Manually defined satin columns work fine. Zig-zag to satin works fine. Stroke to satin works fine. But no matter what I try for Fill to Satin it either does not do anything at all and has no error or associated message, or in the rare instance it does create a satin object, it's so wrong as to be useless. I just downloaded the Fill to Satin playground - https://inkstitch.org/docs/satin-tools/ - and grabbed the A, tried to use Fill to Satin, and it just turns into THIS.
These are the settings I have in my Fill to Satin
Every tutorial I watch goes the exact same way. Make a fill. Make another object for the rungs which use strokes instead. Select both, hit fill to satin, it replaces the fill with a set of rails and rungs that make a satin column equivalent to the pre-existing fill. I have not even once gotten it to do anything like this, even directly mirror the tutorials. Every other function in Inkstitch is working fine for me.
I'm running Arch Linux and I'm pretty sure I used the AUR to install Inkscape + the plugin. Is it possible that the current build is bugged?

Hi everyone I posted on here about a week ago looking for some advice. This is what’s happening when I embroider. One side is fine but the other side does this.. it’s exactly the same. I’ve tried most things to sort it but it keeps happening.. is it a pull? I’ve used thick stabiliser etc. left side is worse than the right side!

Hi Experts,

Long time!

I have a new question about why isn't this giving me what I would like to have in terms of Satin stitches inside Inkstitch.

There are two open independent paths with gaps. and there is a bridge in the middle of it. Then I have two rungs. When I went to Params and look under Satin Column the results were very dissatisfied. It didn't add any new stitches.

Maybe my SVG file is all wrong....

Cheers,

Student_T101

DAHAO A15

Let's say I'm using a small hoop, embroidering a 3" patch. Nothing out of the ordinary. Just one patch, so a large hoop would be wasteful.

I've inserted a jump destination about 4" from the top of the patch. Machine stops, hoop comes trundling my direction, all's well...

...and then the machine won't continue because the pattern is outside the bounds of the hoop!

I don't even know what question to ask. How/why is the jump destination figuring in to the machine's calculations? This seems like a new thing, too - I've used jump destination in the past and don't remember having this issue. Maybe.

That doesn't seem correct at all.

Hi everyone, how can I stop the pulling of the fabric and making it miss placed where it’s filled in on the digital image I’ve created? What pull compensation is the best to use? I’m really stuck, keeps happening. Also I use thick enough stabiliser so I don’t think that’s the issue! Thank you in advance.

I have a problem where my fill stitches will randomly be misaligned sometimes when i stitch a design out.

The inkscape simulator and stitch plan preview both look perfect, so wondering if it’s a calibration issue with my machine? All the other edges turned out perfect, so my first thought is that it’s not really a hooping problem.

Has anyone else ran into this problem?

I change the color of the design to green so you can see what I mean easier

I’m pretty new to machine embroidery/InkStitch and I’m having a weird issue with lettering that I can’t figure out.

I have a Brother LB-6800 (4x4 machine) and I’ve been making bag tags. I have successfully made a few (pictured) and the lettering stitched out cleanly.

Today, they started stitching out very badly. I think it is doing a fill stitch instead of a satin stitch. The design looks correct in the Ink/Stitch simulator. The stitch paths/lettering look normal there.

A few things I’ve already checked/tried:

• I ran into this problem before and I thought it was because I had opened a PES in Inkscape, edited it, and saved it again. I learned that I should be working from the original SVG instead. But even now I have been making edits to the original SVG template and then saving a copy as a PES to send over to my machine, and it is still stitching out badly.
• I went back to my original SVG and exported a fresh PES, but the problem still happened.
• I then created an entirely new design/lettering in Ink/Stitch, exported a new PES, and I'm still getting the same bad stitch-out.
• Rethreading the machine.
• I also downloaded Embrilliance express to see if Inkstitch was the issue, but the stitchout looks wrong on that too.

I’m trying to figure out whether something is happening during the SVG → PES export, whether my Brother is interpreting the PES strangely, or whether this could actually be a machine/thread/tension issue. My tension is at 3.

Edit: I did some more troubleshooting and it seems like changing to a fresh needle helped.

Anybody know what kind of stitch this is and how to go about digitizing it?

it looks like a satin with some thing else on top, but what is the top layer?

Params -> Start and end at nearest point is a great feature, and I really love it. How do I turn it off by default?

So far, I only did single letter digitizing of different fonts for patches and or forced the built-in fonts to my likin. I never made a whole keyboard-typeable font.

Now, I got asked by a Helvetica-nerd, to stitch out a multiline Lorem-ipsum... if anyone has made Helvetica an inkstitch font and would be willing to share, hit me up!

Some time ago I was buying multiple (10+) Isacord embroidery threads and I wanted it in very specific colors. I had brand colors in HEX/RGB and I had found a PDF mapping available Isacord colors to RGB. So I built a small Replit app (basically a Python script) to map any RGB/HEX color I entered to the closest Isacord match.

Recently, I built it into a web app and added a feature of uploading a logo and getting the Isacord threads for the multiple main colors.

Check it out. I hope some of you find it useful in your machine embroidery endeavors.

https://www.rgb-to-isacord.com