Unwrapping a stent cylindrical mesh

[slimjimmy]

Hi Guys,

I have a stent (cylinder like) mesh and I want to edit some features. Does anybody know of a way to "unwrap" this mesh from its cylinder like form to a planar form.

Any help would be great

cheers

 

[Dave442]

Slimjimmy,

Check out this piece of software:

http://pyformex.berlios.de/

and in particular see this:

http://pyformex.berlios.de/doc/examples.html

Hope that helps!
Dave