User Manual: Seamly2D Configuration

Seamly2D File/Preferences

Installation

Download and install Seamly2D from this website: https://seamly.net

Seamly2D File/Preferences

Preferences

Select File->Application Preferences from the top bar menu.

Configuration

Select the Configuration icon in the left vertical menu.

Seamly2D File/Preferences/Configuration

Save

• Auto-save modified pattern Interval: Seamly2D's default auto-save setting will save your pattern file every minutes to a file named after your pattern file with '.autosave' as postfix. We recommend you leave this option selected because this prevents you from losing your data after a crash.

Language

Seamly2D's default language setting will use your computer's operating system region/locale to select a language. If none of the supported languages match your locale, Seamly2D will default to English.

• GUI Language: Select a language. Seamly2D translates GUI text and measurement names into this language. Requires Seamly2D restart. If your preferred language is not listed, consider helping us to translate Seamly2D to your language. Just register at www.transifex.com to help with the translation.
• Decimal Separator parts: Select the decimal separator you want to use in formulas ("," or "."). By default Seamly2D uses the separator of the current locale. Note: You can't use both separators in a formula at the same time.
• Default Unit: Centimeters (cm), Millimeters (mm) or Inches (in) that will be used each time you create a new measurements file in Tape.
• Label language: Select a language. Seamly2D will use the alphabet for this language to auto-generate the pattern point labels.

Pattern making system

• Pattern making system: If you select a patternmaking system, the measurement template for that system will be used to pre-select measurements when you create a new measurement file.Note: It is not necessary to select a pattern making system, you may leave this blank. This option allows Fashion Design students to select their course's pattern making system, find the book for the system, create measurement files for that system, and enter formulas from the book using the measurement names of that system. This way Seamly2D can assist students who are learning patternmaking. Students can quickly learn the measurement set and formulas, and try out the system in software before making (many) mistakes on paper!
• Author and Book: These fields are auto-populated when a pattern making system is selected.

Send crash reports

• Send crash reports (recommended): We recommend that you leave this box checked. Crash reports help us to find and fix problems very quickly.

Pattern editing

• Reset Warnings: For future use

Toolbar

• The text appears under the icon : We recommend that you leave this box checked until you become familiar with Seamly2D. These tooltips help to describe the behavior of each tool.

Pattern

Select the Pattern icon in the left vertical menu.

Graphical output

• Use antialiasing: Check box is selected by default. We recommend using anti-aliasing. Read more about anti-aliasing on Wikipedia.

Undo

• Count Steps: Default is 0 (unlimited). We recommend leaving at 0 until you learn more about Seamly2D. If your system is slow reduce to 50, then in steps down to 15 for speed improvement. We don't recommend less than 15.

User Defined Materials

• Delete All: For future use.

Workpiece

• Forbid Flipping: Default is un-checked. This setting prevents pattern pieces to be flipped or reversed during the creation of the layout image. When a pattern piece is reversed, the labels will not be reversed. This can be confusing when placing pattern pieces on fabric. This setting can also be applied to each pattern piece in Details mode.
• Hide Main Path: Default is un-checked. This setting prevents the seamline from showing on the pattern pieces under Detail or Layout once a seam allowance had been added.

Seam allowance

• Default value: The default width of auto-generated seam allowances.

Notches

• Show second notch on seamline: Default is un-checked. Check this box if you create patterns without seam allowances so that notches will be included in the layout image. This setting can also be applied to each pattern piece in Details mode.
• Default type: Default is Slit. Diamond is what the "big four" American pattern companies use.
• Length: Default is 0.250. How far should the notches stick from their bases on the cut-line?
• Width: Default is 0.250. How wide/far apart should the notch marks be?

Label data/time format

• Date: This drop menu contains a number of different date formats. Whether you prefer day-first, month-first or year-first, there's an option for you.
• Time: Do you prefer 24hr time, or am/pm (AP)? Do you want to print your patterns with the exact second you created the layout, or is minute close enough? There are only four options. Fancy stuff like unicode time, or Star Trek time are not available. If such things are important to you, you could ask them to be added on the forum, or better yet take advantage of the open source to DIY, & then ask the devs to integrate your code for the sake of the other fans of that time-keeping system!

File Paths

Select the File Paths icon in the left vertical menu.
We recommend keeping the default directories for your work.

My Individual Measurements

• Windows: C:\Users\username\seamly2D\measurements\individual
  
• Linux: $home/$username/seamly2D/measurements/individual
  
• Mac OSX:
  

My Multisize Measurements

We recommend to not change this directory.

• Windows: C:\Program Files (x86)\Seamly2D\tables\standard
  
• Linux:
  
• Mac OSX:
  

My Patterns

• Windows: C:\Users\username\seamly2D\patterns
  
• Linux: $home/$username/seamly2D/patterns
  
• Mac OSX:
  

My Layouts

• Windows: C:\Users\username\seamly2D\layouts
  
• Linux: $home/$username/seamly2D/layouts
  
• Mac OSX:
  

My Templates

We recommend to not change this directory.

• Windows: C:\Program Files (x86)\Seamly2D\tables\templates
  
• Linux:
  
• Mac OSX: