Hi, I’m drafting this pants pattern and I’m trying to add a dart and make sure that the tip is the right length to create the smooth curve when its going to be closed.
In the Operations tab I see the True dart tool and when I click it it asks to select two base points and three dart points, but I only have four points, and cant really tell which are the base and which the dart points.
What am I doing wrong?
First of all, the True Darts tool doesn’t work with curves, so the curves coming off the dart will have to be made after the dart is trued.
Approximating, your base points might be CFPOINT & A17, & then your three dart points are A21, A25, & A22.
I hope this gets you in the right direction, if not, someone better at describing it will come along sometime today.
Thanks @Pneumarian , I followed your steps and I think Im getting closer.
I still don’t know how to draft the tip as the one I sketched in pink. I tried making the pattern in paper and matching the dart but the waistline is not coming out right yet.
Wouldn’t all that excess fabric flapping around be cut off anyway? But if it will help you follow your directions as written, either use the Line tool, “Point - Intersect Lines,” & denote one line with CFPOINT & A26 & the other line with A17 & A27, or to get the midpoint to be the exact same length as the sides, use the “Point - On Line” tool, your first point will be A25 your second point dart & your length will be Line_A25_A26 (if that line doesn’t exist, use the Line tool to denote it.)
When you are in the tracing around the pattern stage, you will select the points (& curves) that your pattern is defined by, the lines between points in draft mode are just to help you remember what’s going on.
