The most powerful feature of Armorsmith is the avatar being a near exact copy of your body to test Pepakura models (.pdo) or 3D models for printing (.obj/.stl) against a copy of yourself without having to guess opening on armour piece sizes and ultimately being a few centimeters off in scale. The most important part of this whole process is making this blob person your doppelganger. So you boot up the program and you get a wonderful screen like this, empty and full of possibilities. It is $30 at my time of writing this which is still cheaper than a copy of Pepakura Designer with some features that in my opinion make it superior.
That being said, it is actively being developed with revisions and features being added every few months.
Most importantly, this is a paid program so there is a bit of an up front cost unfortunately. So what exactly is it? Think of it as a paper doll that you can dress up in 3D space but the doll is a weird blob version of yourself and the paper clothing is a scalable pattern or model of the costume you want to make. This is one of the things that I recommend highly to anyone who even wants to step near a Pepakura pattern or a 3D printer just because of it's ease of use and the value that it adds in time saving and peace of mind when building. Armorsmith Designer is one of those tools that has worked it's way so deeply into my standard workflow that I don't really start any project without at least booting the software up.
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