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Anonymous
Sorry, picture unrelated.
I had a question, is it possible to create papercraft from a 3Dmodel, but without ANY folds? So only pieces with tabs? Or does anyone have papercrafts with only tabs and no folds?
>> Anonymous
I'm not sure if I understand what you mean...
But there are lots of papercrafts that don't so much require you to score+fold the parts, but rather roll (or "bend") them. A simple cilinder is the best example. You'll find this on most "organic" models, and not on Pepakura created (game) models since that program (and games) relies on the calculation of straight lines.

You can do this with any papercraft though. Just don't score+fold, just bend the parts and glue them in place. Might be a bit tricky because there will be some tension on the tabs, but once the glue dries, that's not a problem anymore.
>> Anonymous
>>21634
Hmm, actually, I asked so because I want to use papercraft as templates for building scratchbuilt stuff, but it's hard when it's full of folds. *Not impossible, just hard.*
so I wanted to know if there's a program where you could just choose how many folds you want, where you could just put it on Zero.

Or, just any papercraft without any folds, or just very little.
>> Anonymous
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>>21635
I think I know what you mean now. For example a cube would normally unfold into this...
>> Anonymous
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But you want it to unfold like this.

Pepakura will let you do this very easily. You can tell the program which lines you want it to fold, and which lines you want it to cut.
So you can just tell it to cut all the lines.
You'd have to select all the lines one by one to do so though, but it's not really that much work. And if you forget one or two, you can also cut it in the development window.
>> Anonymous
>>21638
Yes! Exactly what I want :) Thanks, that helps a lot! Where can I get it? [Basic noob question, sorry.]
>> Anonymous
Google is your friend.
>> Anonymous
>>21664
How can a piece of computer software be your friend??

http://www.tamasoft.co.jp/pepakura-en/
you also might wanna check out http://www.ericksmodels.com/paper/step6.html
and http://www.ericksmodels.com/paper/other/other.html
>> Anonymous
Google is a company, Google.com is the piece of software :)
>> Anonymous
c'mon, don't try to be smart; everybody knows (except you apparantly) he meant the website, and not Larry and Sergey...
>> Anonymous
>>21726c'mon, don't try to be smart
You know what, you're good at taking your own advice. I admire that.