Thats what I did for my entire foam suit. Download the latest version of the Pepakura Designer app here.Bear in mind that this program is shareware You can run it and print other people’s designs, but to do more than that and make PDFs of your own work and save/distribute them, you will have to pay the shareware fee to purchase the license code for the software for 38.
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The assembled size was H: 27cm W: 24.7cm D: 30.9cm, but, as you will see in later pics, the head hole is smaller that the larges width of the helmet. Heres my personal view on modifying Pepakura files for foam, and still leaving the correct curves in, but removing extra cuts/eges etc where they dont need to be: XRobots - How to modify pepakura templates for foam, includes my Iron Man costume suit - YouTube. I knew there were numbers at the bottom of the Pepakura Designer that said how large to large st parts were but the distance of the opening was still unclear (See pic). I built the Recruit helmet by JTM Hyper but never measured it to see if it was large enough.
To my knowledge, THIS ONLY WORKS IN DESIGNER AND NOT IN VIEWER!!!!!! How to measure distances in Pepakura Designer Please message me if this tutorial is unclear or has any errors for me to fix! Enjoy! I recently found this feature and want to make it better known (I also didn't see any forms explaining it so I felt like, being a new recruit and all, it would be helpful to show how to). Hi all! This tutorial should show you the basics of how to measure distances in Pepakura so you know if your project is large enough for you.