So grasshopper has been a fantasy for me to learn, I followed a few tutorials when I first upgraded and discovered what grasshopper is. Its a tough one for people like me who mainly have been manually drawing in rhino. The tutorials I did gave me an idea of my total lack of ability and knowledge to …

Thank You, I appreciate the input, and it looks like it worked on my model. I will be spiraling into this rabbit hole of understanding why your suggestion cleaned up the last step, over my head for now

I ended up with extra points running around the center [extra points]

There are many many examples of spiral stairs on this website. Use the search function to find them. [image] WilliamReynolds: Its a tough one for people like me who mainly have been manually drawing in rhino. If you know how you would model it in Rhino, try following the same steps in Grassh…

I did and that is how I ended up in my stuck position I was end when I posted. Leopoldomonzani already gave me advice and I moved forward into my next step. Take observance above of his help and my reply

[image] WilliamReynolds: Take observance above of his help and my reply I was giving you general advice. [image] WilliamReynolds: Problem is bottom step and top step, so I’m stuck here and need to get the bottom step elevated, and top step in place, I know i missed some order of tool eve…

I just saw this and built it in Grasshopper, Thank you, I like the simplistic format, I never would have known to do it like this. All I can do at this point in my grasshopper skills is follow the closet tutorial i can find and then jump off the path into what I’m trying to accomplish. Yes, I look a…

[image] WilliamReynolds: simplistic format simplistic ≠ simple :winking_face_with_tongue: The first one is ‘meh’, the second one is elegant :wink:

Nothing wrong with the first solution. The more complicated / involved the geometry gets, the smarter it is to move the transformations / arraying to the end of the script.

Essential Mathematics for Computational Design [McNeel Wiki] Tutorials are great until you try to do stuff by yourself - this, together with Tedeschi’s AAD will get you writing scripts by yourself - Grasshopper is not as opaque as it seems

Some Help with Spiral Stairs?

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