Make sure that you change the default print setting, this will improve the quality of your print and makes it possible to import in Illustrator. Oke lets see what Pepakura does with this simple example: press “unfold’ Open the character.kmz file you just saved on you’re hard drive
If you’ve done what I asked, you have Pepakura installed (and if not, now is the time). Luckily there is a solution: change the default print mode to Vector Print (see point 3a.) 1. Update #2: when I tried to import the PDF into illustrator, I noticed that the PDF wasn’t a vector file. So lets search a nice letter with a nice “M” or “m” (or whatever letter you want).įor example a couple of font of /:Ĭowboys – big/strong and very little curvesĪerojones nf – big / strong and round cournersīut make this tutorial even easier I have chosen for a pixel-font from 04.jp.org named 04b-19.ĭownload the font(s) you want to use, and copy it in: So for this tutorial I will explain just one letter and we will make it 3d.Įxcept the programs discussed above ( Pepakura designer v2.1.2, Google SketchUp 6 and PDFCreator) you also have to choose a nice font to create your initial/character in. Which is not bad, but quite difficult to point out how things work. We could make a complete text logo, but when I started writing this tutorial I found out that with more then one letter, it started to be quite complex. I want to make a 3d version of mck and because I know how difficult it is to create round corners (“c”) I am looking for a bold/stong blocky font. Lets make a text logo and I really want to use the logo I made a while back, but I realize that’s not for everybody….So lets make a logo out of freeware fonts, and find a font suitable for what I want. This has of course some limitations, and the biggest one is you are not able to save you changes (which you can unlock for a lousy US$38). But I found that it’s possible to print, so a legal way to export what you have build in Pepakura is PDF. So the only limitation you have is Pepakura designer: in the version you can download and try out, it’s not possible to “Save” and “Export”. Google SketchUp is freeware, PDFCreator is open source (free) and Pepakura designer is shareware. The only reason I choose for Google SketchUp because I got it to work in a couple of minutes… To name a view: Blender, Wings 3D, Metasequoia and there are probably a lot more. Update #3: There are a lot of very good/ free 3D programs out there.
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