Hello Would any specialists have some time to set up my bra pattern with me please?
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What did you already try? What steps did you do for the moment? Where you have problems? With some more informations it would be easier to assist you
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I don’t even know where to start! Do I buy the pattern from the Seamly shop and tweak it in my section?
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Hi annieo, I assume you have your pattern and you know how to build/draw it by hand, right? Than I would start with the measurements. To enter your personal measurements open SeamlyMe. Once done with the measurements you can start drawing your pattern in Seamly2d
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ok thanks. Can i import another digital design?
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What do you mean with “import another design”? I doubt that you could take any other digital data to open it in Seamly2d Maybe you can have a look here => Seamly
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@Grace had said i can buy a seanly pattern from the seamly shop, but was just wondering if i could import my own designs…without having to draw it out again in seamly?
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Correct. Seamly2d only opens Seamly2D files (*.sm2d).
You can open Grace’s pattern(s)… maybe make some minor mods to it (?), and resize it, but if you want your own designs you have to draft them using Seamly2D. Generally you’re going to draft a particular garment based on one of the many patterns systems out there… Such as Aldrich or Mueller. I haven’t looked at Grace’s patterns yet, so I don’t know if it an individual or multisize pattern, where @Grace can answer more what is needed to resize the pattern(s).
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Sorry, I thought you were looking for a basic bodice, skirt, trouser pattern master pattern, which is in the Seamly shop. Using that pattern, you can make changes to create almost anything, including underwear, but you may need to get the Metric Pattern Cutting - Women’s Wear by Winifred Aldrich to assist you.
Included with the pattern is a multisize measurement chart, which you can save to a new name and change the measurements of to your own “In House” standard measurements or you can create your own individual measurement chart by opening SeamlyMe, creating a new Individual measurement file and importing the measurement areas used in the pattern into the new measurement file. Add your individual measurements and save the file to a specific name. Open the pattern in Seamly2D and load the individual measurement chart. The pattern should resize according to your specific measurements.
If you already know how to create patterns by hand, it is actually very easy to learn how to do this in Seamly and we are always here to help you.
Here are the pattern files for an underwire bra that I did (goodness knows where I got it, it was years ago), that may help you to get going:
Basic Underwire Bra.sm2d (31.5 KB)
Bra.smis (1.4 KB)
I have never made up this pattern, so I really can’t vouch for the accuracy. It was only a part of my own learning process that I created it 
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This was super helpful! Thank you!
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