After I cleaned up the files produced by Pepakura with Illustrator I could test the prototype. If you look closely to the previous post about this project, you see that I don’t have a screenshot from the rounded part on top of the can. This is because I couldn’t get it to work in Google [...]
I imported the .KMZ file made by Google Sketchup, which I made in part 2 of this series, to Pepakura designer and I wasn’t totally happy with the end result: I contribute the in some cases strange “decisions” from Pepakura to: – my very basic modeling skills (I have none) – Pepakura can’t think like [...]
Time to convert the illustration from part 1 into a 3d object in Google Sketchup: First the bottom of the can: Created a separate cap: Putting it together: Time to convert this to a flat, printable version using Pepakura designer
Another Dutchman (Brickboy for example) who’s created a urban papercraft model: http://alle440.blog.com/ The name puzzled me for a while but e440 ‘explained’ it: (sorry this is in Dutch…) KLM Cargo heeft gisteren 440 eekhoorns die vanuit China op doorreis waren naar Griekenland laten afmaken. Daartoe is besloten omdat de vereiste export- en gezondheidsdocumenten ontbraken. ,,Dit [...]
I don’t know exactly how I came up with this idea: perhaps a extension for Grumm or a container for the urban papercraft series or a simple shape that can be made with Google Sketchup But it really don’t matter, I’ve been working on a papermodel in the shape of a spraycan. I started with [...]
