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Unfolding in Sketchup free version manually
Well I have decided to do a unfold in sketchup the free version so that you guys who are fooling around with sketchup can unfold your models. Mchale has asked me to unfold and scale some models for him, so I am doing this tutorial so that he can do this for himself. The problem with exporting the files to Pepekura is that you have to have the paid for Pro version to export. $$$$. With this method you can unfold anything that you have the patience to do. The unfold ruby scripts also work, but they don't always give you the expected result. I use Pro and export. Very quick. I also have tried flattery and unfold.rb. Unfold.rb is a good plugin but requires a clear understanding of what it is about to do to use.
Anyway here ia a tutorial. You have to have some knowledge of sketchup to use or understand this. Everyone has their own methods so this is by no means the only way to get this done. Just my way, Continued on next post
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This is Mchales Model
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By the way this is Mchales new model that I am unfolding with his blessing for this tutorial From this point on I am showing Mchale how to get the model to a desired scale. This also assumes that you build the model to a true scale to begiin with. I used a tire diameter for the Dodge Charger aquired from a google search and used this as a known dimension for a full scale car. And that finishes the unfold You should be throughly confused by now. But trust me when I tell you that as you do this. It goes quick. The more complex the model the more the groups and the longer the process. So this is best used on simple models. My Martin Baker Seat was exported to Pepakura in isolated groups and then unfolded in sections. Hope this helps. Here is a shot of Pepakura unfold of the same model that was grouped for folding. As you can see even this has problems but took only a few minutes to shoot out.
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Thanks mike.
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That is much appreciated. Thanks Mike
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I tried to unfold this exact model. I could not get the thing to even rotate to the angle in the pics and i got down to 3rd step and tried to do what it said. I could not get it to unfold and that got me frustrated. I don't know what went wrong. I don't have the money for sketch up pro or pepakura and my dad wont buy it for me. I may just go back to ms paint if i cant figure it out
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hi mike how do you get this unfold tool? whats the sequence do you go to a site and download it first to your computer and put it into the google sketch up folder in the C drive?
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Download here with all instructions lJim's SketchUp [Plugins] Blog: Plugin: Unfold Tool Install in the directory under the google sketchup program called plugins Most likely c:/program files/google/google sketchup 8/plugins. Then just place the unfold.rb file and start the program. It will apperar under plugins in on the top bar as unfold in the drop down. Click on it and then proceed to unfold. Start with a cube first and play with it. You can click on empty space between unfolds to start a new unfold sequence. If you plan on unfolding like i did for Mchale you still gotta do the grouping footwork. But I gotta tell you there is no magic bullet to unfolding. Even Pepakura has a steep learning curve to get it to do what you want it to do. Hope this helps. Mike
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thttp://www.pumpkinpirate.info/flattery/
try this, also found as a link on jim's sketchup plugin page. |
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