Hi!
I’m a new user and I am a male. Very much used to the whole world of sewing and pattern-making being almost entirely female-centric. It may be that I don’t know the correct terminology, but I cannot find a way to store men’s measurements in Seamly. I don’t have a bust or any of the myriad permutations of one. But I do have a chest. There doesn’t seem to be a way of adding a chest measurement and having it reflected in the diagrams that the program creates. I confess I’ve only spent two hours searching today, so I may be trying to cut corners. But I can’t really take a day off work to keep going. Any thoughts? Even the men’s & tailoring section doesn’t have a full suite of men-type bits!
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Hi Simon
The “known” measurement names are just variable names… they are there to basically provide a common naming system. You can call the “chest” measurement what ever you want.
Basically just use the G04 bust_circ as the the chest measurement:
If you really need to see the term chest… just create a “custom measurement” named “chest”.
The app will prepend the @ symbol to the name so you have to use @chest in the formulas.
You can then set the formula to the measurment value… or even to another measurement variable like bust_circ.
If you don’t like the known names just create all your measurements as custom. The one downside to this is known measurements are translated, custom measurements are not. Well that, and you have to use the “@” symbol with each custom name.
Of course if you are just using the app for your own use and will never share patterns / measurements then the translations are probably a moot point.
I actually use a custom measurement in my smis files… “ChestScale”… with the formula = bust_circ / 2 + @Ease.
Many mens drafting systems use the term chest_scale as you are only drafting 1/2 the pattern.
Hope this helps.
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