Wandy3D

Papercraft maker

Make a papercraft template from any 3D model

Choose a model, the detail and the size, and print pages with every part numbered and every glue tab marked — then cut, fold and glue a paper version of it.

Start with a modelSee the real example

10 per build — the same settings again are free

A low-poly paper version of the rooster, made by the papercraft maker
A child's crayon drawing of a rooster in tall grass under a yellow sun
Real output: papercraft made from a child's drawing of a rooster, default settings.

A real example

From a crayon rooster to five printable pages

The drawing became a 3D model in Drawing mode; the papercraft maker turned the model into this template with its default settings.

  1. The drawing

    A child's crayon drawing of a rooster in tall grass under a yellow sun
    Crayon drawing by a child of almost six, shared by the family under CC0 on Wikimedia Commons. Source

  2. The 3D model

    3D model of the rooster
    Made in Drawing mode, nothing retouched.

  3. The papercraft

    The folded paper rooster
    The folded result, as the maker previews it.

Pages from the PDF

Every part is numbered: a tab marked 3:5 goes under arrow 5 on part 3.

The build in numbers

  • 5 pages (A4)
  • 7 parts to cut, 160 faces to fold
  • Folded: 16.9 × 8 × 19 cm

In the download

  • A PDF to print at home (A4 or Letter), every part with numbered glue tabs
  • SVG pages for Cricut, Silhouette and other cutting machines
  • A folding guide: mountain and valley folds are marked

How it works

Papercraft in three steps

  1. A 3D model on the Wandy3D workspace stage, with Make it real among its actions

    Make or open a model

    Generate one from a photo, a drawing or a sentence — or open any model in your library and choose Make it real.

  2. The Make it real dialog with the papercraft settings

    Choose detail, size and paper

    Fewer faces mean fewer, bigger parts, and the dialog shows the folded size of your model before you make it.

  3. The first page of the rooster's papercraft PDF

    Print, cut, fold, glue

    Print at 100 % on thin card, cut along the outlines, fold on the dashed lines and glue each tab to the arrow with its number.

Before you start

What you need

  • A printerColour prints the model's own colours; white parts can be coloured in.
  • Thin card160–220 g/m² folds cleanly and holds its shape; plain paper works for a test.
  • Scissors or a craft knifeA knife and a cutting mat for the small parts — a grown-up's job.
  • A ruler for scoringRun an empty ballpoint pen along the ruler and the folds come out crisp.
  • GlueA glue stick or a thin craft glue; hold each tab for a moment.

Price

What it costs

10 per build — the same settings again are free

Credits only — no plan needed. Charged once per set of settings: the same settings again are free, and a build that fails gives your credits back.

Plans and credits

From a photo

It works from photos too

Any model you make can be made real — these two started as photos. Open either one in the workspace for free, no sign-in needed.

Questions

Papercraft questions

More answers in Support

You choose the size of the folded model before you make it, and the dialog shows its width, depth and height. A bigger model needs more pages, not bigger paper: the rooster at the 20 cm setting fits on five A4 pages.

Thin card of 160–220 g/m² is the sweet spot: stiff enough to hold its shape, thin enough to fold. Ordinary 80 g/m² printer paper is fine for a first try.

It depends on the detail you pick and on the hands doing it. Simple has the fewest and biggest parts; Expert has many small ones. Start with Simple or Medium.

With a grown-up nearby, yes. Leave the craft-knife cutting and scoring to an adult; children can cut the big parts with safety scissors and do the folding and gluing. Simple detail has the fewest tiny pieces.

Yes: you may use your models and what you make from them commercially, printed kits included — see section 4.2 of the Terms of Service. You need the rights to the photo or drawing you started from.

Yes. The download has SVG pages for Cricut, Silhouette and similar machines: the outlines are cut lines and the dashed lines are score lines.

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