How would you build the top rail for a handrail of a spiral stairs

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Hi Scott,
I can come very close to a manufactured spiral using a Chief stair.

I can also isolate the railing and turn it into a symbol that I can use on a stair built from polyline solids

Bill, it sounds like we are building the same way, psolids for stairs and the rail per description below.

http://youtu.be/kziX-zqZDhs

My rail is segmented. I built a CA curved stairs with rail, took an overview, deleted all surfaces but rail and turned into symbol. It looks like you did same thing. Your rail is also segmented.

Joe seems to think he can build the spiral, waiting on work from him on how to do a SMOOTH (unsegmented) top rail.