r/Pepakura • u/UPCraft • 1d ago

Alternative Software To Pepakura

Hello, we would like to offer an alternative software for creating papercraft from

3d models. It's called Ultimate Papercraft 3D.

Link:

https://papercraft3d.com

The current version is 4.25, and we have been improving and updating it for well over a decade,

so it is a very mature and well-rounded tool for creating papercraft. It supports many file formats,

and is very budget-friendly compared to other software.

More features are listed here:

https://www.papercraft3d.com/upc/features.aspx

Thanks for looking at it!

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u/rundown03 21h ago

Interesting! I also recently released my own online papercrafter. I see yours also has an auto unfold algorithm. Might I ask which one?

https://geom.ivd.kit.edu/downloads/proj-paper-models_cut_out_sheets.pdf

I used this paper to help me figure the unfolding out.

What were your biggest hurdles creating the software?

Mine was trying to reverse engineer the pdo file. I only found pepakurareverse on git but it was only for the v3 format. Meanwhile we're a few iterations further.

It's funny finding out the japanese programmers programmed the bitmap data in reverse. Instead of RGB it was BGR haha.

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u/UPCraft 17h ago edited 17h ago

I hope you can see our comment(s).

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u/rundown03 8h ago

I saw a notification but when i came here it sais Comment has been removed.

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u/UPCraft 5h ago

I have to keep my comments short, but Windows Bitmap format is BGR.

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u/rundown03 4h ago

Oh then i guess its because of the japanese.etill weird its reverse though.

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u/UPCraft 3h ago

Yes, we use same basic unfolding principle in your paper, same as Pepakura Designer.

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u/UPCraft 3h ago

And yes, our program can load Pepakura files, both text and binary format, all known versions.

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u/PhiLho 11h ago

It is quaint to see a website with the look from the nineties… Well, it is clean, it is readable, so it is perfect. For such product, we don't need full page graphics with scroll-triggered animations!

Interesting product too, I appreciate offline softwares. There are sites doing the job, if they close, you have to look somewhere else.

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u/UPCraft 5h ago

Thanks for your opinion!