WOW this is one of my favorite threads in a long time. Great info here on stairs thanks for the great tuts Jeff and all others who have made usefully posts. Loving the stair porn link too. I have built a few steel spiral and curving stair cases over the years and have also built railings that go on top of beautiful curving stringers with a wood top rail on the railing. My question is would you build the stringers in this thread in the shop or on site? Basically I am asking if anyone has a link or pics of these being built. Also any one have any 2D shop drawings of stringers like these that they would be willing to share? Cheers S

Thanks for replying, --- I just found that info on the Sketching 3d blog and it loaded very nicely. I've not taken the time to investigate these ruby plug-ins and I'm making up for lost time. ----------lots of lost time doing manually what these scripts accomplish so smoothly.

Thanks for that!!! There's a helix appearing in the plug-ins,-----and DrawHelix13 is right there in the draw dropdown. the dialogue comes right up. Muchos gracias