Pepakura Designer

Overview of Pepakura Designer (Making unfolded 2D patterns from the 3D models)

Pepakura Designer is a Windows application which makes unfolded patterns from 3D data. Pepakura Designer is a program developed in Japan (the word Pepakura stands for papercraft in Japanese) for making unfolded 2D patterns from the 3D models. Because the operation is very simple, you can make patterns easily. Then you can edit the pattern as you like. Pepakura Designer makes it easy to design original papercraft patterns by importing 3D model data. No special knowledge is required for making papercraft patterns. All you have to do is prepare the 3D model. You may use some 3DCG software released from other developers to make the 3D models for unfolding.

Main Features of Pepakura Designer:

• An unfolded 3D model pattern will be generated once you press the button.
• Pepakura Designer provides a simple and useful toolset for layout editing.
• The Move, Rotate, and Join/Disjoin Parts editing tools, and the Adding Flaps support to arrange the layout.
• Pepakura Designer assists in the assembly process.
• For example, ID numbers are assigned to edges, so you can understand the pairs of edges to be glued together. The positions of the pairs to be glued together are indicated by an arrow.
• Pepakura Designer supports the export in several file formats, including BMP, PNG, GIF, JPG, EPS, DXF, and PDF.
• By switching the textures on and off, you can assemble the color model or the white model, whichever you prefer.
• You can also change the texture images on Pepakura Designer.

Supported 3D file formats:

• Wavefront (obj)
• AutoCAD 3D (dxf)
• Metasequoia (mqo)
• 3DS Max (3ds)
• Lightwave (lwo)
• Binary STL (stl)
• Google Earth4 (kml, kmz).

System Requirements:

• Supported OS: Windows 8, 10 and higher
• Free Hard Disk Space: 500 MB or more