Seam Allowance Tools
Create beautiful seam allowances easily on Illustrator
Seam allowance is the important factor for making comfortable clothes. It must be in the right shape and right place. However, for pattern makers using Adobe Illustrator, there is no certain tool for doing this efficiently.
With Seam Allowance Tools, any complex seam allowances can be made easily and beautifully with command buttons that cover the most of shapes used in pattern making.
Benefits of Seam Allowance Tools :
- Easy to use
- Covers shapes used by pattern professionals
- Supports “mm”, “cm” and “inches”.
- Once you made a command set, it can be applied to other parts with a click.
Commands included :
| Basic Seam-margin | The narrowest part of seam allowance in a pattern piece. This part is set first. |
| Extend one-side | This command creates a seam allowance with differing width. |
| Extension Intersection | This is the corner work command for extending each outline then connecting intersected points. |
| Rev. forward | This is the reversal tool used when the reverse axis of the relevant point is in the forward direction. |
| Rev. backward | This is the reversal tool used when reverse axis of the relevant point is in the reverse direction. |
| Turnback | Turnback is the command used to generate a form like the red line section of diagram A below.
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| 90⁰ forward | This is the 90⁰ reversal tool used when the reverse axis of the relevant point is in the forward direction. |
| 90⁰ backward | This is the 90⁰ reversal tool used when the reverse axis of the relevant point is in the backward direction. |
| Cut off | This is the command used to generate a form like the red line section of the diagram below.
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| 45⁰ forward/backword | The 45⁰ command is a tool for making a 45⁰ cut on one side of a generated seam-margin. Which direction you should use depends on the order of point specification. |
| Opening | This is the command used to generate a form like the red line section of diagrams A and B below.
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