Apart from Seamly, I use a software called CLO3D to edit the DXF files I export from Seamly. However, for some reason, one particular draft (DXF file) I created in Seamly appears to be excessively large when opened in CLO3D, with an unusually high number of curve points. I haven’t been able to fix this issue. I’m unsure whether the problem lies in how I exported the DXF file from Seamly or how I imported it into CLO3D. Could this be related to the way I created the pattern or the export settings?
I cannot simply scale the pattern in CLO, the pattern is so huge that scaling it back to the right size makes internal lines and points overlap so it doesn’t’t let me.
This has never happened to me before I’ve been happily importing and exporting files between the two until this draft
Update, I’ve checked other Seamly files and I do think the problem is related to seamly. This pattern seems to have an awful lot of curve points when imported into CLO3D, which is weird because I had a near identical copy of this pattern that didn’t have this. This forces CLO3D to blow the pattern up once imported and doesn’t allow me to scale it down. Is there a way to make seamly export with fewer points while maintaining the shape of the pattern? I tried the quality slider but it seems to not affect dxf exports.
For reference, most of the outline of my pattern is made up of splines, I think the issue could be there.
Update, I’ve checker other similar files and they also have a majority spline outline, I cannot really explain why this one has these issue.
@Evans Can you look at this problem? You may need @Robin’s pattern & measurement files for the pattern that works and the pattern that doesn’t work for exporting a DXF file that is importable to CLO3D.
For the record, most software that imports DXF files have interoperability problems accepting DXFs due to the poorly defined DXF specification where Gerber and other use fields in ways they were never intended. This is not the problem that @Robin reports here, but in the future it would be nice for our export format list to list ‘CLO3D’, ‘Blender’, ‘Gerber’, so that we create the DXF with their specific requirements.
DXF interoperability with apparel software is an industry-wide problem, which is why I’m at the ASTM standards meeting in Houston this week, to discuss data file interoperability and body measurement standards.
Did you try other scale option when importing (auto, mm, cm etc)?
I also frequently import Seamly2D dxf into Clo but has no such problem with the latest Seamly2D version. But I have not updated to the latest Clo so maybe something changes.
While we are discussing DXF can I also suggest Style3D on that other software list. It is a free clone of Clo3D but none of the DXF from Seamly2D can be imported, except DXF R10 (flat) that need to be traced manually after importing.
I assure you that Style3D is a lot better candidate than blender. I have been trying for years to use blender to make clothing, but it is just not built for it, especially when using real pattern.
The next candidate is Browzwear Vsticher, which is also not compatible with Seamly2D DXF.
I tried importing various DXF format exported from Seamly2D today into Clo3D. I did not have scale issue but all the (flat) formats are excessively heavy with large number of points as reported by @Robin , making Clo3D very laggy. But this maybe a Clo3D problem though because all the flat format work very well when imported into Inkscape. I did not notice this before because I always import DXF 2013 AAMA which work well with minimal points.
Sorry for no response for so long, I got caught up in other things. I’m using R10 AAMA. It was in fact a result of my instance on using curved lines for all edges of patterns that was doing it. I have since been able to fix it by creating simpler patterns.
