20231007 unroll surface panel.3dm (278.5 KB)
hi, @Quan_Li
Do you have some tricks for this?
Sorry, I have no idea and I like to know either.
Looks like an unfolding/flattening workaround as opposed to ‘unrolling’ - perhaps with kangaroo - however it also looks like your end (desired) result features an ‘unwelded’ condition along the edges of the top smaller surfaces. How did you get to that result in the first place?
As the picture shows, what I really wanted was a continuous typographical relationship, but it ended up being continuous, but bifurcated
Hi @steadfast1031 ,
Will those facade panels be fabricated according to your unrolled layout?
yeah, this model only shows a part of it, and even hundreds of panels would be much more convenient if they were laid out as intended
Sure, hence the question: how did you unroll it like that in the first place in order to show the desired result. Just manually…?
The 3-D object and the flattened result appear to be different entities. I point it out because if the disconnected vertices in your 2-D layout were actually unwelded in the 3-D one then a mesh unfold/flatten approach is doable, perhaps the polysurface one as well via a python code, which I have seen.
Yeah, I’m trying to find a way to make the unrolled face the same as the three-dimensional panel.
It’s been known! Alright though 
I insisted with the question precisely to try to find a way.
Best of luck!
Need to unjoin the edges
i have used Wombat plugin to unroll the surface
Regards,
Rajeev Pulari
Thanks a lot, code determines efficiency 
