Rhino help

Hi everyone,

I'm fumbling my way through Rhino 4.

I don't know what half of the terminology is in what I'm reading in the "Rhino help" window.

I have a simple request.

I'd like to know in english, how to take a faceted wall from a 3D model and lay it flat on the construction plane so I can print/cut the panels.

Can someone help?

I see that many have viewed this thread but no replies.

How come?

Can this not be done?

Is this faceted wall a PolySurface, or some form of mesh? If it is the former then that task can be accomplished with the menu command:

Surface - Unroll Developable Srf.

In the object description it says...

Render Material:

source = from layer

index = 210

Attribute UserData:

UserData ID: B0EE2168-8EC6-42ed-A962-26DEB8CC8F9A

Plug-in: Rhino Render

description: Rhino Renderable Object UserData

saved in file: no

copy count: 1

Geometry:

Valid surface.

Trimmed surface

NURBS Surface (rational)

"U": degree =1 CV count = 2 (0

"V": degree =1 CV count = 2 (0

Edge Tally:

4 boundary edges

Edge Tolerances: 0.00 to 0.000178941

median = 0.00 average = 4.47352e-05

Vertex Tolerances: all 0.000178941

Render mesh: 1 mesh 4 vertices 2 polygons

Analysis mesh: none present

So what is it?

Actually, it sounds like a planar surface that just needs to be re-oriented on the XY plane. Sorry, I thought that it was a full 3d structure that needed “Surface Development”.

If you just need to orient a surface you can also use the Orient command. See the command sequence below:

Command: _Orient3Pt

Select objects to orient:

Select objects to orient. Press Enter when done:

Reference point 1 ( Copy=No ):

Reference point 2 ( Copy=No ):

Reference point 3 ( Copy=No ):

Target point 1 ( Copy=No ): 0,0,0

Target point 2 ( Copy=No ): 1,0,0

Target point 3 ( Copy=No ): 0,1,0

For the reference points, pick the points that you would like to be lower left, lower right, and upper point.

Else, Zip and post the file here.