Ceiling and spiral stair problem
CEILING. Having trouble getting a ceiling over an open area in deck to display in 3D. There is a half circle cut out at the edge of deck for a tightly curved stairway going down. The roof covers the hole in the deck (and most of the stairway), but I cannot get a ceiling to display over the cutout area. I tried covering the hole in the ceiling with a polyline solid (made a rectangle - maybe I should make a half circle that just fits), but it disappears when I raise it to match the height of the ceiling (can see it when it is just below the ceiling height). I tried using invisible walls and open below to make a room out of the cutout area and trick Chief into making the ceiling for me, but I lost the stairs and white ceiling planes displayed above the roof. I tried ceiling planes with 0 pitch and that failed. Should one of these methods work?
SPIRAL. Is it possible to make a circular stairway into a spiral with a center pole? It would open the possibility of having a fabricated metal stair. The diameter is about 8' and wraps wraps 270 degrees. The two spirals in the library do not work. I want the treads and rail wood with the pole and balusters metal. I cannot envision how I owuld build the railing.
Thanks,
Gayle