Unfolder for Mac – A 3D model unfolding tool for creating papercraft

(unfolder.app)

62 points by codazoda3 hours ago

4 comments

allenu1 hour ago
I like the clean design of the landing page. I downloaded it and started the app and it needs an OBJ file to even do anything, so I wasn't able to play with it at all.It would be cool if it included sample OBJ files to entice me to find my own later. Otherwise I feel like I just hit a wall immediately in the app will probably not try it again.
- 1-more12 minutes ago
 The way I tested was search Thingiverse for "angular" and download an STL, then convert it online to an OBJ on the first search result for "stl to obj"Specifically I tried this rook from this chess set. <a href="https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5994219/files" rel="nofollow">https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5994219/files</a>Sadly, some of the crenelations on top of it are just cubes with 2 sides missing that would be impossible to attach to the folded up rook. I imagine there is a ton of loss between a file for a 3D printer, a random convert to Obj with no settings, and this net maker, so I'm not unsympathetic to the problem. It's just that this is a printout that would not be foldable into something useful.
dnpls2 hours ago
So, like Pepakura? <a href="https://pepakura.tamasoft.co.jp/pepakura_designer/" rel="nofollow">https://pepakura.tamasoft.co.jp/pepakura_designer/</a>
- detritus26 minutes ago
 So weird for me to see this popup now on HN as I happened to dig through an old downloads folder a few minutes ago and saw an install file for Pepakura (13/11/2014), and wondered where that sort of thing had ended up... .
- moralestapia1 hour ago
 No!This one is called Unfolder, it's a different app, made by a different person, etc...More than one app per category can exist, and that's good!
constantlm32 minutes ago
This is great - reminds me of the golden age of cool little MacOS apps
ElijahLynn2 hours ago
Mac only. Is there any reason this couldn't be a web app? And seems pretty restrictive to just have one platform, a desktop Mac.
- dwb59 minutes ago
  If I built a Mac app, the reason would be that I use a Mac, as do a lot of other people, and native apps are a lot more pleasant than non-native apps. I don't really understand why it's "restrictive"? There is no restriction happening.
- hbn18 minutes ago
  The author had to decide between making something excellent for some people or mediocre for everyone, and chose the former
- joemi49 minutes ago
  The same could be said about pretty much _any_ software.