Duplicate piece + mirror

[Douglas]

@najdmie

Beside the duplicate and mirror tool, another feature I like to advocate in piece mode is the ability to ‘unfold’ the piece along a selected side, like unfolding along center-back or center-front. Doing all these in draft mode make my draft extra cluttered and prone to mistake

Well the idea was to be able to duplicate a piece, flip it and use the Union tool to join the pieces together… such as joining the left and right sides of a back (without having to mirror in draft mode with all the clutter). Currently we can;t do that as the Union tool will on lt only rotate pieces to join togther. I do like the idea though of making a seperate “Unfold” tool as you describe. It’s basically a Mirror and Union in 1 tool.

@najdmie

Another of my selfish purpose is the ability to add as many labels I want at any location, for example to indicate the seam allowance value. Ultimately, I hope to ditch Inkscape and do it all within Seamly2D.

Yes… a “text” tool is on the list. And yes, we would like to eliminate the need to use other apps to polish patterns.

I know it’s off topic, but I just had an idea for SA dimensions… what if we had a check box in the Nodes section to automatically include the seam allowance values? Feel free to create a new topic if you wish to discuss ideas on SA dimentions.