Parts measured against CAD or drawing
Art, heritage, film, products and games
Capture, mesh and digital twins
Reverse engineering and inspection
Wraps, covers and patterns from a 3D shape
Capture and processing, two days or three
Inspection, reporting and repeatable routines
Patterns, covers and wraps from a 3D shape
Jobs we have scanned, for named customers
Objects, vehicles and sculpture we have scanned
Scanning software · Flatten a 3D surface into a 2D pattern
Some jobs end in 2D: a wrap panel, an upholstery pattern, a template. Flattening software turns a captured 3D surface into an accurate 2D pattern, with the distortion controlled instead of discovered at the cutter.
Typical jobs
Some jobs end in two dimensions: a vehicle wrap, a seat cover, a composite ply, a printed texture.
3D to 2D pattern making
A program of its own that does one thing properly on scan data from any of the Artec scanners. It hands back patterns ready to cut.
Price on application
3D to 2D flattening for Rhino
A plugin for Rhino, with Rhino included. Flattens a vehicle scan into templates for wraps and paint protection film; add Monarch to flatten the graphics with the panels.
£2,450from, ex VAT
A curved surface cannot be laid flat without tearing or bunching, any more than you can flatten orange peel. Flattening software works out where the relief goes and how to spread the distortion, so the printed pattern still fits the object it came from.
Done by eye, the panel is a centimetre out at the edge. Done properly, it goes on first time.
The maths is the same in every trade that wraps a flat material round a curved shape: vehicle wrapping, upholstery, marine canopies, signage, protective covers and composite lay-up. Anywhere somebody makes a paper template by hand and throws away the first two attempts.
It runs on data from any of the Artec scanners, so the capture side is whatever you already have. No scanner? We can capture the object for you and hand back the patterns.
Courses run in Cheshire or at your site. Each card shows what the days cover and the price.
One day on 3D to 2D pattern making, from a scanned mesh to cut-ready patterns.
Full itinerary to follow.
£1,000ex VAT, per course
A demonstration on your own scans or parts is the quickest way to know whether a package fits your work. It takes about an hour.
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