Are you familiar with the geometric method on the drawing board to make a helical staircase stringer and the plan and elevation tracing and development of the piece?
The development of a spiral staircase stringer is a parallelogram, nothing more.
The angle between the sides is equal to the slope of the stairs. The length of the short side is equal to the height of the section. The one on the long side to the length of a helix coil x the number of turns.
For a thin sheet metal, it doesn't matter where the measurement is. For a thick section like in your example, you have to take the neutral line (about in the middle of the thickness but this can vary depending on the material).
The easiest way is to measure it directly on your CAD since it works. Otherwise, if you really want to do it by hand, wikipedia is your friend: