Best plugin or component for unfolding surfaces / closed meshed

Hello i have some closed meshes in Rhino that are representing folded steel plates. I want to unfold those closed meshes and create flat countours of this plates (so the laser can cut shapes from it) Is there any component that will directly unfold those meshes?

Alternatively with some work i can create in rhino the middle surface of those closed meshes an unfold them with some component. But i prefer to put in this as little work as possible so it be ideal to unfold whole cloes meshes.

Picture below represents sample meshes for better understanding

A quad strip can be unrolled with the Unroller component which you can find in the Kangaroo / Mesh tab.

If the geometry has bent surfaces, you can use a script like in this post:

If you’re looking for an an automated sheet metal unroller which adds material on bends according to the thickness of the material, there is no such thing in Rhino.

The Kangaroo strip unroller is only for mesh strips without any branching or internal vertices.
For more complex meshes you could look at Ivy

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