Hi All,
I am trying to flatten the surface of a curved glass design. The junction between each curved length of the panel is supposed to be the same. However, the lengths have some discrepancies. I wonder if there’s any mistake in the model, or if there’s a better way to unroll/squish/flatten the surface.
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best,
flattening surface is inaccurate because the surface you are unrolling is a double curved surface, which means that it is defined by more than 1 curve, so topologically speaking, it is impossible to flatten it into a flat surface (i.e. you cannot flatten a sphere into a surface, but only by approximating it.) That’s why there is inaccuracy. If you want a higher accuracy, you can subdivide the surface into more smaller surface and unroll it so you can fold it - but then you would be losing the continuity and smoothness of the surfaces.
