Is there any any fast way of modeling a spiral curve?Or would extruding be the only way?
http://download.blender.org/documentation/htmlI/ch06s05.html
Use Spin. Soni Bardot also wrote a spirals script:
https://blenderartists.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=12681
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Not to speak of BAG
http://projects.blender.org/viewcvs/viewcvs.cgi/bstar/BAG/?cvsroot=bstar
Stefano