Leather patterns - sewing holes

[Daniel 25]

Hi

Do you have any advice how to make marking for  sewing holes ?

I trying to use stroke but it doesnt look good.

I need to have punching holes  each 3,38mm, size 1 mm.  - sometimes distance is different

Any advice how indicate distance like on the " pro " picture?

[thomaso]

Hi @Daniel 25,
Welcome to the Affinity Forums!

3 hours ago, Daniel 25 said:

Any advice how indicate distance like on the " pro " picture?

Certain measuring tools are still missing and requested various times, I am not aware of an automatic way to measure / label the distance between the dots in a dashed stroke in mm.

It is not clear whether you want to use the dashed stroke feature respectively want to have the option to adjust certain single dots in their distance. In case of NO for both you could try a texture brush to maintain a continuous distance. Below for instance done via two objects (Ø 1 mm + 2,38 mm) exported as PNG for the brush (here both in colour for more clearness). Whereas like the dash option also this brush stroke is not perfect: it can show unwanted artefacts in certain curves or angles (see the bottom node below).

 

[v_kyr]

For different possibilities to apply punching holes see this thread here, though in your case you've dots instead of railroad tracks.

• railroad tracks?

For measuring stuff related to sewing see for example these Youtube videos:

• Make Sewing Patterns in Affinity Designer...
• Measuring Lines and Curves for Sewing Patterns in Affinity Designer

... further some help tools like ...

• Rulers - Back to school

... OR even better ...

• PixelSnap 2  (MacOS)
• xScope measure, inspect, test  (MacOS)
• Free Ruler 2.0 etc. (for MacOS floating window rulers)
• ... etc.

For Windows you have to search the net for some equally sort of measuring tools!

[JimmyJack]

If I understand correctly:

Set line width at 1mm. Round caps and 0 in first box of dash settings = 1mm dots.
3.38 in the second box will give you 3.38mm distance on centers.
When you say "sometimes distance is different", change the second box value to change the distance (for all dots on a uniform basis of course).
Distorting/curving the line will still work.

[Palatino]

With "Text on Paths" you can change the point spacing for entire sections as well as move each individual point with the text tools. The points can be aligned even much better than I did. Only dots, no spaces.

[Daniel 25]

On 9/14/2022 at 7:50 PM, JimmyJack said:

If I understand correctly:

Set line width at 1mm. Round caps and 0 in first box of dash settings = 1mm dots.
3.38 in the second box will give you 3.38mm distance on centers.
When you say "sometimes distance is different", change the second box value to change the distance (for all dots on a uniform basis of course).
Distorting/curving the line will still work.

How to deal with curved lines and shapes , i have to add stitching holes to whole shapes like o this example 

[Old Bruce]

17 hours ago, Daniel 25 said:

How to deal with curved lines and shapes , i have to add stitching holes to whole shapes like o this example 

I would think that @JimmyJack's advice would work.

[Daniel 25]

Take a look, always problem with dots positionning 

[Old Bruce]

This problem is caused by arithmetic. You want the dots 3.38 mm apart. Your distance would need to be an integer multiple of that. Many many times the distance won't be an integer multiple. 60 dots will fit evenly on 202.8 mm but not on 200 mm.

[Palatino]

1 hour ago, Daniel 25 said:

Take a look, always problem with dots positionning 

Text points on curves - or CAD program.

[Old Bruce]

Just now, Palatino said:

Text points on curves - or CAD program.

Does that fulfill the 3.38 mm distance between the dots?

[Palatino]

3 minutes ago, Old Bruce said:

Does that fulfill the 3.38 mm distance between the dots?

Of course. 😇

[thomaso]

22 minutes ago, Palatino said:

Of course. 😇

How that? Even a whole familiy of 😇 could not place every hole as wanted. 😉

As long as the expected accuracy is in the range of hundredths of a millimetre, there is no solution that fulfils both conditions: Keeping the distance + having a dot at each corner of the shape. As @Old Bruce pointed out, on a distance which is no even multiple of the desired dot distance you can …

… a.)  either maintain this specific distance between all dots (ignoring the shape corners)
OR
… b.) distribute the dots evenly but with a different distance.

In your example the latter appears to be the case:

[Daniel 25]

Thank You Guys for help

[Daniel 25]

I Did it :))))

Thanks for support 

[KariF]

On 9/19/2022 at 6:24 PM, Daniel 25 said:

I Did it :))))

Thanks for support 

Which method did you use?