I cannot the see the bean stitch on the Parmas or Simulator. Now I can see it jagging back and forth on the simulator but I can not figure out how to make the bean stitch bigger to see. Can someone help
I'm sorry to say, but there is no good method yet to get a proper visual of bean stitches other than observing the stitch simulation or your imagination.
If you want to see which objects in your document have a bean stitch applied, you could use select embroidery elements in the Ink/Stitch > Edit menu (doesn't work for macOS systems).
Or you use the density map with adapted settings to make the bean stitch visible (in a way).
You can set them to whatever you need. To detect bean stitch you could set the radius on a rather low value (stitches fall into the very same spot) and adapt the stitch count to your bean stitch settings. For example set number to stitches to 3 for bean stitch repeats 1 or set number of stitches to 4 for bean stitch repeats 2. And set the radius value to e.g. to 0.1.
If you have various number of stitches for your bean stitches (or even a bean stitch repeat pattern) you can use both colors (red and yellow) to mark them differently. Maybe we should add an option to add as many marker colors as a user needs. Right now it is limited to red and yellow (which may not be enough to get a good impression of a bean stitch pattern).
@Kaaleen - can you explain what you mean by setting the radius? I am missing something in the translation of what you are saying and what I am seeing in the Params box. Here is a simple SVG I am using. The running stitch looks good, but I was thinking a more pronounced Bean Stitch would look even better... I have attached a picture to kind of show what I mean.
The top picture is what it currently looks like with bean settings, but what I want is the bottom picture.
Here is what I did to figure this issue out. I did a bunch of sample printings (sew outs), and what I learned is that the rendering (realistic view) does not accurately depict the bean stitch. The Bean Stitch feature works, but you cannot see it well on the simulator.
The simulator only draw flat lines. When they are on top of each other, there is no way to see the underlaying stitches, other than observing the simulation. Or make use of the density map to detect multiple stitches at the same position.
So yes, maybe that is worth a feature request...
One day we'd like the simulator to display the simulation in 3d space. Maybe then it'd be better visible.
Embroidery and InkStitch Bean Stitch
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I cannot the see the bean stitch on the Parmas or Simulator. Now I can see it jagging back and forth on the simulator but I can not figure out how to make the bean stitch bigger to see. Can someone help
I'm sorry to say, but there is no good method yet to get a proper visual of bean stitches other than observing the stitch simulation or your imagination.
If you want to see which objects in your document have a bean stitch applied, you could use
select embroidery elementsin theInk/Stitch > Editmenu (doesn't work for macOS systems).Or you use the density map with adapted settings to make the bean stitch visible (in a way).
Thank you @Kaaleen . Where can I find references to yellow and red markers? I am not sure what that means.
Thank you @Kaaleen . Where can I find references to yellow and red markers? I am not sure what that means.
Maybe we should improve our documentation here.
You can set them to whatever you need. To detect bean stitch you could set the radius on a rather low value (stitches fall into the very same spot) and adapt the stitch count to your bean stitch settings. For example set number to stitches to 3 for bean stitch repeats 1 or set number of stitches to 4 for bean stitch repeats 2. And set the radius value to e.g. to 0.1.
If you have various number of stitches for your bean stitches (or even a bean stitch repeat pattern) you can use both colors (red and yellow) to mark them differently. Maybe we should add an option to add as many marker colors as a user needs. Right now it is limited to red and yellow (which may not be enough to get a good impression of a bean stitch pattern).
@Kaaleen - can you explain what you mean by setting the radius? I am missing something in the translation of what you are saying and what I am seeing in the Params box. Here is a simple SVG I am using. The running stitch looks good, but I was thinking a more pronounced Bean Stitch would look even better... I have attached a picture to kind of show what I mean.
The top picture is what it currently looks like with bean settings, but what I want is the bottom picture.
I hope that makes sense.
You were asking about the yellow and red markers. So the settings I was talking about can be found in the density map.
The simulator currently doesn't have special markups for stitch types. Maybe for a feature request?
You can ask for it here: https://github.com/inkstitch/inkstitch/issues
Here is what I did to figure this issue out. I did a bunch of sample printings (sew outs), and what I learned is that the rendering (realistic view) does not accurately depict the bean stitch. The Bean Stitch feature works, but you cannot see it well on the simulator.
The simulator only draw flat lines. When they are on top of each other, there is no way to see the underlaying stitches, other than observing the simulation. Or make use of the density map to detect multiple stitches at the same position.
So yes, maybe that is worth a feature request...
One day we'd like the simulator to display the simulation in 3d space. Maybe then it'd be better visible.