Having trouble with a construction that follows a spiral staircase. I’ve tried to create it using 2 interpolate crv that follows the outside and the inside of the steps, and then using a cross section doing a sweep 2. But the surface gets really bad. I’ve tried this method also with control points crv. No luck.
The second method i’ve tried is doing a control point crv that runs along the stair case touching the middle of every step. Then using slab command. The problem I have is not being able to make it the right width (only possible to type the width). It’s does follow the form of the stairs as good but the surface looks better.
Jagged is the matter of mesh display density. See your settings.
You don’t need to join the curves to run Network Surface, just select them in order.
To get the thickness you can create another set of curves and run the same command to make sure it follows the staircase main geometry. Offset surface won’t work properly in this case.
No problem, if this is what you’re after.
You can use loft command to create sides or again: NewtorkSrf.
Good tip:
to get the thickness you need you can OffsetCurveOnSurface for inner and outer edges.
As an inner you can use staircase column as an outer you need to create an extra cylinder.
Hello - you have, if I understand you, the two curves that define the surface - if you Loft those you can then either OffsetSrf or ExtrudeSrf to make a solid…?
The different methods almost get the same result. But it looks like Surface Network toghether with Extrusion is a little bit smoother. But It could be, as pointed out by Piotr, a display issue. I haven’t figured out yet where to display the surface smoother. Tried Smooth & Slower in the Mesh-Setting. But is there a menu anywhere else I am missing?
Also don’t understand why i only get solid control points (8 total) on every end and not on the surfaces. They are polysurfaces and not extrusions.
