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Embroidery and InkStitch Global parameters for shrink-compensation
  1. #1
    Der_Olifantenbär Der_Olifantenbär @Der_Olifantenbär

    Hi,
    sorry, do not know the exact idiom for the german "Zugausgleich".
    If I will use my artwork on different fabrics, I need different values of stitchcompensation. Actually I define this specific for every object in my artwork. Changing the fabric is very problematic.
    Is there a way to define the compensation as global, and special offsets if the selected object differs from the fabric standards?

  2. #2
    Kaalleen Kaalleen @Kaalleen

    No at the moment there is no way to do this. The overall pull compensation isn't very good in Ink/Stitch at the moment. The expand option for fills will even expand all sides of the element equally, which isn't what a real pull compensation would do. So real pull compensation is something we'll have to work on. At the moment you even may need to push the nodes of your shape around to get things right - which isn't very satisfying as I admit.

    But if you need to change only one parameter on multiple elements while keeping the other parameters that will be possible. Selecting all elements (of the same kind). Open the params dialog and change only that specific parameter before you click on apply. All other values will stay intact. You can see which parameter has been changed and will be saved on the pencil symbol to the left of the parameter.

  3. #3
    Kaalleen Kaalleen @Kaalleen

    If you need the exact same settings on multiple elements, you can also use the duplicate params method: https://inkstitch.org/docs/edit/#duplicate-params

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