"And now, for something
completely different!" Well, "something somewhat different" I guess, in that it isn't really a '
daily download' papercraft that I found and am telling you about that you can just download and build yourself for free. ...wait, you
can just do that too... You know, let's just start telling you! 😊
You know, I've used
Pepakura for a VERY long time to make papercraft models and
I still absolutely love it! There are actually many other 'unwrappers' that you can use though, and
Papercraft from Rodrigo Rivas Costa is another one! 😀
Papercraft looks like
Pepakura that you can install on your computer to use offline or like the online
Paper Maker, just a version that
looks like it
fewer options
(but that really doesn't 😉).
It's a standalone application, meaning you can download it to your computer, but you don't actually have to install it on your computer! You can just download and unpack the last Papercraft Asset (like the 32- or 64-bit version Zip-files for Microsoft Windows or the DMG file for MacOS computers) at the bottom from Rodrigo Rivas Costa's Github account and just unpack it in a folder to run it: 😃
NOTE: my Microsoft Defender SmartScreen doesn't recognize rodrigorc as a big software publisher, so the first time I ran his Papercraft application it told me it wanted to protect my computer from harm: ONLY CLICK More info to reveal the Run anyway button if you trust it of course!
If you do trust it and download it, you can use Rodrigo's
Papercraft tool from a file folder from your computer! 😀 It's a pretty
self-explanatory tool and there's a whole
README on Rodrigo's Github to learn how to
Import a new
*.obj or
*.stl 3D model (that you do need to make first in Blender for example) and
(of course I would say 😉) it can also import
Pepakura *.pdo files.
What's more, if you look in the unpacked download folder, you can also
Open four
*.craft files
(that's the very aptly named file extension for the Papercraft tool 😊): Rodrigo added a papercraft
die 🎲 and
(because I think he's a Pokémon fan to, just look at his user icon on his Github page 😉) a
papercraft low-poly Bulbasaur 🌱,
Charmander 🔥 and
Pikachu 🗲 (made by Agustin Arroyo under Creative Commons CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license) to show you what his
Papercraft tool can do and to get you started!
I think Rodrigo's
Papercraft is a very cool unwrapping tool, so check it out and if you create any nice paper model, Rodigo would appreciate it if you open an
issue on Papercraft's Github page and send some pictures! 😀
Rodrigo Rivas Costa's Papercraft tool:
