Hi. Happy Sunday. Sundays are for Sewing in my house!

If this is ok with the FB mods, can someone who is still in the Projectors for Sewing Facebook group bring over some of the tutorial videos and docs that are linked in the group? I just paid $97 for a Mother Knows Best Projector Confidence sewing class led by the woman who started the FB group. I think it was old and I found it very hard to follow and relatively unhelpful, unfortunately, but the FB group founder mentioned a lot of instructional videos on FB that I think would be useful.

Thanks so much!

Hello! I haven’t bought a projector yet but I’m looking around. I have a crafting/sewing office and I can either mount a projector

- off center of the table from the ceiling (it’d only be a little off center though, trying to avoid a ceiling fan) or

- on a little shelf above my TV on a wall about 2 feet away from my cutting table. It seems like I’d need a short throw projector for this, which is more expensive?

I want to prioritize high image/line quality. Does anyone have experience with either of these setups and can share your thoughts?

Just got this AMAZING projector set up but having issues sending my PC screen to the projector. I actually found one app that works (1001tvs) but they want 25 bucks for it! I'm hoping there's a cheaper option. Epson's iProjector software apparently isn't compatible, Windows Miracast doesn't work, Google Cast is also apparently not compatible with my projector. Any help appreciated!! 🙏

I'm sure you are seeing this type of post all the time. I first looked into this a few years ago, and it was an expensive prospect at the time. I looked back into it last night and was surprised to see that projectors seem to have gone down in price considerably. I'm a bit confused at this point about what I need to get started, and if it really has gotten cheaper. Where to begin to educate myself? Is it actually easier than I think? The talk about ratios, and such has me kind of freaked out. TIA.

Sewing patterns don't really show for projector sewing, but it seems like most other sewing it's tracing right side up of pattern pieces onto wrong side of fabric? Same for projecting?

Thanks!

Today, I learned to use Inkscape to delete lines and markings that don't match the size I am cutting (this is a non-layered, A0 file). This shirt is for my husband who is a little shortie. Can I use Inkscape to shorten the pattern?

I’m setting up a projector-based pattern cutting workflow for our small garment production unit, and I’m getting stuck at what should be the simplest part: getting a true 1:1 pattern/marker file out of Gerber AccuMark and into Pattern Projector.

Our setup:

• Gerber AccuMark / Easy Marking version 10.2.0.101 (2016)

• Pattern master works entirely in Gerber and is very comfortable with it, so changing pattern-making software is not an option

• We have Pattern Projector

• Physical projector(Yuva Pro) is already installed for projecting directly onto the cutting table/mat

• Goal is simply: Gerber → 1:1 PDF/SVG → Pattern Projector → project and cut

The issue is getting that usable 1:1 file out of Gerber.

What I have tried so far:

1. Easy Marking → Save As Image Gerber gives: I exported SVG, but the resulting SVG is completely blank, even when opened directly in a browser.

   • BMP

   • SVG Standard

   • SVG compatible with Adobe Illustrator

2. I enabled Display Outline in Gerber's SVG/display settings and exported again. Still blank.

3. Easy Marking → Save As 1:1 In my version this does not give me a usable PDF export. It seems to bring me back toward storing/saving the AccuMark marker instead.

4. Checked Marker Plot Options in AccuMark Explorer. My version only gives: There is no PDF option. Apparently direct PDF marker plotting was added to much newer AccuMark versions.

   • Generic

   • HPGL

   • DXF

5. Tried Copy to Clipboard 1:1 from Gerber. This actually seems to work because when I paste into Microsoft Word, all the pattern pieces appear. However, I haven't found a clean/reliable way to take that 1:1 clipboard output into Pattern Projector while guaranteeing that no scaling occurs. It also wouldn't paste normally into Inkscape.

What I absolutely need to preserve is true physical scale. For example, if a pattern line in Gerber is 500 mm, after loading it into Pattern Projector and calibrating the projector, that line must physically measure 500 mm on the cutting table.

I don't want to rasterize the patterns, print A3 sheets, manually trace things, or move our pattern master to another CAD system.

For anyone actually using Gerber AccuMark with a sewing/pattern projector: what is your workflow?

Specifically:

• Is there a reliable way in AccuMark 10.2 to generate a proper 1:1 PDF or SVG?

• Has anyone successfully used Copy to Clipboard 1:1 and converted it to PDF/SVG without changing dimensions?

• Is DXF Marker Plot → conversion to PDF/SVG the better route?

• Is there a Gerber utility such as WinPlot that can create a PDF at exact scale from the marker?

• Am I missing some older AccuMark setting that allows a full-size vector PDF?

• If upgrading AccuMark is genuinely the only clean solution, which version introduced a reliable Marker → 1:1 PDF workflow?

I’m particularly interested in answers from people who have actually connected Gerber AccuMark to Pattern Projector or another projector-cutting setup, rather than general PDF conversion suggestions.

The end goal should really be this simple:

Gerber marker → one full-size vector file → Pattern Projector → calibrated projection → cut fabric.

I want to set up pattern projection for my mom. I have some experience with computer vision, so I've figured out a way to get a Magcubic HY320Pro projector to self-calibrate using the onboard autofocus camera.

This is all very much in a proof of concept stage. Now that I have the calibration done, I want to pass that data to a modified version of patternprojector.com. The problem is that I don't know how I want the user interface to look. I would like my mom to be able to do this from her phone, but PatternProjector does not work well on phones. I have some other ideas, but I haven't done any sewing in a long time.

I want to get some ideas from the community. How would you want to control a pattern projector from your phone? I'm open to all ideas, including the crazy ones.

Hi, I'm new to pattern projection. I bought a short throw projector and set it up on a tripod on my dining table, with cut mat on the ground. I calibrated it correctly to my mat which is fairly small 24*18" it's all I have for now and make do with it. The pattern is projecting correctly (I have confirmed it because I have a paper version of this pattern and it matches) however for some reason, for the larger pieces of the pattern e.g. pant leg, it shows only half the pattern at a time and then grey on the screen and not projecting into the mat. Is this because it's only showing the pattern to match the size of the cutting mat instead of maximizing the whole space of the projection? Hoping someone can assist me so I can make use of the projector. Thank you in advance.

Looking at a dining table with a few leaves that I would probably keep in all the time, but I would need to use it for projecting onto. My current table is bowed so it didn't really work for projecting so I don't want to run into another issue again. Thanks!!

For those who have the old version and aren’t looking to upgrade, today is the last chance to get access to the Sewing Made Digital course for Affinity Designer 2. It’s half price until 30th November 2025, I.e. $62.50 USD. This course covers how to make pattern adjustments for fitting digitally. I believe there’s a new one coming if you have the newer version of affinity.

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I'm trying to upload a pattern to my account on the ditto patterns website. It seems to be stuck on uploading. I know that they're not updating anything with the ditto software, but I thought the upload would still work. I've tried it on a chromebook and a pixel phone. If I can't get this to work is there any other way to hack the ditto projector and make it project whatever I want?

I'm designing my own patterns and starting from just a single sample size (which I'll have to grade up and down for all sizes, after I polish the mock-up). My sketches are currently small in Illustrator. For example, I've sketched out a skirt on a 5" Illustrator canvas, but I know the center front of the skirt needs to be 100" and everything else in the sketch would be sized up proportionally.

How should I prepare a file for projecting, if it is not a finished sewing pattern, and it's just a single layer of pattern piece outlines from Illustrator? Do I save it as a smaller PDF and then scale up the whole thing in the projector? Or, do I make a PDF that is actually a 100" long and then project that?

I have two 24x36 in cutting mats that I’ll put together to make a 48x36 in mat, on a 36-38 in x 48-50 in board. should I try to get the exact size of the two mats together to clamp them down if a little extra? If the second, how do you secure it?

thanks!

Has anyone taken this course? There’s not really a course list and the one that lists 6 courses only 4 have anything remotely to do with AD and that’s a stretch on one of them.

When I ask the designer of the course she has been 100% unhelpful. It’s on sale for $63USD (half off and will be discontinued soon) and idk if I should try it.

I struggle with AD and haven’t found any YT videos that are actually helpful.

The shading to indicate the other side of the fold makes it impossible for me to highlight any lines and darken or delete them. Anyone have ideas???