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Sewart mac
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I did a single scan with Brightness cutoff and clicked OK. I put the image in Inkscape.įrom there, I selected the image and clicked Path -> Trace Bitmap.

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I chose a simple image of a sunflower from Google to use because I like plants and COVID-19 has sparked my recent passion for gardening. It provided this simple graphic to describe the process: Once I had completed this basic tutorial, I went on to the Workflow to create my own design. pes from the guidance of one of my instructor’s, Dr. I renamed the file and put it in my Downloads folder. From there, I closed both of those windows and clicked File -> Save As to save it. I played around with the slider to view the simulation and also watched it play all the way through. This brought up a simulation of the embroidery. I decided not to change anything to see how the default ran and selected Apply and Quit. I then clicked Extensions -> Ink/Stitch -> Params. I selected the rectangle I drew and clicked Object -> Object to Path. I first drew a shape and changed the fill to this sick green. To begin using the Ink/Stitch plug-in, I followed the Basic Usage tutorial.

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This then added ‘Ink/Stitch’ as an extension in Inkscape. I copied and pasted the zip file into my extensions folder, and manually unzipped it from there. From there, I decided not to unzip it yet because it was in the wrong folder. I used the curl command to download Ink/Stitch by taking out the $ and just using curl -LJO. Thus, I did cd Downloads to change the directory to my Downloads folder.

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I located where my extensions folder was and attempted to change the directory to it, but for some reason the Terminal was saying that it did not recognize Applications. My Mac did not like the change in directory or the $ and thus did not accept just copying and pasting the commands. $ unzip inkstitch-refs-tags-v1.28.0-osx-en_US.zip I put the download into the ‘extensions’ folder in my Inkscape folder.īecause I had a Mac, I had to use my Terminal to download Ink/Stitch. The first software was Ink/Stitch, “an open source machine embroidery design platform based on Inkscape.” I downloaded the software on my Mac by following these steps.

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Throughout this process, Katie Chai‘s documentation was very helpful in guiding me. I will embroider the design later on and return to update my documentation. Because we were not back in the lab yet, I learned how to use to software and created my design during this week. Our FabLab has an embroidery machine, the Brother 6-Needle Home Embroidery Machine, so I decided I wanted to learn how to use it for this week. The assignment for this week was to design and produce something with a digital fabrication process (incorporating computer-aided design and manufacturing) not covered in another assignment, documenting the requirements that my assignment meets, and including everything necessary to reproduce it.














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