Hey, what is up, design nation!
In this video I'm going to show you how you can unfold the
faces of your 3d models.
Okay, so I have this sort of diamond shape I don't know if this actually called,
kind of looks like those logos that hang over the Sims heads, so I have
one of these and what I want to do is I want to flatten all the faces to a
single plane, and I want all the edges to be attached so that essentially you
could either print out this and then fold up the edges and tape some of them
the ones that aren't connected, or you might be able to use it for laser
cutting so you might score the edges that you would fold and then cut the
outline out. And that's just an alternative way to make a model if you
don't want to have to cut each face out. If your laser cutting. So the first thing
that you're going to need is the extension warehouse, so you can click
that to open it up. If you don't have this bar for whatever reason, you can go
to window extension warehouse here. And what you want to search for is something
up here you want to go to unfold, you're going to have to create an account
through Trimble if this is something you want to implement, then make you login to
download extensions so this is what we want unwrapped and flattened faces you
click that I already have this installed, but yours might say install here so you
just click it you might have to login, and then just click that button and it
will install for you, so you can see here sort of what is going to happen and this
would allow you to make that model in 3d but just sort of printing it, which is
kind of cool. So I'm just going to show you really quickly how to use this it's
super simple and super helpful, so I have this shape here and literally all I have
to do is right-click, go to unwrap and flattened faces, go to unwrapped and
flatten, it'll tell me stuff might mess up,
and you can see here I get this group of a flattened version, so I
could print this out and and essentially just fold these lines
where these lines are and it would fold up to the shape and then you'd have to
either tape or glue the edges, and if you are, I don't know how often people do
this now, but I know when I was a kid there used to be like little tabs on
these kinds of things, so you might want to make your own tabs, just copy this
line, up we're in a different plane there, so a good way to do this might be to
when I hit this line, you see I get this little tab, so it just gives you like an
extra place where you might fold this and then you could put glue on the
inside, so you have just like a little bit of an extra spot, so you might do
that periodically, the angle should be greater than 45 degrees or greater if
you're going to do that, yeah and so that's it super simple! I hope this
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