No, cant say I've seen those, definitely fabric, without inflation.
For something like that, which is a static display, the design looks good, but will need more of an air tight arrangement.

I'm pleased to report that the lil ol car, as I said was picked up, and has been seen in some far off locations.
The first one was sold in Kuwait and has seen since on a beach in France. I've got my money back that it cost to get it rolling+ a bit.
Interesting business dealing with the powers that be on this sort of work.

Well I was inspired, what can I say?
Getting to template stage now, and it's all looking pretty good, tidying up loose ends to make him easier under the sewing machine.

He is currently being printed out smallish scale and sellotaped together (thats kiwi for sticky tape. I would upload a pic of the lower bod around 1/2m tall (and theres no way that I'm desiphering that into feet n inches)but it won't let me show you current paper progress.

Not going too bad anyway, still quite a few things to figure out yet, like the intake and bridling.
cheers
Jan

@honoluludesktop said:

Standards vs. no standards = some standards. Problem becomes who decides and how they decide. Well, maybe not a "problem", but a "process" that takes too long to adjust, and too slow to reflect changing social norms.

Last I heard, we're all waiting for a global standard.
Do you want 3d glasses with that sir?

Pepakura is still the best (that I've found so far) when it comes to unfolding.
You don't need to purchase the hi res version if you are able to export the unfolded file to some other software that will work with the formats pepakura gives you.
I work with a lot of organic shapes and there is an lot of 'tidying up' that must be done to get a 3d to flatten out to a workable 2d design and it pays dividends to take the time on your sketchup drawing to get things as right as you can.

You need to be aware, that updates of Google Sketchup won't necessarily work with Pepakura, I've found this out to my frustration. There aren't many old files of sketchup around, mostly they are a direct link, so you need to back up that old file just in case things go pear shaped.

Posed on here as well about the same problems you are having..
http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=25651

I like the chair too, powder coated steel maybe?
make a real one. Stackable perhaps? And find a manufacturer.

Well ones things for sure, will create a whole bunch of jobs - great for the economy. Mind you, that will be govt jobs - not so good.

Aus has yet to do the cencorship on websites, the govt wants it, black list on various sites.
I seems quite insane that govts even think about such things, I believe the last greatest total ban on anything (least in the u.s) was prohibition.
And that worked well didn't it.

I have no idea what is going to solve this recent dilemma of humanity. Perhaps everyone on this earth needs to watch Independance day several times over to get a cohesive view.
Beam me up Scotty.

I make kites, well, not kites, air inflatable objects.
I made my first one - a dino dinosaur, by the means of graph paper and PII, took a long time,
dino can be seen here http://www.qldkiteflyerssociety.com.au/fests/coolum_05/index.htm still sitting about, but after a few years, he's closer to the ground - (the fabric is becoming more porous).

Gotta be an easier way, and it has been a bit of a haul to get sketchup to think in fabric terms.
A bit of fruition here. http://www.qldkiteflyerssociety.com.au/fests/coolum_08/coolum08.htm
Felix the cat - mostly sketchup, cartoon shapes are good to practice on, panorama's got dino, felix and a carrot poking out of the sand of all things - also sketchup, the black blob is a spider, recognisable, but being redesigned to be really a really scary beasty.
Getting better at it and it's all just fun.

Unfold tool?
What unfold tool, where is it and how do I get it?

http://www.qldkiteflyerssociety.com.au/fests/coolum_09/car.htm
A bit of fun with a steering wheel and dodgy fella.
Design picked up maybe, see how it goes.

Thanks for your replies
The freeware Sketchup works fine, I don't have a problem with it at all. It is getting easier and easier to work with and I'm learning as well. Great program.
And this guy on uTube monsterz3r0, deserves a medal. Really got me on the right path.

But I export my drawings into Pepakura so I can make fabric patterns. I have tried wabe, but it didn't work well, but that was a year ago, so could perhaps give it ago again.

Anyway, Pepakura doesn't like the upgrade at all to the latest version of sketchup and when I import a supported .kmz file into it. It really spits the dummy. Every face is duplicated, so you essentially end up with 2 of everything. Makes it very very hard to join pieces together.
Pepakura is a bit of a skill anyway, as it does have a tendancy to fracture blocks of faces as well, but thats probably my drawing skills.

I'm really just kicking myself, that for some insane reason, I didn't keep a previous version of sketchup on file - versions of both that are going to collaborate together.
I guess Pepakura doesn't have the same kind of army working behind it that sketchup does and I will be waiting a while for catchup to occur on Pepakuras side.
What I need is the initial skip to version 7, the most recent once certainly won't come to the party, and it does make life difficult that Google doesn't keep available previous versions should software hiccups occur. Which is kind of ironic, since it does boast supporting a couple of formats. But I forget, thems Google ones anyway.

The good news is that drawing are progressing well, cept for the shoulder pads of the astronaut, but I will beat him into submission sooner or later . Well it won't be happening again. I sharnt be so trusting in the future.
Cheers
Jan

I'm really kicking myself now, after doing a clean install of the latest freeware version of sketchup... Needless to say I had been working on a model in sketchup which has taken a couple of months so far and was pretty well tidied up and getting to pattern stage.

Pepakura hasn't caught up, and when you find the pieces are mirrored, every piece is duplicated and split apart in oh so many horrible ways.

I would have been alright if I could have sourced the initial 7.1 sketchup file, I found a vers 6 version, but that was too early.

Needless to say it is a disaster. I can fully understand that previous versions won't be supported, but without the means to download previous versions from anywhere, and I searched n searched, it appears I am totally screwed.

Not Happy Jan

Practically finished now and turned out well I think. All went together easily and the only real problem I had was deciding that the front needed to be directly anchored to the ground to stop the wind blowing up underneath. This squashes the front wheels a little, but still achieves the aim of a bit of silly fun.

Cause there's no steering wheel built in, some bright spark suggested that I make a foam noodle wheel, which will give the 'driver' something to hang onto and make for a better phot.

bonnet and boot sewn up with white stripe, rims and part of tyre, 2 x number plates "KYT 09", windscreen with black stripe around top.
I've done my hour and a bit today, do a bit more tomorrow. Back to the drawing board to get the headlight template.
Can't post up any more phots yet, as there's nothing substantial that I can throw the fan in front of for a test inflate.
Going well tho. All the pattern pieces are working out pretty good.

Been a while since I posted anything up, I think the last effort was Felix the cat, who is up in the air pretty good now.

I've since used sketchup to design an inflatable turtle, with a series of those, big and small over the past couple of weeks, but this idea has been a while to come to fruition.
First thought of the idea around a year ago, too many drinks and went to sleep with the the electric blanket on high or something....

Anyway, it's a ground dwelling inflatable car, made from ripstip with a hole in the middle so that someone can get in underneath and appear to be sitting inside of it - photo oppotunity and all that.

This is the original drawing that I'm sure some of you will recognise.
Took me 2 goes at it, but the template that Im about to work on looks like this.
I generally make a paper model before going the whole hog and printing out the pieces, helps to visualise and also add any any extra bits like lights, deco etc.
So I've allowed myself a measly 5 weeks to get this creation on the go and finished.
Was going to put dorky flames on the bonnet, but think I might just do an off center strip instead. Best I go an oil up the sewing machine, there's a lot or work to be done.

At least now I know that it's not a .kmz export problem, some other mystery is afoot. Thanks for clarifying that Gaieus.

I'be be interested to hear if anyone else has struck the same issue with Pepakura2, or if there are the same problems problems with the Pepakura3
Thanks
Jan

Sorry, So I can export a model as Google earth 4 kmz format. In Version 7 of SU, there is a .kmz file export, but Pepakura locks up before the file is opened, so I'm assuming the kmz format included in 7 isn't a google earth 4kmz.

I'm unsure what the 'go' is for SU7 as with SU6 I could select from a choice of Google Earth4 (after Google Earth4 was installed) or the .kmz that came installed with SU6.

It might be some other compatibility problem with the new version of SU and Pepakura, but I hope not as the new SU seems good so far.

Hi, Wondering how I install the plugin for Google Earth 4 on Sketchup 7, so I can export into Pepakura.
(have got Google Earth 4.3 recently installed)

Problem solved, Nividia GeForce Go 7600 on HP notebook, couldn't find any new drivers on the nvidia site, but found thru HP site instead.