Spiral staircase advice

[KeeneArchitecture]

@DaveR

That’s kind of a problem with stair rails. You’d think that working off a common point like the front corner of the tread would work and it does for a straight stair, but when the stairs aren’t straight and the treads aren’t a constant width, the rail ends up being wobbly. There’s probably an extension for modeling stairs but if I were doing it, I would create a vertical surface in line with the center of the rail and use something like Tools on Surface to daw the curved parts of the path. I’ll see if I can make an example.

I came up with a solution natively in sketchup. It involved intersecting a plane that was in line with my treads with the hole cutout in the middle of the stairs… It feels like theres a better way but this came out pretty smooth.