Advanced Demo

for “Marine Cockpit Cover 3D Design to 2D Pattern”

If you create fabric or canvas products for the marine industry 3D to 2D digital patterning can help do more work in less time. In this demo we use a marine cockpit cover and import it into ExactFlat for Rhino 3D. We work on the imported model, flatten it into 2D patterns and create and export file for the cutter.

Table of Contents

Here’s the table of contents to the “Marine Cockpit Cover 3D Designs to 2D Patterns” video. This video shows how to flatten from 3D to 2D and create sewing patterns. Use the links below to navigate to the section of interest or watch the entire video:

0:00 Introduction
0:46 Create a Mesh
5:12 Join Pieces
6:22 Weld Pieces
7:11 The Adaptive Remesher
9:44 Flattening
11:37 Stage 1 of Flattening: The Pre-Flatteners
14:38 The Material Database

15:32 The Optimization Process
16:28 Strain Analysis
19:28 Rearrange the Pattern Pieces
23:10 Add Notches
24:08 Create a DXF File
25:08 Export to DXF
28:01 Operations Summary