Pepakura glitch?

[eric_son]

Has anyone experienced this before?

There are some parts in my Pepakura unfold that have grossly incorrect fits.
Check the first attachment -- Fit 1 (assembled).

That's how it's supposed to look like.

Now check the other attachment -- Fit 1.

See how short the exhaust tube is? When assembled, there's an almost 1mm gap between the fuselage and the exhaust tube.

I've already sent a support inquiry to pepakura.

I'm in the middle of a test build. So far everything fits very well. Now I don't know if the good fit of the formers is due to the adjustments I made in Meta, or due to this bug.

This is really disheartening. :(

[eric_son]

After sending them the PDO file, I got a reply from Tamasoft again.
They told me to disable this option:
-- Join adjacent edges in 2D pattern automatically

I then have to undo the unfold, then re-do it.

I did that and it seems to work.

:)

[nothing]

good to know eric. thanks!

[doctormax]

how many points is the most you should have with pepruka I done a car and it has 123444 points it says no idea how to reduce them so stumped

[nothing]

im not sure if its the point count or how the faces are cunstructed. ive had some high point count models in pep and the only problem i had was it took forever for pep to chew on.

[doctormax]

all it seemed to do was make over a thousand very small parts on one sheet

[nothing]

yes it will do that. pep will not logically unfold anything the more complex the more fragmented.

[doctormax]

any tip on making it easier in the sketchup do i just break it up to parts somehow and how do i do that and keep it the same scale anyway when bringing over to pepruka because i am feeling very much like just going delete file here

[nothing]

its possible the model may just be to complex- you can try breaking and unfolding in sections. if you unfold the complete model at the scale you want. write the scale number down. then when you unfold the individual parts use that scale number for each section it will all be the same scale.