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Hello Croden,
Here are some general-purpose vector program suggestions to make papercraft models -- none of these are papercraft-specific or use 3D, so they won't unwrap models. However, Inkscape is free. I myself use an older version of Illustrator CS. Cheers! Inkscape - free and open-source, versions for OS X 10.7+ and 10.5+, saves by default in svg but can also save in pdf https://inkscape.org the manual: Inkscape other tutorials: https://inkscape.org/en/learn/ iDraw - $25, for OS X 10.6+ iDraw - Mac Illustration and Graphic Design user guide: http://www.indeeo.com/idraw/download...wUserGuide.pdf Affinity Designer - $50, for OS X 10.7+, Pantone and spot colors are on its feature roadmap -- it doesn't have these yet http://affinity.serif.com/designer/ tutorials: http://affinity.serif.com/tutorials/designer/ forum: https://affinity.serif.com/forum/ Sketch - $100, for OS X 10.9+ Bohemian Coding - Sketch 3 tutorials: Bohemian Coding - Learn Sketch Adobe Illustrator CC - part of Creative Cloud for $20 per month, OS X 10.9+ https://www.adobe.com/products/illustrator.html
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hi
i made models during architecture school and since retiring from aviation I worked on the A320 simulator among others I want to build detailed models of my designs as well as famous buildings canon papercraft has been fun but im ready to step it up a couple of notches can anyone help me example himeji castle,sagrada familia
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my Design Process Summary
Hi Christopher,
As there are many possible solutions to any particular problem, There are also many routes one can take in designing paper models. Here I share with you a summarized process of mine. From 3d design to unfolding to pattern layout and glue tabs, I use Sketchup 8 with flattery plugin (Flattery Papercraft Tools). Then I export to JPG and put in everything esle (labels, logos, details, shadows, effects, Other enhancements, etc. etc.) in Adobe photoshop cs2. Sketchup so soooo easy to learn yet so versitile, and also available for free. Photoshop CS2 is also now available for free (google it. Im not sure if this is available for mac as I'm a pc user).. There are also a ton of other free image processing software out there (gimp, paint.net, etc., google them) but I'm only familiar with this version of photoshop. One can also export vector formats from sketchup for further editing in vector software like adobe illustrator or correldraw (this route I'm not familiar with, but I heard vector format is the way to go for easy proportional re-sizing of patterns). Start simple and detail your way up once you are familiar. Everything is only hard in the beginning. Have fun evolving you design process. Regards, ChipP ______________________________ REPAPSTUDIOS.blogspot.com Here's a visual summary of my process: from Simple model  to not so simple model  I hope this helps.
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Hello Croden
I'll speak in defense of Blender, which is free and will work on OSX (and PC and Linux/X11). I actually started working with Macs (various generations of imacs) and basically stuck to Blender, particularly because it does have an available paper model script that will unfold your model. Some people's experience with Blender might be colored by the earlier versions of Blender which were very difficult to use by people used to Windows type GUIs. From version 2.5 onward though it uses a more familiar window driven system. Although it is still very closely tied to the notion of a "context" driven command system, meaning what exactly happens depends very much on what you are actually doing and where your mouse cursor actually is. There are available menus for many operations. It does have a "somewhat" steep learning curve, but mainly because it will have way more features than you actually need (you can make a fully 3d animated movie with the thing). That's why I quote the "somewhat" because in truth if you start up slow and learn the parts you need to know, you should become fairly proficient sooner than you might expect. The paper model script exports 2d sections as svg (scalable vector graphics) which can be directly edited in Inkscape (available free for mac) or converted into raster images for editing by Gimp which can read svg (also available free for mac). Blender does allow for skinning the models with paint schemes and markings that can then be "baked" by the script onto the parts, but unfortunately I can't give you advise on that since I only finish parts off in Gimp (personally I find that the resolution of parts generated from skins poor; Gimp allows me to work on parts at higher resolutions, typically I'll go between 150 to 300 dpi) In the end, the "free" software can be very workable but it will require more work on your part to learn. Free software and plugins are often done by volunteers who don't always have the time to worry about user friendlyness since they aren't trying to compete in a sellers market. Blender - blender.org - Home of the Blender project - Free and Open 3D Creation Software Paper Model script - Extensions:2.6/Py/Scripts/Import-Export/Paper Model - BlenderWiki Inkscape - https://inkscape.org/en/download/mac-os/ Gimp -http://www.gimp.org/downloads/ This R2 was the first thing I did in Blender that I documented to any extent: Import plan into background (3view step)  Insert cylinder mesh and edit shape to fit   ...basically done. Marked seams to control how it unfolds. Export using script Example of SVG of parts generated: Article on the finished version is on an old blog post (I didn't have a thumbnail of it unfortunately)
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