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Hey VK,
Good job on the snake despite the difficulties with the PDO!
Pepakura Designer 3.x is actually pretty useful once you get the hang of it - you can't save files on the free version but you're allowed to print out, so you can print to PDF.
I've been doing a lot of BattleTech recolors and resizing and found these menu commands to be most useful, they change how the cursor selects and acts on graphic objects:
#1 2D Menu>Edit Mode>Join/Disjoin Face
#2 2D Menu>Edit Mode>Edit Flap
Using #1 you can disconnect then reconnect sub-parts to ease construction or to use less room on the sheet. Using #2 you can move flaps around (your complaint), the cursor interfaces are quite intuitive.
Don't forget to return to the default 2D Menu>Edit Mode>Select and Move afterwards.
You can do 2D Menu>Import Image to add logos and such (no GIFs), but you can't rotate them and transparent backgrounds default to black or white. You can add text using 2D Menu>Edit Mode>Input Text but again you can't rotate them. These additions won't be visible on the 3D model display, but will print out correctly.
Hope this was useful to someone!
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