I am using Rhino to create textile patterns. The design unrolls, gets printed to a paper pattern, cut to fabric and then sewn together.
To achieve the best end result I would like to mark the pieces where things need to align. Ideally I would mark the spot once and this would then transfer to both the fabric pieces as they are flattened and printed to paper pattern. Imagine cutting across a seam with a pair of scissors before opening up the seam. The cut would act as a mark and allow these two pieces of fabric to easily be aligned if one wanted to sew them back together again. (Lets ignore that the cut ruined it for now…)
I have been playing around with arrays and flow along curve/surface. My method feels flawed since it takes quite some work to get the markings aligned on both fabric pieces in preparation for flattening.
Any ideas to how I could do the above in a fast and efficient manner?
Hello - how many of these marker curves do you need to add, typically? And do you need for the two to somehow each know about the other after unrolling?
@a00j0 At any rate, just in cae it helps, here’s a python to try - it will drop lines on the objects that can be selected with the Unroll process in UnrollSrf.
Use RunPythonScript to try it, or use a macro in the form
! _-RunPythonScrpt "Full path to py file inside double quotes"
The numbers of markers depend on the design, but roughly anywhere from 4 to 20. I can definitely see the benefit of the marker pairs staying synced after unrolling, but it is not essential.
I tried your script and it does the job! This will make the output of prototypes a little easier. Thanks!
@a00j0, just because it seemed like a handy thing, potentially, I made the curves know about each other and made a second script to point any of the markers to its mates.
Hi Pascal,
Mayebe, I can create my curves such as A1.A2.A3 then use [SeamMarker.py] marker it’s like that one i create?
Honestly, I’d like to unroll some specific part on model ,example circle model I’d like to start unroll upper part model. Do you think we can seleted part to start to unroll?