Autodesk 123d Make - Pepakura/Cardboard Slices/3d Printing

[Talaaya]

Anyone else seen this software?

I came across this the other day and I was delightfully surprised to see Autodesk trying their hand at software that looks very useful to our crowd. It has what looks to be pepakura, as well as a cardboard (or other flat material) layering creation system, and mentions prepping 3d print models (hollowing out, etc.).

I'm particularly intrigued by the cardboard layering creation type: turn any 3d model into slices of a flat material that can be slid into each other like those wooden dinosaur kits. I can see all sorts of uses for a method like this. In particular, it could be an alternative to pepakura for some projects. I suggested this to my sister and she's going to use this method to create the shape of the longbow for her costume. Unlike just carving the bow out of foam, this will make the bow perfectly symmetrical and easy to make! You could fill in the stair-step gaps, then sand that down to the cardboard. Easy to keep the proper shape! In theory it also provides a skeleton-like structure on the inside of the foam (maybe not so much with cardboard).

Anyway, hope you guys find this useful!

 

[Biskt]

Brilliant! Very useful. Especially for foamboard weapons that are organically shaped, say, like a halo needler.

 

[jackieisrockin]

It seems like a good idea! There are a few things i could think it might be able to replace instead of pepping certain pieces. All you pretty much would have to do is just use some Bondo to smooth it out and that would be it I might try it one of these days :confused but not sure on what