Hi all! The diagramming workspace just got released in Ori Studio. It lets you build a diagram right next to the crease pattern you’re designing, with each step’s picture coming straight from the pattern, or from your own drawing when a step is clearer drawn by hand.

Full 18-minute walkthrough: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMLFtb368is
Try it in the browser: https://oristudio.dev. Desktop apps for Mac, Windows and Linux are here.

Example project: Crane Diagram.osf

What it does

• Each step links to a crease pattern or reference step. Show it as the crease pattern, flat folded, in 3D, or in the simulator at any fold percentage.
• Pose each step: turn it over, rotate it, or spread the layers so hidden flaps show.
• Change the crease pattern, and the affected steps flag themselves out of date with one click to refresh.
• Drop in your own SVG or PNG drawings for any step, or pull reference-finding steps straight in from References.
• Annotate with the standard symbols:
  • valley, mountain, fold-and-unfold, pleat and push arrows
  • turn-over and rotate signs, and repeat callouts
  • enlarged views with the “zoom” arrow, x-ray views, equal divisions and right angles
  • the eye, stars, shapes and text
• Lay out the pages with a flowing path the steps sit along, or a plain grid, then drag anything where you want it.
• Export a print-ready PDF, a single SVG of every page, or a ZIP of the step pictures.

Timing note: Thomas Krak just released Origami Diagram Maker, which is a funny coincidence! From my understanding ODM is more focused on automatically all the symbols from a CP, while Ori Studio has more of a design / flexibility focused approach. Definitely check it out too!

Thanks: the affine layer spreading is based on Kei Morisue’s work in DEFOX

It’s free and open source. I’d love feedback, especially symbols or layouts you reach for that aren’t there yet.

is this a good idea? no. am i gonna do it anyways? yes.

My instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jeremy_64600

Posted a Phoenix a while back. Haven't folded anything since that model but gave this one to a friend. Really struggled with step 187-190. The process happened out of luck entirely on both sides.

Do y'all have any other recommendations for decently difficult models like this? And how do yall keep the motivation to keep folding? I only make stuff when someone asks me to or if I'm in rehab lmao. Cheers

learned a new kusudama recently and im obsessed. these two i recently finished but i gave them away as gifts.

i kept the first one i made but i made a mistake at the very end of the assembly process so it ended up being 91 pieces instead of a clean 90

I thought I'd put my attempt at small origami with the hardest one I know off the top of my head. She's standing on an American quarter for size ref

My instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jeremy_64600

his insta: https://www.instagram.com/origamieveryweek?cplk=MWRicDI2ZTJ3NWc4cg==

I have zero idea what he's on about in step 14, and how on earth to get it to look like in step 15! 😳

"Fold the lower white flap" -- which flap??

And there are two different arrows! None of which start from a "lower" white flap!

"Valley food on the hidden (dotted) crease at the same time" -- what?! There are at least three creases in that diagram that could be interpreted as being 'dotted' 😭 And how on earth does that happen at the same time as the other stuff?

Please help 💗💗💗

Folded and designed by me

100 cm x 100 cm black/white 80 gsm paper

Un perro diseño propio según yo, varios de los origamis que he publicado que son de cuatro patas comparten el mismo cuerpo base, pero le cambié la cola y la cabeza y más o menos las patas, la cara de este se le rompió la frente debió quedar como el rosa.