Patent ID: 8294936

Claim:
A method of designing handmade paper crafts, comprising: accessing a server from a client and selecting a three-dimensional view of a paper craft from a database in the server; the server computing a two-dimensional view of the paper craft according to the three-dimensional view of the paper craft, wherein the two-dimensional view of the paper craft is capable of being made to form the three-dimensional view of the paper craft, in the two-dimensional view of the paper craft, a dotted line indicates a to be cut line and a solid line indicates a to be fold line; the client adding pictures or words on the two-dimensional view of the paper craft to create a modified two-dimensional view of the paper craft, and storing the modified two-dimensional view back in the server; the server outputting the modified two-dimensional view of the paper craft as a pre-printed two-dimensional view of the paper craft; and showing the modified two-dimensional view of the paper craft and the corresponding three-dimensional view of the paper craft in the client, the client selecting a suitable print configuration according to the two-dimensional folding view of the paper craft.