To move the pattern around just left click on the texture area and drag. To do so, while the grainline is active, I’m going to the Edit Texture Gizmo and place the cursor over and slide it to the right to make the pattern bigger and slide it to the left to make the pattern smaller. Now, as you can see the grainline is active, we can do a lot with this tool, but for now, we will focus on scaling the pattern to match the Reference Box. Then come to the workspace and click on the texture area. H), next, I’m going to go to the Edit Texture Tool, click on it to select.
Scaling the pattern to match the Reference boxĪfter creating the Reference Box (29.5 cm. If click on one doesn’t work, just click on twice. I’m going to change the display to the Transparent Surface, so we can see the pattern behind the Reference Box.īe sure to select the Reference Box first, then go to the Vertical View Toggle Toolbar and hover my mouse over the tool to see the name and click on the Transparent Surface display. While the Reference box is selected, go to the fabric that name (Reference) and click on the down arrow to apply the fabric. Then come back and click on the Reference box. By clicking on the text and type in the name then press Enter to confirm.Īfter that, I’m going to go to the Transform Pattern Tool, click on it to select. Next, I’m going to change the name to Reference. I’m going to go to the Object Browser and right below that click on the Add button to create a new fabric. Applying a new fabric onto the Reference box Then, I’m going to change the width to 29.5 cm and height to 5 cm. the base of this blue line.Īgain, I’m going to go to the Rectangular Tool click on it to select and come back to the workspace left click one to bring the Create Rectangle window. For example, I label my pattern at 29.5 cm. This is important, I’m going to create a reference box so I can scale the pattern to the actual size.īe sure to label your pattern before you take a photo. As you can see by default the box is filled with the pattern texture which I imported earlier. This depends on the side of your pattern. I’m going to change the width to 300 cm and the height to 300 cm. After that, come to the workspace left click one, this will bring this Create Rectangle window. The rectangular tool is behind the Polygon tool, you click on this then you will see the Rectangular Tool, click on it to select. To create the square box, I’m going to go to a Rectangular tool.
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Option 2: How to Trace the Pattern from a Photo Now, as you can see, we have the photo in clo. Next, click on the pattern photo to select. This will bring up this window, I’m going to navigate to the pattern photo. To the right of the texture you see this 4-dots that is an Open Texture icon, click on it to open texture. Then press Enter on your keyboard to confirm.Īfter that, I’m going to go to the texture which in the Property Editor. I’m going to change the name from Fabric 1 to texture by clicking on the text and type in the name.
I’m going to go to the Object Browser and by default, we have Fabric 1. To import the photo into clo, I’m here in the clo workspace. Option 1: How to Import the Photo into CLO3D Hi, I’m Rose Willey from Encoder Fashion.
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Then, trace that photo and export it as a png file, so you can turn that into a pdf sewing pattern. In this video, I’m going to share with you tips and techniques on how to import a photo into clo3d.
How to Trace a Pattern from a Photo Step by Step Tutorial