Load a 3D model from a .obj file. This option only loads the 3D geometry information, UV coordinates are not taken into account. When loading a mesh, Unfold3D also performs a validity check on the mesh, and warns you if an error is found. See the rules section for more detail.

Reload the information from the current .obj file. Unfold3D will perform the validity check on the imported mesh.

Loads a 3D model and its UV coordinates -if any- from a .obj file. Keeps the UV connectivity as described in the .obj file.

Writes the computed UV coordinates to the current .obj file.

Saves the mesh and UV coordinates in a .obj file.

Saves the UV coordinates as a 3D mesh. The resulting UV coordinates and connectivity are stored in a .obj file as a flat 3D model.

Writes the UV coordinates to a .ps file - to import them in a PostScript capable painting software.

Quit Unfold3D

Undo the last action

Redo the last undone action.

Select the selection mode of the Edition toolbar

Select the translation mode of the Edition toolbar

Select the rotation mode of the Edition toolbar

Select the scaling mode of the Edition toolbar

Change preferences of Unfold3D. See Preferences section for more details.

Choose the mouse button's effects (selecting edges...)

Save preferences for future sessions.

Select the Point edit mode of the Edition toolbar

Select the Edge edit mode of the Edition toolbar

Select the Poly edit mode of the Edition toolbar

Select the Island edit mode of the edit toolbar

Clear all the selections

Activate the bidirectional selection mode of the edges

Activate the edge-to-edge selection mode

Hide all selected submeshes

Hide all unselected submeshes

Cut the model along the selected edges.

Weld the selected edges back together. If an edge was marked as cut in the imported OBJ file, this will have no action.

Clears UV coordinates and pastes 3D coordinates instead.

Unfold the mesh with its current cutline and smooth parameters. With this command, Unfold3D will try a certain number of unfolding iterations (see also the Preferences section) and stop when it reaches a satisfying result.

To pin all the points you have selected

To unpin all the points you have selected

To upin all the points on your mesh

Makes selected edges horizontal

Makes selected edges vertical

Remove constraints on selected edges

Remove all edges constraints

Freeze a position of the mesh

Simple edition of the mesh, without recalculation of the whole mesh when you do a change on it

Update of the whole mesh for each change (translation/rotation/scaling)

Update of the mesh in real time for each move of points or edges

Try to reduce the surface stretching of the UV mapping. See the adjusting section for more details.

You can set manually the tightness of surface adjusting. Values below 1 mean more precision but more computations too, values greater than 1 give faster adjusting but less precise results.

Place the charts of the UV mapping to minimize the wasted space in texture space. See the packing section for more details.

Change the settings of the packing operation. See the packing section for more details.

Displays informations about the mesh (number of polygons, stretching...) in the log console.

If the mesh was imported with its UVs (Files->Load OBJ UV...), reload the UVs from the OBJ file.

Save the mesh information in a text file.