This is uncomfortable to look at

Good guesses but now.
Hint: The answer has to do with shopping.

Very cool Mike.
Here is my nephew playing my brother's electric cello.

Wonderful progress. Congratulations.

Granted but now you need corrective eye surgery.

I wish I did not worry so much.

@pixero said:

There is a easy manual way of flattening anything.
Set camera to top view.
Set camera to parallell projection.
Export as 2d dwg.
Import that flat dwg again.
Done.

Simple and effective.

Great!

Very nice!

Glad you got a good laugh from these.
A good few of these can definitely have more than one "correct" answer apart from the author's intent.

@emerald15 said:

Oh and the new Boofredlay's new one - something to do with cutting loose of sh*t, man!

Nope.

@david_h said:

...but anything that involves a poop emoji has got to be hilarious, right?

Obviously

Ok, it has been a slow week. So why not revive another old thread, this time from 7 years ago.

So what is the visual pun?

Granted but now your home is infested with malevolent Tribbles from the Mirror universe.

I wish I had the time to learn Blender.

Granted but you find it in your (soon to be ex) mother-in-law's underwear drawer.

I wish I did not have to have a cavity filled Wednesday.

Let's resurrect this one...

@unknownuser said:

I wish for manicotti

Granted but now your jaw has been wired shut so you have to blend it into a liquid and drink it.

I wish I could find a comfortable work chair.

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How is your model coming along Andrew?

Try this for a start.

Basically I pulled up the void between the stairs to use as a surface to manually draw a somewhat smooth path then used Upright Extrude. I did not scale the model up so there are some holes in the extrusion but they can easily be stitched or you can run another but you should get the intent of how I worked this example.

stair path.skp

So a quick look over your file I see a few things that are problematic.
First the path you have created for the profile to follow is not smooth at all. Second, the curves in the profile have way too many segments. For a profile that small, 3 or 4 max per arc will suffice. Finally, with a profile that small you might need to scale your drawing up before following the path as the small faces generated in the tight curves might not generate.

There are other plugins that might help like stair builder and Flowify but I still think Upright Extruder is your best bet. Just get a smooth path and a proper profile to start.

Can you post up your model so we can try with it. I can't seem to recreate a problem with any similar paths.

Upright Extruder by Christina Eneroth (Eneroth3)

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