How to UNROLL !!

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Permalink Reply by David Rutten on April 21, 2010 at 5:37pm

No unroll sorry. This function is not available yet. I don't know when it will be. You may be able to use Kangaroo (I'm not sure), but it won't be similar to the Unroll in Rhino.

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David Rutten
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Poprad, Slovakia

Permalink Reply by Miklós Hatvani Deák on April 21, 2010 at 5:53pm

Thank you really much. I tried to make with xform tools but could not completed it. Where can i ger kangoroo
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Permalink Reply by taz on April 21, 2010 at 9:58pm

Here is Kangaroo but it definitely doesn't do unroll:

http://groups.google.co.uk/group/kangaroophysics

Here are some people who have played around with unrolling geometry but so far the applications have been fairly limited:

http://biosarch.wordpress.com/2009/09/23/unrolling-surfaces-in-gras...

http://www.tectonicasdigitales.com/?p=818

Permalink Reply by Andrew Heumann on April 21, 2010 at 11:12pm

Your post got me thinking, so I took a stab at it myself. I just posted the files on my blog; take a look and see if it does what you're looking for. It works well for portions of cones, and I haven't tested it a whole lot further than that.

http://heumanndesigntech.wordpress.com/2010/04/21/unroll-ruled-surf...

Andrew

Permalink Reply by Miklós Hatvani Deák on April 22, 2010 at 1:22am

Thank you really much. Great help.

Permalink Reply by Luis Fraguada on April 22, 2010 at 8:01am

the orient component will get you there for single faces, for more than that you will have to measure the angles between face normals, etc...