PolyZamboni

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Blender 5.1 support

Whats new:

• The minimum required Blender version is now 5.1. Thank you @dotmrjosh for contributing!
• Major improvement to texture exporting. Large meshes with textures no longer cripple your pc by eating up all memory.
• Overhaul of the texture export settings. I hope it is a bit more user friendly now :)

Bugfixes / Improvements:

• Fixed a bug where trying to export instructions from a model without any valid islands crashes.

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Better page layout preview

Now with textures :o

Whats new:

• Textures are now shown in the page layout preview.

Bugfixes / Improvements:

• Fixed a bug where exporting would leak memory.
• The "A piece does not fit on one page" warning now behaves correctly when changing the page size.
• Dotted lines are now rendered more efficiently using a custom shader.

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Fixes for Blender 5.0

The addon should now be usable in Blender 5.0.

Whats new:

• Added the option to choose colors for fold edges.

Bugfixes / Improvements:

• Fixed a bug that happened for Blender 5.0, where storing custom Python properties did not work properly due to numpy arrays with mixed dtypes.
• Any exception that occurs during the Auto-Unfold operator is now properly handled. Prior, any errors would lock you inside a modal operator forever.

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Introducing Build Sections

Whats new:

• You can now partition islands into build sections.
• Added the option to color glue flaps (two sided aswell).
• Transparency setting for the island rendering in 3D view.
• Added the option to hide cut edges in 3D view.
• When trying to create a papermodel from a non-manifold mesh, there is now a button that allows you to select all non-manifold vertices (just for convenience).

Bugfixes / Improvements:

• The automatic page layout algorithm now uses area minimizing bounding boxes of islands (this might save you some paper).
• Fixed a bug where the automatically chosen model scale made some pieces not fit on one page.

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New Export Settings

Whats new:

• You can now choose a custom paper size for your papermodel instructions.
• Added a "triangle bleed" setting to the texture settings tab. Adjust this value to balance visible gaps between triangles and visible seams due to overlap.

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Bugfixes / Improvements:

• Fixed a bug where exporting with textures would not work due to bugged uv coordinates
• Glue flap fold edges now also get hidden when below angle theshold

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New glue flap features

Whats new:

• Added smart glue flap trimming
• Moved the glue flap recomutation operator to the glue flap menu
• You can now manually add and remove individual glue flaps

Bugfixes / Improvements:

• Fixed a bug where removing cut edges at mesh boundaries made glue flap data inconsistent
• Errors while editing a paper model now get passed through and printed to the console
• Edge numbers will not get printed at boundary edges
• Relaxed intersection tests to avoid more false positives

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Region cutting works again, sorry for that!

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Bugfixes

• Fixed a bug where step number editing crashed when no build step numbers are present.
• Fixed a bug where you could deselect a piece while changing its build step number.
• Fixed a bug where the page layout rendering would crash when faces have no color assigned to them.

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Improving the page layout editor

Whats new:

• View and edit build step numbers manually in the page layout editor.

Bugfixes / Improvements:

• Improved the performance of the page layout editing mode.
• Exporting instructions with two-sided printing enabled now flips every second page.
• Colors get displayed correctly in the page editor.

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Introducing the Page Layout Editor

Whats new:

• Create a preview of the page layout to print.
• Move and rotate pieces around to get the most out of your precious paper.
• See selected pieces on the mesh.

Bugfixes:

• Flipping glue flaps sometimes crashed the addon.
• Fold edges at glue flaps were printed incorrectly.
• A piece containing both halfedges of a cut edge was printed incorrectly.

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Getting in line with blenders addon design philosophy

• All data for paper model editing is now stored in custom properties of Mesh objects.
• Operators can instantiate a paper model object from an active meshes properties, perform operations on the model and write back to Mesh properties when finished.
• Removed most python globals (except some handles for rendering)
• Removed the modal Zamboni editing mode operator. Editing the paper model can now be done directly in mesh edit mode.
• Added an operator that removes all automatically generated cuts (replacing the auto cuts toggle).
• Removed most prints to console.

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Initial release of PolyZamboni

Here is a list of everything this addon provides.

Paper model editing features:

• Algorithm for automatic cuts
• Separate different materials with one click
• Cut out regions of selected faces
• Add or remove cuts of selected edges
• Automatic glue flap placement
• Flip glue flap at edge with one click
• Generate build steps automatically

Feedback for interactive editing:

• Edges are colored depending on their cut status
• Cut regions are colored by their quality (real time overlap computation)
• Glue flaps are visualized

Export papercraft instructions:

• Paper sizes from A0-A8 and more!
• Set model height or scale (uses your unit settings)
• Customize appearance of lines and text
• Apply material color or texture to your paper model
• Print a build step number on all pieces
• Two-sided printing support!