UserManual:Detail

Detail Toolbox

Overview

This is where you add all those little touches that breathe life into your pattern. First, we will go over the tools in the Detail toolbox.

Tools

Workpiece Tool

The Workpiece tool, found on the top-left of the Details toolbox, (just under the pointer,) allows you to trace out your pattern by selecting nodes, (points & splines,) in a clockwise direction around its outline. This tool must be used before any of the other Detail magic can be accessed.

Internal Path

The Internal Path tool, found on the right-hand side of the toolbox, allows you to set things like pocket placement markings.

Pin Tool

The Pin tool, found on the left-hand side of the toolbox, allows you to set certain points for attaching features like grainlines & labels to.

Node Tool

The Insert Node tool, found on the lower right-hand side of the toolbox, allows you to add points & splines to your pattern piece, which you missed when you traced it earlier. You will then find them, excluded, at the end of the list of nodes in the pattern piece options dialog in the pattern piece screen where you will need to shift them into their proper places & activate them.

Detail Mode

The detail mode, perhaps better called the pattern piece screen, is the second of the three steps to producing a pattern with Seamly2D.

Overview

So, you've traced out your pattern with the Workpiece Tool, & have likely been confused by how limited the Workpiece Tool dialog box was by the number of options greyed out. But now you've made it to the Detail screen & are wanting to know just what all you can do now. The pattern piece options dialog, (which you previously met as the Workpiece Tool dialog,) is now fully operational.

Pattern Piece Options Dialog

Right-click any of the pattern pieces visible on the Detail screen, & a menu will pop up . The top item is Options, which is what we will be discussing now. Go ahead & click on it.

Paths

The first tab to pop up you are already familiar with.

Toolbox

Union Tool

On the top right of your Details Toolbox, you will see the Union tool. This tool allows two pattern pieces to become one, joined together along the line between two points on either separate piece. At this point in time the tool will not flip the pattern pieces, but it will rotate them as needed. If the line segments are different lengths, the piece with the smaller segment will be aligned with the other piece in relation to which piece you selected first. I haven't been able to figure out what the rule(s) is, if you don't like how it turned out one way, try it a different way until it looks right. One of the points will always overlap a point on the opposite piece, no centering.

Tools for creating details

On the bottom right of your details toolbox you will find the Tools for creating details tool. Hopefully I will remember to come back & update this after I have a chance & remember to poke at this tool with a stick.