▲Unfolder for Mac – A 3D model unfolding tool for creating papercraft(unfolder.app)
53 points by codazoda 3 hours ago | 4 comments
▲allenu 57 minutes ago
I like the clean design of the landing page. I downloaded it and started the app and it needs an OBJ file to even do anything, so I wasn't able to play with it at all.

It would be cool if it included sample OBJ files to entice me to find my own later. Otherwise I feel like I just hit a wall immediately in the app will probably not try it again.

▲dnpls 1 hour ago
So, like Pepakura? https://pepakura.tamasoft.co.jp/pepakura_designer/
▲detritus 12 minutes ago
So weird for me to see this popup now on HN as I happened to dig through an old downloads folder a few minutes ago and saw an install file for Pepakura (13/11/2014), and wondered where that sort of thing had ended up... .
▲moralestapia 51 minutes ago
No!

This one is called Unfolder, it's a different app, made by a different person, etc...

More than one app per category can exist, and that's good!

▲constantlm 18 minutes ago
This is great - reminds me of the golden age of cool little MacOS apps
▲ElijahLynn 1 hour ago
Mac only. Is there any reason this couldn't be a web app? And seems pretty restrictive to just have one platform, a desktop Mac.
▲dwb 45 minutes ago
If I built a Mac app, the reason would be that I use a Mac, as do a lot of other people, and native apps are a lot more pleasant than non-native apps. I don't really understand why it's "restrictive"? There is no restriction happening.
▲hbn 4 minutes ago
The author had to decide between making something excellent for some people or mediocre for everyone, and chose the former
▲joemi 35 minutes ago
The same could be said about pretty much _any_ software.