unrolling doubly curved surfaces

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Permalink Reply by Andres on June 12, 2012 at 6:42pm

i have already try with Squish but is too slow and I have to do it piece by piece.....

I just want to unroll a completed face

Permalink Reply by Hannes Löschke on June 14, 2012 at 5:17pm

Generally, doubly curved surfaces aren't unrollable. You need to cut this surface into strips of developable surfaces. Evolute tools might help you here.

Permalink Reply by Andres on October 15, 2015 at 4:11pm

Hannes, Im pretty new here, so there is a way to unroll a surface into strips, name them on the geometry and also on the flatten strips, to fallow an order of sequence