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

Manual Stitch

  • Enable automated lock stitches through the force lock stitch option

Fill stitch

  • Add support for fractional-length stagger cycles in fills

  • 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

  • Pull compensation

    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.

  • 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

  • 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

  • Extensions > Ink/Stitch > Lettering along path

    Places a lettering group along a path without deforming the glyphs

  • Extensions > Ink/Stitch > Tools: Stroke > Jump to Stroke

    Generates a running stitch line from end to start position of consecutive elements

  • Extensions > Ink/Stitch > Tools: Stroke > Fill to Stroke

    Generates a center line for fill objects

  • Extensions > Ink/Stitch > Tools: Satin: Stroke to Live Path Effect Satin

    Converts a Stroke type element into a live path effect satin

  • 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

Lettering

  • Add font size filter
  • Add various options to include trim commands on all fonts (not only auto routed satin fonts)

  • 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
  • New view: full page pattern
  • Preselect PDF format in save dialog

Simulator

  • Simulator reloads faster when params have been changed

Stitch Plan

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