Holding middle mouse button and drag your mouse in 3D window can do panning.

Scroll your mouse scroll to zoom in and out, it can works on each window. You also can click in 2D part and it will also corresponds with the 3D part, you should try clicking on other parts and see what it shows. Notice the hull that you clicked in 3d window corresponds with a part in 2D window, see a 2D part that highlighted with a red box/line.

Now click on the boat hull in 3D window, you can rotate view the 3d boat by holding right mouse button on 3d window and drag your mouse left right or up and down. Select Check Corresponding Face, this function is to look for corresponding face in 2D window from 3D window. Click on the right window (2D window) you will see a window popped up with seven functions. Now I am going to layout those scattered parts, I start with the boat hull or the biggest part. Now the parts are bigger and in the correct scale, which is 1:50. On right window you can see the size of paper is changed. Change the scale variable with that value, on 2DPatternWindow menu, choose Change the Scale of Development and choose Specify the Scale, it will open Change Pattern Size window, enter the value and click OK. On the right window you can see the unfolded parts are already without flaps, now you can layout them up.īefore you do that, first you have to set the scale which we already have the variable from previous tutorial. By doing that you can hide confusing flaps (glue tabs). On 2DPatternWindow toggle off Show Flaps.

Simplify the way you see things could easier to manage. Don’t worry it always like that if you press Unfold button (automatic unfold), this is the step where human brain must taking over. Now we have boat.obj file opened in Pep, as you can see that we have chaotic parts in unfolded 2D window (right). I’m going to use the same model as the last tutorial. Remember in the previous tutorials that Pep can’t edit the 3d file, it only help us to convert 3D planes into 2D planes and has the ability to edit and adjust the layout and flaps position. So here it is the next step which is unfolding step in Pepakura 3D Designer (Pep). For a quite a long time since the last time I update this tutorial section.

Pepakura designer tutorial