With the complete history of paper now out of the way I can continue with my complete beginners guide to paper-craft, after all, you’re not here for a history lesson are you? Chances are, you’re here because you want to start making paper models for your own enjoyment or you are looking to embark on the first steps in creating wearable armour, helmets, masks etc… that you can display, wear to conventions, fancy dress parties or even sell.

The output font size of the Edge ID in Pepakura Viewer Silhouette CAMEO has been changed.Paper is a wonderfully versatile material with a long history that can be traced to AD 105, when a Chinese Emperors official attached to the imperial court, Ts’ai Lun created a sheet of paper using hemp waste, mulberry and other materials. When - is set ON, adjacent flaps that can be merged into one are now merged automatically (in the figure below, the blue dashed line is a line that does not actually need to be folded). The 3D models that you design with 3D CG software, can be put out into the real world from the digital world using Pepakura Designer. Now you can enjoy designing your own papercraft. The dedicated viewer, Pepakura Viewer, is available from Pepakura Designer's official web site freely. Not only can a pattern created by Pepakura Designer be printed and saved as 2D image, but you can also share it with other people. You may use some 3DCG software released from other developers to make the 3D models for unfolding. All you have to do is prepare the 3D model.

No special knowledge is required for making papercraft patterns. Pepakura Designer makes it easy to design original papercraft patterns by importing 3D model data. Then you can edit the pattern as you like. Because the operation is very simple, you can make patterns easily. Pepakura Designer is a program developed in Japan (the word Pepakura stands for papercraft in Japanese) for making unfolded 2D patterns from the 3D models.

Pepakura viewer 4 for silhouette cameo