How to make spiral stairs easly!

First of all I am sorry for any poor soul that had to build a spiral manually so this is pretty much what the end product will look like:
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So let’s get started anyways!
First of all we need to make a square with the size of your choice but I recommend using 9 x 9 to make it easy.
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Add a cylinder to the workspace.
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Copy the position of your square.


Paste it to the cylinders position and use “CTRL R and CTRL T/or set the third orientation value to -90” So your cylinder points up.

Duplicate the Square (CTRL D) And bring it up.
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Resize your second square to match the length of your cylinder.
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Go to the model tab and set your Rotation to a number that can divide 360 but ı recommend 11.25 Also make sure Rotation is on but be aware this will be the gap between your spiral stairs so don’t make it too large.

CTRL D the second square and rotate it once
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Keep doing this until you have a full circle it shouldnt take long but you can use the Archimedes plugin by Scriptos to make your job easier.
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After that select one of the corner squares Duplicate it (CTRL D) and bring it up, this will be our stair so you might want to save a copy of this or modify it now also make sure your snapping is on from the Model Tab
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Duplicate it (CTRL D) and snap it to the next spiral.
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Bring it up by one, do these about 3 - 4 times.
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Select all of the spiral stairs and duplicate them, snap them to the next spiral and bring it up repeat until you have a full stair!
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If you followed all the steps, it should look something like this.
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If you want something attached to your stairs/want to make it 1 sided you may want to continue reading
Lets go back a couple of stages
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Right there
If you want to make your staircase one sided resize your spiral by half it should exactly match the cylinder
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and if you want to add something to the stairs add it and group it
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Continue as if it was the normal tutorial!
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Hope you were successful!
Have a nice day!

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