Find measurement in pattern/formula

[crn]

hey gang, Happy New Year!! I’m currently entering a well-deserved, fun-filled pattern making rabbit hole on Seamly after a year full of work - and I remembered I had a question/suggestion last year:

I am creating my long-time dream of a shirt, a men’s tuxedo shirt based on women’s garment construction. It’s fully parametric and I can shift between standard measurement tables or individual measurement sets - but here’s the issue I sometimes run into with my older patterns for reference:

I used to calculate & include the variable neck_arc_half_back in my older patterns’ curve construction. I prefer a fraction of neck_circ in current construction, and when loading newer measurement sets, I’ll be prompted to provide neck_arc_half_back in the measurement file. I can manually search & replace all formulas that use this variable, so that I don’t have to rely on an outdated measurement, but I don’t always find all instances.

Now my question: Is there a way to search my pattern file to show all formulas/instances using a specific measurement? It would make formula revising a lot easier!

cheers! c.

[Grace]

Hello & nice to see you again & Happy New Year!

The only way that I know of is to open the pattern file in a text editor, like NotePad++, but you’ll need to know what you’re doing so that you don’t totally break your pattern. Save a copy, just in case.

[AnnaFields]

I have found that it is slightly easier to not break the pattern if you use an XML editor instead of a text editor. Your advice to always save a copy of the “before” file is absolute gold

[Douglas]

I would just use the Atom editor since I’m glued to it almost everyday editng code. I can search / replace within a file or across whole folders.

Other editors like Visual Studio are just as capable.

Code editors also have the advantage over NotePad of displaying the line and column numbers so when an error message says it found a pattern error at line 65 col 77 you can easily find the error spot.