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Posted by Marius Oberholster on Saturday, March 9, 2013 Under: General
Hey everyone!

A bit of a late post, but something cool! Recently I receive the theory that you can make a spiral staircase from a single step, a cylinder and few modifiers. The great thing is, you can!


Obviously, this does not include the railing, but, you can add it. I've tried to add one, but this was the best I got in the time I played around with this:

Needs some adjustment, no, lol.

Anyway, how you do it is super simple:
 - You model a step (flat plane, otherwise it will distort later)
 - You add the array modifier, set it to a constant offset and to the number of steps you would like
 - Add the simple deform modifier to rotate the staircase in the way you want it to go
 - Add a Solidifier modifier to give your steps some thickness, like in the first.

Have fun with it and let me know if you know any cool modeling tricks like this!

Have a great one!

Thank YOU!!!!!!

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Tags: stairs  round  spiral  railing 
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