How to obtain all the polygons of a mesh, flattened and labeled

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Permalink Reply by David Rutten on April 16, 2014 at 12:16pm

You can certainly extract all the faces of a mesh and arrange them on a grid, but if you want to keep adjacent faces together along shared edges, then that requires a very complicated algorithm. I'm pretty sure there's special software out there that can do those sorts of unfolding operations.

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David Rutten

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Permalink Reply by Timothy Logan on April 16, 2014 at 12:34pm

Might be worth checking out a program called Pepakura Designer which is designed to take 3d models and allow you to create paper models from them.  It looks relatively inexpensive.

-Tim