How to build plastic drone canopy without plastic forming…

If you want to have nice plastic canopy for your drone or other RC, usually u have to build it using plastic forming or at least heater and some base usually from wood or other hard material…

what if u don’t have any of that, but u want to build it too…

well this is u have to prepare to do that…

Material :

0.30mm plastic mica (depend on our need)
paint (u can use aerosol paint or acrylic paint)

Tools :

Pepakura Designer http://www.tamasoft.co.jp/pepakura-en/download/index.html
3D modeler (u can use 3D model for your design using 3Dmax or else)
scissor
permanent marker
adhesive tape
cutter knife
ruler
soldering iron

Now how to do it…

Build your canopy using 3D modeler, build it using the real scale of your canopy u want to build and save it as .OBJ file, in this case i’m using 3Dmax to do it and this the result http://www.4shared.com/file/vTOYV5pVce/canopy.html

Open pepacura and load the .OBJ on it, follow the instruction for no flip etc, then click unfold and don’t forget to change the scale to 1 (it mean it will printed same scale as your 3D model).

the unfold result will be like this, u can adjust position of the paper as u want… after that print it…

Assemble all the printed paper as one and place on flat surface

Prepare your 0.30mm mica hard plastic and place on top of the pattern, and secure it with adhesive tape on the corner.
Mark every corner of the pastern using permanent marker so u not wrong in cut it later.
After that cut it using cutter knife and scissor, (Tips: scratch with cutting knife but don’t cut it on every folding line so u will have nice clean fold on every fold)