Changes, Updates and Fixes for the Upcoming Release
This page lists changes made after the latest release. Latest release: Ink/Stitch v2.2.0
General
We have good news: Ink/Stitch will be significantly faster due to stitch plan caching.
Fonts
Element/Stitch types
New Stitch Types
Meander Fill
Meander fill has its origins in quilting techniques. A beautiful patterned effect results for machine embroidery. Large areas can be filled with relatively few stitches.
Circular Fill
Circular fill fills a shape with an embroidered spiral. The center of the spiral is positioned at the center of the shape. A target point can be used to define a custom spiral center.
New params
Trim and Stop Commands
- It’s not necessary to use symbols for trim and stop commands, they can also be applied through the params dialog
- Scale Commands: scales marker symbols as well (guide line & pattern symbols)
Tack Stitch and Lock Stitch
- Chose from a list of predefined tack/lock stitches
- Scale tack/lock stitches
- Define custom tack/lock stitches
Clones
- Fix: automatic fill angle calculation
- Fix: positioning
Bean Stitch
- Add support for custom repeat patterns (1 0: ☰-☰-☰-)
Manual Stitch
- Enable automated lock stitches through the force lock stitch option
Fill stitch
- Add support for fractional-length stagger cycles in fills
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Multiple underlay angle values are now separated by space, not by a comma anymore
Please update your svgs if you used multiple fill underlays
- Fix: ‘LineString’ object has no attribute ‘geoms’
- Fix: ‘Point’ object has no attribute ‘geoms’
- Fix: ZeroDivisionError in intersect_region_with_grating
- Fix: ZoneClose segments can not be changed into curves.
- Fix: incorrect stagger in guided fill
Satin Column
- Options for randomization
- Stitch length
- Stitch distance
- Length/count of split stitches
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Insert multiple values separated by a space. Possible for both pull compensations (mm, %)
- Add suport for pull compensation in percent
- Add support for asymmetric pull compensation.
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Add option to swap rails quickly directly from the params dialog
- Fix: don’t fail if a satin has a fill, but render the fill as well
Stroke
- Improved running stitch algorithm (stitch length is more consistant)
- Zig-zag: Add warning to the troubleshoot extension to inform about dashed lines if the zig zag is small
svg:line
elements are recognized as normal stroke elements now
Extensions
New extensions
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Extensions > Ink/Stitch > Tools: Fill > Convert to gradient blocks
Splits a shape with a gradient fill color into solid color blocks which can be used to stitch out a gradient
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Extensions > Ink/Stitch > Lettering along path
Places a lettering group along a path without deforming the glyphs
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Extensions > Ink/Stitch > Tools: Stroke > Jump to Stroke
Generates a running stitch line from end to start position of consecutive elements
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Extensions > Ink/Stitch > Tools: Stroke > Fill to Stroke
Generates a center line for fill objects
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Extensions > Ink/Stitch > Tools: Satin: Stroke to Live Path Effect Satin
Converts a Stroke type element into a live path effect satin
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Extensions > Ink/Stitch > Tools: Satin > Zigzag line to Satin
Converts a square or zigzag line into a satin column
Autorun
- Fix: Keep settings for underpath running stitch tolerance
Convert to Satin
- Fix: Do not fail on mixed element selection
- Fix macOS: rails point into the same direction again
Cutwork
- Add needle info to .inf files so that Bernina/Bernette machines can display correct needle numbers
- Fix: Don’t fail if the shape has only a fill
Lettering
- Add font size filter
- Add various options to include trim commands on all fonts (not only auto routed satin fonts)
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Allow font folders with multiple files. In this case the font folders are named with the arrows. This allows font authors to split up their font file and speed up documents with a lot of elements in them. Also it allows them to work at the same font at the same time and exchange only parts of the font.
- Fix: don’t fail on invalid glyphs, but ignore them
- Fix: don’t fail but ignore auto-route if font author defined it for a fill font (just in case the author didn’t finish to convert all glyphs but wants to test the new font).
Preferences
- It is now possible to set default values for the minimum stitch length and the minimum jump stitch length
- Define cache size
Print PDF
- New view: full page pattern
- Preselect PDF format in save dialog
Simulator
- Simulator reloads faster when params have been changed
Stitch Plan
- Add option to lock stitch plan (make it insensitve for mouse interactions)
Embroidery Formats
- Add file name to header of some file formats
- Fix an issue when stop commands resulted into a mismatch between colors and color blocks