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Thanks... But it can work for a papercraft scale model, but not to a 5 meter long solar Morelli car.
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Suit yourself of course, but...
Is your 5 meter long object going to be built from scale drawings? All Pepakura Designer does is modify the 3D object into a flat pattern at the same scale.
Working from scale drawings or models is accurate to your capabilities. Generating dimensions from a mathematical model is scale invariant. Here is a design that is quasi-ellipsoidal in section, with all dimensions available to any accuracy you care to name.
I should get the new system up so I can do some modeling again. It would be trivial for instance to take that shape and add an S-curve
ala Morelli with magnet deformers*, and then pick the dimensions off the result.
Each hexagon requires one slit and it gathers into a shallow cone. You could make a paper pattern, transfer it to sheet aluminum and create panels that are ready for the planishing wheel. ....if you had a planishing wheel.
Foam and fiberglass are IMHO nasty materials to work with. Coachbuilding professionals, like
Randy Grubb, work in metal.
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An example for Lightwave