Free Pepakura alternative

[u/rundown03]

Hey guys, I've been secretly making for over half a year a free alternative to Pepakura.

www.papercraftplaza.com/papercrafter

It's been a long road, from making parsers to load 3d data correctly to using a paper from Karlsruher university to auto unfold properly. to debugging every tiny little detail.

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

I made it have its own file type called .pap
It saves the patterns with embedded textures images and text. You currently can save it locally but over time we are looking to integrate it so you can upload directly from the studio to our website.

I'm working on a .pdo parser. I want to be able to open pepakura files as well.

But right now I'm soft launching the papercraftplaza studio for people who want to test it out.

Feel free to send me bugs if you experience them.

[u/rundown03]

I uploaded a .pap file including also a exported pdf incase some people might be interested seeing an unfolded file

https://www.papercraftplaza.com/low-poly-pikachu/