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Here's something simple and free you might try. I have this installed and it works, but haven't really created anything with it. It's a free plugin for Sketchup called jf unfoldtool. It allows you to flatten a 3D model inside Sketchup. You have to unfold each surface one at a time and apparently have to do it in the right order, so it takes some practice. Then you should be able to simply export it as a bitmap image and color it as needed. You'll find it on this page with about 355 other free plugins: A-Z plugins list - Ruby Library Depot
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Yes Ryan you don't HAVE to use layout, but the question is scale, SVG as far as I know doesn't address this issue, if it does please elaborate.
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Thanks for the unfolding suggestions! However, as per original post I 've allready unfolded the model! (using flattery )
The issue was with how to export the model. However, I think that the method in CT's link will work. Any other suggestions welcome though as there are many ways to peel a potato. |
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If you have an established scale OR a scale marker, you can fairly easily come up with the correct scale, and it is VERY easy to rescale objects in Inkscape. Here's a little prototype I've been working on in my ever-dwindling spare time. You'll see I take the bow piece, unfold it (with Waybe in this case, Flattery would work) and then I show the exported piece after some very minor tweaking in Inkscape.
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In Inkscape you'll have to use the "node" tools to get the piece just like you like it. It'll be a number of line segments, but you can delete and join them and then you'll have your perfectly scalable piece. That's my current workflow... Ryan
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