Help! Pattern Folding!

[emitpeels]

Hey guys, I posted a thread awhile ago but it never took off. I am ending the near end of my DAT studies and I'm still struggling with pattern folding. The advice I took from SDN about the line of symmetry technique was incredible, and increase my hole punching scores quite a bit. I am looking for the same advice for the pattern folding section. I am a complete noob, and I don't know how to do them well. HELP!

 

[Jordwin]

The only "trick" there is, is to look for a unique face and follow it through the folds. Other than that idk what to tell you :-/

 

[El Dentistador]

Practice, practice, practice with the aim to get a feel for what folds do what. I identified which shapes and patterns often confused me and made a cut out. I would mark which sides came into contact with the sides that were often hard to imagine. For example, the cube patterns that were arranged like a staircase. Until I mapped it out for myself it was hard to imagine on the fly how the patterns will be oriented in relation to each other when the edges come together.

 

[dent777]

If you have DATBootCamp PAT, the explanations there for pattern folding are incredible. I had trouble with it, but the explanations helped me big time. It just clicked after I read them.