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How would you make these spiraling cuts around a cylinder?

cylinder with spiral cuts

Things I've already tried:

  1. Simple Deform modifier with Twist. This warped the cylinder too much. I could reduce the warping somewhat by putting a bunch of horizontal loop cuts in, but it'd still warp a little bit. Pretty sure this isn't the best way - the reference image above is a perfectly straight cylinder without any warping/deformation.
  2. Poke Faces. This did make some diagonal cuts, but it also generated a lot of unwanted faces in the process (and didn't give me direct control over the angle of the diagonal cuts).
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I'm sure there are more ways of doing this,but I can think of 2 ways:

First one, with tools you already have: screw modifier and array modifier:

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Second one with addons Add Curve: Extra Objects and F2 addon. Extra objects addon allows you to to create spiral curves, and F2 addon enables you to fill in the spaces quickly

enter image description here Create the spiral curve with the extra objects addon, and pres Alt+C to convert it to mesh, then, with the F2 addon fill in the cylinder

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and in both cases you find the end of the spiral, place a cursor on it, select the rest of the loop and pres S + Z + 0

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and finally, remove the double verticesyou have from the scaling

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