I'm a vivid role playing game master. With baby steps, I've learned the very basics on how to use Illustrator. Now my registration has ended, so I switched to Inkscape, and I'm not too unhappy about it.
Now I want to create a dark blue, nearly black ripped piece of cloth. No problems there. Worked quite well. But I need an embroidered, interlaced heptagramme on that piece of cloth. (A 7-sided star, where one line goes underneath the other.)
Here you can have a look at it. https://prnt.sc/uwer2y (Taken and shared with Lightshot. You can look Lightshot up if you don't trust it: it's safe!) Creating the heptagram itself wasn't that hard at all. It took me a few goes, but I got it to my compete satisfaction well within an hour, without any help. For a beginner like me, that's quite satisfying. :)
So... the lines of the heptagram are fills with an outline, as you can see.
It should have a silverish look with clear distinguishable threads that don't look too much copied. Obviously, I could just draw them manually. Easy peasy. But then again, I'm also doing this because I want to LEARN. And that is why I'd love to see if this look can be generated.
Achim: Have you tried the Inkstitch extension for Inkscape? If you post your SVG file I can try to output a PDF file for you that looks like what you need.
Inkstitch can also output a PDF image of what the embroidered product will look like in addition to detailed information about the file, colors, etc. Unfortunately, the PDF output also shows the thread as it moves across the virtual embroidery during the stitching. I suppose you could use a program like Photoshop or Gimp to clean the image up to get rid of the extra threads. See the attached screenshot of a PDF that I made based on a simple design that I was trying out to test the system.
Thanks, Huertaaj! That looks nearly perfect. BUT: PS or Gimp aren't vector formats, so that won't be of any help. And then again, PDF's aren't svg's either. On top of that, I don't like what it did to the corners. Nor how it treated the green parts. But still: thank you for the effort and concern! I do appreciate it! :) 👍
Thank you, Tyler Durden (hehehe, nice name!) Interpolate extension, you said? I'll have a look at it! Thanks! :)
Still: PDF is not a vector format. It's a document format. Saying that PDF is a vector format is like saying that DOC is a vector format. I cannot insert a PDF as an image on a website, for example. I can do that with an svg, though. Same thing goes for an insert into a layout.
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I'm a vivid role playing game master. With baby steps, I've learned the very basics on how to use Illustrator.
Now my registration has ended, so I switched to Inkscape, and I'm not too unhappy about it.
Now I want to create a dark blue, nearly black ripped piece of cloth. No problems there. Worked quite well.
But I need an embroidered, interlaced heptagramme on that piece of cloth. (A 7-sided star, where one line goes underneath the other.)
Here you can have a look at it. https://prnt.sc/uwer2y (Taken and shared with Lightshot. You can look Lightshot up if you don't trust it: it's safe!)
Creating the heptagram itself wasn't that hard at all. It took me a few goes, but I got it to my compete satisfaction well within an hour, without any help. For a beginner like me, that's quite satisfying. :)
So... the lines of the heptagram are fills with an outline, as you can see.
Now... I need this heptagram to look like an embroidered symbol.
Basically like this pentagram, but then with :
https://i.ebayimg.com/images/i/400752382304-0-1/s-l1000.jpg
It should have a silverish look with clear distinguishable threads that don't look too much copied.
Obviously, I could just draw them manually. Easy peasy. But then again, I'm also doing this because I want to LEARN. And that is why I'd love to see if this look can be generated.
Any ideas on how I could and should so this?
Achim: Have you tried the Inkstitch extension for Inkscape? If you post your SVG file I can try to output a PDF file for you that looks like what you need.
That "Inkstitch" extension, isn't that rather to create embroidery patterns, in order to print it out, so you can stitch it on a fabric?
TO simulate stitching, I'd look at the Interpolate extension, and some randomization.
Not great, but maybe a start.
Inkstitch can also output a PDF image of what the embroidered product will look like in addition to detailed information about the file, colors, etc. Unfortunately, the PDF output also shows the thread as it moves across the virtual embroidery during the stitching. I suppose you could use a program like Photoshop or Gimp to clean the image up to get rid of the extra threads. See the attached screenshot of a PDF that I made based on a simple design that I was trying out to test the system.
Thanks, Huertaaj! That looks nearly perfect.
BUT: PS or Gimp aren't vector formats, so that won't be of any help. And then again, PDF's aren't svg's either.
On top of that, I don't like what it did to the corners. Nor how it treated the green parts.
But still: thank you for the effort and concern! I do appreciate it! :) 👍
Thank you, Tyler Durden (hehehe, nice name!)
Interpolate extension, you said? I'll have a look at it! Thanks! :)
PDFs can maintain vector data, not sure if InkStitch will write any into it though.
I know that.
Still: PDF is not a vector format. It's a document format. Saying that PDF is a vector format is like saying that DOC is a vector format.
I cannot insert a PDF as an image on a website, for example. I can do that with an svg, though. Same thing goes for an insert into a layout.
Inkscape can open and edit a pdf and save as svg. A bit clunky, but *might* save time in the long run.
That's an interesting approach! Must check that out too! :O