UNFOLD3D Generation 6 User Manual

6. UV Edition

6.1 - Rotation / Translation / Scaling

With Unfold3D generation 6, you can edit submeshes, polygons, edges and points.

You can apply different kind of transformations to these elements : rotation, translation or scaling.

First of all, you have to select the type of element you want to edit :

to edit submeshes, press on the edition toolbar.
to edit polygons, press
to edit edges, press
to edit points, press

Then, you can apply the following transformations on selected elements :

to select and translate submeshes, polygons, edges or point, press on the edition toolbar.
to select and rotate submeshes, polygons or edges, press
to select and scale submeshes, polygons or edges, press

Hold on the Shift key to select more than one element.

6.2 - Pinning

With Unfold3D generation 6, you can apply a pinning constraint to your mesh. The pinning constraint allow you to move points or parts of your submeshes, and then to adapt the mesh to your wishes.

To use the pinning feature, switch first to select and translate mode on the edition toolbar.

Then switch to point edit mode .

If you select more than one point, all your points are automatically pinned. You have just to move the last point selected to distort your mesh.

To unpin the points, press if you want to unpin selected points or if you want to unpin all the points.

The pinning constraint comes with a feature allowing you to adapt the whole mesh to the distorsion of a part of it.

You can switch this update feature on or off, by using the following buttons :

press to switch the update feature off.
press to switch the update feature on : your mesh will be updated after each change on it.
press to update your mesh in real time, at the same time you are changing a part of the mesh.

You can also freeze a state of your the mesh you have modified, with no possibility to come back to a previous state. To freeze your mesh, press

6.3 - Horizontal and vertical constraints

With Unfold3D, you can apply horizontal or vertical constraints to your meshes.

In other words, you can make a set of edges vertical or horizontal.

For this, you have to :

select the edges you want to make horizontal or vertical
press for horizontal constraint or for vertical constaint
then press to redo unfolding, by taking in account the constraints you want to apply.

Watch our video to get an exemple.