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Meta to pepa adding lines :(
Please can anyone help?
I have created a simple letter E in Meta and it seems to be perfectly ok. However when I open it in Pepa it has lots of extra edges and faces all from one corner and I have no idea why. I've read every post here and can't find anyone with the same problem so I've posted a screenshot of the same file in both programs. Hope someone knows whats happened Cheers in advance |
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Hi Skrellan,
Pepakura does not like T joints. Ex. Code:
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--------- \ / \ / \ / \/ ---+----- | If you can do your "E" like the attached image, Pepakura will be able to unfold it without problems. |
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Whoo hoo :D Fantastic tried that and it works great.
Thank you |
#4
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Welcome!
Also, if you see Pepakura complaining about "N-extra points, N-faces deleted", you can try doing a "join closed vertices" command with the threshold set at 0-0.01. |
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right ok got that working too thanks
The only other problem I can't seem to figure is I've drawn four separate items but moved them together so parts disappear inside others. Is there now a command that joins them together and deletes the hidden bits? |
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You can use the BOOLEAN operation to join separate objects into one. But that can be a bit messy, depending on how complex your objects are.
Try to move each separate item into its own object. (Select joined faces, then CTRL+X, then CTRL+V) This will create a new object. Do the same for the other separate items. Now bring up the BOOLEAN operation menu then perform a Union operation to merge the two separate objects into one new object. Unfortunately, the boolean operation only works with two objects at a time. You'll have to perform this union operation multiple times if want to join more than two items. |
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extra faces, extra lines, meta, pepakura |
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