Menu : TEXTURE

Command: Flatten:Surface

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Command Flatten Surface computes a minimally distorted flattening of a 3D surface storing the result in the xy-plane. For the results to be accurate the command should only be applied to rotational-like surfaces only.

The command has two modes of operation:

The area/distance weight parameter determines whether areas or distances on the surfaces should be preserved as closely as possible. A value close to zero puts more importance on distances, and a value close to one appreciates areas. Small weight values are generally preferable, but they can lead to self-intersecting flattened surfaces — increasing the weight value prevents this.

The maximum number of iterations determines the accuracy and calculation time of the result. Using a large value will gives more accurate results, but will take longer to compute.