Creating Curved Stairs

Filthy_Lucre · August 2018

Hey ProFantasy Brain Trust,

I used to know how to create curved stairs but I've forgotten - can anyone give me a step-by-step proccess for generating them? Thanks!

Loopysue · August 2018

There are lots of spiral staircase symbols in DD3. And more in the third party collections. Wouldn't one of those be better than drawing one from scratch?

Filthy_Lucre · August 2018

Because I don't mix-and-match symbol styles. There is a way to take a symbol and repeat it across a defined line, creating custom spiral stairs of any dimension/length.

jslayton · August 2018

The classic symbol is a circular array of radii on a 3/4 arc. Use Draw>>Arc with Center and Radius (ARCR) to draw an arc that's 3/4 of a circle, Draw one radius using Draw>>Path with Path (LINE), then make a circular array or those lines at the center of the staircase by right-clicking on copy and selecting circular array (CARY). If you want solid segments that can colored individually, then you can make a circular array of wedges instead (wedge is on Draw>>Arc).

Filthy_Lucre · August 2018

Thanks J - do you know the trick for taking a stair symbol (for example, one of Schleys) and repeating it in such a way that it curves along a predfined path?

jslayton · August 2018

The ESC command will place symbols along a path (I don't know the equivalent on the menus). SYMFILL will place symbols in an area.

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