For those trying to learn Inkstitch, Inkstitch is absolutely powerful if you know how to use it and will teach you a lot about vectors. Hatch and other software take the learning curve out of digitizing embroidery. However, you kinda need to understand how graphics with layers work to understand how to build a good embroidery file. I don't have the $400 to $1k so Inkstitch it is. Even the smaller programs I bought years ago don't enable me to create files the way I want. Thank you for putting these tutorials out!
I rarely sub, but you deserve it for these tutorials. Everyone tells me to get Hatch, but thats 1000 bucks and I'm just learning. I appreciate this and your sage guidance.
This is BY FAR the best Inkstitch tutorial I have watched. New to embroidery, and this helped with almost all of my frustrations! You sir are outstanding!
You are so perfectly thorough and perfectly relatable. I work in tech and genuinely think you do a far better job at explaining new concepts than most of my computer science professors ever could back in the day! Thanks for investing so much time and energy into these - makes life so much easier!
Thanks for this video. I had always thought there is going to be a lot of manual tracing job to digitize an image, so very surprised your video made everything seem to work like magic!
So timely...I'm trying to create a file for my own home craft logo I designed years ago and thought I would embroider it on some pj pants. I've been watching your first video over and over. The best thing I learned from this video was the simplify function. I just shut down my laptop for the night when I saw all the nodes I'd have to work with...now I know I don't have to. Thank you!
Wow this is great! Just into getting embroidery and learning about designing and your videos are very thorough! I can follow along at a great pace. Thanks for sharingyour knowledge! Keep them coming.
Hey man, your videos have been a huge help to me in making my way through the embroidery hobby. I'm also a big proponent of Linux and the Open Source community, so I'm glad to see that the community solve another problem. Great tutorials man, keep doing what your doing!
I fell in love with this tutorial, I've been watching multiple of videos but non of them actually explains deeply on every steps but this video does! I've been embroidering over a year now while buying designs and finally decided to start learning how digitize some designs on my own before buying any other programs. Still kinda confused with the sizing but other than that I've learned a lot with your videos!
Your videos are amazing! I haven't subscribed to someone on YT in nearly a decade, but the diligence in your videos truly earned it. Your pace, thoroughness, and foresight is phenomenal! I did have one question though...here's my situation (I've used your videos to go from step to step): so far, I've created my own design in ProCreate, exported it as a PNG, converted the PNG to an SVG, figured out the layers + troubleshooted in Inkstitch, and done the simulator/realistic preview. I am unsure of where to go from here when it comes to actually exporting the file to give to my embroidery machine (Brother SE1900). I'm still very new to this embroidery machine and I'm learning as I go, but I do know that it takes .pes, .dst , .phc, and .pen (from iBroidery) file types. Is there a way to convert the SVG file of my design to any of these file types via Inkscape? I tried to export the SVG and I don't see any of the aforementioned file types as an option. Would love any pointers you can provide me with. Thank you so much ◡̈
Thank you very much for the compliment 😁 Always save as an SVG first. If you need to make changes after stitching out a test change the SVG and re-save as an embroidery file, over-writing the previous one. To save as a pes or dst just save as. And then rename the file.svg to file.pes or file.dst and inkstitch will do the rest. I use a thumb drive to move the file from computer to machine
Might want to mention that Simplify can and will probably change your image a little bit. I still use it though, but worth a mention. Good video though, really helpful :-)
Outstanding! Your videos have been super helpful (I'm before novice in embroidery machine and Inkscpe/Inkstitch). I have a question about jump stitches: right now I don't mind trimming them because everything is so new to me, it's kinda fun to me to cut a thread here and there. But, I'm wondering if I can end up messing up the embroidery by trimming the jump stitches in front and back of the work.... As in, do I create chances of the embroidery unraveling, by trimming? I'm about to try a design I made that has several unconnected swirls... am I better off asking the machine to trim by adding command between my swirls so it secures the stitch? Thank you and thank you so much for sharing so much valuable knowledge and experience :)
Trimming jump stitches shouldn't be an issue. Your machine should tie off at the beginning and the end of a stitch area, whether it's a straight, fill, or satin stitch. There's not much difference from you cutting with scissors and the machine cutting it for you as far as that goes. Be careful not to accidentally cut a stitch that's not a jump. On the underside it's ok to cut long hanging threads, any tie off should be close to the fabric. If you have jump stitches (on the underside) that are tight from one jump to the next I usually leave those there, just to be on the safe side.
@@LowTechLinux Thank you so much! I've learned a lot from you and I just enjoy watching your tutorials, even when I don't have an immediate "need". Thank you :)
I’m having trouble with my image and subsequent stitch file. It has a lot of blank holes. I’ve tried to increase scans but when I break apart is when they seem to appear.
If it's a fill stitch, go into params and reduce (slightly) spacing between rows. Default is .25, try .2, then try .18. Small changes make a big difference here. If it's a satin stitch, params, and reduce (slightly) zig-zag spacing (peak-to-peak). Default is .4, try .35, then .3. Again, small changes make a big difference.
So, I'm just curios: As a photoshop user, if I were doing this on photoshop, when doing the antenna after getting the satin stich right on one side - I would have just copied the layer, inverted and pasted it. I wonder if this is something I could do in this situation to save time...
Assuming you have a single needle machine, it will stop and wait for you to change thread color for each "color block", then you hit the go button again.
Can someone please help me with this.... real novice here... The way he has everything displayed is great! the entire right side with all you tools and info needed. How do I get that set up ?
The tools bar should keep the tools you load up. In other words if you load the fill and stroke tool it should be on the right side in the tool bar. You may need to grab the slider and pull it out to see, there's also a pop-up mode for the tools that over rides the toolbar. I will make a video explaining all this this evening that should help.
Sometimes it's best to take a break. Come back with a clear mind and a cup of coffee (or hot chocolate works too 🤣😂). If you have specific questions I'm happy to help if I can. Just keep in mind, when I started using inkstitch I didn't know how to make a single straight line in inkscape. 🤪
First thanks for ALL our videos , question, I followed your steps on creating a satin stitch , same simple exercise you did 3mos ago unlit I go to the simulator all I got was 2 lines crossing each other , I had to subscribe thanks again
@@LowTechLinux First thanks for our reply not many do, ok so after using the busier Tool I made a line,, just fill , them clicking on covert to satin Line , and the parts, all I get is 2 lines crossing each other with I could show you thanks again
How do you select a section of a path. eg. when i created the paths, the path included 2 colours. I would like to select the section that needs to be removed and add/move it to another layer.
The way it sounds you created a shape. That shape has two colors, a fill color, and a stroke (border) color. To make it two separate objects, select the shape and turn off stroke. Duplicate the object, and in the duplicate turn on stroke, turn off fill. To get to the fill and stroke tool from the top menu, Objects > Fill and Stroke. Another way is on the colors bar at the bottom of inkstitch there's an X at the very left. If you click that X it will remove fill. If you hold shift and click that X it will remove stroke. Clicking a color gives the fill that color, shift click a color gives that color to the stroke (border).
I'm just a beginner in Inkstich, this is my first attempt. I need to change a PNG to VP3, so i started with your video.. I must be doing something wrong or not selecting something. I'm stuck at the Trace Bitmap. That worked fine, but I only get 1 layer. What am i missing ? thanks
If it worked well do an inkstitch break apart next. If it needs to break apart that will create additional objects. Make sure you're in object layers and not layer layers. Also, if you do a trace bitmap multiple scan, that will create multiple object layers. When in doubt do an inkstitch troubleshoot.
@@LowTechLinux LOL, i was looking at the wrong layers. thanks My image has too many colors, I would like to merge two layers so that it blends the section. or is there a way to select a section like you can with photoshop?
I have found that jpgs are a bit annoying. If you have software to convert the jpg to PNG it might work better. The GIMP (gnu image manipulation program) is free and will work for this.
@@LowTechLinux I will keep an eye open just in case you try it I'm so new to this stuff and just now received a embroidery machine and it's fried my mind. I have dogs horse's chickens and ducks I would love to learn it.
I got all the way to the part where you said it was a stitchable file. I tried to save in my embroidery format, and it said it wouldn't be saved. What went wrong. BTW, I love the tutorial. Please help.
Question, so when I use the "draw bezier curves & straight lines button 14:00 and try to draw an object, when I hit enter it connects the 1st and last clicks, and fills in the area? what setting do I need to adjust?
@@Elvenmystery Hi there, I believe so, under the Fill and Stroke Section, Make sure under fill. the NO PAINT or NO FILL is selected . I hope this helps. Keep watching, Dale really knows his stuff, I've learned so much
I downloaded it onto my Mac, and my screen looks very different. I’m also not able to push the button that allows you to visualize the design before saving it, and I don’t see the same variety of ways to to save the file.
Hello again , so im getting random small stitches that are irrelevant that don't show up in the simulator or the realistic review, I can delete them while embroidering but it can get kind of confusing any idea why , again thanks
Would you happen to have the link to this image or is there anyway you can send it to me? I'd love to have this exact butterfly so I can follow along! Thanks
Ok! so I finally was able to get my embroidery to print out visually in the program, but then when I went to save it, It said it was unable to save my file to my embroidery format. The only way I was able to save it was as a zip file. Now I don't know how to convert it to my embroidery machine format! I need more help. Thanks! Shirley
Go file, save as, name.pes or name.dst (whatever extension your embroidery machine needs. Also, if you unzip that zip file it should have several embroidery formats to choose from
I’m trying to follow your videos but I think I might need something even more basic because I can’t get past opening the image. I try to troubleshoot like you do and it says “all shapes are valid”. I don’t know how you get it to open in layers either. When I click preview it stitches it all in black. I’m so lost.
when you do a trace bitmap, in the trace bitmap tool box there should be tabs, single scan, multi color, and pixel art. single scan will only give you one layer, which you will then (usually) have to break apart. multi color scans will give you multiple layers that often won't need to be broke apart (but sometimes will). Try the multi color scan and see if it works for you.
@@just_a_random_person3103 are there several colors in your original image? Is the trace giving multiple colors but only one layer? Try a break apart fill objects maybe?
Are the dimensions of your digitization too large for the machine you are putting it on? What are the dimensions of your work? Do you have any layers stitching on top of layers? These will make unnecessarily large stitch counts.
When i create a shape and make it a fill stitch when it's embroidering it, it starts at the bottom then goes up and when it's time to join the two halves together it always leaves this tiny little space between them and i don't know how to fix it, it's really frustrating, i don't know if you understand, english is not my main language.
Try going into params and setting a different fill stitch angle. You can also change the start and stop points and see if that works (attach command iirc). If you can't find those settings let me know and I'll look them up more specifically when I get home from work.
@@LowTechLinux Oh and another problem i have is there are always gaps between shapes i always have to use expand for that not to happen but normally it shouldn't happen i think.
i have managed to do 1 image now all i get trying to do another one is this Traceback (most recent call last): File "Lib\site-packages\PyInstaller\hooks thooks\pyi_rth_multiprocessing.py", line 12, in File "PyInstaller\loader\pyimod03_importers.py", line 495, in exec_module File "multiprocessing\__init__.py", line 16, in File "PyInstaller\loader\pyimod03_importers.py", line 495, in exec_module File "multiprocessing\context.py", line 6, in File "PyInstaller\loader\pyimod03_importers.py", line 495, in exec_module File "multiprocessing eduction.py", line 16, in File "PyInstaller\loader\pyimod03_importers.py", line 495, in exec_module File "socket.py", line 49, in ImportError: DLL load failed while importing _socket: The parameter is incorrect. any help? i have tried every version of both
For those trying to learn Inkstitch, Inkstitch is absolutely powerful if you know how to use it and will teach you a lot about vectors. Hatch and other software take the learning curve out of digitizing embroidery. However, you kinda need to understand how graphics with layers work to understand how to build a good embroidery file. I don't have the $400 to $1k so Inkstitch it is. Even the smaller programs I bought years ago don't enable me to create files the way I want. Thank you for putting these tutorials out!
I rarely sub, but you deserve it for these tutorials. Everyone tells me to get Hatch, but thats 1000 bucks and I'm just learning. I appreciate this and your sage guidance.
I appreciate that!
This is BY FAR the best Inkstitch tutorial I have watched. New to embroidery, and this helped with almost all of my frustrations! You sir are outstanding!
Outstanding. So glad I could help. Thank you for the very kind words. Happy stitching 😊
Love that you speak slow enough that I can follow along without having to pause to many times. Wonderful tutorial.
Thank you! 😊
This is literally the only good video I've watched on embroidery digitization that doesn't require thousand dollar software. Open source ftw
I've almost gave up on Inkstitch, but you made my day! Thank you!!
Awesome 👍👍. Thank you
You are so perfectly thorough and perfectly relatable. I work in tech and genuinely think you do a far better job at explaining new concepts than most of my computer science professors ever could back in the day!
Thanks for investing so much time and energy into these - makes life so much easier!
Thanks for this video. I had always thought there is going to be a lot of manual tracing job to digitize an image, so very surprised your video made everything seem to work like magic!
great video! your explanations are clear, concise, and detailed enough that they are actually very helpful! Thank you!
Thank you 😊
So timely...I'm trying to create a file for my own home craft logo I designed years ago and thought I would embroider it on some pj pants. I've been watching your first video over and over. The best thing I learned from this video was the simplify function. I just shut down my laptop for the night when I saw all the nodes I'd have to work with...now I know I don't have to. Thank you!
When I saw simplify in action I was in awe at how much easier that would make trace bitmap projects.
Wow this is great! Just into getting embroidery and learning about designing and your videos are very thorough! I can follow along at a great pace. Thanks for sharingyour knowledge! Keep them coming.
Thank you 😊
Very good tutorial. Super helpful!
Beautiful thanks for the tutorial
Thank you so much. I learn so much from you.
Thank you so much, very informative and now I keep saying, “outstanding!” Every time my machine doesn’t fail.
That is outstanding 😁. Thank you for sharing, I love it.
Great tutorial. I learn so much from you!
Thank you
Thank you for being so thorough! 😊
You're welcome. Thank you
Excellent tutorial thank you. This really explains the automatic functions and troubleshooting. I feel confident
Thank you
Thank you, I was going to give up on Inkstitch but you saved me
Thank you so much for this tutorial! Really helpful and well explained.
Thank you
Thank you so much for a great video. You explain things very well and made it easy to understand.
You're welcome. Thank you 😊
Hey man, your videos have been a huge help to me in making my way through the embroidery hobby. I'm also a big proponent of Linux and the Open Source community, so I'm glad to see that the community solve another problem. Great tutorials man, keep doing what your doing!
This comment has made my day. Thank you
@@LowTechLinux I wholeheartedly agree with and second the original comment made by Rolando. Thank you!
Thank you
PERFECT..... Awesome. Thanks a lot for your help. your videos are really great.
Thank you :)
Thank you so much! This is the video I needed!
this was an amazing tutorial. about to get right into part 2
Thank you
This is the best video for me… trying it out TONIGHT
Let me know how it goes. 👍
Video is a masterclass 👏
Very helpful and informative 👍
Thank you 😊
Thank you for the kind words ☺️
phenomenal video, I appreciate it a lot
Thank you 😊
So helpful ! Thanks so much from Belgium
Awesome. Thank you
💓 Belgium💓
I fell in love with this tutorial, I've been watching multiple of videos but non of them actually explains deeply on every steps but this video does! I've been embroidering over a year now while buying designs and finally decided to start learning how digitize some designs on my own before buying any other programs. Still kinda confused with the sizing but other than that I've learned a lot with your videos!
Awesome. Thank you for sharing that with me. 🤗👍
Your videos are amazing! I haven't subscribed to someone on YT in nearly a decade, but the diligence in your videos truly earned it. Your pace, thoroughness, and foresight is phenomenal! I did have one question though...here's my situation (I've used your videos to go from step to step): so far, I've created my own design in ProCreate, exported it as a PNG, converted the PNG to an SVG, figured out the layers + troubleshooted in Inkstitch, and done the simulator/realistic preview. I am unsure of where to go from here when it comes to actually exporting the file to give to my embroidery machine (Brother SE1900). I'm still very new to this embroidery machine and I'm learning as I go, but I do know that it takes .pes, .dst , .phc, and .pen (from iBroidery) file types. Is there a way to convert the SVG file of my design to any of these file types via Inkscape? I tried to export the SVG and I don't see any of the aforementioned file types as an option. Would love any pointers you can provide me with. Thank you so much ◡̈
Thank you very much for the compliment 😁
Always save as an SVG first. If you need to make changes after stitching out a test change the SVG and re-save as an embroidery file, over-writing the previous one.
To save as a pes or dst just save as. And then rename the file.svg to file.pes or file.dst and inkstitch will do the rest. I use a thumb drive to move the file from computer to machine
Just tried that and it worked. Thank you for the quick help!!
Thank you very much.
Might want to mention that Simplify can and will probably change your image a little bit. I still use it though, but worth a mention. Good video though, really helpful :-)
Good tip. Thank you
Outstanding! Your videos have been super helpful (I'm before novice in embroidery machine and Inkscpe/Inkstitch). I have a question about jump stitches: right now I don't mind trimming them because everything is so new to me, it's kinda fun to me to cut a thread here and there. But, I'm wondering if I can end up messing up the embroidery by trimming the jump stitches in front and back of the work.... As in, do I create chances of the embroidery unraveling, by trimming? I'm about to try a design I made that has several unconnected swirls... am I better off asking the machine to trim by adding command between my swirls so it secures the stitch? Thank you and thank you so much for sharing so much valuable knowledge and experience :)
Trimming jump stitches shouldn't be an issue. Your machine should tie off at the beginning and the end of a stitch area, whether it's a straight, fill, or satin stitch. There's not much difference from you cutting with scissors and the machine cutting it for you as far as that goes. Be careful not to accidentally cut a stitch that's not a jump. On the underside it's ok to cut long hanging threads, any tie off should be close to the fabric. If you have jump stitches (on the underside) that are tight from one jump to the next I usually leave those there, just to be on the safe side.
@@LowTechLinux Thank you so much! I've learned a lot from you and I just enjoy watching your tutorials, even when I don't have an immediate "need". Thank you :)
I’m having trouble with my image and subsequent stitch file. It has a lot of blank holes. I’ve tried to increase scans but when I break apart is when they seem to appear.
hello there, windows user here - auto trace problem is not just a linux issue. also had issues that were similar. - thank you
Thank you for the update. Glad to know it's not just me ;)
Good video thanks
Thank you 👍
If y'all's imagine won't break apart select the image ungroup it and then hit break apart
Hello! Love your video so very helpful! I have a question, any idea how I can put more stitches to fill it more? Thanks a lot!
If it's a fill stitch, go into params and reduce (slightly) spacing between rows. Default is .25, try .2, then try .18. Small changes make a big difference here.
If it's a satin stitch, params, and reduce (slightly) zig-zag spacing (peak-to-peak). Default is .4, try .35, then .3. Again, small changes make a big difference.
@@LowTechLinux Thanks a lot! will try it out!
So, I'm just curios: As a photoshop user, if I were doing this on photoshop, when doing the antenna after getting the satin stich right on one side - I would have just copied the layer, inverted and pasted it. I wonder if this is something I could do in this situation to save time...
Yes. Sometimes I shortcut the design and duplicate objects, flip, and place. 😁
After you use the trace bitmap tool you get a bunch of layers for each color, how do I get to that layers view? It exports it as 1 layer for me.
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Quick question I know this video is rather old but will the embroidery machine notify u to change thread color??
Assuming you have a single needle machine, it will stop and wait for you to change thread color for each "color block", then you hit the go button again.
shoutz 2 u !!!!! 🙏🙏🙏
Can someone please help me with this.... real novice here... The way he has everything displayed is great! the entire right side with all you tools and info needed. How do I get that set up ?
By the way I LOVE the software, just would be easier to use if I had this layout (:
The tools bar should keep the tools you load up. In other words if you load the fill and stroke tool it should be on the right side in the tool bar. You may need to grab the slider and pull it out to see, there's also a pop-up mode for the tools that over rides the toolbar. I will make a video explaining all this this evening that should help.
your voice is calming and you explain very well but I must just be an idiot. I'm stressing out but need to leave it ànd try again later. 😔
Sometimes it's best to take a break. Come back with a clear mind and a cup of coffee (or hot chocolate works too 🤣😂).
If you have specific questions I'm happy to help if I can. Just keep in mind, when I started using inkstitch I didn't know how to make a single straight line in inkscape. 🤪
@@LowTechLinux thankyou, I will start over in a better frame of mind
First thanks for ALL our videos , question, I followed your steps on creating a satin stitch , same simple exercise you did 3mos ago unlit I go to the simulator all I got was 2 lines crossing each other , I had to subscribe thanks again
Im not sure I understand your question, but it sounds like you need to enter params, satin stitch tab, and select custom satin stitch.
@@LowTechLinux First thanks for our reply not many do, ok so after using the busier Tool I made a line,, just fill , them clicking on covert to satin Line , and the parts, all I get is 2 lines crossing each other with I could show you
thanks again
Send your svg to dale@lowtechlinux.com so I can have a look
@@LowTechLinux Wow much appreciated but thars not necessary im just trying to figure what im doing wring but I will send you a some photos
How do you select a section of a path. eg. when i created the paths, the path included 2 colours. I would like to select the section that needs to be removed and add/move it to another layer.
The way it sounds you created a shape. That shape has two colors, a fill color, and a stroke (border) color.
To make it two separate objects, select the shape and turn off stroke.
Duplicate the object, and in the duplicate turn on stroke, turn off fill.
To get to the fill and stroke tool from the top menu, Objects > Fill and Stroke.
Another way is on the colors bar at the bottom of inkstitch there's an X at the very left. If you click that X it will remove fill. If you hold shift and click that X it will remove stroke.
Clicking a color gives the fill that color, shift click a color gives that color to the stroke (border).
I'm just a beginner in Inkstich, this is my first attempt. I need to change a PNG to VP3, so i started with your video.. I must be doing something wrong or not selecting something.
I'm stuck at the Trace Bitmap. That worked fine, but I only get 1 layer. What am i missing ? thanks
If it worked well do an inkstitch break apart next. If it needs to break apart that will create additional objects. Make sure you're in object layers and not layer layers.
Also, if you do a trace bitmap multiple scan, that will create multiple object layers.
When in doubt do an inkstitch troubleshoot.
@@LowTechLinux LOL, i was looking at the wrong layers. thanks
My image has too many colors, I would like to merge two layers so that it blends the section. or is there a way to select a section like you can with photoshop?
Hi, what version of Inkstitch are you using? Mine look totally different
Inkstitch v2.1.2 released in January. inkstitch.org/docs/install/
Thank u ❤ so much for this saving my life I have a jpeg file that my embroidery software won’t trace and when I try myself the lines are all messed up
I have found that jpgs are a bit annoying. If you have software to convert the jpg to PNG it might work better. The GIMP (gnu image manipulation program) is free and will work for this.
I have a more detailed image, I was wondering how I make it perfect when I do trace bitmap
Sometimes too much detail will muddy the trace bitmap. I'll do a video soon on how to get better trace results using an external image editor
When I do trace bitmap and the second image after scanning the colors of the image ain’t filled like it’s missing spots but I added all the colors
When you do the trace try unchecking the rounded corners option
@@LowTechLinux for some reason on color I have to check stack to get the full color with no missing spots
Do you ever make your own photo into an embroidery file like of you dog or cat?
I haven't yet but I have played around with the idea. I think it would mostly need to be done by drawing it out over the top of an image.
@@LowTechLinux I will keep an eye open just in case you try it I'm so new to this stuff and just now received a embroidery machine and it's fried my mind. I have dogs horse's chickens and ducks I would love to learn it.
Thanks again all is going great except is it known that Mac's freezing, Sometimes im having to start over , thanks
I get that sometimes too. I just harken back to my old video game playing days, save often.
where do you get the Images from?
freesvg.org
Thank you!
I got all the way to the part where you said it was a stitchable file. I tried to save in my embroidery format, and it said it wouldn't be saved. What went wrong. BTW, I love the tutorial. Please help.
No problem.
Run a troubleshoot and see what it says.
Inkstitch > troubleshoot > troubleshoot objects
my extension bar does not have an ink/stitch. do you know how to fix this?
What operating system are you on?
Question, so when I use the "draw bezier curves & straight lines button 14:00 and try to draw an object, when I hit enter it connects the 1st and last clicks, and fills in the area? what setting do I need to adjust?
I've been looking to reproduce this but so far haven't been able to. Sorry I can't help more.
Me too. Did you find a solution?
@@Elvenmystery Hi there, I believe so, under the Fill and Stroke Section, Make sure under fill. the NO PAINT or NO FILL is selected .
I hope this helps.
Keep watching, Dale really knows his stuff, I've learned so much
I downloaded it onto my Mac, and my screen looks very different. I’m also not able to push the button that allows you to visualize the design before saving it, and I don’t see the same variety of ways to to save the file.
Sounds like the install didn't go just right. Are you on the most recent versions of both inkscape and inkstitch for the Mac?
Hello again , so im getting random small stitches that are irrelevant that don't show up in the simulator or the realistic review, I can delete them while embroidering but it can get kind of confusing any idea why , again thanks
try the auto clean up, it is designed to automatically remove tiny stitch areas. Extensions > inkstitch > troubleshoot > cleanup document
At 7 minutes what extention are you using?
Inkstitch for creating machine embroidery files with inkscape.
inkstitch.org/
@@LowTechLinux thanks! Installing the extension now
Would you happen to have the link to this image or is there anyway you can send it to me? I'd love to have this exact butterfly so I can follow along! Thanks
That's a great idea that I should implement in my tutorials. Thank you
I will upload it and give you a link when I get home from work today.
Hot off the presses, right click on the butterfly and select save as
www.lowtechlinux.com/2022/01/26/butterfly-image-used-in-tutorial/
Ok! so I finally was able to get my embroidery to print out visually in the program, but then when I went to save it, It said it was unable to save my file to my embroidery format. The only way I was able to save it was as a zip file. Now I don't know how to convert it to my embroidery machine format! I need more help. Thanks!
Shirley
Go file, save as, name.pes or name.dst (whatever extension your embroidery machine needs.
Also, if you unzip that zip file it should have several embroidery formats to choose from
I’m trying to follow your videos but I think I might need something even more basic because I can’t get past opening the image. I try to troubleshoot like you do and it says “all shapes are valid”. I don’t know how you get it to open in layers either. When I click preview it stitches it all in black. I’m so lost.
Try my beginners guide series.
th-cam.com/video/v3uE1dHAwBc/w-d-xo.html
How did you get your Objects - Paths to show? Thanks
From the top menu select Object > objects
@@LowTechLinux thank you!!
Thank you
But I don’t believe I see how you actually save the file to a pes
Am I just totally missing it.
I can’t seem to accomplish it
I save twice, first I 'save as' something.svg, then I 'save as' something.png.
Please help. When I choose break up objects I lose half of my image. Alot of items from the image disapears
Are you doing path > break apart or inkstitch > fill tools > break apart?
When I do trace bitmap, I only get one layer, I do not get all those paths like background and foreground. How can I fix this?
when you do a trace bitmap, in the trace bitmap tool box there should be tabs, single scan, multi color, and pixel art. single scan will only give you one layer, which you will then (usually) have to break apart. multi color scans will give you multiple layers that often won't need to be broke apart (but sometimes will). Try the multi color scan and see if it works for you.
That's what I used(multicolor scan), and I got 1 layer. Can that be fixed? Thanks for the quick response.
@@just_a_random_person3103 are there several colors in your original image? Is the trace giving multiple colors but only one layer? Try a break apart fill objects maybe?
It's giving multiple colors but one layer and I already tried break apart fill objects
In the original image there is only 2 colors
How can I reduce the amount of stitches because it makes too much for my embroidery machine
Are the dimensions of your digitization too large for the machine you are putting it on?
What are the dimensions of your work?
Do you have any layers stitching on top of layers?
These will make unnecessarily large stitch counts.
@@LowTechLinux it was a 3x3 and it came out to like 30 thousand stitches
@@r.fleury7242 would you be willing to send me the SVG file to dale@lowtechlinux.com so I can have a look?
When i create a shape and make it a fill stitch when it's embroidering it, it starts at the bottom then goes up and when it's time to join the two halves together it always leaves this tiny little space between them and i don't know how to fix it, it's really frustrating, i don't know if you understand, english is not my main language.
Try going into params and setting a different fill stitch angle. You can also change the start and stop points and see if that works (attach command iirc). If you can't find those settings let me know and I'll look them up more specifically when I get home from work.
@@LowTechLinux so far I only tried 0 and 45 degree angles and about the start and stop points I did not know I could change I'm gonna look into that.
@@LowTechLinux I fixed the problem with the start and stop points, thank you so much for helping me, and for making these tutorials.
Awesome. Glad I could help 🤗
@@LowTechLinux Oh and another problem i have is there are always gaps between shapes i always have to use expand for that not to happen but normally it shouldn't happen i think.
i have managed to do 1 image now all i get trying to do another one is this
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "Lib\site-packages\PyInstaller\hooks
thooks\pyi_rth_multiprocessing.py", line 12, in
File "PyInstaller\loader\pyimod03_importers.py", line 495, in exec_module
File "multiprocessing\__init__.py", line 16, in
File "PyInstaller\loader\pyimod03_importers.py", line 495, in exec_module
File "multiprocessing\context.py", line 6, in
File "PyInstaller\loader\pyimod03_importers.py", line 495, in exec_module
File "multiprocessing
eduction.py", line 16, in
File "PyInstaller\loader\pyimod03_importers.py", line 495, in exec_module
File "socket.py", line 49, in
ImportError: DLL load failed while importing _socket: The parameter is incorrect.
any help? i have tried every version of both
Please create a new issue on the git hub page for this and post that same traceback in your comment.
github.com/inkstitch/inkstitch/issues
What’s 4 x 4 ?I can’t get it 😭
Just a setting of 4 inch by 4 inch. 100 mm x 100 mm gives almost the same size