PePaKuRa Designer

While scouring the net for tutorials on how to draw cartoon monkeys (please, don't ask), I found this.

PePaKuRa Designer is software that allows you to take 3d data and then deconstruct it into a pattern that can then printed, cut out and assembled into a paper model.

Pepakura Designer does not contain software to create the original 3D models, but instead translates them to a 2D printable format. Pepakura supports some 3D file formats from software such as 3D Studio, LightWave and Softimage. Pepakura also supports files in the freeware format from "MetasequoiaLE".

Check out the below images of one intrepid PePaKuRa Designer who has created his own Daft Punk helmet using it. Awesomeness!

pePaKuRa Designer is available here.