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FTW Flattening Toolset v1.0.0

🎯 Overview

Professional UV unwrapping and flattening toolkit for Blender 5.0+ for 3D shoe design

✨ Features

UV Editing Tools (UV Editor Panel)

• Unwrap - Angle-based unwrapping with Live Unwrap toggle
• Pin/Unpin - Mark vertices for controlled unwrapping
• Flatten to Center - Flatten UVs with edge preservation
• Mirror Pairs - Set up symmetrical UV unwrapping (X/Y axis)
• UV Labels - Island naming and organization
• Minimize Stretch - Relax and optimize UVs
• Scale to Canvas - Real-world size scaling (cm)

Visualization & Export

• Canvas Checker - Procedural checker texture for distortion checking
• 2D Curves Export - Export UV boundaries as curves with subdivision

Dual Panel Interface

1. UV Editor Panel - "FTW UV Flattening" tab
   • Full toolset for UV editing
2. 3D View Panel - "FTW Checker"
   • Canvas Size setting
   • Checker toggle (Show/Hide)

🔧 Technical Details

Canvas Checker

• Procedural generation
• Each square = 1cm of canvas size
• Instant toggle in Solid shading mode

2D Curves

• Applies subdivision with corner preservation
• Extracts boundary edges as POLY curves
• Includes canvas border

System Requirements

• Blender: 5.0.0 or higher
• Platform: Windows, Mac, Linux
• Mode: Works in Edit mode (UV Editor), Object/Edit mode (3D View)