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Showing posts with label computer pattern making. Show all posts
Showing posts with label computer pattern making. Show all posts

Saturday, July 31, 2010

Computer Pattern Making, FIDM, important information

1. Value Mode: be in value mode when you want to use measurements, distance, or length.
2. Curser Mode: be in curser mode when you want to manipulate something that is already on the screen.
3. Control: When you are opening pattern pieces, control lets you select more than one pattern piece at a time, even if the files are not adjacent to each other.
4. Shift: When you are opening pattern pieces, shift allows you to select more than one piece at a time that are adjacent to each other.
5. You trace a piece in the clockwise direction.
7. internal line: grainline
8. F10 clears the screen.
9. You can tell a piece is mirrored by the dotted perforated line.
10. 3 different ways to make a piece bigger on your screen:
a. zoom in (tool box)
b. full scale (tool box)
c. go to view and select zoom in

11. edit: point: info: this lets the computer know which point you want to edit
12. Why do all pieces have a separate category? So you won't get them mixed up, some pieces look a like
13. How do you apply grade rules to collars? grade 1/2" per size
14. How do you apply grade rules to cuffs? grade 1/4" per size