1 00:00:06,180 --> 00:00:09,620 Welcome to the Ink/Stitch beginner tutorial series. 2 00:00:10,420 --> 00:00:13,440 In this part we are going to customize Inkscape. 3 00:00:13,820 --> 00:00:16,020 The customizations are not mandatory, 4 00:00:16,160 --> 00:00:19,660 but they will make it more comfortable working with Ink/Stitch. 5 00:00:22,020 --> 00:00:24,400 This tutorial will teach how to: 6 00:00:24,960 --> 00:00:27,320 Install Ink/Stitch Addons for Inkscape 7 00:00:28,300 --> 00:00:32,640 The Ink/Stitch Add-ons installer will add manufacturer color palettes 8 00:00:32,640 --> 00:00:37,300 and Ink/Stitch specific symbols to your Inkscape installation. 9 00:00:38,920 --> 00:00:43,760 Define shortcut keys for fast and easy access to often used functions. 10 00:00:43,960 --> 00:00:47,820 Display path outlines to make the stitch direction visible. 11 00:00:48,180 --> 00:00:50,540 Use grids to align your pattern. 12 00:00:51,340 --> 00:00:55,220 Create and load templates as a basic page setup. 13 00:00:56,240 --> 00:00:58,960 Let's start with the Ink/Stitch Add-ons. 14 00:01:00,080 --> 00:01:08,960 In fact these Add-ons are two files which need to be placed in specific folders of your Inkscape installation. 15 00:01:09,620 --> 00:01:17,280 Run 'Extensions > Ink/Stitch > Install add-ons for Inkscape' and click install. 16 00:01:18,520 --> 00:01:22,940 You will have to restart Inkscape for this to have any effect. 17 00:01:23,900 --> 00:01:28,620 Open the color palettes panel and you will find a lot of new palettes. 18 00:01:29,120 --> 00:01:32,920 They all start with Ink/Stitch, so you can easily recognize them. 19 00:01:34,520 --> 00:01:39,740 Now you can plan your design directly with your thread manufacturers color palettes. 20 00:01:49,840 --> 00:01:55,920 Thread names will also be displayed in the browser output so you can share it directly with your customer. 21 00:02:01,740 --> 00:02:05,880 The second feature we will get to know better in the visual commands tutorial. 22 00:02:07,700 --> 00:02:15,720 It made symbols available, which will be used to give Ink/Stitch more information about the way your design should be stitched out. 23 00:02:16,960 --> 00:02:21,180 Let's add e.g. an ignore symbol to one object. 24 00:02:22,040 --> 00:02:27,020 It indicates, that this particular object should not be stitched at all. 25 00:02:28,120 --> 00:02:30,120 Create two objects 26 00:02:37,860 --> 00:02:39,860 and run the simulator. 27 00:02:45,520 --> 00:02:47,520 Both objects are displayed. 28 00:02:51,140 --> 00:02:59,460 With one object selected go to 'Extensions > Ink/Stitch > Commands > Attach command to selected Objects'. 29 00:02:59,820 --> 00:03:03,760 Enable the ignore checkbox and click on 'Apply'. 30 00:03:08,840 --> 00:03:10,840 Now run the simulator again. 31 00:03:13,240 --> 00:03:16,460 Only one of the two objects is being shown. 32 00:03:17,500 --> 00:03:26,100 There are many more options in the visual commands section, but for now we have more customizations to do. 33 00:03:29,080 --> 00:03:33,700 In Ink/Stitch there are many functions which you will be frequently using. 34 00:03:35,180 --> 00:03:38,660 You do not really want to click through the menu all the time. 35 00:03:38,660 --> 00:03:42,960 This means you will be wanting to use keyboard shortcuts. 36 00:03:44,400 --> 00:03:47,220 We will not go through all possibilities here, 37 00:03:47,220 --> 00:03:52,600 but only show you how to setup shortcut keys, so you can add more later. 38 00:03:53,800 --> 00:04:00,200 There is a list on inkstitch.org to give you further advice which key combinations you could use. 39 00:04:01,560 --> 00:04:04,780 Open the Preferences through 'Edit > Preferences'. 40 00:04:04,780 --> 00:04:08,520 Navigate to "Interface" and choose "Keyboard Shortcuts". 41 00:04:09,940 --> 00:04:11,500 Search for "params". 42 00:04:11,500 --> 00:04:13,500 You will find it under "Extensions". 43 00:04:13,500 --> 00:04:18,240 Click into the field below "Shortcut" and enter "Ctrl+Shift+P". 44 00:04:20,760 --> 00:04:25,440 Next search for "simulate" and enter "Ctrl+Shift+L" 45 00:04:34,700 --> 00:04:39,380 Then add "Ctrl+R" to reverse the path direction. 46 00:04:39,940 --> 00:04:45,120 and finally "Page down" for "stack down" and "Page up" for "stack up" 47 00:04:46,560 --> 00:04:50,620 Let's have a closer look to the stack up and down functions. 48 00:04:52,300 --> 00:04:53,680 Open the object panel. 49 00:04:53,680 --> 00:05:01,040 It displays a full list of all layers, groups and objects in the document in it's "stacking order". 50 00:05:01,960 --> 00:05:05,240 Remove the ignore symbol that we previously added and 51 00:05:05,360 --> 00:05:09,360 move the objects so that they are overlapping each other. 52 00:05:10,740 --> 00:05:14,220 If you use the raise and lower buttons on the first object, 53 00:05:14,220 --> 00:05:17,880 you will see, how their stacking order is changing positions. 54 00:05:19,760 --> 00:05:23,760 This doesn't work work if the objects are not overlapping each other. 55 00:05:24,880 --> 00:05:31,060 Now use your newly created shortcut keys and see, that the stacking order is changing again. 56 00:05:31,400 --> 00:05:37,200 The up and down buttons in the objects panel will do the same as your keyboard shortcuts. 57 00:05:37,920 --> 00:05:41,760 The objects position will define the order from bottom to top 58 00:05:41,760 --> 00:05:48,580 how your pattern is being stitched out and this makes it to be a main feature while carefully planing your design. 59 00:05:54,980 --> 00:05:59,040 Path outlines will show you the direction of the path. 60 00:06:00,220 --> 00:06:05,200 The path direction is important for all stitch types except for fill stitches. 61 00:06:06,040 --> 00:06:10,120 It defines at which end of the stroke the stitching will begin. 62 00:06:10,120 --> 00:06:19,620 In 'Preferences > Tools > Node' enable the following checkboxes 63 00:06:19,620 --> 00:06:25,340 "show patch directions on outlines" and "show temporary outline for selected paths". 64 00:06:27,580 --> 00:06:34,180 With objects selected press "N" to activate the node tool and enable "Show path outline". 65 00:06:35,500 --> 00:06:38,640 You will see a red path surrounding the objects. 66 00:06:38,640 --> 00:06:41,620 The spikes indicate the path direction. 67 00:06:46,660 --> 00:06:51,020 You can use grids to align patterns properly. 68 00:06:51,920 --> 00:06:58,420 To activate them open 'File > Document Properties' and switch to the "Grids" tab. 69 00:06:59,380 --> 00:07:06,960 Click on New and change units to mm (this is the common unit used for stitch length etc.) 70 00:07:07,740 --> 00:07:11,180 and set the x- and y-spacing to 1. 71 00:07:12,260 --> 00:07:15,860 If you zoom out the major grid line will be displayed. 72 00:07:16,840 --> 00:07:27,600 It defaults to 5, change it to 10, then you have 1 cm to be displayed. 73 00:07:31,720 --> 00:07:36,000 Your objects will will snap to the grid edges by default. 74 00:07:36,040 --> 00:07:45,060 You can change this by disabling snapping or disable "Snap to grids only". 75 00:07:51,020 --> 00:07:59,420 If you want to temporarily hide the grid, hit # or change it through the menu: 'View > Page Grid'. 76 00:08:01,900 --> 00:08:08,500 Also have a look at the panel "Align and Distribute" which you can find under 'Objects' in the menu. 77 00:08:09,660 --> 00:08:13,140 Here you can find a lot of useful aligning methods. 78 00:08:23,080 --> 00:08:28,420 It seems to be no fun to set up the same document properties over and over again. 79 00:08:29,060 --> 00:08:35,220 You would rather like to open a new document and it has the size of your embroidery frame. 80 00:08:35,780 --> 00:08:37,780 Well, that is possible. 81 00:08:38,260 --> 00:08:44,060 Once you organized everything as desired, simply save your file in your templates folder. 82 00:08:44,880 --> 00:08:49,720 Select the template folder path for your operating system from the description below. 83 00:09:00,780 --> 00:09:06,980 You can now access your template through 'File > New from template' 84 00:09:07,760 --> 00:09:13,980 On inkstitch.org you can even download a predefined template with various hoop sizes. 85 00:09:14,620 --> 00:09:16,620 We hope you enjoyed the tutorial. 86 00:09:17,780 --> 00:09:20,560 Now you are all set to start your creative work. 87 00:09:21,320 --> 00:09:26,480 If you have any questions about Ink/Stitch, please contact us on GitHub.