preferably the complete location for the entire body?
Hi, will it help to have the whole data as a graphic? You could have a look here => Measurements ā Seamly (snipit from the Seamly2D Wiki)
Hello and welcome to the Seamly forum, @Mrjeggles
To add to what @JCDesign has mentioned, I agree that the number of measurement areas is very daunting, however, if you turn on the Measurement Diagram, you will see an image that will make the measurement clear while you are adding your measurement areas to SeamlyME:
I find that making a list of all the measurement areas I want to use first & then adding the codes to the list most helpful, and then I use the same measurement file when creating a new measurement file, I just save it to another name. This way, I donāt need to keep on hunting down the codes
If youāre really needing a paper copy of the pictures which @Grace showed you how to activate in SeamlyMe, they are in the source code of SeamlyMe & can be found online:
Beat me to itā¦
Just a noteā¦ thereās 104 SVGās that make up the measurement diagrams.
That being saidā¦ it would not be that hard to add a āPrintā button to dump a measurement diagram to the printer.
Iām not sure why that would be useful, but I desperately need it!
Why? When thereās this on the Wiki?:
https://static.miraheze.org/seamlywiki/a/a1/Seamly2d-body-measurements_20230112.svg
Hereās a 1-page PDF:
SeamlyMe Body Measurements.pdf (1.5 MB)
And a 3-page A4 PDF, with trim marks to join the pages. that should be fine if fitted to a Letter-size page:
SeamlyMe Body Measurements A4.pdf (1.4 MB)
Please let me know if I must upload them onto the Wiki.
Assuming the user has access to the internet. I guess sometimes I take the topic title too literalā¦ where the OP asked if here is a way to print the measurment diagrams IN SeamlyMe.
I could see a why thoughā¦ if the diagrams were refactored to create a scene from individual elements of each measurment, where you could then display (and print) a diagram that contains only those measurments a user included in a measurement file. An end user of a pattern doesnāt need to know how to measure every āknownā measurementā¦ just the ones in the measurment file.
Perfect. Thank You @Grace. Maybe we should include (one of) these in the Releases?
Update: Actually maybe it would make more sense to distribute a multipage PDF with no crop marks in A4 and Letter size? We donāt use A4 in the US, we use Letterā¦ and it would be easier for users to not have to figure out how to fit the A0 on Letter.
In either case if the PDFās are packaged with the release, I can then easily see a reason to add an option to āPrint Measurement Diagramsā from within SeamlyMe. :It becomes a simple menu selction by the user, and we donāt have to keep answering questions where to find and how to print the diagrams.
In fact Iād eventually go a step furtherā¦ those PDFās should also be part a pattern package - where the end user has the reference how to take the measurements the pattern uses.
Iāll quickly make a Letter size one for the USA
Update:
Hereās the Letter PDF:
SeamlyMe Body Measurements Letter.pdf (1.4 MB)
The reason from trim marks is because some of the images & text go over 2 pages, so the person printing it will need to match up to join the pages, so Iāve left them in.
Thatās fine, but I think if I put them on the Wiki, then a link to them in the Help should be enough, since theyāll need an internet connection to download Seamly, Iām sure they can also check out the help & download the PDF. However, I leave that totally in your hands, I donāt mind either way. I just donāt want to bloat the size of the software download because then itāll always take longer to download for everyone.
Ja-jaā¦ I hear you Perhaps you can add to the SeamlyMe software to add an image & description to the āExport Measurements to PDFā feature that we donāt have yet
- (Edit) that a pattern maker can include with the instructions that she has to write on how to make up the pattern.
I couldnāt find something that matches your post on the wiki page you linked to, but I did find a ridiculously old link. Ah, there at the bottom of the page.
ETA: Eyeballing it, it looks like you couldāve made a file of A4 short-side by Letter long-side, thus producing one āuniversalā file. That may have been more trouble though.
My 1st effort was meant to be printed adjusted āTo fitā, I guess thatās just not done, so now thereās a PDF for each
I did the A4 & the letter both in landscape so that the pictures didnāt get too scrunched up or the writing too small.
The long page, I made it the width of the A4 landscape and the length of the 3 pages joined. As it is, itās quite a high quality, so if anyone wants to, they should be able to print it at 120% or even more without losing too much quality.
Thanks grace for the download, that file will be a great help in finding the measurements I use instead of having to go into seamlyme and scroll the all the areas.