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

Hey Everybody¡

I want to build a figure, a 3d model real made with paper or carton, i have a mesh file and i wanna know if there is some method for make it with grasshopper, automatically of course.

Thanks¡

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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.

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

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