InkStitch

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Introduction

Ink/Stitch is an Inkscape extension for designing machine embroidery patterns. It can:


Installation

This software was tested with Ubuntu 16x and Windows 10 on May 3 2018. We managed to get an embroidery file for both Linux and Windows.

  • Download the latest release
  • Gunzip in the personal extension folder of Inkscape.

Under Ubuntu

  • Unzip to ~/.config/inkscape/extensions
cd ~/.config/inkscape/extensions
tar zxf ~/Downloads/inkstitch-v1.0.0-Linux-x86_64.tar.gz

Under Win 10

  • Unhide the AppData directory (go to c:\users\__your_home__\, e.g. c:\users\janet
  • Unzip in c:\users\__you__\AppData\Roaming\inkscape\extensions

If this does not work, check the extension folder in Inkscape: Edit->Preferences->System

Restart Inkscape.

Basic use

The following is just an initial test. We will have to explore more.

  • Create a closed path, e.g. a circle. You can use both fill and stroke
  • Transform that to a patch: Select the object, then Menu Path->Object to Path
  • Select a drawing
  • In menu Extensions -> Embroider -> Select Params and play with them. There are actually quite a lot compared to other SVG to embroidery translators.
  • Once you are happy: Menu Extensions -> Embroider -> Embroidery
  • Type a directory name where you can find your files, e.g. c:\users\__you__\Desktop

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