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Ink/Stitch: an Inkscape extension for machine embroidery design
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gaps in embroidery between rows #818

Closed kaitngu closed 1 year ago

kaitngu commented 4 years ago

So I'm on a macbook pro, and when I load up designs into my embroidery machine, it leaves some gaps in the stitching between satin fill rows.

It looks like this -

\\\\\\ (this is the underfill stitch)

Any tips? Is there some setting I can toggle to add some overlap?

lexelby commented 4 years ago

That's weird! Can you post an example SVG?

tyrosinase commented 4 years ago

For satin you can increase the density by decreasing the peak-to-peak distance in Params, and for fill you can decrease the spacing between rows.

If satin is irregularly leaving spaces (say around curves/corners) you can often fix it with extra rungs or, worst case, by splitting up the column and having a extra-short peak-to-peak to cover segments with sharp turns, but I'm guessing by "satin fill" you mean fill. Fill should always be evenly spaced (unless you've done something deliberate with the secret features, but that involves editing the XML directly https://silverseams.com/2020/08/special-effect-fills-with-ink-stitch/).

Is the physical result different than the preview?