In the main blender top menu go to ‘file’.This step may actually not be necessary if you aren’t tweaking the UV, so consider doing this step at the end if you need to further tweak the mapping. Use the checkerboard icon in the top corner to select UV editor view for one and 3D viewport in the other. OPIONAL: create split screen with UV editor and modeling view visible at the same time.Set view to orthographic top (good habit).In blender, delete default cube as usual.You can use GIMP for doing things like this if you haven’t already discoverd it. I think it has to be png, but not 100 sure. Make sure that ‘import/export’ settings in preferences are turned on to be able to import images as planes.25 speed to make any form of sense of what he/she was doing! Hopefully this video plus my blog here will help someone suffer less. Many thanks to the creator of this video even though it was so fast that I had to turn it down to.

To my surprise (again) this particular need of creating a 3D object from a 2D die line was not very well documented for Blender.

No question Blender is one of the very best free and open source projects in the world. First, as always, a big thank you to everyone who has made Blender possible.

Blender 2d to 3d