Category: Design

After I cleaned up the files produced by Pepakura with Illustrator I could test the prototype.

If you look closely to the previous post about this project, you see that I don’t have a screenshot from the rounded part on top of the can. This is because I couldn’t get it to work in Google Sketchup… So I decided to make a globe in 3d, make a flat version in Pepakura and edit it in Illustrator (cut parts away I don’t need).

Here a the different parts I tested:

The tube

The can

The cap

The round part of the can…

I don’t think I will be using this part: it’s to detailed for this project. And quite difficult to make, when printed on a A4 papersheet.

The Spraycan complete

So without the curved part, this will be the look.

I imported the .KMZ file made by Google Sketchup, which I made in part 2 of this series, to Pepakura designer and I wasn’t totally happy with the end result:

I contribute the in some cases strange “decisions” from Pepakura to:
– my very basic modeling skills (I have none)
– Pepakura can’t think like a human… (It just works like a machine) and makes strange decisions.
– I made the 3d model in one part.

I tried to clean up the 3d model, but I was getting nowhere. So I decided to clean up the file in Illustrator:

Time to put it all together!

Time to convert the illustration from part 1 into a 3d object in Google Sketchup:

First the bottom of the can:

Created a separate cap:

Putting it together:

Time to convert this to a flat, printable version using Pepakura designer

I don’t know exactly how I came up with this idea:

• perhaps a extension for Grumm
• or a container for the urban papercraft series
• or a simple shape that can be made with Google Sketchup

But it really don’t matter, I’ve been working on a papermodel in the shape of a spraycan.
I started with collecting images, and made a illustration of a spraycan.

Time to put it in Google Sketchup.