designer)

Define round post connections.

Triangular Base Plate

Standard railing

Select from a wide range of post sections including round bar and circular hollow sections.

Wall connection

Complete control over all connection parameters.

Stair and landing in one go.

Ball Post Railing Dialogue.

Balanced Stair

Ball Post Railing Ribbon.

Easily add kickplates / kickrails.

Wall connection rectangular plate

Wall connection spacing 2

Wall mounted rail

Create your own style of ball post railing.

Wall mounted railing add to line

Saddle Stair with plate stringer

Lionweld Kennedy catalogue.

Base Plates

Wall connection spacing

Standard Railing rectangular base plate

Balanced stair with outer plate stringer

Wall connection circular plate

Radius edges

Complete control of Post layout and spacing.


Webforge Catalogue options.

A selection of industry standard Ball sizes allow you to configure your own range.

Ball Post Railings can be applied to stringers.

Wall connection triangular plate

Saddle stair with RHS stringer

Stair & Railing Designer Ribbon

Balanced Stair with supporting RHS stringers

Circular Base Plate

Wall Mounted Railing

Top hand rail connections

Corner plates





Please visit our app web page for more information about GRAITEC Advance BIM Designers.

Read Help Document

About This Version

Version 2017 R2, Build 909, 3/22/2017 – Combines Ball Post Railing Designer, Railing Designer and Stair Designer. New post anchors Wall railing & standard railing can be applied to curved line.



Stair & Railing Designer for Advance Steel is brought to you by GRAITEC. It's priced at US $605.00/year.

This add-in is compatible with Autodesk Advance Steel 2017.

There's more information available on the Autodesk App Store.

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