@arail1 said:
I look forward to your tutorial about exporting SketchUp to Pepakura if you ever get around to it.
What file format did you use?
http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=20945&p=175902#p175902
There you go and maybe sunday ill get around to explaining pepakura in some detail and ill paste it up but for right now thats the tut it shows how to fix some problems I sure had some and if there is any more just reply to that thread.
When I first was doing my papercraft on sketchup I didnt realize I would run into these problems so many problems with pepakura with sketchup converting, problems in pepakura to finish it when I laid out everything to completing the 3d work to putting in the textures. I looked around and all over trying to find a tutorial or a fix to my problems but found nothing but halo helmet tutorials, so I managed to figure it out on my own. ( its important to update both programs a problem I had earlier was it didnt want to import so I had to redownload the update to sketchup and then it worked) First lets make a model and texture it * snaps fingers* oh good we have one already. Now lets export it to pepakura go to file > Export> 3d Model
make sure its KMZ format. Then open pepakura and open.
Since your model is already textured and made now you want to export it ( best to keep both programs open since you will be going left and right), but more problems soon to come for some parts of your model ( you may get lucky ) but for some of you there is a workaround. Now lets start pepakura ( With this tutorial I will show you some extra stuff this program has), but for right now lets get to the problems as you can see in picture 2 when you press unfold notice the 3D box on the left from the box on the right. some textures are missing plus the pieces dont connect in pepakura when tried and/or your missing flaps ( now you cannot manually add flaps in pepakura you can draw them in if you want to ) you still have to fix the textures though and it would be best to fix them in model than out of.
So what we are gonna do is go back to sketchup were gonna have to do a little of back and forthing but it will be worth it. Now go to the side thats causing the problem in sketchup click and highlight on the texture ( face) and right click go to reverse facesyou will have to import texture again and some on the off chance the texture reverses itself so you will have to edit it in your image app. Now lets test it out......and yes it works..
Now for harder models with complicated pieces like this you go to view then hidden geometry and click on any face you need. If that doesnt work you will need to reverse the whole entire piece.
( Dont worry this works just keep messing with it) sometimes you will have to put textures inside of the model pieces othe rtimes it would be good to reverse the whole thing or your lucky and just one piece. Well thats all I can tell you about these problems if you need anymore you can reply here or any new problem please put a tut on this forum and pass it around.
PS If anyone has any further problems that I didnt adress please reply here on this thread and ill see what I can do
Hey I am finished with my papercraft its all done and if anyone wants to try it, the link is on my blog happy papercrafting its all textured and instructions inside. Since I had to mess with pepakura alt and managed to get it to work ill probably put a tutorial up on how to work sketchup with pepakura.
Well I finished texturing wanted to throw a update but now there is a new problem ( maybe I should make a new thread for this ) but now come in a new problem the unfolding for my papercraft. For sketchup I had to seperate the whole model into 3 parts and work on them like that and when put back together the textures dont all load up ( I think there are too many ) but thats not the real problem its uploading the textures to pepakura so I can unfold the model when I load up a piece of the model it doesnt show me more than 1 texture and the rest blank.
I looked at alternative unfolding ways I checked out waybe and thats junk my sketchup crashes and the program isnt that great and I looked at the unfolding tool but I dont know how to export it in jpg or bmp form without taking a angled shot and I have to do that to all the pieces the scale is gonna be all wonky.
So in the final process I was wondering if anyone has any ideas or ways I can get pepakura to work its magic?
Thanks
Well I fiddled with weld and it did work for the most part I had to keep recreating different ways for the line to move beacuse somehow it kept glitching a line and I had to keep erasing a piece but it seemed that if a line wasnt fully touching it would create really bad spikes all over the screen and I managed to get the line able to make a box as I wanted it then I broke the line is in sections and moved it as I wanted as in the picture. its not fully done for that piece, but with a little work it will be done.
Thanks bro I will send pics wen the textures are done if my sketchup doesnt blow up from all the images
I will try it out it seems to wield both lines but I think I need to work with it for a few days but im taking a break from this model for a little while its dissapointing to be almost done and you hit a almost dead end
I have not tried that but I am running it right now as a new model page and messing with it from there what seems to be the problem what I can figure out is I use 2 lines to form the wire I use " Explode Curve" and I join it up again but both curves still not joined and I have tested it over and over it seems that one of the lines works well but when both higlighted either one or both jump and seperate like I moved it out of the way or the 2nd line moves itself to the base face from where I clicked.
Very odd.......the only way I can think of anything is make those 2 lines form a solid line or try to make it into one line but I dont know how thats my only guess
Yes sorry and thank you its gonna be a papercraft hopefully if it works out. yes the loopey part here is a better picture of the line already formed from the gun to the back panel
EDIT: I used follow me and rotate plugin with the SFC powerbar plugin
Hello all I was wondering if I could get some help with this model im building and there has been a specific part that is killing me to do I spent uncountless hours on it and nothing will work for me I have tried follow me rotate and for the likes of it, it either works half way or the faces spike out of pure dred.
It looks simple but the gun belt in this picture I need to reproduce in sketchup as you can see it dips down and twists and goes to the back compartment I manged to recreated it with a line tool but the plug in doesnt let me finish it off.
Anyone has any idea ? here is my progress so far its almost done except for a little more texturing but thats the only piece that I cannot finish
