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I'm working on a puppet design and I used several subdivisions to create the thermoplastic pieces that attach to the frame of my puppet. Does anyone know of a way I can flatten these subdivisions (without changing their shape!) to create almost like a dress makers pattern for construction?

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On 2017-05-21 at 10:05 PM, Robert Anderson said:

Right now, the Vectorworks "Unfold Surfaces" command can do flattening only of simple (singly-curved) shapes. TouchCAD can do unfolding of complex shapes. (You'll probably have to convert your subdivs into other primitives before you export.) You can look here:

 

http://www.touchcad.com/index.html

Yep, do that a lot in TouchCAD. This 3D Elvis model is about 1.5 meters. Fabrics skin with printed texture. 

 

 

Elvis in TouchCAD.jpg

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