rkelterer
Member
I will try to show principal procedures of how to use pepakura designer.
let's start with metasequoia - I removed all except of the head, to have a reasonable count of parts
first atempt to unfold - horrible :twisted:
first I removed the texture, so moving and rotating the model with the mouse is much faster.
then I defined the cut lines - these (brown) lines will be pre-cut by pepakure all others (blue)
are folding lines, which will produce folding edges on the end. the actual selection is green.
all of them
the second try - the result is much more reasonable
the parts might be cut and rejoined - pepakura tracks which parts are involved - so it is relatively easy
mark the edge and click cut it
parts can be rotated around any point interactively - first mark the center of rotation and then pick another point and ...
rotate it
move it
mark an edge - papakure will find the other edge -
and join
after several minutes you will have the new unfold result :grin:
now fine tuning with the flaps - again, pepakure knows about both edges of a connection -
mark the edge and choose the side of the flap
the result - ready for test build
the 3d result (glue still wet when picture was taken :-D )
let's start with metasequoia - I removed all except of the head, to have a reasonable count of parts
first atempt to unfold - horrible :twisted:
first I removed the texture, so moving and rotating the model with the mouse is much faster.
then I defined the cut lines - these (brown) lines will be pre-cut by pepakure all others (blue)
are folding lines, which will produce folding edges on the end. the actual selection is green.
all of them
the second try - the result is much more reasonable
the parts might be cut and rejoined - pepakura tracks which parts are involved - so it is relatively easy
mark the edge and click cut it
parts can be rotated around any point interactively - first mark the center of rotation and then pick another point and ...
rotate it
move it
mark an edge - papakure will find the other edge -
and join
after several minutes you will have the new unfold result :grin:
now fine tuning with the flaps - again, pepakure knows about both edges of a connection -
mark the edge and choose the side of the flap
the result - ready for test build
the 3d result (glue still wet when picture was taken :-D )
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