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Anonymous
ITT we ask 3D modeling questions and provide tips for 3D modeling, all for the good of papercraft. I have two questions.

1) Is there an easier way to get rid of the diagnol lines inside of rectangle faces (shown in pic) other than individually getting rid of them all with Wire?

2) The model I'm currently working on is HUGE and I remembered the Spiral Dragon, the one that's white with the green pole. That guy had his seperated into several different .PDOs. My question isn't how to get smaller sections of the model into one .PDO file, it's how did he know what size to unfold the certain sections as? Did he do the math or is there a simple way of figuring it out?

Thanks for anything, and feel free to pose your own questions in this thread, confused anons.
>> Anonymous
as long as you build all the the pieces of the model together at the same scale(in a 3d modeling program) it's really very simple. Don't use height use scale. just set the same scale for each different pdo.
>> zel
1) best way is doing it manually. Also just a warning, since the model is already textured, you have to be careful when you remove the edges (lines) or else it might warp the texture.
>> Anonymous
>>105425
>>105290
Do I just unfold each part at 10cm then scale each up by 10% the same number of times?

Also I'm using Metasequoia.
>> Anonymous
>>105429
no... see next to where you put in height it says scale. put 10 cm in for the first one then look at the scale number. put that scale number in every other piece.
>> Anonymous
>>105429
No, when you have unfolded it, you can go into the 2Dpattern menu (or 2D development menu, dunno the exact name) you can either input a scale in cm (this is how high the model would be in real life) but that's not so useful when you have several parts of the same model.
Instead use the specified scale box: put in a scale (0.5 for half the size, 0.25 for a quarter size) and make sure that number is the same for all the seperate pieces.
(you also need to make sure the 3D models are all the same scale, but if you didn't change the scale, they should be).
>> Anonymous
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>> Anonymous
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>>105430
>>105433
K, thanks a lot.