Aside from problems mentionned by Magnus, I tried to create a template for LDPC. Good and not so good news...
I was able to create a cone template using the following method:
- Create the cone in LDraw.
- convert it to stl with LDView.
- import the cone in Meshmixer
- Create the flat template with Meshmixer unwrap tool
- export the flat template to stl and convert it to LDraw domain with stl2dat
- Import that file in LDPC and make a template.
- Replace flat projection data of the LDPC template with 3D values from the initial cone.
Now the problems...
- you have to take care of the order of polygons, and of the order of vertices of each polygon, and the long travel between tools tends to mess up things.
- LDPC projection precision looks fairly limited, and resulting pattern has small gaps.
Attached the files. As the process is fairly manual, I limited myself to 7 segments of cones...
Template file:
tepee.txt (Size: 1.78 KB / Downloads: 7)
example LPC project:
tepeetest.lpc (Size: 17.28 KB / Downloads: 5)
result:
tepeetest.dat (Size: 3.3 KB / Downloads: 8)
"raw" cone to see difference between "ideal" shape and somewhat off projected result:
cone3d.dat (Size: 602 bytes / Downloads: 7)
I was able to create a cone template using the following method:
- Create the cone in LDraw.
- convert it to stl with LDView.
- import the cone in Meshmixer
- Create the flat template with Meshmixer unwrap tool
- export the flat template to stl and convert it to LDraw domain with stl2dat
- Import that file in LDPC and make a template.
- Replace flat projection data of the LDPC template with 3D values from the initial cone.
Now the problems...
- you have to take care of the order of polygons, and of the order of vertices of each polygon, and the long travel between tools tends to mess up things.
- LDPC projection precision looks fairly limited, and resulting pattern has small gaps.
Attached the files. As the process is fairly manual, I limited myself to 7 segments of cones...
Template file:
tepee.txt (Size: 1.78 KB / Downloads: 7)
example LPC project:
tepeetest.lpc (Size: 17.28 KB / Downloads: 5)
result:
tepeetest.dat (Size: 3.3 KB / Downloads: 8)
"raw" cone to see difference between "ideal" shape and somewhat off projected result:
cone3d.dat (Size: 602 bytes / Downloads: 7)