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Unfolding STL models to make laser cut patterns

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Unfolder for Mac – a 3D modelcreating papercraft | Feb 2023

There is the commercial Pepakura Designer[1] for Windows since the 90's (I think). The mother/father of all desktop papercraft unfolding apps.

Then there is a new free one, Papercraft[2], written in Rust, that will probably build on all major paltforms. Do not confuse with the STL-based papercraft (lower case p) someone else mentioned[3].

[1] https://tamasoft.co.jp/pepakura-en/

[2] https://github.com/rodrigorc/papercraft

[3] https://github.com/osresearch/papercraft

Unfolder for Mac – a 3D modelcreating papercraft | Feb 2023

Beautiful website and interesting app (blender plugin live view is great).

dxf2papercraft [1] Papercraft [2] and Blender paper model addon [3] are free alternatives.

1 - https://dxf2papercraft.sourceforge.net/

2 - https://github.com/osresearch/papercraft

3 - https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/latest/addons/import_expo...

Show HN: Orthogami – Turn voxel models into foldable papercraft | Dec 2014

Fun! I've been working on a similar free software project to unfold generic STL files for laser cutting: https://github.com/osresearch/papercraft

The problem is that most models on thingiverse produce designs that are very, very difficult to fold up. Even low-poly things (like the Stanford Bunny) are almost impossible.