Open-Source Papercraft

Open-Source Papercraft, or, a box for your cell phone!
Here, step-by-step, is how to get a box for your cell phone, Ipad, whatever, using only Open Source Software on Linux.
There are Windows versions for all these programs.
And these programs are, in order of use, Wings3D, MeshLab, Dxf2papercraft, LibreOffice 3.5 Writer, and Inkscape.

Step 1: Wings3D

Begin by designing a box in Wings3D, a box with windows,  don't use insets on a face, but rather a face cut into 3, because it works out much better, I'll explain why, later on;

Comments

[thaicares]

There should just be one program like pepakura to do this in!!! How hard would it be too make this process be pulled into on program?

[Edgar]

There's this, on Google Sketchup:
http://www.nicepapertoys.com/profiles/blog/show?id=1905839%3ABlogPost%3A9972

[Edgar]

Glad you've liked it, since I'm a fan of your Paperctaft Site.
If this Instructable can be of help to people, pleas include it on your page! :D
You know, tin foil toys made out of such Projects as tour great Mechanical Demos, could be lotsa fun...

[robives]

Very interesting! Thanks