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1. Tabs for Measure form Point form Object form Iconbar Sub tabs for Measure Point and Object form Drawing Pattern Area Hide in List Hide in Draw 3 Object All Text Dim None Edit Delete Statusbar Ok Cancel Close 9 2 0 36 2015 PatternMaker Software 2 MacroGen 4 5 Major areas of the Pattern Window include Drawing Pattern area Tab Panel with Measure Point Object tabs Each of these is a complex dialog box with its own description below Sub tabs Each of the top tabs Measure Point Object has its own set of sub tabs which are also described below Icon bar KA The zoom icons EA represent Zoom Functions 49 Zoom All Zoom In and Zoom out in the drawing area You can also zoom in and out with your mouse s scroll wheel if it has one Status bar on the bottom with mouse coordinates Menu bar for all the menus available in MacroGen 4 4 2 Pattern Area The pattern area shows objects and points It is a schematic view of your current work rather than an actual drawing You do not draw objects in MacroGen as you do in PatternMaker Instead you calculate them The process goes in this order e Define measurements via inputs and calculations e Calculate the locations of points based on the measurements e Create objects by connecting points For a description of how to use the various measure point and object views see Object Tabl47 Workin
2. Disabled point types Point types that cannot be defined are disabled in the Add and Change dialogs This happens because certain point type definitions depend on other points up to six and measures If there are not enough points and measures available to define a point type that type is disabled This usually happens when starting a new project or editing a point near the beginning of the point list See for more practice the Tutorials 172 O 2015 PatternMaker Software MacroGen 4 5 7 3 1 Coordinate A Coordinate point is based on another point offset by a distance in the X coordinate and a distance in the Y coordinate There are separate equations for each coordinate gd Coordinate x Measure Bust y x Fixed Distance Y Measure None Y Fixed Distance 1 o i Procedure Tab Panel gt Point gt Add gt Coordinate Point Name Type the name of the point From Point The point to measure the x and y coordinates from Select from the pull down box a point from the list of points X Measure Choose a Measure from the pull down box for the distance in X coordinate And or type a number in the constant value A minus will go to the left of the from point Y Measure Choose a Measure from the pull down box for the distance in Y coordinate And or type a number in the constant value A minus will go to the left of the from point Fixed Distance Type a fixed distance in the Fixed dista
3. 2 10 Purge Unused Purge deletes all points and measurements that are not used by an object Sometimes when designing a macro a measurement or point is created that becomes obsolete or is not used in an object This can be because a style was removed or can be due to a fundamental design change Calculating using these obsolete items slows down MacroGen The Purge Unused menu item checks each point and measure to see if they are used by a point measure or object If they aren t it deletes them then repeats the process This way MacroGen gets rid of all unused points and measurements NOTE Be careful with using this command because it could delete points or measurements which are not used by an object but have been made on purpose by the designer to check or recalculate the project To make the macro faster it is advisable to use purge just before release of the macro 2 11 Create Macro i Create Macro creates a PatternMaker macro mac from the current project This is the ultimate output of your MacroGen work The name of the macro is always the same as the project file name with mac as the filename extension The mac file is saved in the same folder as your mg4 file Procedure There are two ways to select this command e Click the MAC icon in the toolbar R e Select File gt Create Macro 2 12 Test Macro in Patternmaker 29 Test Macro starts the PatternMaker program and runs your macro You can test your macro and see if
4. Purpose Use Style Exclusions to remove certain combinations of style options from a choice box at run time This command is an application of conditional logic i e if the user selects a given style option or combination of options then certain styles don t appear in a subsequent dialog box For example if a user selects a strapless style for a dress then only the style Sleeveless should be valid and the other sleeve styles should be excluded Or if a user selects as Sleeve style a Short sleeve or Sleeveless the style Cuff after that should not appear Important lt is not possible to exclude a whole style One style option should always be valid When you actually want to exclude a whole style for instance Cuff because in a strapless sleeveless dress a cuff is not done you have to add the style option No Cuff to the Cuff style In this style you delete all objects You can now exclude the cuff style option and include the no Cuff option lf ALL but one of the choices for a particular style point are excluded as in the sleeve type example above then that dialog box does not appear at all There is no choice to make for the user The one valid style is executed O 2015 PatternMaker Software E MacroGen 4 5 Procedure 1 Select a piece style in the Style tree This is the style that will be affected by the style exclusions rule you are about to create In the example below we have selected the style option with Cuff 2
5. Type the name of the new Line Distance point 34 From Point The center of the circle 26a 2015 PatternMaker Software MacroGen 4 5 Line Start Line End Points These two points determine the line It does not matter which order they are given in 22b 22 Note that the point 34 is placed on the extension of line 22b 22 Distance Measure Measure This equation gives the distance of the new point from the From point See Add Points 8e for a description of the equation format shoulder width C Clockwise This check box chooses which of two intersection points to use A line that goes through a circle intersects it at two points If the C Clockwise box is unchecked then the point goes Clockwise as seen from the From point looking toward the line is used If it is checked the point goes Counter Clockwise Use Parent OK Cancel Change See Add Points 8e Note If the line does not intersect the circle if it is farther from the From point than the given distance the new point defaults to the Start point 7 3 9 Dart A Dart point marks the third point of a fitting dart Three points form a triangle so that two sides are the same length and the third side is a given length This is for drawing darts in patterns The new point completes a dart that already has an apex dart point and one leg opening point The new point marks the other leg so that the two legs are the same length and the width of
6. l PatternMaker Software Manual MacroGen 4 5 2015 PatternMaker Software MacroGen 4 5 O 2015 PatternMaker Software All rights reserved No parts of this work may be reproduced in any form or by any means graphic electronic or mechanical including photocopying recording taping or information storage and retrieval systems without the written permission of the publisher Products that are referred to in this document may be either trademarks and or registered trademarks of the respective owners The publisher and the author make no claim to these trademarks While every precaution has been taken in the preparation of this document the publisher and the author assume no responsibility for errors or omissions or for damages resulting from the use of information contained in this document or from the use of programs and source code that may accompany it In no event shall the publisher and the author be liable for anyloss of profit or any other commercial damage caused or alleged to have been caused directly or indirectly by this document Printed februari 2015 in whereever you are located Special thanks to Publisher Paticralaker So Mere Gary Pick rell and Lane Holdcroft who work ed so hard to provide Professional Designers a very professional tool to make our own Managing Editor commercial macro s This is the start of a new sewing century Tara Banfield Thea Botter Technical Editors Tara Banfield Brian Pick re
7. 3 Using the Style Manager The Style Manager is the heart of the MacroGen interface You see the Style Manager when you open a new file or an existing file It defines everything that appears in the other displays and you use it to navigate between the parts of your project The Style Manager window looks like this Style Manager Macro Title Picture Bodice Name Piece List Style Tree Base Sleeve Bodice No Sleeve Short sleeve Long sleeve Active Style Sleeve Display Name Short sleeve rca a El e Macro Title 27 The title that the user sees in the window header when running the macro not necessarily the same as the macro filename e Name The Name of a Style or Piece to add e Piece Listl 30 Displays all the pieces see What is a Piece 155 in the current project Highlight a piece to see its style tree e Add Piece button Adds a piece to the piece list after the highlighted piece Type the name to use for the piece in the Name field e Picture Click on the square to select a picture file to use for this style e Style Tree Styles are the garment options you offer to the user such as neckline style pocket style or sleeve length Each piece in the Piece List has its own Style Tree Each style tree can have branches and sub branches where each branch corresponds to a set of choices the user makes via dialog boxes Note A Piece that does not have any Style choices wil not display a dialog box
8. It is important to remember that the steps in the Steps list represent calculations that are performed in the order shown Rearranging the order may change your results For instance if a point s formula depends on a certain measure and that measure is recalculated in a Condition it makes a difference whether the point is calculated before or after the measure is changed To access While loops first make sure the check box Show All Points is selected and select a Conditional step that has steps BEFORE it to jump to other than Start Next select a step to jump to from the Jump to Step pull down menu e Result list Shows the results of those calculations that are done for the selected non Point step The list you see applies to the Step you have selected in the Steps list on the left If you click on a different step the contents of this list change to show the results of the new Step In a basic result the macro recalculates a measure Advanced results can also calculate point locations do more Conditions and execute custom code Also an If point can have two sets of results one to be executed if the condition is true another if the condition is false The Result list only shows the results that correspond to the current setting of the Logic field Results are listed in the order of their execution just as for Steps They can also be rearranged with the up and down arrows If you right click on a result you will get the Casca
9. OFFSET DISTANCE 99 Emulating a PatternMaker command The following point types place a point as though it had been moved there with the given PatternMaker edit command using points and measures in place of mouse inputs 2015 PatternMaker Software Working with Points es A mirror image of a point across a line MIRRORTt0 A rotation of another point by an angle ROTATE ANGLE 102 A rotation of another point by a certain distance ROTATE DISTANCE i03 A move of a point by a single scaling factor SCALE 108 A move of a point by two scaling factors RESIZEXY ho A move of a point by an amount marked between two reference points MOVE t0 A corner point to shape an arc that has been cut PLACE CORNERTi0d e Conditions A Condition is not really a point it is a set of programming logic instructions IF THENI40 and more that can change the values of points that have already been created Conditions take their place in the point list along with regular points e Code Points A Code Point is created with no rules The MacroGen programmer writes code in the PatternMaker macro language to set its value Codelt55 points are for advanced users only 7 2 Coordinates X Y References MacroGen uses a grid system of X and Y coordinates Coordinates indicate the position of a point on a grid and appear in the format X Y The X number represents units of measurement in the horizontal direction and the Y number repr
10. Points The points that specify the distance and direction to move Use Parent OK Cancel Change See Add Points se See also Edit Macrol 221 O 2015 PatternMaker Software Working with Points 109 7 4 Insert Point Although normally you would Add a point and it would appear at the bottom of the list sometimes you want to Insert a point earlier in your point list Procedure Tab Panel gt Point Measure Point Object gt Edit Add Edit Highlight the specific point that you Hide Fait want to insert after f F 7 e Click on Insert a dialog box appears 8 and asks what kind of point type you 3 want to insert Choose one point type be from the list 12 13 e Fill in the point dialog box as usual b 16 e Click OK 18a e In the list the new point is inserted after 18 the selected point and is not added to ls the bottom 20 c Delete Hide All Ensen X Hide None Edit 2015 PatternMaker Software no MacroGen 4 5 7 5 Edit Points Purpose Make changes to a point that was previously entered You can make changes to the name or value fields of Measure Point Object a point at any time When you click on the Tab 7 Points Edit or on the menu bar you will see a window 2 0 a containing a list of available points Select the point you want to edit and click the Edit Add Edit Hide Edit button Double click at or you can double click on the point
11. Select the Style Dependent Drawer Button and then select the Exclusions Button See picture down Style Manager Macro Title Dress Name n Piece List Bodice Sleeve Picture Style Tree Cuff with Cuff no Cuff Seamallowance 0 000 Sleevelength 0 000 D Active Style Cuff Y Display Name Cutt Add Style The Exclusion Rules dialog appears The Style List field contains a list of all the pieces that come before the current style and their style choices 2015 PatternMaker Software Using the Style Manager 39 Exclusion Rules The current style with Cuff will not be available when these styles have been selected Style List Exclusion Combinations Explanation Bodice Sleeveless Set an OR condition by A Normal Short Sleeve clicking the Add button after Strapless Strapless highlighting each style Sleeve Strapless Sleeveless Long Sleeve Example if EITHER Style Short Sleeve 1 Sleeveless OR Style 2 is chosen Set an AND condition by highlighting more than one style and then clicking the Add button Example if BOTH Style 1 AND Style 2 are chosen Delete J OK X Cancel Note on the order of events Recall that the Style tree lists objects in the same order that they are created in the actual macro You cant base an exclusion rule on a piece or style that has yet to be created when the choice box for the current style
12. Settings menuli48 Customize Customizelteh Zoom Zoom Functions 49 Help Help menulted 1 6 If You Need Help PatternMaker Software 2029 144th Ave SE Bellevue WA 98007 Phone 425 647 6995 Fax 866 805 6201 website www patternmakerusa com e mail support patternmakerusa com Support in Europe Pattern Made 4 You Bekenlaan 96 3448 XE Woerden The Netherlands Phone 31 0 610455433 website www patternmade4you nl e mail info patternmade4you nl 2015 PatternMaker Software 18 MacroGen 4 5 2 File Menu The File menu contains functions related to projects file operations and external programs 2 1 IconBar The main toolbar s icons are functions from the File and Zoom menu Deja 51403 E lay le O New Open Save Create Macro Test Macro View Macro in PatternMaker Launch PatternMaker Edit Macro in PatternMaker Calculator Zoom All Zoom In Zoom Out see File menu 181 and Zoom Functions 49 The main icon bar toolbar in MacroGen version 4 5 no longer contains icons for all pull down menu commands and all Measure and Point types as it did in MacroGen 3 For Measure and Point icons see Tab Point 45 and Tab Measure 44 2 2 New Ld New function starts a new MacroGen project with no filename It works like the New functions in many other programs Since MacroGen does not support multiple project windows you are prompted to save your work before the current project is clo
13. The Advanced form opens e Choose the measure Seam allowance from the pull down box The object will have a seam allowances that is given by the user The measure Seam allowance can be added to the MMT Master Measurement Table All objects with the measure Seam allowance will have the same amount of offset 2015 PatternMaker Software 136 MacroGen 4 5 M Advanced 23 Offset Measure Seam allowance Z Value 0 0 1 v Arrange Ok Cancel Note The seam allowance is the same around the whole object Known in PatternMaker as Offset It is not possible to create variable seam allowances To have a quick look what is filled in in the Advanced form go with your mouse over the Advanced button It will show the values in the Status bar at the bottom with a tool tip to your cursor 8 10 2 Arrange Checking the Arrange box tells the macro that all arranged objects should not overlap each other when they appear in PatternMaker This means that objects can be moved after drawing it so that they do not overlap other arranged objects This is important when a macro has several pieces that use common points and thus overlap when created depending on the used values or overlap after using an offset It is possible to program the pattern in a way that they do not overlap when drawn in PatternMaker It is necessary that objects are moved in MacroGen after they are created This can be done with
14. The Macro command is different it converts your drawing to the format required by PatternMaker You can save a drawing as a macro even if you have not yet saved your project file 2 5 Save As new file name Saves as gives a project file a name different from its current name save changes to a file without replacing the original file This function works like the Save As functions in most Windows programs The only format available is the mg4 Macro Project format See also Savel19 The Save As command allows you to give the project a different name You can also select a different location to which the file will be saved we do not recommend this 2 6 Export Project Use Export Project to transfer a project to another computer Your mg4 file and all support files are put into a zip file that can be imported 19 on the other computer See File Structurel 241 for more information about support files and their locations 2 7 Import Project Use Import Project to transfer a project from another computer to this computer See Export Projectl 19 O 2015 PatternMaker Software MacroGen 4 5 2 8 Calculator The Calculator function brings up a calculator program E Calculator Edit View Help 0 E EX E3 EI RES EN ER KEENE EN EX ES E oneng This is for your convenience when working out computations for your macro project The calculator is separate from the rest of your MacroGen project and does not put anything
15. This could be for example a neck facing Since it has only one option the pattern piece will simply be drawn as it is at the time that the macro is run e Active Style ss The active style is the style choice used to display all subsequent pieces Example suppose a Front Bodice piece has two styles Sleeveless and With Sleeve and the style choice affects the location of point Armscye Corner the armscye is smaller in the sleeveless style The active style Sleeveless or With Sleeve 2015 PatternMaker Software Using the Style Manager determines where point Armscye Corner appears when you display other pieces such as Back Bodice In other words the armscye for the back bodice matches the active style for the front bodice Active Style is only a display option It only affects the way pieces are displayed in the Piece Display and does not affect the final macro You can change active styles at any time to see how things will look under different style choices Each piece has its own active style The default active style is the root of the piece s Style tree e Display Namel s3 Sets the window title for this piece s Piece Display window when you run the macro in PatternMaker The default for this is the piece or style name e Add Style button Adds a style in the Style Tree as a child of the highlighted piece Type the name to use for the style in the Name field e Up Down arrows and red X s Use the up and down arrows to reorder th
16. Working with Points 99 7 3 12 Offset Distance An Offset Distance point is a point set at an offset distance from a point It is possible to set the offset distance point outside or inside the already drawn points In the illustration below the points E F G and H are offset points drawn within the object A B C D Offset Distance B c Name Previous v fa x Prev Pnt Offset Distance Next Pnt Offset Distance F G None Y Offset None 0 1 1 Direction Notes X Cancel Change A ae RE a Procedure Tab Panel gt Point gt Add gt Offset Distance Name Type in the name of the new Offset Distance point E Previous Base Next Points On the previous D the base A and the next B point the new offset distance point is placed Prev Pnt Offset Distance Measure for offset distance from previous point The offset starts here therefore the previous point is D and the measure is 0 See Add Points 881 for a description of the equation format Next Pnt Offset Distance Measure for offset distance from base point A The offset distance is 3 Direction This check box sets in which direction from the base point the new point is measured If the Offset Distance point has to be set inside or outside the original drawn points Use Parent OK Cancel See Add Points se Change Example For point F the previous base and next points are A B and C The previous pnt Off
17. comes up Specifically this means that if you select a style from the first object in the Style tree the Style List field here will be empty You can not add exclusion rules to the first object in a macro Style choices for an object cannot be used to exclude other styles for the same object even if there are more than one choice box for the object Style choices within an object are determined by simply adding or not adding branches to the Style tree 3 Check one or more of the boxes in the Style List and click the Add button The style s name s appear in the Exclusion Combinations field 4 Repeat the above step to add more Exclusion Rules In the exclusion combinations window the symbol represents a logical AND When you select check 2 different styles at once and add them to the Exclusion Combinations list on the right the exclusion will only happen if the user selects style A and B Items on different lines are connected with a logical OR So the exclusion rules in the illustration above can be read IF Strapless AND Sleeveless are selected OR Strapless or Sleeveless or Short Sleeve is selected THEN exclude the current style option with Cuff The No Cuff style option with no drawn objects in that style will be valid and executed The Exclusions Rule form can also be opened in the menu Settings Exclusion Rules 2015 PatternMaker Software Pattern Area ar 4 Pattern Area 4 1 Overview To see the
18. picture to a Measurement Picture Description Back Length Put on a thin necklace or drape a piece of string around your Fill in information neck Measure from the place where about taking the the necklace falls on the back of your measurement neck to the lower edge of waist elastic Measurement Table Table Name Example Table X X Table For Type your name here New Save Import Change Ok Click the Save button wil save all information about the measurements 6 2 2 Style dependent measure A Style dependent measure is a prompted measure that only appears in some styles If it is not needed the measure does not appear in the measure dialog box For example a blouse may come in style variations with sleeve length as a style dependent measure If the macro user selects a sleeveless style the sleeve length field never appears in the dialog box You make a prompted measure a Style Dependent measure by checking the Style Dependent box in the Prompted Measurements form See picture below A Style dependent measure that is not used is never seen by the user but it is still defined and has a default value It is legal to use it in a macro although this is generally not useful When making a Master Measurement Table you can add a picture and descriptive text See Master Measurement tablel 791 2015 PatternMaker Software 1 Prompted Measurements Name Value Picture jpg x
19. Edit Macro To undo edits simply delete the new points or objects that were created It is a good idea to save as your work before you are editing your macro or before you do major deletions See Automatic point types ho 2015 PatternMaker Software 24 MacroGen 4 5 2 14 Exit Exit closes the MacroGen program and prompts you to save your work 2 15 File Structure When developing a macro the files are stored under My Documents while installed macros are located under Program Files This allows a clean separation between files under development and production ready macros It is important to realize this when running PatternMaker You ll have to look in a different location for each On Windows all files will be stored under MyDocuments PatternMaker Personal Files Here is a list of directories files will be stored in while developing the macro file Designers MG project file mg4 macro mac and style pictures jpg files MeasureTables The master measurement files mmt MeasurePictures The prompted measurement pictures jpg and measurement description txt files If the measurement belongs to a master measurement file these files will be installed on an users computer in a subdirectory below MeasurePictures with the name of the tables identifier This allows different measurement tables to use measurements with the same name O 2015 PatternMaker Software Using the Style Manager MacroGen 4 5
20. It is up to the MacroGen programmer to make appropriate point calculations to place corner points Insert button The Insert button see Connection dialog box above is for changing the point order within an object Click the Insert button to make the selected point the insertion point for new points i e any points added to the object come after this point in the point list rather than at the end Re ordering points You cannot rearrange the order of points once added to an object Instead delete the point s from the list see below select an insertion point and re add them Delete button The Delete button removes the selected point from the object point list It does not delete the point s definition from MacroGen 2015 PatternMaker Software 122 MacroGen 4 5 See also Edit Objects h2A Delete Objects h2 Show Hide Objects M23 Dim Objects h2 Text Objects M2 Grouping Objects 3A Add Notches 13A 8 2 Edit Objects The Edit sub tab displays the object list for the current style You can delete objects select objects for editing and toggle the display of objects on off You also can open an object from the list to view it or edit it Note turning off the display of an object in the piece view has no effect on the creation of that object in the final macro Note actual object editing takes place in the Add Text and Dimension sub tabs The Edit tab is used to edit the object LIST and to access the various e
21. Sleevelength O 60 J Style Dependent E Measurement Table Working with Measurements Prompted Measurement In Table Measurements CenterBack AmScye Bust _ ShoulderHt Sleevelnseam Waist Seamallowance Sleevelength Table Name Checking the Style Dependent box will turn a Prompted Measure into a Style Dependent Measure so it available in the Style Dependent drawer Procedure ouoRWND N Measure gt Measurement Table Click New Name Measurement Name Default Value Measurement Value Check Style Dependent check box Click OK Go back to the Style Tree and select the desired style option Click the Dependent Measure Draw Button see at the right The Dependent Measures list will appear to the Style tree In this list all prompted measurements are visible but only the measurements with the Style Dependent box checked can be checked here D behind the measure Check the measure to be style dependent for that 2015 PatternMaker Software gt Show Style Dependent Drawer Button s MacroGen 4 5 selected style If there are more styles which need a dependent measure select first the desired style open the dependent measure list and check the dependent measure Style Manager Macro Title Picture Blouse Name Piece List Style Tree Dependent Measures Blouse E Sleeve style CenterBack 16 240 Sleeveless z Active
22. The user will never see this name Prompted Measurements Prompted Measurement In Table Measurements Name Value Style Dependent Picture pal w_meas_bklength x Back Length Put on a thin necklace or drape a piece of string around your neck Measure from the place where the necklace falls on the back of your neck to the lower edge of waist elastic Measurement Table O 2015 PatternMaker Software Working with Measurements 6 13 3 Table For The Table For field is the title that appears in the dialog box when the user opens the table in PatternMaker with the command Settings gt Create measurements Measurement Table v Measurement Table Measurement table for Type here your name Measurement Value Is showed in PM as Table Name J Lock New el Table For Import Type your name here New Save 2015 PatternMaker Software MacroGen 4 5 6 13 4 Measurements in Table Purpose This Prompted Measurements box contains a list of all the prompted measurements that are defined in the MacroGen project with check boxes Check those ones that you want to appear in the table The rest unchecked measurements appear in a second or third table after you connect the MTB file with the macro From each style the prompted measurements will be shown in a separate box In Table Measurements AmScye Bust _ Sh
23. X coordinate and 1 2 as far in the Y coordinate from this point as the Point to Resize Point to Resize Point The point that is to be moved X Factor Measure Y Factor Measure Measures for the scaling factor See Add Points se for a description of the equation format Normally select None and only use the Offset field on the right see below Use Parent OK Cancel Change See Add Points se See also Edit Macro 22 7 3 13 65cale The Scale point and ResizeXY 105 point are very similar Just as with the PatternMaker Scale and Resize functions the difference is that Scale uses a single scaling factor while Resize uses two different factors for the X and Y coordinates Scale in PatternMaker A Scale point is the result of multiplying a point s distance from a given center point by a scaling factor as in the PatternMaker Scale function After a Scale command with Editing in PatternMaker the object is also scaled in MacroGen 4 This action create several new points and measurements depending how you did the Scaling in PatternMaker Scaling from the left down corner point P default Create new scale points in the point list for every scaled point the point name gets a 2 extension Also a point called Scale renamed in Scale from point is created This point is a specific distance from the Start point A new math measure called Scale is created renamed in Scale factor with the value of the scaling factor in
24. accepted You need to fix the error before the macro will run properly Programmers may want to code a PatternMaker macro just like they would a traditional programming language by typing into a text editing program This works for quick development but we advise programmers to enter their changes into MacroGen so that the changes become a permanent part of the macro project The PatternMaker language is not documented here It has a syntax similar to the C language Programmers familiar with C may want to experiment with it 11 5 Data Types If you read a mac file you ll see the following variable types double object selection and point The macro language also supports color line pattern and string double A floating point number It is used to represent all types of numbers object A PatternMaker object selection A PatternMaker selection set It can contain either points or objects Selection sets are used to to create groups point A PatternMaker point color The RGB value of a color line The line style for the border of an object pattern The fill style of an object string A text string O 2015 PatternMaker Software Programming Topics 161 11 6 Accessors The following variable arrays are used in MacroGen XL y The x and y values of the point list Var The values of the measure list Flow The list of pieces in the drawing Flow 0 will be the root piece Each value represents
25. advanced features eventually need to know what happens next in order to make calculations logical Each MacroGen macro has the following logical blocks Define the names of points measurements and custom plug ins that will be used This step is not seen by users User style choices Run dialog boxes for the user to make style choices The user must select a style for each Piece in the macro These choices appear in the same order that the pieces and styles appear in the style tree Each dialog box represents a branch in the Style tree so one dialog box appears for each level of depth of the tree the depth may vary depending on the user s choices for each Piece User measurements Prompt the user for measurements This process has two steps Run one dialog box to prompt for each measurement table 72 that is defined O 2015 PatternMaker Software 164 MacroGen 4 5 Run dialog box es for prompted measurements All prompted measurements including those dependent measurements that apply to the user s style choices are listed in the order they appear in the Measure listl447 in the Measure display tab MacroGen decides whether to display the measurements in a single dialog box or split them up The MacroGen user cannot control this breakdown Calculate all the points and measurements This can be a very complex section of code MacroGen goes through all points code points and IF conditions in the order they are listed in the Poi
26. an object 13 6 Code Point Example Code Points provide a remarkable amount of flexibility The downside is they are difficult to use A code point can be used to modify any point or measure that comes before it This example shows how to do that We will create a point to be modified 1 Point gt Add gt Coordinate 2 Name PointToChange 3 Click Ok Create a measure to modify It will be a math measure because we don t need any calculation and don t want a prompt 4 Measure gt Add gt Math 5 Name MeasureToChange 6 Click Ok Now create the code point that will modify them Point gt Code 7 8 Name Code Point 9 In the List select Point PointToChange 0 For Item select Point PointToChange X 1 Click Paste 2 1 1 12 Modify the code area so it reads Point PointToChange X 10 What did we do The List drop down contains a list of all the points in the drawing If the Type drop down had Measure selected it would have a list of all the measures in the drawing Item has a list of all the valid accessors for the point To change the X value use the X accessor This could could be typed in by hand but it is more convenient to use paste in order to avoid typing Next set the Y Value to 12 13 In the List select Point PointToChange 14 For Item select Point PointToChange Y 15 Click Paste 2015 PatternMaker Software Reference and examples 179 Point PointToChange
27. an invalid point list by repeated use of the Connection dialog Notch for notch marks see PatternMaker manual set notch type and direction OK Cancel Accept these changes or cancel and do not make changes Delete Remove this point from the object point list Does not remove the point from MacroGen project Insert Set insertion location for future points Subsequent points added to object by clicking on them are added after this point rather than at end of the object point list Edit tab O 2015 PatternMaker Software Working with Objects no Measure Point Object l Add Edit Dim Text Hide Edit T_BodiceFront Bodice Back T_BodiceBack Hide in List Hide in Draw Object gt Text All Dim None Edit Delete Ok Cancel Close Hide objects from the Piece display by checking the Hide box next to the object s name This affects only the display has no effect on the resulting macro Hide All Checks all boxes Hide None Unchecks all boxes Edit Brings up the Add tab for currently selected object Highlight an object by clicking its name in the list box The Add tab contains editing functions see above See also Add Objectsli20 Edit Objects h22 Delete Objectsh2 Show Hide Objects t25 Dim Objects 2 Text Objects 128 Grouping Objects hA Add Notches h3A 2015 PatternMaker Software 120 MacroGen 4 5 8 1 Add Objects Use the Add sub tab to create poly
28. as 2 the dart length is 9 We have to implement this into MacroGen This is also done in the Logic form Open the mg4 file Skirt with NO Logic 1 Select the Open file command Open the Tutorials folder and open the Skirt with NO logic 2 Open the Style Skirt Style here you find the drawing with the short darts 3 Open the Logic form via Menu gt Point gt Logic 4 Click on New Step 5 Choose Dart Width in the measure field Select and fill in the form Dart width lt 1 The formula you filled in will appear in the name field Click OK 6 Highlight the Step you just made Click on New Result Select Dart Depth Dart Depth 5 the original formula is still true Click OK 7 Click New Step Fill in 1 lt Dart width lt 2 Click OK 8 Click New Result Select Dart Depth Dart Depth 9 9 Repeat this until all widths are covered or maximized M Logic na see Step s Result s if Dart width lt 1 aa if1 lt Dart width lt 2 e if2 lt Dartwidth lt 3 a i if Dart width gt 3 Fy a True X x False a a lt New Step New Result gt New Adv Result a Jump to step LL Show All Points None v Cancel O 2015 PatternMaker Software 176 MacroGen 4 5 In the drawing you can see that the darts have become longer now Try several hip and waist circumferences to check if your Logic works correct Note You can check the mg file Skirt with Logic to see
29. both A1 Note For MacroGen using ai or A1 as a point name has the same meaning and can only be used once This means you can not use both names at once but you can give a point the name al or A1 Note It is good practice to use an F as prefix for the Front pieces and a B for the Back pieces see Tutorials 7 2015 PatternMaker Software Working with Points 87 Using the to from start end fields Most point types contain fields with pull down lists and titles such as To From Start or End These are for selecting points when the new point s location is measured relative to from etc to other points The use of points varies from point type to point type Required Using X and Y measure fields and their Fixed Distances All measures in Add Point dialog boxes appear as part of an equation You can multiply or divide the measure by a number and add or subtract a fixed distance value The constant value field under the measure field is the divisor factor Used together with the X Measure or Y Measure field it provides a way to divide or multiply a variable distance in your drawing The number you enter in the constant value field is what the measure field will be divided by In MacroGen versions 3 and earlier it was actually called scale Now it simply appears under a dividing line in the equation For example if you select Bust as the measure and enter a constant of 4 the bust variable will be divided by 4
30. define A B Leg Point This marks the third leg of a right triangle C Use Parent OK Cancel Change See Add Points se O 2015 PatternMaker Software os MacroGen 4 5 7 3 11 Right Angle A Right Angle point marks a right angle to a given line In the illustration below the angle between the solid line and the dotted line is always a right angle Right Angle From A Name C new B Corner X Corner Distance Measure None Fixed Distance Distance fo 1 Cines I C Clockwise Right Ange point new Notes r X Cancel Change Procedure Tab Panel gt Point gt Add gt Right Angle Name Type in the name of the new Right Angle point C new From Corner Points The new point lies on the line that these points define A B Distance Measure Measure for distance from point Corner to the new point See Add Points s for a description of the equation format C Clockwise This check box chooses which direction to measure the new point If the C Clockwise box is checked then the third leg green dotted line in illustration above is measured to the right of Corner as seen from the From point If it is unchecked it is measured left Use Parent OK Cancel Change See Add Points se Note The Right Angle point is similar to Line Points except that Right Angle calculates the corner point of the right angle while Line Point calculates the other leg 2015 PatternMaker Software
31. display name is the name or title that the user sees when running the macro in PatternMaker This can be different then the Style Name It allows you to use also other symbols or signs in the style option window In the Style Tree you have to use unique names for the options and you cannot use special characters such as or or 2 In the Display Name you can use many special characters You can give a display name of a maximum of 40 characters When longer it does not fit anymore in the window that appears in PatternMaker Note You can also put a question into the display name like What ease do you want Or you can give more information for the user about the style option O 2015 PatternMaker Software 34 MacroGen 4 5 Style Tree Tide 2cm Active Style C Loose 4cm Display Name Next Cancel Loose 4 cm Is displayed in PM Aaa sive Show Display name in MacroGen 3 1 6 5 Re arrange pattern pieces and styles In MacroGen 4 it is possible to rearrange the Styles in the Style Tree in a different order Select the Style you want to move up or down one click and click the arrow button up or down The style will move up or down changing the order im al Important When the Style will not move up or down it may be because some points are related to the styles above below For instance when a measure made from points is made in a style it can not be moved upwards abo
32. distance taking the intersection of two lines and so forth The selection of point types was chosen by the people at PatternMaker Software to make it possible to express every common step in flat pattern drafting as a mathematical operation 7 1 Point types The placement of any point in your drawing is always relative to at least one other point When you place your first point its position is figured some distance left or right and up or down from the Start point The positions of all other points will be figured in one of these ways e Relative to one existing point See Adding a point relative to one other point COORDINATE 88 e Relative to two or more existing points See Halfway between two existing points CENTERI89 Using the coordinates of two existing points to place a new point RECTANGLE 90 This is the same as drawing a horizontal line from one point Y and a vertical line from the other point X On a line defined by two existing points CONTINUEI91 At the intersection of two lines LINE LINE INTERSECTI 92 At the intersection an Arc and a line ARC LINE INTERSECTI93 At the intersection of two arcs ARC ARC INTERSECTI 94 On a line at a certain distance from another point LINE DISTANCE 95 Placing a point for the opening of a dart DART es Forming a right angle from a leg point and a corner point LINE POINTI 97 Forming a right angle from two leg points RIGHT ANGLE 98 At the offset distance of a point
33. gt Edit gt Select a measure gt Edit or open a measure s dialog box from the Edit tab see Measure list 44 and click the Change button Select a measure and click the Edit button or Open doubleclick the measure that you want to Change Select the Change button Measure Point Object AG Matha ax Name Armscye F B Add Edit First Measure Second Measure Edit 29 14 F y F 30 4 ShoulderHt 3 000 A 1 1 Waist 28 000 6 7 1 000 Third Measure Fourth Measure 26 27 2 500 19 D 23 Ml p faa Dist 17 B 4 978 n 36 6 3 695 33 35 5 422 wes 8 13 4 750 E ArmScyeDepth 8 800 i 29 1 4 F 3 542 aR om Comas F 30 4 4 412 E 19 D 23 4 581 23 8 4 3 911 Armscye F B 16 446 Sleevelnseam 16 750 S2 59 0 000 510 524 0 000 522 523 0 000 27 S29 0 000 26 S28 0 000 v Delete Table A second dialog appears for you to select the new type for the measure 2015 PatternMaker Software MacroGen 4 5 Change Meas X Prompted Measure Distance Arc Distance Angle Select the type and a dialog for that measure type appears Fill it in Note It is possible to put your program logic out of order by changing a measure to depend on a point that is defined after the measure Since MacroGen does not have a tool to back check whether a measure is set before or after a point use the Change feature wi
34. into the macro 2 9 Report The Report function creates a variety of printable reports on points measures and objects in your project in table form Use these reports to double check your work and to document your projects for your archives This function is still in development and report formats may vary Type Points C Measures C Objects Y Show Values IV Show Type Y Show Details Y Show Notes HTML Close V Close page after viewing report y Procedure 1 Open a Style that you want to run a report about 2 Click File gt Report In the report dialog window select which type of report you want to make You can make reports of three types e Points e Measures e Objects 3 Select which options to include in your report e Show Values The values of the points measures e Show Type The type of the points measures e Show Details The parameters used to calculate the points measures O 2015 PatternMaker Software File Menu 21 e Notes Any notes you provided on the points measures See Notes 53 4 Click on the HTML button 5 The report form opens and you can view or print the report Repeat these steps for every type of report you want The report is created as an HTML table that can be exported into an Excel spreadsheet Note When you select an Objects report you can choose a specific object from the list in the report form This function is only available when you select the Objects Type of report
35. macros to draw pre designed custom fit garments for users who do not have enough experience with pattern drafting to draw a pattern from scratch A macro is an automated series of commands a program that tells PatternMaker to draw points and lines and connect them in a way that creates pattern pieces MacroGen allows pattern designers to quickly and easily translate their designs from paper to a macro which can be read by the PatternMaker program Not only a pattern but illustrations fitting rules and user style choices are programmed in When a PatternMaker user runs the macro it drafts a complete custom fit garment pattern ready to print But what do do first This manual is intended as a reference guide rather than a textbook To learn how to use MacroGen read over this manual quickly then do the MacroGen tutorials MacroGen is a professional tool for pattern makers to program pattern drafting and fit methods For simple shapes you do not need expert knowledge of pattern drafting programming PatternMaker macros or the PatternMaker software package to get started with MacroGen but you must have some familiarity with them At the minimum you should Install PatternMaker Professional Home or higher version and know how to use it to draft a pattern Have the PatternMaker manual available as a reference e Know how to run existing PatternMaker macros and be aware of what they can do Be familiar with the concepts and techniques
36. objects To work with Text and Dim objects see Text objects i28 or Dim Objects t2 e Select a style or open the Pattern Display 42 for that style e Procedure Tab Panel gt Objects gt Add gt New Note The text Click New shows in blue letters at the top of the dialog when the New button is active If it is not end the current activity by clicking the OK or Cancel buttons Measure Point Object Add Edit Dim Text Click on a point or Ok New Advanced Object Name Bodice Front Group Rename Front v v Closed 4 Line 6 Line 38 Line 35 Line 33 Line 32 Line 28 XArc E Corner 27 Line 29 XArc 14 Corner F XArc 13 Corner Object Point list Ok cancel Close e Enter a name for the new object ie Bodice Front or Sleeve During the object creation process the text Click on a point or OK shows in blue letters at the top of the dialog The name is the identification of the object Changing the name of the object in a child will also change the name in all children and parent e Create or choose a group from the pull down box e Left click on a point in the pattern view The point is added to the object s point list Repeat for every point that you want to use to form your object e To change the point s connection type line arc etc right click on the point to bring up the Connection dialog 2015 PatternMaker Software Working with Ob
37. s 7 Sl 5 AG Tutorials Bodice mg4 Piece1 Lo x M Tutorials Bodice mg4 Piece1 ice oC fal Me File Measure Point Object Settings Customize Zoom Help a x o 3 la R E a E x o AG File Measure Point Object Settings Customize Zoom Help ai x NES ian 8 38 2 18a Measure Point Object ME AR eS 17 r 3 220 16 A Add Edit Dim Text 18a Measure Point Object 26 27 8107 s o o 17 presos of Ser ios dice Fi i z5 220 716A Add Edit Dim _ Text odice Froni A 1 15 D 1 i 26 27 18 EE i 2 Bodice Back es 18 Click on a point or Ok 29 1 7 JA 15 D 1 New Advanced 23 Bodice Back 28 E E2 el y L l Object Name i Bodice Back 2a Bodice Front 13 a 8 cg 3 F 23 Bodice Back Group Rename 35 30 e Back X Hide in List Hide in Draw A E Object x 24 Bodice Front 13 a 8 c9 3 Wi Closed Text Dim None A Line En 2 Line 34 35 a LA 1201 2 ear bateo 11 Line a A C Line ap 12 Line 32 33 36 gt 3 6 Line F 4 XArc E Ok Cancel Close 8 Corner 23 XArc A 31 EG EET 12 11 2 Apra ine Object list a 22 Line J 32 33 387 21 Linel Ok Cancel Close 4 wh 23 92 2 Object Open to see the connections Objects For a general discussion of MacroGen objects see Working with Objects 1 The Object tab displays details of objects and has functions to create and edit objects With the Add sub tab you can add objects to your project The Edit sub tab lists all objects for
38. the Edit in PM command but then many new points need to be added to the project Using the Arrange checkbox in an object makes it much easier for the designer to overcome overlapping objects Only the main object the outside pattern of a group has to be checked as Arrange the other objects which are part of the group like the grain line the belonging text objects and darts are not checked as Arrange They need to be drawn inside the pattern They are overlapping the main object which is good Procedure Open the main object of the group you want to add to check the arrange box Click the Advanced button The Advanced form opens Check the Arrange checkbox Repeat this procedure for all main objects As an second security for arranging the patterns the Auto Arrange command in the Settings menu needs to be checked 2015 PatternMaker Software Working with Objects 137 M Advanced Customize Zoom Help Display Point Names Offset Measure Inches Seam allowance v O Metric cm Exclusion Rules Fil 1 Language Translation Ok J Cancel Y Auto Arrange yee Multiple Arrange Example Both objects that are not allowed to overlap in PatternMaker have to be marked wth Arrange In this case two objects Pocket and triangle are created In MacroGen they are drawn inside each other using the same points In PatternMaker they need to appear as separate patterns not overlapping each other This will oc
39. the constant field Scaling from the center point C Creates a new scale point for every existing scaled point with the extension 2 A Scale point is created because you defined the scaling point from the center and that is a certain point Also a new math measure is created called Scale with the value of the scaling factor in the constant field You can edit and rename these new points and measurements in MacroGen Note The Math Measurements can be changed to Prompted measurements when you want the user to specify the amount of Scaling for this specific item 2015 PatternMaker Software Working with Points 107 Staril 2 From Scale from point v Factor Measure 1 2 ___________2 2 Scale factor Factor Constant 0 A 2 e from point r da 3 x Cancel Scale in MacroGen Procedure Tab Panel gt Point gt Add gt Scale Name Type the name of the new Scale point From Point The scaling expansion is measured from this point For instance if the scaling factor is 2 then the new point is 2 times as far in the same direction from this point as the Point to Scale To Point The point that is to be moved Factor Measure Measure for the scaling factor See Add Points se for a description of the equation format Normally select None and only use the Offset field on the right see below Use Parent OK Cancel Change See Add Points 8e See also Edit Macrol221 7 3 13 Move
40. the selected style for that piece Obj The list of objects in the drawing HideObj Whether the object should be created If the element contains 1 the corresponding object in Obj will not be created The index of these arrays can change as the MacroGen project is edited If hard coded values were used to access them the result would be brittle files The solution is to use assessors These can all be accessed via special accessors They are Point PointName x The x value of PointName from x Point PointName y The y value of PointName from y Point PointName The index of PointName in x and y Measur MeasureName The value of MeasureName from Var Value Measure MeasureName The index of MeasureName in Var Object ObjectName Hide The hide value of ObjectName from HideObj If this is O the object is created Object ObjectName Object The ObjectName from Obj Object ObjectName The index of ObjectName in Obj and HideObj Piece PieceName Style The style selected by the user for the piece The value matches Style StyleName Piece PieceName The index of the PieceName in Flow Style StyleName The style value in a piece It should match Piece PeiceName Style 11 7 Customize Customize allows a programmer to expand MacroGen Custom variables and functions can be added Using the Code editor they can be packaged and distributed Custom Point or Measurement types can be created using Customize
41. the Settings menu The location where your MMT template file is saved opens Select the right mmt Fill in your name in the Name field Replace the default numbers with the appropriate numbers for one personal size Save the file Notice that it is automatically saved in the MTB format You can never accidentally overwrite the original MMT file It is helpful if you name the file with the name of the user the file is for For instance Helen Yard mtb Repeat steps 3 and 4 for every person you want to create a personal measurement table for The user can use this personal measurement table for every macro in your collection It is unlikely that your MTB will be compatible with macros from other designers DA Open Measurement Table Shared Files Thea Botter Look in E Personal measurements J92 rm Helen Yard mtb FF Show Explorer tree Cancel O 2015 PatternMaker Software Working with Measurements 6 13 1 tandard Measurement Table If you wish you can include one or more standard measurement tables for your users to choose from For example you can add the standard sizes tables of size 6 8 10 12 or 36 38 40 42 etc Note that these are MTB files the personal measurement tables not the MMT file Master Measurement Table or template file Procedure 1 Create an MMT in the measurement template file for instructions see MMA 2 Start PatternMaker Select Create Measurements from t
42. the column that you choose as base language The English column needs no translation e When you want to translate the macro also in other languages copy the base language also to other language columns and translate the words Select the other Language Dutch from the drop down menu and click on lt Copy gt The Base language is copied to the language column that you selected e Translate the words in this column O 2015 PatternMaker Software 152 MacroGen 4 5 You can overwrite the English words by Dutch words e Click on OK button to save the language to your macro Note In the macro in all languages with no translated words the base language will appear In PatternMaker is defined which language is used in the version This means when you are using a German PatternMaker automatically the program will show the German language in the macro if the macro is translated also in German When no translation is made in the German column the base language of the macro will be shown when running the macro 10 4 2 Export Language Translation Purpose To make a external Translation File When you want to have the table translated by somebody else who is familiar with that language or you want it translated by a professional agency then you should export the table to Excel Procedure Menu gt Settings gt Add Translation Table e Choose your base language e Click on the Export button e A Save dialog window opens e Automatically
43. the pattern When you try to check the Arrange command more then once in one group MacroGen will show a warning message about this ra Error ES This object is grouped with Pocket so it can not be arranged Checking more then once the Arrange checkbox in one group can otherwise give problems when the patterns appear in PatternMaker for instance the grain line is also checked as Arrange this means in PatternMaker it does not want to overlap the main pattern It can happen that more then one object in a group needs to be marked as Arrange This is for instance happening when you have 3 different front skirts patterns with 0 1 or 2 darts in it In programming the logic the designer will have defined under which conditions which front skirt has to appear The designer needs to calculate and test carefully that the logic with which the skirt patterns appear is verified and in every case only one front skirt will appear It may never occur that more then one front skirt is drawn in PatternMaker This causes problems with the program and also a confusing pattern When this is the case the Multiple Arrange in the Settings menu needs to be checked After checking the Multiple Arrange command in the settings menu a warning will appear to let the designer know the consequences of the checking O 2015 PatternMaker Software 156 MacroGen 4 5 Customize Zoom Help Warning Display Point Names This allows grouping multiple arra
44. the style you selected while running the macro MacroGen keeps both old and new changed versions of points and objects depending on the used edit command The newly created points have automatically assigned names Points and objects once created have no connection to the points and objects they were created from and can be edited deleted and their definitions changed just like all other MacroGen points and objects Editing Macro problems After cutting or joining objects it can be possible that the grouping of the objects or the Mark for Arrange is not valid anymore MacroGen will give a warning message when you return back to MacroGen after editing in PM that you have to check the grouping and or Mark for Arrange Object Pocket in Group Pocket has been cut Check your grouping and arrange checkbox You will also see a warning in the first line of the Object Tab only 1 Arrange per group see object pock et 3 The order in which points are made is very important while editing in PatternMaker For instance when you align a point A with Point B while Point A is made before point B then MacroGen has problems with this In this case a message will be shown After Align command in PatternMaker MacroGen was not able to create a Rectangle point Coordinate point 2 2 was created instead This is because of the order of the points created in the styles Verify that this will work for you Undoing edits There is no Undo feature for
45. their original view They will not appear in the Display Points or Display Objects lists of a sub view e Measurement modifiers If Then Logic The logic is inherited by default but you can uncheck the Use Parent check box and edit the logic for every child separately Style Tree Mother Child 1 Grandchild 1 au Grandchild 2 Child 2 x Grandchild 3 Grandchild 4 Active Style Mother v Display Name Mother cas E Some things are not inherited from a main view to a sub view e Each view window a style or a sub style has its own Start point e Style dependent measures 56 e Style pictures 351 O 2015 PatternMaker Software Using the Style Manager 33 3 1 6 3 Active Style Purpose This feature lets you view different styles in future pieces This is important because it allows you to view the final piece as it would be drawn in PatternMaker after the user selects their styles See Active Style Examplelt7 Procedure 1 Highlight an entry in the Piece List 2 Select an option in the Active Style drop down box 3 Highlight another entry in the Piece List somewhere lower in the list 4 Select a style from the Style Tree and open the style window by clicking the Show button Style Tree Mother Child 1 Grandchild 1 Grandchild 2 Child 2 Grandchild 3 Grandchild 4 EK Bp Active Style Grandchild 1 X Display Name Grandchild 1 3 1 6 4 Display Name Purpose The
46. user enters when the macro is run or it can be a fixed unchanging amount exactly two inches from this other point Draw the Object See Working with Objects h e Open the New Object form Tab Object gt New e Connect the points with lines and curves e Add notches or other pattern markings if desired e Add seam allowance if desired e Add descriptive text Set Style Options e Add pictures to each style in the style tree e Set exclusion rules See Style Exclusions 37 Save and Test the Macro See Test Macrol2 e Convert the file to a macro e Test or edit the macro in PatternMaker Professional Home or higher version Prepare Macros for Distribution Use the Collection Creator for these e Enter designer information and copyright licensing information e Use the Collection Creator to create an executable setup file O 2015 PatternMaker Software 16 MacroGen 4 5 1 5 Menu structure In MacroGen 4 5 you will find several menus to access all the commands In reality you will not use a couple of these menus because an easier way of selecting the commands has been made by the Tab panel in the Pattern Area or the icon bar on top of the screen To be able to explain MacroGen better we follow this way also in this Help file This means that you will find more information about File File menul 18 Measure Working with Measurements 51 Point Working with Points 4 Object Working with Objects h1A Settings
47. you are satisfied with the results the drawing the calculations the used measurements The PatternMaker version that runs is almost the same as the standard Professional Home version of PatternMaker with the following differences e You can only test a macro when you have made an object When not there is nothing to show a drawing in PatternMaker PatternMaker runs as a child process of MacroGen meaning that you must exit PatternMaker to go back to MacroGen e The macro you are working on starts immediately You do not need to select PatternMaker s Macro command or choose a macro file e Your macro project is piped directly into PatternMaker This means that you do not need to save a macro file before testing and the macro that runs represents the current state of your MacroGen project rather than what O 2015 PatternMaker Software 22 MacroGen 4 5 you last saved e You can test your macro with different measurements to check if your macro works correctly with all kind of measurements 2 13 Edit Macro in Patternmaker Edit Macro runs your macro in PatternMaker and then allows you to make edits Any edits you make in PatternMaker are captured and become part of the macro in MacroGen This function is a powerful tool for adding changes to your macro You can run your macro in PatternMaker then do other PatternMaker editing operations such as moving rotating cutting or joining pieces This is very useful for certain operati
48. your macro for you but it makes it easy to create a translation file containing each foreign word that is included in your macro In PatternMaker is defined which language is used in the version This means when you are using a German PatternMaker automatically the program will show in the macro the German language if the macro is translated also in German When not available the base language of the macro will be shown Some words are not necessary to translate like group names and text object names When you add for instance a GR or G_ to your group name or a TXT or T_to your text object name you know that you don t have to translate those words If you are not translating the file yourself it is recommended that you export the translation table into an Excel format file This makes it easier for most other people to edit the file and helps you protect your entire MG4 file from piracy You should be able to import and export text files into and out of Excel or an equivalent spreadsheet Testing another language is often tricky because PatternMaker and Windows each have their own language options For example when PatternMaker is in Dutch you can not easily test an English macro and vice versa You have to rename the translation files or change the language number index For example rename Trans lan to USTrans lan to have an English PatternMaker Remember to rename it back when you finish the translation text There are 7 langu
49. 63 Deleting Measurements 71 Measurement table 72 6 2 1 Add Picture to Measurement Click the Picture field to add an image to the measurement When you click in the white field a dialog box pops up for you to select an image file This picture appears in the dialog box when the user runs a macro or when he creates a personal measurement table Xi If you want to delete the picture file click the Delete button red cross The Picture Description field is below the picture for further clarification of the measurement Give some details about how to take them The user will see this information when filling in the measurement table or while using the macro In the Notes field you can enter personal notes to remember They are for internal purpose The user of the macro does not see them When you click the Save Button down on the left all information about the measurement will be saved The text file will be saved with the same name as the name of the picture Only the extension is different The picture might have the name NAME jpg and the text will be saved with the same name such as NAME txt O 2015 PatternMaker Software s MacroGen 4 5 ga Prompted Measurements 3 EE Prompted Measurement In Table Measurements M Center Back Name v Arm Scye Center Back v Bust v Shoulder Height Value v Sleeve In Seam 12 FU Style Dependent Y Waist Picture jpg w_meas_bklength ae Delete the Click to add at picture file
50. 7 A O 129 8 Erouping OB ecls usais lala 132 9 Mad Nolc has att i 133 10 A A E 134 Adding Offset rrmcanccicninicnincn eee rene reas 135 Arrange A A O E EE a ETE a A E 136 Part 9 Working with Logic 140 O 2015 PatternMaker Software 6 MacroGen 4 5 1 The OGG WINdOWe asii iia 140 A ceca ence ace enact ert geet tect caee ee 143 Create a Res ce ecclesia tte Caachi tect 144 2 Code camara ont N 146 Part 10 Settings menu 148 1 Display Poit Names 148 2 fncehes Centimeter Sanaa iaaa ii cli aii ainia did 149 3 Exclusi n Rules 3 sb vacant qunaitenawoawideentuantvaansismaecundeees 149 4 LANGUAGE TEA as 150 Translation ad A Ra 151 Export Language Ble cle seen ne tee eee ee ee ee 152 Import Language Translation ns 153 5 Alto Arana E E 154 6 M ltiple Arranges seseina ea hana wnt dadre aai ane Aedini a eaaet ei a Eiana iie 155 Part 11 Programming Topics 158 1 NASA PU A aeren nidara aeaa i e 158 2 Whatis a MESSI A A AA AA 158 3 MN a 159 4 Direct God odiosa 159 5 Data TE 160 6 PE COS SONS urraca E A E EEE ET 161 7 A A E E E E ETT 161 MENECER oe reeettar i ecieorrter rreer te micen ravevterracrerrcmirie ree Soir neciec rteteeny en goer cceeeeerewe arr reer nmeeie rence ore eee 162 FUNGHONSA metidas ls 163 Declarations A as Ul ch cl alban llittente 163 A A a 163 8 Orderat EveniSascsisainat is A 163 9 Gascade ResullS vecccssscccccecned ksatcacosddacascacasteacesacsscesdaatadesacadeideadacecvacaanadesdchueaeteaeoaceacagnea
51. 8 XArc E Corner 27 Line 29 XArc 14 Corner F XArc 13 Corner Ok Cancel Close e Designate the objects to be arranged with the Arrangel3 function Only macro objects that represent actual Mi Advanced pieces of fabric to be cut out should be Offset designated the outside pattern If your macro contains other objects such as Measure grain lines button plackets or lines to indicate Seam allowance interfacings or text objects do not mark these for arrange The Arrange function makes sure that marked objects do not overlap but it ignores non marked objects Ok l Cancel O 2015 PatternMaker Software Settings menu 155 Check the Auto Arrange item in the Settings Settings Customize Zoom Hel p menu Now when running the macro in _ PatternMaker all the marked as Arrange objects in the macro are moved to their Auto Arrange positions just before the macro ends Display Point Names Inches O Metric cm Exclusion Rules Fil Language Translation v Auto Arrange Multiple a ee See also Multiple Arrangeh55 10 6 Multiple Arrange It is normally not possible to have the Arrange box checked in more then one object in one group Only the outside pattern the main object will be checked as Arrange all the other objects belonging to the same group like grain line text objects and darts will be drawn inside the pattern and eg overlap
52. A AE E 31 New Style NE EE ETT onda 31 Mother and A Eni o EERTE E AE E E E ET E AE 32 Active Style AAA AA A E A A A T 33 Display Name E TAE T ATT ETET RET AE N T E T E E A dee 33 Re arrange pattern pieces and stylBs in AS 34 O 2015 PatternMaker Software MacroGen 4 5 Show Style WINDOWS A A EAN 35 Rename Style A a As 35 Delete Style O TAN 35 Style PACTO A A A T 35 2 Style Dependent Drawer sirrim ieira ii oi ERE SSA aanas i 36 3 Sivle EXCIUSIOMS EE E as 37 Part 4 Pattern Area 41 1 OVOIVIOW E E AE T EA EENE S A E A iaa 41 2 PAttG rl NY EEEE E da 42 3 MOAS UG TaD AEE da 44 4 Politi E 1 o isis A ESSEE EE ETE A A NTE AE A dueusvuasiutwstassuueundeseeustageedens 45 5 Object Tab sia a eea NE aeea aeea a aads E 47 Part5 Zoom Functions 49 Part6 Working with Measurements 51 1 Notes O aa aaa aa aa aa a aa aaa a aa AE caus awecaucdassduendactiebiegs 53 2 Prompted Measures tares ranana a oda io 53 Add Pi t r t Measurement ie a u daoin Enn 55 Style dependent MOASUTO vinci A deman danes 56 3 DISTANCE MEAS Ue E 59 4 Arc Distance MEASUIEC ssssscececeeeeeeesesecesesesesesesesesesesesesesesesesesesesesesesesesesesesesssessssseseseees 60 5 Angle MEASURE 61 6 WAT Briana llantas di 62 7 Math4 Bedsscedendan ae cata a aAa a a ica donate ov rae aa e Oaar SEa 65 8 DIVISION exit A ie ita 66 9 EditMeas leia A A a E E 68 10 Change Messe ie 69 11 Delete Messe ii a 71 12 Logie gent Ea N aa aa EA tap Ee aapa AAE Eaa
53. Auto Arrange from the Settings Menu To have a quick look what is filled in in the Advanced form go with your mouse over the Advanced button It will show the values in the Status bar at the bottom with a tool tip to your cursor OOOO o Ine Seam Allowance 1 O Arrange ON 49 14 22 96 at bottom of screen Measure Point Object Add Edit Dim Text Click on a point or Ok New LS Seam Allowance 1 0 Arrange ON Object Name Front Piece Group gr Front Y Closed 1 Line 2 Line 3 Line Ta Line 4 XArc O 2015 PatternMaker Software Working with Objects 135 See also Auto Arrangelt5A 8 10 1 Adding Offset Offset tells the macro to draw an offset seam allowance around the object There are two ways to add an offset to your objects 1 Offset with Value Procedure e Open the object you want to add an offset to e Click on Advanced The Advanced form opens e Type the number of the desired offset in the value box The object will have a fixed offset that the user cannot change Each object can have a different offset M Advanced Offset Measure None 1 Y Arrange Ok Cancel 2 Offset with measurement Procedure e Make a new prompted measurement named Seam allowance with a desired default value eg O or 1 e Open the object you want to add an offset to e Click on Advanced
54. LaTe Aa EEEa anaa E Ea EEEE 71 13 MeasurementTables rearen aa araa e aer aaa aaar a a a aa Eae ara a aeaa aaea A anaia hiaai 72 New Table E E E E 72 Tai NAME mA ia 74 Table For A rbd 75 Measur ments in TADE miii dt Ai 76 Import To able r cece aie eet ce se eect ee eee ieee ees E E ence hak eee ee 77 Save ale A tada 77 Delete Tabla A aa crsiada 79 Master Measurement TADIG inci idas 79 P erso l Measurement Table sicccesceceesciccscccedeccctsececssecsdsecsrssncenccecesccnesecveccccessecsesecsancesdssecercvecsccssvovevsectencceeess 80 Standard Me s urement TADIG riii aana a aaea taaa a aee aee aaaea aaae aaa eaaa a 81 Working with Multiple O 81 Part 7 Working with Points 84 O 2015 PatternMaker Software Contents 5 1 POINDIYDOS a Es 84 2 GONG ANG Sie nad 85 3 A eneninda eee ieee eats 86 GOOrIMALS NN 88 CONTE a Ei E A A Aaa caben 89 RR sssssssesssnsesennenunnennnennnnnennnnnnnnnnnnnnennnnnnnnnnennnnnnnnnennnnennnnennnneenaneennnnennnneennneennneennnnennnneennnennnneennneennneen a 90 CONTINUE E A E A E E E ses vbucuuacsdedesGosbssutearaauasvacdastecenudededei 91 Line Line InterSect e taaan a a Taara aa raa ae r aa danna do aA aaaea a Eaa a deaa eaaa Ea ainaani aa 92 P EEATT E E E A S E E A A 93 Arc Are InterseCt riccinioninasnenconnnanarndaco inner nara aaea aea iran ae aran aaa aa adaa a Eaa aaa Aaaa at 94 Line DISTANCE desescinetceececcsasciveaveatacavertonedecesssscessselcereauandsacavcanevieadeecduabevadbua
55. Move in PatternMaker A Move point is the result of moving a point or an amount given by the distance between two other points as in the PatternMaker Move function After a move command with Editing in PatternMaker the object is also moved in MacroGen 4 This action creates several new points depending upon which snap point you used during the movement in PatternMaker Move with no Snap function Create new points in the point list for every moved point the point name gets a 2 extension But also a Move Start and a Move End point will be created Both are from the Start point Note It is generally best to use the snap function to move an object Move with using the Snap End Point function Creates new points for every moved point with the 2 extension O 2015 PatternMaker Software 108 MacroGen 4 5 Only creates a single Move End point The Move End point is from the point selected with Snap Endpoint There is no Move Start because you define the Start point with Snap Endpoint Stail 10 CCC 4 MoveEnd 1 108 You can edit and rename these new points in MacroGen Move in MacroGen You can also move one or more points directly in MacroGen 4 5 Procedure Tab Panel gt Point gt Add gt Move Name Type the name of the new Move point Reference Point The point where the move begins Reference Point 1 y Line Start Point Line End Point 4 X Move End X r x Cancel Line Start Line End
56. O 2015 PatternMaker Software Working with Measurements 55 form the new made measurement ill appear Click this button and then repeat steps 3 and 6 for as many measures as you wish to create 9 Notes In this field you can add personal notes about this measurement 10 The Save button will save any changes to a measure without creating a new measure Even if you want to test with a measure and try new values you have to click Save to get the new value saved 11 The Change button allows you to change this measure to another type of measure Most commonly the prompted measures are changed to math measures that are calculated rather than being asked for 12 In the right field Measurements all prompted measurements will appear You can create a measurement Table with the prompted measurements this will be explained further in Measurement tables 72 13 The Move Up and Move Down arrows rearrange the list by moving the highlighted measure up or down in the list The order you see the measures in the list is the same order the user will see them in the dialog box es 14 In the Measurement Table field on the right side is used for making a measurement table With the New Save and Import buttons you can create change or import a Measurement Table See for this Measurement tables 7A 15 The OK button closes this dialog box and saves your changes See also Overview of Measurements 4 Working with measurements 5t Editing Measurements
57. Pattern Area sometimes called Drawing Area you have to open a Style mother or child in the style tree The Pattern Area contains tools for creating viewing and editing a MacroGen style This is the heart of the MacroGen work process It shows all Measures Points and Objects and a pattern window that displays the current style Important rules about the Pattern display include The Pattern Area corresponds to one style in the Style Treel 321 It is not the whole macro If you have any doubt which style you re working on use window commands to display Style Tree and Pattern Area at the same time The points you see do not all appear in PatternMaker when you run the macro What is a Point 158 describes how MacroGen points are related but not identical to PatternMaker points The sizes and locations of points objects that you see are based on the active Style see Using the Style manager 261 and the macro s default measurements Depending on the measurements the user actually inputs what you see is not exactly what you get The behavior of the drawing area varies depending on which tab Measure Point Object is selected SeeWorking with Objectsh1 See What is a Piece 158 and Working with Objects h1 for explanations of Pieces and Objects AG Example 1 mg4 Bodice o oH e AE File Measure Point Object Settings rr mm Help D ja 6005 1 Le 3 Start 1 2 Measure Point Object Add Edit Dim Text
58. Point PointToChange KX js o Now to change the measure 16 In Type select Measure 17 Click Paste 18 Modify the code area so it reads Point PointToChange X 10 Point PointToChange Y 12 Measure MeasureToChange Value 5 Notice the default values of the List drop down and Item drop down were what we wanted 19 Click Ok PointToChange has been moved in the drawing If you inspect MeasureToChange the value is now 5 To view this example open CodePointExample mg4 13 7 Customize Example Customizing can be used for two purposes e Adding specialized code for a specific macro e Prototyping a new Widget Most of the time all that is needed is to create a function to perform calculations Another purpose is to create a table that is used This example creates a simple table The same effect can be done using logicl40 We will create a table with three elements in it The table will contain the values 1 4 and 9 The function change_size will read a value from the table and put it into a measurement The finished file is CustomizeExample mg4 Create an array 1 Customize gt New Declaration 2 Name Size 3 Code double Size 3 4 Click Ok Initialize the array 5 Customize gt New Initialization 6 Name Size 7 Enter into the code Size 0 1 Size 1 4 Size 2 9 8 Click Ok Create the function with the logic 9 Customize gt New Function 10 Name Size 2015 PatternMa
59. Style Sleeve style bod Display Name Sleeve Add Style Show Exclusions In the Style Tree the style Sleeve is selected in the Sleeve style With the Dependent Drawer button the Dependent Measures list is opened The Sleevelength is checked This means that when the user selects the style Sleeve he will be shown the dependent measure Sleevelength He can fill in the desired length of the sleeve Important Styles do not inherit style dependent measurements from their parents These boxes are never checked automatically and you must set them for every style in the style tree Note We advice you to check the dependent measure box in the Prompted Measure form only when you are ready to test this feature Note Dependent measure was named Conditional measurements in version 4 of MacroGen 2015 PatternMaker Software Working with Measurements s 6 3 Distance measure A distance measurement is the distance between two points that have already been placed Enter the names of the two points and the name of the measurement The best name for this measurement is usually the name of the two points that are measured ood Distance Name To Point From Point z p Zi Y OK X Cancel Change Distance Measure result Note This picture doesn t include the Notes 5 field Procedure Tab Panel gt Measure gt Add gt Distance 1 Name Type a name for the dis
60. They can be prototyped using Functions Declarations and Initializations When they work they can be entered into Code Editor to create a package that can be imported An important difference between packages and customized functions declarations and initializations is that packages are added on to MacroGen They can be used in any project If the project is transferred to another computer the package must be imported on that computer Functions declarations and initializations appear only in the current project This makes them useful for prototyping a new package or adding a special calculation that won t be used elsewhere 2015 PatternMaker Software 162 MacroGen 4 5 11 7 1 Manage Widget Widgets allow custom measures and points to be created via the Code Editor Refer to the Code Editor s manual for instructions Imported widgets will show up in the point or measure list Widgets are grouped together into a package A Widget package can be loaded by Customize gt Manage Widget gt Import ga Manage Widget Packages File Version 0 0 0 3 Type Measure C Point Widget Description This is a tutorial measure that multiplies two measurements together Delete Close The parts of the Manage Widget form are Packages A package is a group of widgets Highlight a package and its widgets will appear in the widgets list Widgets The list of widgets in the package This name will show up in the point or measurement li
61. a cascading effect of measurements being recalculated hence the name When importing a design from a programming language this cascading effect causes problems when dealing with logic Programs use if then statements to modify specific variables measures Cascading changes many variables Cascading can be turned off by right clicking on a result under Point gt Logic It can be turned off for the entire project or for the current measure 2015 PatternMaker Software Help menu 166 MacroGen 4 5 12 Help menu In the Help menu you can find several possibilities for getting more information about the program You can open the Help file or the PDF files of the Manual and Help Fl Tutorials Tutorials We advise you to read over the manual and do the tutorials to get Manual acquainted with MacroGen 4 Open Examples Refresh Register About 12 1 Help Here you can find the Help file or use F1 on your keyboard to open the Help 12 2 Tutorials When selecting Tutorials MacroGen will open automatically the Tutorials pdf file You will need a PDF reader program for this See for more information Tutorials 172 Help FL Tutorials Manual Open Examples Refresh Register About O 2015 PatternMaker Software Help menu 167 12 3 Manual When selecting Manual MacroGen will open automatically a printable Manual pdf file You will need a PDF reader program for this The co
62. a point or other measure you can t create the measurement until the point or measure it depends on has been created This feature means that you must define points and measures in the same order that the calculations will take place You cannot for instance create the full point list and then create all the measures if the two are interdependent Procedure Use the Tab Measure gt Add in the Pattern view see Measure Tab MA Choose one of the measure types e Prompted Measurel53 e Distance measurel59 e Arc Distance Measure 60 e Angle measurefs e Math s2 e Math4 es e Divisionl6e In every dialog box there are OK Cancel and Change buttons Ok is used to confirm your entry With Cancel you leave the command without creating a measure With Change you change the measure type For example from distance to curved distance Order of calculations Most internal measurements such as distances are dependent on the values of points or other variables and so they must be calculated only after the items they depend on The order in which measures are calculated can thus be important but normally MacroGen takes care of the logic of putting calculations in the correct order and the user doesn t have to worry about it The order of calculations can be changed under certain circumstances but this is an advanced topic not covered in this manual 2015 PatternMaker Software Working with Measurements 53 6 1 Notes It is ea
63. ages available in this version although at the moment PatternMaker is available in English Dutch and German The Spanish version is being translated at the moment e English e Finnish O 2015 PatternMaker Software Settings menu 1 e Dutch e German e Spanish e French e Italian If you wish to add a different language contact the service desk first support patternmakerusa com 10 4 1 Translation Purpose Create a multi language macro f M Language Translation Ea Copy base language to Dutch y Copy Base Language English Finnish Dutch German Spanish French Italian gt Bodice Bodice Paslijf Next Next Volgende Back Back Terug Done Done Klaar CenterBack CenterBack Middenachter AmScye AmScye Armsgat Bust Bust Bovenwijdte ShoulderHt ShoulderHt Schouderhoogte Sleevelnseam Sleevelnseam Mouwzijnaad Waist Waist Taille Bodice Front Bodice Front Paslif voor t 5 r Y DK x Cancel Export Import Procedure Menu gt Settings gt Language Translation e A table appears with all the used words in your macro in the Base column In this case the macro is made in the English language All the words in the base column are English When you do not translate anything the base language will appear in every language when running the macro in PM e Select first the Base Language from the drop down menu English and click on lt Copy gt The words to translate from the base column are copied to
64. ammers a Measure in MacroGen is the same as a variable in a standard programming language It is possible to make a macro even a complex one without using the Step window if the point calculations and the order they come in are straightforward By default points and measures are calculated in the same order in which you define them 9 1 The Logic window Procedure Menu gt Point gt Logic The Logic window has two main displays On the left is a list of Steps This is a master view of your macro On the right is a list of Results for the selected step Each result recalculates one Measurement or takes some other program action Other controls let you add steps and results and rearrange their order The Logic window applies to the currently selected style see Style Treel31 It shows only those points that are defined in that style and it is possible for the same points to appear in a different order with different calculations in different styles Note Be sure you are working with the right style before you add Steps Use the Use Parent feature as often as possible It is very important to do all Logic Window operations as high in the Style Tree see Use Parentl13 as you can because if you create a complex set of steps and later decide to apply them to a different style there is no way to transfer the contents of the Logic Window except by doing all the work over again Defining Logic high in the Style tree applies it to al
65. ance point Point to Rotate Point The starting position of the rotation Line Start Point The start point of the rotation or about point Line End Point The end point of the rotation same as Point to rotate Distance Measure Measure for the final distance between Point to Rotate and new point An angle of rotation will be calculated If no such angle is possible if the distance is too great the new point defaults to the Start point See Add Points se for a description of the equation format Use Parent OK Cancel Change See Add Points 8e See also Edit Macrol 221 O 2015 PatternMaker Software Working with Points 105 7 3 13 ResizeXY The Scalelio8 point and ResizeXY 106 point are very similar Just as with the PatternMaker Scale and Resize functions the difference is that Scale uses a single scaling factor while Resize uses two different factors for the X and Y coordinates Resize in PatternMaker A ResizeXY point is the result of multiplying a point s distance from a given center point by a scaling factor as in the PatternMaker Resize function After a Resize command with Editing in PatternMaker the object is also Resized in MacroGen 4 This action creates several new Resize points and measurements depending how you did the Scaling in PatternMaker Resize from the left down corner point P default Create a new resize point in the point list for every resized point The new point name gets a 2
66. and the point will be placed at the left side the minus before the value at a distance of 1 4 of whatever the bust measurement is You can use either a positive or a negative number in the constant value field depending on which side of the From Point you want the new point to be see X Y References above Measures are optional If you choose None for a measure this portion of the formula is not used a value of 0 is entered There is also a Fixed Distance field which is shown after the sign This is simply a fixed number that is added to the equation Constants and Fixed Distances are optional By default all divisor constants are 1 and fixed distances are 0 This Coordinate point is measured from a From point in this case the point 3 There are two equations used to calculate the new point s location The X component of the calculation is the Bust measure divided by 4 Then a fixed distance 1 is added to the measure This distance is measured in the negative X direction to the left from point 3 The Y component of the calculation is not measured None No fixed distance 0 is added to the measure Use Parent check box and Style Tree See Use Parent t113 OK Cancel Change buttons The OK and Cancel buttons are self explanatory The Change button lets you change the point to another point type depending on what points are already made C Clockwise check box See C Clockwise t12 Notes See Notes 5A
67. ation appears in the dialog box that selects the style when the macro user moves from one choice to another in the dialog box the illustrations change The Style Picture command prompts you for a file directory and filename for the illustration The only supported file format is JPEG jpg MacroGen can not create illustration files you have to provide your own using separate software The maximum size of this picture is 400x400 pixels The image file has to be in the same directory as the macro file when the user runs the macro Remember to include image files when distributing macros to your customers The image has to be in the same directory the macro language does not support directory paths 2015 PatternMaker Software MacroGen 4 5 Macro Title Picture meoo Name n Piece List Style Tree Bodice Bodice Active Style Bodice v Display Name Bodice Show El Procedure 1 Select the style you want to set the picture for 2 Click on the Picture area browse and select an image 3 2 Style Dependent Drawer Purpose Use Style Dependent Drawer gt gt Button to open the Dependent Measures form In this form you can define which of the Style Dependent Measures have to be used with the current style A list of all the Style Dependent Measures 56 defined in the Measurement Table appear in this Dependent Measures dialog box with checkboxes Check all of the measurements that shou
68. bject Add Edit Dim Text Click on a point or Ok New Advanced Object Name Bodice Front Rename v v Closed 4 Line 6 Line 38 Line 35 Line 33 Line 32 Line 28 XArc E Corner 27 Line 29 XArc 14 Corner F K rc 13 Corner l Ok Cancel Close You can rename a group by checking the Rename box then changing the group field Otherwise entering a new value in Group creates a new group Note It is recommend that you create a group immediately when you create the main object i e front piece Groups and Auto Arrange 5 Group all objects that should stay together for the Auto Arrange function into a single group In general the piece representing the piece outline is marked for Auto Arrange ensuring that no other pieces overlap it and associated objects such as darts grain lines and seam allowances should be grouped with it See also Add Objects h2 2015 PatternMaker Software Working with Objects 133 Edit Objects h2 Delete Objects 124 Show Hide Objects 125 Dim Objects 27 Text Objects 128 Add Notches 13 8 9 Add Notches Notches create notch marks in PatternMaker Only Line Points of a poly object can be defined as a notch point If a point of an object is defined as a notch point it will be drawn as one of several sewing notch marks in PatternMaker Notch types are set in the Connection dialog of an object s point list The default notch type is No
69. bject poly objects Procedure Pattern Display gt Tab Panel gt Object gt Add gt New e Object Name Enter a name for the new object mandatory e Group Enter or choose a group to add objects into optional e Closed Check this box to make the object closed see PatternMaker manual e Add points Add points to the object by clicking on them in the Pattern Area Adding points to MacroGen objects can only be done by clicking on them There is no non graphical way This means points must be visible to be able to select them An object s points are listed in order in the list box There are five steps in the process of creating a MacroGen object 1 Select the style s the object is part of 2 Open the Object Tab 3 Define a new object 4 Add points to the object s point list 5 Edit the point connection list for instance to recreate curves Note The object list display is not modal so that its appearance when an activity is in progress is very similar to the way it looks when ready to start a newaction A prompt Click New appears when MacroGen is ready to start a new object If this prompt is not visible complete or cancel the current activity OK or Cancel buttons Creating Objects and Styles An object in MacroGen exists in the style it is created in and in any styles that are children of that style in the Style tree To create an object that exists in several related style branches select the style on the cor
70. canedseauetccedeadauesnaceraabeazecbi eastevatededetde 95 O DAN 96 LP ac em a ee De ee oe een ee ee EE ir 97 Right Angle O 98 Offset DIStANGE A NN 99 Automatic Point Types A suas cou E A A E baad coment 100 P ace Gorner tania traida ca adengapscansvosucentunreaunctstscciltiseceddetestatediustonduae ceatdeatpadaascerscaehancasunaceteaisifeadeds 100 MUCOSA Se E e 101 Rotate Angle NN 102 Rotate Distance tasters 103 ROSIZOXY Millas loco tevesce E rhcdecdptocecetnensa E T 105 SCALE esi eee e E coe ov peed Sewanee eed 106 MOVE Ea ERES aa doS Aaea EETA E E AETS Uineeuennl cused EELA aasa iE arian E 107 4 WiS Girt o EE E E T E 109 5 Edit PORTS ias 110 6 Delete point A ae a us AA 111 7 PNTE PUN aeaaeae aA Eaa ea aaa a a an aeaaeae aa A aiar E aaa Ea a AENA EEEa 111 8 Show hide polis nata acabo oras 112 9 US PARC A ienaa ENEE aanraai ANTEA 113 10 CAA T E E A A E E E T 114 Part 8 Working with Objects 117 1 Add Objects ia ciu cad Suedaeuuesceeadutiancaddutadadacenatcaswenaddedeteedcaiussqcedwanastenedssessedatiwussstededeewasnarsateateus 120 2 Edit Objects id aetbaadenanveudetenaVeLadsesadeeaadaee os ccatuadudacudabsctuaddsucuevenosucuauecusecw ebedssveceacecuutouacadeacans 122 3 Deli OD IBS iaa e o A E malian 124 4 Show Hide Objects miii ia 125 5 Showing Hiding POS dats nsanstasatina se snudusuidendeauenadincanesbannanieneenyeaeeans 126 6 A eena tsiesasteatans ctca av seaaasines Waaninasleabiuseaieanussuue odihscimonbintaxtaws toes 127
71. croGen 4 5 Check the box next to an object s name to hide the object in the piece display You can hide all objects of a particular type by checking a box under Hide Object Type Use Hide All or Hide None buttons to check or uncheck all boxes at once Note the object list does not indicate object type so the various Hide Object Type boxes are the only way to search for objects of type Text or Dimension See also Add Objects h2 Delete Objects h2 Show Hide Objects h2 Dim Objectsh2A Text Objects 129 Grouping Objects 132 Add Notches 133 8 3 Delete Objects Allows the user to Delete objects Procedure Tab Panel gt Object gt Select object gt Delete Object Select the object you want to delete and click on the delete object button Note You can not undo this command so think before you delete It is always a good idea to save your work before a big deletion Note When you delete an object you don t delete the points See also Add Objects 128 Edit Objects h23 Show Hide Objects 123 Dim Objects h2A Text Objects 129 Grouping Objects 132 Add Notchesl34 O 2015 PatternMaker Software Working with Objects 125 8 4 Show Hide Objects Show hide is used for showing objects or hiding them There are different ways to show or hide objects Procedure Tab Panel gt Object gt Edit Hide checkbox in list Measure Point Object Check the object you want to hide on th
72. cur when in both objects Pocket and triangle the arrange box is checked PI P2 Measure Point Object Add Edit Dim Text Hide Edit Triangle triangle Rectangle Triangle and Rectangle overlap n MG No overlap in PM Important To have MacroGen arranging the objects that are checked as Arrange in PatternMaker the Auto Arrange command in the Settings menu needs to be checked also See Auto Arrangelt5 It is normally not possible to have the Arrange box checked in more then one object in one group Only the outside pattern the main object will be checked as Arrange all the other objects belonging to the same group like grain line text objects and darts will be drawn inside the pattern and eg overlap the pattern When you try to check the Arrange command more then once in one group MacroGen will show a warning message about this O 2015 PatternMaker Software 138 MacroGen 4 5 Error This object is grouped with Pocket so it can not be arranged Checking more then once the Arrange checkbox in one group can otherwise give problems when the patterns appear in PatternMaker for instance the grain line is also checked as Arrange this means in PatternMaker it does not want to overlap the main pattern a be necessary to have more then one object marked as Arrange See for more information Multiple Arrange 15 To have a quick look what is filled in i
73. d gt Arc Line Intersect Name Type in the name of the Arc Line Intersection point E new Arc Start Arc Corner Arc End Points These points determine the arc B C D Line Start Line End Points These points determine the second line lt does not matter which order they appear in A F Use Parent OK Cancel Change See Add Points 8e Note It is not necessary to actually draw an arc or add it to an object in order to make an Arc Line Intersect point Any three points can determine an arc Note The line is infinitely long but the arc stops at its end points If the line does not intersect the arc the new point defaults to the Start point There should always be an intersection to be sure the macro is working properly Note It is possible for a line to intersect an arc in two places MacroGen does not currently support choosing which of the two points is used but the resulting macro wil always use the same point for a given Arc Line Intersect point definition O 2015 PatternMaker Software MES MacroGen 4 5 7 3 7 Arc Arc Intersect An Arc Arc Intersect point is the intersection of two arcs The arcs are each defined by three points following the PatternMaker formula for arcs see PatternMaker manual Arc Arc Intersect Name E new Arc 1 Start Arc 1 Comer Are 1 End A v xi vv F Arc 2 Start Are 2 Comer Arc 2 End p f P r X Cancel Change Procedure Tab Panel gt Point gt A
74. d Translation tables e Open the macro you want to add the external file e Click the Import button The folder Translations in My Documents PatternMaker Personal Files will open e Select the right translation file trf and click on Open You will see that the new translated words are added to the current file e Click on OK to save the new language translation into your macro e Save the macro with the Save button or File Save O 2015 PatternMaker Software 154 MacroGen 4 5 10 5 Auto Arrange The Auto Arrange function arranges pattern pieces on the page It rearranges the pieces so that they don t overlap although the arrangement is not guaranteed to be the most efficient possible Nothing happens immediately when you select Auto Arrange The actual arranging takes place when the macro runs in PatternMaker so is invisible in MacroGen There are three steps in auto arranging e Group objects together which belong together Measure Point Object and should be moved together with Grouping obiecta hisa Add Edit Dim_ Text The objects that are drawn inside a main object Click on a point or Ok like grain lines interfacings text objects darts En Advanced etc should be grouped with this main object they belong with If an object is not grouped it won t be moved together Object Name Bodice Front Rename ll Y Closed 4 Line 6 Line 38 Line 35 Line 33 Line 32 Line 2
75. dchild 3 Grandchild 4 Active Style Mother v Display Name Mother Show gt Style Tree 3 1 6 1 New Style Name Purpose Using New Style Name you make style options on a pattern piece Procedure 1 In the Piece List select the Piece to which you want to add a style option 2 In the Style Tree select the Style to which you want to add an option This can be the top level style or anything lower 3 In the Name field type the name of the new style and then click the Add Style button 4 The new Style is added as a new option under the highlighted item in the Style Tree O 2015 PatternMaker Software 32 MacroGen 4 5 3 1 6 2 Mother and Child Some things are inherited from a main view parent view to a sub view child view All Prompted Measurements and Distance measurements These can be used to place any point in any piece and any view or sub view Points and Objects Points created in the parent of any child view appear in black These points can be used in new objects and can also be edited if you clear the Use Parent checkbox on the Add Edit View Point forms Points created in a Piece higher in the macro path appear in blue These points can be used in new objects and can be used as a reference for a new point as a From Point but can not be edited in any way Visible hidden points and objects blue points and objects those from a higher point in the macro path must be hidden or unhidden in
76. dd gt Arc Arc Intersect Name Type in the name of the Arc Arc Intersection point E new Arc 1 Start Arc 1 Corner Arc 1 End Points These points determine the first arc A X1 F Arc 2 Start Arc 2 Corner Arc 2 End Points These points determine the second arc D C B Use Parent OK Cancel Change See Add Points 8e Note It is not necessary to actually draw the arcs or add them to an object in order to make an Arc Arc Intersect point Any three points can determine an arc Note If the arcs do not intersect the new point defaults to the Start point Note It is possible for two arcs to intersect an arc in up to four places MacroGen does not currently support choosing which of the four points is used but the resulting macro wil always use the same point for a given Arc Arc Intersect point 2015 PatternMaker Software Working with Points os 7 3 8 Line Distance A Line Distance point lies on a given line determined by two points at a given distance from a third From point which is not necessarily on the line In other words the new point is the intersection of the line with a circle centered on the From point Line Distance Name 34 22b 22 34 From Point Line Start Line End 26a Distance Measure Shoulder width Fixed Distance O fh Y C Clockwise Notes I Use X Cancel Change Clockwise Procedure Tab Panel gt Point gt Add gt Coordinate Name
77. dded via the Customize menu 8 e Gee Hidcan Insert Non ean Tab Panel Point Edit Style Tree gt Show Style gt Point tab gt Edit sub tab gt highlight a point Check the box next to a point s name to hide it from view in the Pattern Area lt is often necessary to hide points when they are crowded close together to keep some points from obscuring others Hiding a point affects the View Area display and disables you from selecting it in View Area functions such as adding the point to an object but it has no effect on the final macro Hidden points are still shown in the various point lists that appear in MacroGen Click the Hide All button when you want to hide all the points at once in the Pattern Area Click the Hide None button when you want to show all the points in the Pattern Area Click the Edit button or double click a point s name to edit its definition See Edit Points h Click the Delete button to delete the definition of the highlighted point You are not allowed to delete a point that is referenced by another point or an object When you add a point normally it appears at the bottom of the list with Insert you can insert a point after another highlighted point 2015 PatternMaker Software Pattern Area 4 5 Object Tab The Object List tab contains functions for creating objects and working with their point connections E
78. de Results 164 window Up Down arrows and red X s Use the up and down arrows to reorder the Step and Results lists by moving the selected item up or down The red X icons delete the selected item Use Parent check box The Use Parent check box for each Step chooses whether this step is taken from the parent of the current style in the Style Tree 261 If it is checked all of the other fields in the dialog are disabled grayed out New Step adds a new step to the Steps list See Create a Stepl1431 Show All Points This check box toggles the display of points in the Steps list If it is unchecked conditional steps are displayed but Point calculation steps are hidden Jump to Step Turns the selected step into a While loop If any Step other than None is selected a jump is added to the macro If the condition is true after the point s Results have been carried out the macro goes back to the named Step and repeats from there Execution of the loop continues until the jump condition is no longer true or a limit of 20 repetitions is reached Jump to Condition only applies to If points not to point calculations Note that only Steps that come before the current Step are shown Jumps forward are not allowed New Result Adds a result to the result list for the selected Step See Create a Resultha42 True False Sets execution to either the True or False result for a conditional step When you create a Step its results norma
79. dit functions but not to edit objects themselves Procedure Tab Panel gt Object gt Edit gt Select object gt Edit By clicking the Edit button you can open the selected object You can also double click at the object in the list and it will open You will see all the connection points for that object You can change the name change point types add delete notches insert new points to the object or delete existing points from the object After opening an object the form has always to be closed by clicking OK or Cancel When this is forgotten and another tab is selected before clicking OK or Cancel a message will show up that the object form needs to be closed by OK or Cancel 2015 PatternMaker Software Working with Objects 123 Measure Point Object Measure Point Object Add Edit Dim Text Add Edit Dim Text Hide Edit Click on a point or Ok New Advanced T_BodiceFront a Bodice Back Object Name diceBack T_BodiceBac Bodice Front Group Rename Front v v Closed 4 Line 6 Line 38 Line 35 Line 33 Line 32 Line Hide in List Hide in Draw da o i All 27 Line 29 X rc Dim None 14 Corner F XArc 13 Corner Object Point list Edit Delete Ok Cancel Close l Ok Cancel Close Objectlist for the current Style Connections for the bodice front in the point list It is really impor
80. e check box for those points that must be moved and redefine those points e Define each point as high up in the Style Tree as possible so that you do not need to redefine it over and over for multiple styles 2015 PatternMaker Software ma MacroGen 4 5 7 10 C Clockwise In some point forms there will be a check box with C Clockwise This means you can choose if the point goes Clockwise from the Clock point or Counter Clockwise from the Clock point e Line Distance point Clockwise C Clockwise 7 b 2 E e Dart point C Clockwise Clockwise e Right Angle point 2015 PatternMaker Software Working with Points 1 15 N C Clockwise 2015 PatternMaker Software Working with Objects 117 8 Working with Objects An object is an element of a pattern that is actually drawn with virtual lines For example a sleeve is an object a bodice front is an object and so is a grain line or text Objects in MacroGen correspond directly to objects in PatternMaker That is each MacroGen object generates lines in the macro to create an object set its type and other attributes and add a list of points to the object The process of drawing an object in MacroGen is actually the process of adding points to its point list MacroGen supports three of the four types of objects in PatternMaker poly text and dimension but not insertion objects like symbols objects To create an o
81. e 1 a macro dialog box The process of creating a macro is similar to drafting a pattern for a specific person use the person s body measurements to determine the distance from one point to another However in MacroGen since you don t know what the user s measurement will be you use a variable called Back Length to define the length from neck to waist The variables you define will be the same as the measurements you would take if you had a live subject in front of you Variables can include bust circumference waist circumference arm length inseam crotch depth etc When the macro is run the user will fill in his her measurements and then the program plugs those numbers into the spaces left by your variables Start center back 1 Figure 2 using a variable Points are plotted using a Cartesian X Y coordinate system The origin is a built in point called Start Beginning with the Start point all other points are placed relative to at least one other existing point For example 2015 PatternMaker Software 12 MacroGen 4 5 if you use the Start point as the center back neck the next point you place might be the center back waist If you were making a RTW garment you might make that point a fixed distance of 16 1 2 41 5 cm down from the center back neck In MacroGen you tell the program that this point is center back length down from the neck whatever the person s center back length happens to be that nu
82. e 164 Part 12 Help menu 166 1 aeo diaria suhewbue aateved iantemwededtemesnehkonmabaevousadil 166 2 Tutorials aid a a 166 3 Manual causada E E E acvenuedtanasaaus aatwaddeesaddesseaceaeseees 167 4 Oper amplis iii A teeta ce aceon os coe terete E 167 5 Reitestio src add 168 6 Register iria S EE E E E 168 7 ADOL a 170 Part 13 Reference and examples 172 1 OE as 172 2 Skirt with three ASCO PONS vse canstaticetcastce dus chads cuneastssoaedatacesbasevauessiteaumeentcgaand dtvsbtacubenateas 172 2015 PatternMaker Software Contents 3 Skirt with variable dada cias 175 4 Active Style Example sa a 176 5 TutorialS A ee ia a a a ea 177 6 Code Point Examples A A 178 7 CUSTOMIZE EXAM plc ceeeteeestseeedecede eeuelsteeestexieeeetevendapdeecualanet 179 8 Gascade Messer ir rd 181 Index 182 O 2015 PatternMaker Software Start 9 1 Start 1 1 Whatis MacroGen MacroGen is a visual programming tool for creating macros in the PatternMaker macro language MacroGen is a companion tool for the Professional Home Grading or Marker versions of PatternMaker from PatternMaker Software PatternMaker combines the power and flexibility of CAD based drafting programs with the ease of use that new users find helpful It is intended for pattern making professionals who need to create patterns in multiple sizes and especially those wish to market their designs to the public in a computerized format What does MacroGen do PatternMaker uses
83. e 72 80 picture 55 picture to table 55 Piece 28 159 Piece list 30 piped 21 Place Corner 100 Point 158 Point Tab 45 Point to Rotate 103 Point types 84 pre designed 10 Preparation 12 Projects 13 Prompted measure 53 MacroGen 4 5 Prompted measurements 13 51 Purge 111 Purge points 111 R ready to wear 10 Rearange 34 Rectangle 90 Register 168 Rename Piece 29 Report 20 ResizexY 105 Reusing Measurement Tables 72 Right Angle 98 Rotate 102 Rotate Angle 102 Rotate Distance 103 Su Save 19 Saveas 19 Save to table 77 Scale 106 Settings 148 Show 112 Show hide 112 Show Hide objects 125 signs 33 SnapCenter 22 SnapEndPoint 22 Snaplntersect 22 SnapNone 22 Standard Measurement tables 72 Standard Measurements table 81 Style dependent measure 56 Style Exclusions 37 Style Manager 13 26 Style Options 56 Style Picture 35 symbols 33 Tab Panel 41 Tablename 74 Table title 75 Test Macro 21 Text 129 Text objects 129 Translation 150 151 Translation Tables 150 type 69 Us unique 33 Use parent 113 variables 51 W What can do with MacroGen 10 What is a Piece 159 What is a Point 158 Work Flow 12 Working with Measurements 51 Working with multiple tables 81 Working with Objects 117 Working with points 84 X Xarc 100 Zoom All 49 Zoom Functions 49 Zoom In 49 Zoom Out 49 Zooming the pattern area 42 2015 PatternMaker Software MacroGen 4 5 O 2015 Pat
84. e Piece List and Style Tree by moving the selected item up or down this also controls the order in which the user will see them The red Xicons delete the selected item e Show button Click this or double click the name in the Style Tree to open the Style window for the selected style It is convenient to vew the Style window and the Style tree at the same time They can be positioned side by side e gt gt button Style dependent measurelss Click on the gt gt button to show the Style Dependent Drawer 3681 Hide it by clicking on lt lt Click on the underlined hyperlinks above to read more about these topics 3 1 Starta macro 3 1 1 Macro Title Purpose To give your macro a title Procedure Click your cursor in the Macro Title and type the name of your macro Note This title is not the same as the name you give your macro with save or save as but we advise you to use the same name to avoid mistakes by the user Note The title in the macro is only visible in the measure form from that specific macro so when it has the same name as the saved macro it is clear for the user Bodice Input macro title in MacroGen Visible in Patternmaker only in measurementtable Macro Title O 2015 PatternMaker Software 28 MacroGen 4 5 3 1 2 New Piece Name A piece is anything that will become a literal piece of the pattern This could include a bodice front and back the desired ease a collar a sleeve a sle
85. e pull down an endpoint Click OK The measure will be added to the list in the Tab Measure gt Edit OoahwND See also e Prompted Measurel 53 e Distance measurels9 e Angle measurel 61 e Mathlez e Math4les e Division ee O 2015 PatternMaker Software Working with Measurements a 6 5 Angle measure Angle measure is the angle defined by three points measured in degrees Enter the names of the three points where the corner is the corner or apex point of the angle and the name of the measure Bodice Back ga Angle Name angle 12 6 4 Start Comer End A 33 35 7 41 8 13 4 75 ple 12 6 4 101 En Note This picture doesn t include the Notes 5 field Procedure Tab Panel gt Measure gt Add gt Angle measure Name Type the name of the measurement Start Type or choose from the pull down the Start point of the angle 12 Corner Type or choose from the pull down the Corner point of the angle 6 End Type or choose from the pull down the Endpoint of the angle 4 Click OK The name will be added to the Tab Measure gt Edit OoahwN Note When changing the start and end point you get a different angle so be aware of the order of the points See also e Prompted Measurel 53 e Distance measurel591 e Arc Distance Measurel60 e Mathle2 e Math4 65 O 2015 PatternMaker Software 62 MacroGen 4 5 e Divisio
86. e screen Add Edit Dim Text Hide in Draw All Hide all objects in the pattern display Hide __ Edit a for the current style Bodice Front F T_BodiceFront None Show all objects in the patterns Bodice Back display for the current style T_BodiceBack Hide in List You can make a selection of the object type you want to show hide in the list Check the object type that you don t want to see Here you can hide e Object Objects Text or Dim Here you hide All e Text in the list above or None objects e Dim on the screen Note When you hide an object in MacroGen the object is Pi object A seen in PatternMaker when you test it Text So when you use temporary object s delete those when C Dim Pee you are ready to release your macro None Edit Delete See also Add Objects haat Edit Objects h22 Delete Objects 124 Dim Objects h2 Text Objects h2 Grouping Objects 32 Add Notches 133 O 2015 PatternMaker Software 125 MacroGen 4 5 8 5 Showing Hiding Points Sometimes it is helpful to see the points used by an object If you right click on an object the following context menu appears Rename Object Show Points Hide Points Show All Points Hide All Points The options are as follows Rename Object Renames the object Show Points Displays the points used in the object Hide Points Hides the points used in the object Show All Poin
87. eck the use parent box Click the first result Hip ease Change the result in Hip ease Hip Circumference 1 2 Click OK Select the next result Waist ease Waist ease Waist Circumference 1 0 Click OK Click OK to close the logic form of Tight Open the child style Loose Open the logic form with Menu gt point gt logic On the left we see the step Ease Uncheck the use parent box Click the first result Hip ease Change the result in Hip ease Hip Circumference 1 4 Click OK Select the next result Waist ease 2015 PatternMaker Software MacroGen 4 5 Waist ease Waist Circumference 1 2 Click OK Click OK to close the logic form of Loose Style Manager Macro Title Picture Skirt Name x Piece List Style Tree 4 Hip Ease Skirt Style Normal Waistband Tight T Loose E x X 5 M Logic x mm Use St 4 E ep s Result s Ease Hip ease Hip Circumference 4 Waist ease Waist Circumference 2 True False x le gt Ada Diara Aad riece lt New Step New Result gt New Adv Result Jump to step lt E Show All Points None Cancel You have added 3 ease options to your skirt When the customer selects ease option Tight the macro always draw the hip circumference minus 2 cm When the customer selects ease option Loose the macro always draw the hip circumference plus 4 cm When the customer selects ease
88. eckline or sleeve choices e Help the user choose from among the possibilities by including a picture of each option See Style Picture 35 e Styles can be included or excluded depending on which previous options were chosen See Style Exclusions BA e Edit a style in PatternMaker to create a new style without re drafting See Editing in PatternMaker 22 You can generate an executable installation file use the separate program Collection Creator for these e Display your name and contact information e Add a registry entry to help protect against unauthorized use macro file must be installed not simply copied e Include any pattern documentation files you ve created Join the network of designers whose patterns are being used around the world How does it work Compare a custom made garment with ready to wear RTW The RTW garment uses more or less standardized measurements for each size The back length measurement for example is a fixed number for size small for size medium and for size large When the same garment is custom made the dressmaker or tailor will measure the subject and then use the person s actual back length measurement ensuring a much better fit O 2015 PatternMaker Software P BASIC BODICE Back Length Put on a thin necklace or drape a piece of string around your neck Measure from the place where the necklace falls on the back of your neck to the lower edge of waist elastic Cancel Figur
89. ements appear By double clicking on a measure in the list or by selecting the measure and clicking the Edit button the dialog box of the measurement you created before re opens and allows you to change any of the fields including the name of the measurement and all its inputs Edit Measure works with all types of measurements To change the type of a measurement for instance from a Math measurement to an Angle measurement see Change measurement typele9 Measure Point Object ArmScye 17 000 Bust 36 000 ShoulderHt 3 000 Waist 28 000 6 7 1 000 26 27 2 500 17 B 4 978 36 6 3 695 33 35 5 422 8 13 4 750 ArmScyeDepth 8 800 29 14 F 3 542 F 30 4 4 412 19 D 23 4 581 23 84 3 911 Armscye F B 16 446 Sleevelnseam 16 750 52 59 0 000 510 524 0 000 X W Add Edit E Edit i CenterBack 16 240 a CNEA Table IE Math x Name ArmScyeDepth First M Sells irst Measure occu Fixed Dist None v None v led Notes X Cancel l Change 2015 PatternMaker Software Working with Measurements e 6 10 Change measure Change Measurement lets you change the type of a measure that is already defined The key difference between changing a measurement and creating a completely new one is that if the measurement is referenced by other measurements or points the references are preserved Procedure Tab Panel gt Measure
90. er understand my instructions If you have answers to these questions then you can move beyond the tutorials and start programming your own patterns What is new in Macrogen e Points and Measure areas have Notes 53 e The outlook of many Points and Measure forms have been redone e Style Pictures are in the style tree e Dependent Measures are in the style tree e MacroGen runs faster because it buffers unchanged values See Refreshltea e The Master Measurement Table form has been simplified 1 2 What can Ido with MacroGen MacroGen is a visual programming tool for professional pattern makers to turn your designs into patterns that you can sell to the public You create not only the pattern but the fitting method so customers get in effect a supply of custom fit patterns with no special knowledge required on their part As the seller you are freed from the tyranny of printing and distributing paper patterns you can sell all your patterns over the Internet You can create a pre designed garment a macro that runs in PatternMaker e Prompt for user s measurements ex Bust Circumference See Prompted Measurement 53 e Prompt for garment design measurements ex length from waist See Prompted Measurement 53 e Patterns can be as simple or as complex as you wish e Use whatever pattern drafting system you prefer You can add variety and flexibility to your pattern e Create style options for any pattern piece such as n
91. es They allow you to quickly access the associated item without using your mouse To use the accelerator keys hold down the lt ALT gt key press the underlined letter and then release both keys Keyboard Shortcuts With keyboard shortcuts you can often replace several mouse clicks with a simple pair of keystrokes To use the shortcuts press the first key indicated While continuing to hold it down press the second key then release both keys File Menu Shortcuts Measure Shortcuts Begin a new file Ctrl N Measurement F4 Table Open an existing file Ctrl O Save a file Ctrl S Create a macro Ctrl M Test macro Ctrl T Edit macro Ctrl E Zoom Menu Shortcuts Object Menu Shortcut View all points Ctrl A New object F10 Zoom Out F2 Zoom In F3 Help Menu Shortcut Settings Menu Shortcut Help Contents F1 Style options F11 13 2 Skirt with three ease options To practice working with Logic we advise you to finish the example skirt with variable darts and add some ease options Note that in this project to make the example simple we have programmed 2 equal darts in the front and back skirt Normally the back dart is bigger then the front dart Depending on the measurements it could also be better to draw two darts atthe back skirt The examples use Metric units of cm so you if you don t ordinarily use Metric units you should select Settings Metric before loading example files Add three ease options with three non conditional Blocks Alwa
92. esents units of measurement in the vertical direction These units can be either inches or centimeters You can switch from inches to centimeters by using the Inches or Centimeters command on the Settings menu The coordinate origin in MacroGen is an arbitrary point named Start Start is defined in every MacroGen project and is the point 0 0 in ordinary Cartesian coordinates See also Settings Units 143 2015 PatternMaker Software s MacroGen 4 5 7 3 Add Points The various functions in the Tab Panel Add each Measure Point Object create a new point in your point list The difference between one point type and the next is that 7 each uses a different formula to calculate the point s X and 7 Coo a Y coordinates Here are some common features of the dialog boxes for SS Continue all the point types Line Line Intersect Arc Line Intersect Arc Arc Intersect Line Distance Dart ae oe E HERR s i Line Point 4 Right Angle i Place Corner Mirror DY Rotate Angle DY Rotate Distance E Seale Ok Cancel Here you see an example of a Coordinate point Coordinate x Measure X Fixed Distance gt m Y Measure None Y Fixed Distance 0 LAR r X Cancel Change coordinate point Using the name field The Name field see up is the name of the new point Required It can be a number 1 or a letter a A or a combination of
93. eve cuff and a pocket Each of these will be an entry in the piece list Style Manager Macro Title Bodice New Piece Name New Piece List Base Bodice Style Sleeve Style Collar Style Pocket Style i Example of entries in the Piece List The entries in the Piece List also determine the dialog boxes that appear when the macro is run The name of the piece becomes the caption of that dialog box as in the illustration below n groscccececcssesesoscosoe C Long sleeve Back Next Cancel Example of different style windows schown in PatternMaker When the macro runs a dialog box is displayed for any piece that has options If a piece has no options for example a neck facing there will not be a dialog box displayed So when you need a option for a specific piece you need to make a piece for each of this pattern piece Example When you want options for the neckline on front and back then you need to make a piece for the front piece with neckline options and also a piece with neckline options for the back piece When you want to make only an option for the front neckline you can make one piece for front piece and back piece Procedure O 2015 PatternMaker Software Using the Style Manager 1 Type the name of the piece under Name 2 Highlight the piece in the Piece List to add the piece after 3 Click the Add Piece button After you add the Pieces you will want to enter S
94. extension A new point called Resize is also created This point is created a specific distance from the Start point Two new math measures called Resize X and Resize Y are created with the value of the scaling factor in the constant field Resize from the center point C Creates new resize points for every resized point with the 1 extension No Resize point is created because you defined the Resize point from the center and that is a certain point Two new math measures are created called Resize X and Resize Y with the value of the resizing factor in the constant fields You can edit and rename these new points and measurements in MacroGen Note Math measurements can be changed to Prompted measurements when you want the user to specify the amount of resizing in the X and Y directions for this specific item ResizeXY Name Start 1 2 12 From Resize 1 te X Factor Measure Resize x Factor Constant O 1 Y Factor Measure Resize Y y Y Factor Constant ees TT Mn 4 2 ize 3 2 3 s Resize in MacroGen 2015 PatternMaker Software 106 MacroGen 4 5 Procedure Tab Panel gt Point gt Add gt ResizeXY Name Type the name of the new Resize point Center Point The scaling expansion is measured from this point For instance ifthe X scaling factor is 2 and the Y scaling factor is 0 5 then the new point is moved 2 times as far in the
95. g in PatternMaker the object is also rotated in MacroGen 4 This action creates several new points and measurements depending how you did the rotation in PatternMaker Rotate with no Snap Function A new point is created in the point list for every rotated point the new point name gets an 2 extension A point called Rotate About is also created This point is a specific distance of the Start point It also creates the new math measure Rotate Distance with the value of the rotation in the constant field Rotate with using the Snap End Point function Create also new points for every rotated point with the 2 extension No Rotate About point is created because you defined the rotate about point with the Snap Endpoint function O 2015 PatternMaker Software MacroGen 4 5 Also a new math measure is created called Rotate Distance with the value 5 cm in the constant field You can edit and rename these new points and objects in MacroGen Note The measurements are Math measurements but you can change them to Prompted Measurements if you want the user type in the amount of rotation for this specific item Stail 2 Rotate Distance 1 2 Name 1 2 Point to Rotate Rotate About Rotation Start Point Distance Measure Rotate Distance y Fixed Distance O a 2 3 1 le X Cancel Rotate Distance in MacroGen Procedure Tab Panel gt Point gt Add gt Rotate Distance Name Type name of new Rotate Dist
96. g with Objects MA The pattern area shows the objects and points you have defined in your MacroGen project with point locations according to the default values of the measurements and style you are viewing also the active styles of other pieces Points are displayed as names not dots Certain points or objects may be hidden from view see pictures below M Tutorials Bodice mg4 Piece1 AG File Measure Point Object Settings Customize Zoom Help E x AG Tutorials Bodice mg4 Piece1 o 0 mesa Ss AG File Measure Point Object Settings Customize Zoom Help e x F 5 a GS ps La All A pa a Ole R b l J an X DS ES 2 Measure Point Object 18a 2 Measure Point Object TE 17 Add I 220 7 16 A Add Edit gle7 lo j i Hide Edit ee Euit a 14 15 Y J 1 aan Za 1 71 2 vi 2 23 4 v3 5 E We pa F 7 V6 13 a 8 cg 3 8 77 in pe 78 Y 9 y Delete Te Hide An insert Delete Hide None Edit C Hide a Cua ue 567 121 2 p Hide None Edit y Ok Cancel Close AS Wh 20 02 3 18 5 Sa Ok Cancel Close Normal view on points 7 ea 13 68 1 68 Points Hide All 2015 PatternMaker Software Pattern Area as M Tutorials Bodicemg4 Piece1 ea A Tutorials Bodice mg4 Piece1 p m
97. ge button The dialog works exactly like the original dialogs for whichever measurement type you have selected OK button Click OK to add the result to the Step You can add any number of Results to a Step You must click OK and reopen the Result dialog once for each result you add Advanced results Procedure Menu gt Point gt Logic gt Highlight a Step gt Advanced Results Advanced results include Steps which work just like the Steps in the main list you can create nested IF blocks here setting locations of Points by setting their X and Y coordinates directly and other direct code insertion M Advanced Result Point Measure List C Modify Measure Add Code Point Ok Cancel There are three types of advanced results possible The list on the right of the dialog above updates depending on the radio button you choose on the left In the illustration the Point list is displayed e Modify measure Select a measure name and use the Edit Measure dialog for the measure Note unlike the basic Results dialog this list gives you access to all measures of whatever type ga Prompted Measure p X ct 000 e Modify Point Select a point The point s original creation dialog appears for example if it was a Coordinate point 2015 PatternMaker Software 146 MacroGen 4 5 Coordinate n x Measure Bustcire E ase v X Fixed Distance O a Y Measure None Y Fixed Distance A O fi M Use Pare
98. h22 O 2015 PatternMaker Software Working with Measurements 51 6 Working with Measurements Measurements are the variables used to calculate the locations of the various points in a macro Defining the measurements is one of the most important steps in creating a macro project Some of them are typed in by the macro user others are calculated internally based on various formulas As a MacroGen user you first create a master list of available measurements by using the functions listed below Then when adding points and new measurements to the project you use measurements from this list as inputs to your calculations Measurements also determine the working view of your project in MacroGen Since the user has yet to input any measurements when you are working in MacroGen how does the program know where to display the points The working picture of a pattern in MacroGen is always based on the default values of all the prompted measurements There are two basic types of measurements e Prompted measurements 52 including Style dependent measures 5e Prompted measurements are the ones a user types into dialog boxes MacroGen automatically constructs dialog boxes for these measurements e Calculated measurements These types of measurements are calculated by internal math and logic and are never seen by the macro user Prompted Measurement When you add a prompted measurement to a MacroGen project MacroGen also creates the dialog bo
99. hat should not appear Exclusion Rules The current style with Cuff will not be available when these styles have been selected Style List Exclusion Combinations Explanation Bodice Sleeveless Set an OR condition by A Normal Short Sleeve clicking the Add button after Strapless Strapless highlighting each style Sleeve Strapless Sleeveless Long Sleeve Example if EITHER Style Short Sleeve 1 E S OR Style 2 is chosen Set an AND condition by highlighting more than one style and then clicking the Add button Example if BOTH Style 1 AND Style 2 are chosen Delete X Cancel The Exclusion Rules form can also be opened with the Exclusions button in the Style manager form Attaching Style exclusions in the Style manager form to the right style is easier done 2015 PatternMaker Software 150 MacroGen 4 5 Style Manager Macro Title rue D ress Name Piece List Style Tree Dependent Measures Bodice gt Cuff Sleeve with Cuff no Cuff Sleevelength 0 000 D Active Style Curt y Display Name Cut Show See for more information about Style Exclusions and using the Exclusions rules form in the chapter Style Exclusions 37 10 4 Language Translation When you want to increase your sales you can translate the macros into other languages The PatternMaker program is sold worldwide The command Language Translation does not automatically translate
100. he Settings menu 3 Navigate to the location where your MMT template file is saved and open it 4 Fill as name the name of the size Replace the default numbers with the appropriate numbers for the standard size 5 Save the file Notice that it is automatically saved in the MTB format You can never accidentally overwrite the original MMT file It is helpful if you include the size in the file name 6 Repeat steps 3 5 for each sample file standard size you want to include 7 Finally include the MTB file s in your installation Use the Collection Creator for this DA Open Measurement Table Shared Files Thea Botter Look in Standard Sizes O pem A women_32mtb women_a4 mtb 7 women_a6 mtb 7 women_38 mtb A women_40 mtb women_42 mtb women_44 mtb women_46 mtb A women 48 mtb women_50 mtb women_52 mtb I Show Explorer tree Loe Cancel 6 13 1 Working with Multiple Tables You can use any number of tables in one macro file The user is prompted for one after the other For instance the first table might contain a standard set of body measurements and a second table might contain measurements for specialized items such as lingerie Procedure Tab Panel gt Measure gt Edit gt Table 1 Click New 2 Type the Table Name 3 Type the Table For 4 Check the measurements that must be in the first table body measurements 5 Add pictures and text to the measurements 2015 Patter
101. houlder Height Value Save after each change Sleeve In Seam 1 Style Dependent Waist Seamallowance Picture jpg XJ dal Xx i Measurement Table Notes Lock Type your name here New Change New Save Import Procedure Tab Panel gt Measure gt Add gt Prompted Measure O Click or select Measure gt Add gt Prompted from the Measurement Tab You will see a window entitled Prompted Measurements Click New to create a new measurement Inthe Name field enter a name for the variable that the macro will request when it is run Example Seamallowance In the Value field enter the default value for the measurement The default value has two functions it is the value that appears in the macro if the user doesn t type anything in and it is the value used to calculate the objects you see in MacroGen s Pattern displays The latter means that you should use reasonable values for all defaults If you leave in unreasonable default values such as zero the piece displays may become unreadable Style Dependent when you check this box the measurement will only appear in certain styles See Style Dependent Measurel 56 Picture Select a picture for this measurement A copy of the picture will be stored with the project Picture Description The text describing this measure and how to take it The New button again will save the currently edited measure and create a new one At the right side of the
102. ial number you received when purchasing PatternMaker or when you asked for a demo Click Ok You will get a message that you are successfully registered and that it is necessary to exit the program and start it again Now Macrogen will have the required features After that you can open Macrogen in the normal way without the Run as administrator option selected When the registration could not successfully be done eg because you have no registrations left or you do not have internet connection you will get a message of the reason When this reason is not helpful please contact us at lt PM_EMAIL gt o al O 2015 PatternMaker Software 170 MacroGen 4 5 12 7 About The About window contains copyright information and current version number for MacroGen It shows also if the program is registered and to whom Macro Generator K Wersion 4 5 1 Build 0 Built on Apr 11 2012 Point Version 0 0 0 26 Measurement Version 0 0 0 13 Registered Copyright c PatternMaker Software 1998 2012 All rights reserved Credits Thea Botter Eugenie Naber Gary Pickrell Tamara Vlasuk Tara O Bryan Lane Holdcroft http www pattermmakerusa com Look on the website for the latest version 2015 PatternMaker Software Reference and examples MacroGen 4 5 13 Reference and examples 13 1 Hotkeys Accelerator Keys Accelerator keys are the underlined letters that appear in a word on menus buttons and dialog box
103. ictures and descriptive text are saved as a file with the extension mmt Master Measurement Table Measurement T able Table Name Lock New y Xl Table For IT ype your name here New C_save D Import You should give the table a descriptive unique name This name will be used internal for connecting the right measurement table to the macro After saving the measurement table the checkbox Lock is checked and all measurements that have been checked above are greyed out This means that changing the table can not be done by accident When you want to change the table you have to unlock the checkbox After that it is possible to change the measurements in your table However it is always possible to change the values of your prompted measurements even if they are in a locked table 2015 PatternMaker Software MacroGen 4 5 M Prompted Measurements Prompted Measurement 7 In Table Measurements Back Length Put on a thin necklace or drape a piece of string around your neck Measure from the place where the necklace falls on the back of your neck to the lower edge of waist elastic Table Name Lock ec a AS Example Table X Table For Type your name here Measurement Table When the macro runs in PatternMaker it will prompt the user to open a MTB file for the macro Only those measurement tables that have internally the Table Name will be shown at that moment Tip A good descr
104. if you did it right Note this is just an example how to make logic In a real skirt macro you would specify a different formula for the waths of the darts for the front and back 1 3 width at front 2 3 width at back Accordingly the length of the darts would have to be specified for the front darts and the back darts 13 4 Active Style Example Select the Open file command Open the Tutorials folder Load the file ActiveStyleExample mg4 It has two Pieces Select Active Style and Show Me Select Active Style has 4 points in the shape of a square and two children The first child Rectangle has an rectangle object in it The second style Triangle has a triangle object in it Purpose This example will show how changing the active style in the piece Select Active Style affects the display in Show Me This example only changes objects but points are also affected by the active style Steps e Display the Select Active Style 1 Highlight Show Me 2 Click Show e Select Select Active Style as the active piece 1 Highlight the Piece Select Active Style 2 Under Active Style select Select Active Style Notice how the no objects are shown Start Show Me with Select Active Style as Active Style 3 Under Active Style select Square Notice how the square object is shown It was created in the style Square 2015 PatternMaker Software Reference and examples 177 Start 2 Show Me with Square as Active Style 4 Under Ac
105. int is added to this point Ok Cancel Close To create a text object Procedure Tab Panel gt Object gt Sub Tab Text e Name Enter an object name for the new text object Required It could be handy to type before the name a character which means to you it is an text object e Group Select from the pull down list a group the text belongs to e Text Type in the text that the user sees on the pattern Punctuation characters and new line characters are not allowed each text object displays on a single line e Height Type in the height of text or plus choose a height measurement from the pull down list You can make a height measurement so that you have a text height that is consistent for a specific measure e Angle Type in the angle of the text 0 horizontal 90 vertical or plus choose an Angle measure from the pull down list Make a angle measure see angle measure 61 O 2015 PatternMaker Software 130 MacroGen 4 5 The text is now placed exactly in line with the angle of the line e Point for text Click a point in the Pattern Area The insertion point of the text is based on this point plus an extra offset e The Offset dialog appears Enter offsets in the X and Y directions The actual text insertion location is offset from the selected point by the indicated amounts The syntax is the same as in the various Point type dialog boxes see Coordinate 88 however this dialog does NOT crea
106. iptive name for an MMT is your designer name plus the category for which gender this table is For example Leena s Ladies mmt or Leena s Children mmt See also Master Measurement Tablel79 2015 PatternMaker Software Working with Measurements 6 13 7 Delete Table The Delete button empties all the fields in the dialog box Measurement Table Table Name Lock Patterns_default omen v x Table For Type your name here New Save Import NOTE Use with caution it can t be undone 6 13 8 Master Measurement Table A Master Measurement Table is a file mmt with a list of values for all the measurements for a particular macro Instead of entering the measurements one at a time the user can import an entire table This avoids having to type in the same numbers over and over every time a user runs a macro which is both tedious and prone to errors When the user is creating a Measurement Table he is given the option of loading a Master Measurement Table by the same dialog box that prompts for measurements After he selects the right mmt the table is loaded and the default values of that table show up in the dialog box The user can change them with their personal measurements and saves the table It will be saved as a mtb file and in this file PatternMaker can read from which mmt this table is made Measurement Tables are useful any time a macro or set of macros will be reused often with the same or similar measurement
107. is done on internet therefore you will need an internet connection for registering If you have not an internet connection on your computer laptop please contact with us for a manual registration 2 Registering can only be done when you run PatternMaker as an administrator Click with your RightMouse at the icon of PatternMaker on Open your desktop or via the Start menu Troubleshoot compatibility Select Run as administrator Open file location A Windows message appears if you want to allow opening Run as administrator PatternMaker Convert Video A Click Yes Edit with Notepad PatternMaker will open Edit with Vim Select in the Welcome form Empty page and click OK Spybot Search amp Destroy 4 o Norton Security Suite TeraCopy When you want to register without selecting the Run as Ms Pin to Taskbar administrator option you will get a message That you have PO to run as administrator to be able to register Back Up Error X Restore previous versions Send to You need to run as administrator to register Cut Copy Create shortcut coe Rename r rat Pl A Pus 3 Select in the menu Settings gt Register The Register dialog box opens 2015 PatternMaker Software Help menu 169 e El M Register Macro Generator First and Last Name Sally Sewing Email sally hotmail com Serial Number ABCDF12345GHJK678 m 4 Type in your name email address and the ser
108. isplay Name 33 Display point name 148 Distance 103 Distance measure 59 Distribution 13 Division 66 Drawing Area 41 Edit Macro 22 Edit measure 68 Edit objects 122 Edit Points 110 Edit Style 35 Enter Points 13 Excel 150 Exclusion Rules 37 Exclusions 37 Exit 24 Export Translation table 152 File Functions 18 File menu 18 foreign 150 O 2015 PatternMaker Software Ge Getting Started 13 Grouping 132 Grouping objects 132 H Help 16 166 hide 112 Iconbar 18 41 lf then 71 Import 77 Import from table 77 Import Translation table 153 Inches 149 Inches Metric 149 inherited 32 Insert Point 109 oy ee langauge 150 Line Distance 95 Line Line Intersect 92 Line Point 97 Macro Title 27 MacroGen 9 macros 9 mark for arraange 154 Mark for arrange 136 Master Measurement table 79 Master Measurement Tables 72 Math 62 Math4 65 Meas intable 76 Measure Tab 44 Measurement table 19 72 Measurements 51 Metric 149 2015 PatternMaker Software Mirror 101 MMT 72 Move 107 MTB 72 multiple 81 multiple arrange 136 154 155 Multiple Meaurement tables 72 N navigate 26 New 18 New Piece Name 28 New Stylename 31 New table 72 Notch Direction 133 notches 133 O Object Tab 47 Objects 117 Offset 135 Open 18 Order of calculations 51 Order of Events 163 overlapping an object 136 154 155 P parent 32 Pattern Area 41 42 perpendicular 97 Personal Measurement tabl
109. ition Point dialogs are described under Add Points ss e If you are currently drawing an object the point is added to the object s point list see Add Objects 128 A line appears to connect the point to the last one e If you are currently editing an object the point is inserted into the object s point list see Add Objects i2h e If you right click on a point that is already part of the object in progress or if you re editing an object you get a Connection dialog box see Add Objects This lets you make either a line or an arc at this point Zooming the pattern area Zoom in and out to see all of the view or a close up See Zoom Functions 491 2015 PatternMaker Software a MacroGen 4 5 4 3 Measure Tab The Measure tab in the Tab Panel shows you the measures that are defined in your MacroGen project lt contains two sub views Add and Edit e Add Procedure Style Tree gt Show Style gt Measure tab gt Add sub tab gt click an icon Measure Point Object rr Prompted Measure i B Distance 4 Arc Distance tay Angle y Math Ed Math4 ca Division Ok Cancel Close Tab Panel Add Measure A list of commands appears to create the various types of measurements These are the same commands described in Working with Measurements 51 e Edit Procedure Style Tree gt Show Style gt Measure tab gt Edit sub tab gt highlight a measure name O 2015 PatternMaker Software Pattern Area a
110. jects 121 At Connection Point Type Line C Are Start C XArc Comer Notch None v Notch Direction l E Cancel Insert Delete e Check the point type you want The point will be added to the list on the right If you select Xarc Start the next subsequent point will automatically be made an Xarc corner and so forth e Repeat step 3 to add more points The points are listed in the list box on the right in the order in which they were added e When you are finished adding points check the closed radio button to close the object When you leave it unchecked then the object will be an open object e When you are finished adding points click the OK or Cancel button e When you are finished working on the Points Measure or Object Tabs and you want to return to the Style Tree you have to select the Close button Editing objects The above functions as well as those listed below are also used to edit existing objects Since the display is the same look for the blue text Click on a point or OK to be sure you are not trying to create a new object See Edit objectsh2 for a description of how to select an object for editing Curves and notch points Polygon arcs and notch points have the same properties in MacroGen that they do in PatternMaker See the PatternMaker manual for details on Xarc Start and Xarc Corner points Note You cannot place Xarc corner points by eye as suggested in the PatternMaker manual
111. ker Software 180 MacroGen 4 5 11 Enter into code change_size double measure double output double index if Var measure lt 10 index 0 else if Var measure lt 20 index 1 else index 2 Var output Sizelindex 12 Click Ok Create a measurement to use as input to the table 13 Measure gt Measurement Table 14 Click New 15 Name Input 16 Value 15 17 Click Save 18 Click Ok Create a measurement that is the result of the table 19 Measure gt Add Math 20 Name Output 21 Click Ok Create a code point that calls the function we created using the input and output points 22 Point gt Code 23 Name Code 24 Code change_size Measure Input Measure Output 25 Click Ok To test it change the value of Input and view the value of Result Rest input lt 10 10 lt Input lt 20 20 lt Input OO 2015 PatternMaker Software Reference and examples 161 13 8 Cascade measure Cascading measures are difficult to explain A good example is worth a thousand words Open the MacroGen file CascadeMeasure mg4 1 Open the style Shape You ll see a house 2 Point gt Logic 3 Verify Show All Points is checked 4 Highlight true 5 Right click Height Height 10 6 Uncheck Cascade 7 Click Done Cascade Form 8 Click Done Logic Form 9 The house turned into a square Why We have the following Height 10 Width 10 CascadeMea
112. king with Measurements e Name BusteE ase First Measure Second Measure a QS X Cancel Change Example 2 Chest Circumference Front Width Back width Chestcirc First M Second M irst Measure easure Fined Dink Frontwidth v Backwidth X 0 Example 3 Frontwidth minus Backwidth In this example we subtract the Second Measure from the First Measure by placing a minus 2015 PatternMaker Software e MacroGen 4 5 Name Frontwidth minus Backwidth First Measure Second Measure Frontwidth v Backwidth X o ap ES gt X Cancel Change See also e Prompted Measurels53 Distance measurels59 Arc Distance Measure 60 Angle measure 61 Math4 651 Division 661 O 2015 PatternMaker Software Working with Measurements e 6 7 Math4 A Math4 measurement is similar to a Mathls21 measurement except it is a linear combination of up to four measurements Measure1 C1 Measure2 C2 Measure3 C3 Measure4 C4 C5 where C1 C2 C3 C4 and C5 are constants also called Fixed Distance Name MathMeasured First Measure Second Measure Measure1 v Measure2 X ee eee ZZ f Third Measure Fourth Measure uaaal Poo po Fixed Dist Measure3 Dd Measures v o T e 0 Y OK X Cancel Change Procedure Tab Panel gt Measure gt Add gt Math4 Example This Math4 example is to pret k measure the length of the 29 armh
113. l gt greater than gt greater than or equal to Measure The name of the measure being compared appears in the center of the Step formula the blue field The fields to the left of it define one formula on the right is another formula Both comparisons must be true for the Step to be executed To leave one of the two halves of the formula expression out for instance if you only wanted if 96 lt Bust Circumference as your condition set the Measure to None and do not fill in any number in the Constant box Name You could give this step a name here This is the name that appears in the Steps dialog and is created automatically when you choose your formula By default the name of a step is its mathematical formula in Macro language but you are free to change this to anything you like Important do not rely on the name of the Step to correctly show the actual condition formula Once set it does not update itself if you change the formula Always true 2015 PatternMaker Software m MacroGen 4 5 You can skip the mathematical test by checking Always True If it is checked the Step becomes simply a block of Results that the macro always goes ahead and does Advanced Step gt gt An Advanced Step uses the Direct Code EntryH59 interface advanced users only The code must define a Boolean expression MacroGen wraps your code in an if condition of the form if lt your input gt See Codel 4 for a ful
114. l description of advanced results After you create a Step don t forget to add results to it A step with no results has no effect in your macro We strongly recommend you to do some examples as shown in the chapter Reference amp Examplesl172 9 1 2 Create a Result A step in the Steps dialog must lead to a result or results Create these results with the Result dialog Procedure Menu gt Point gt Logic gt Highlight a Step choose true or false gt New Result The following Edit measurement s8 dialog appears Measure Point Object AG Math P Name Add J Edit ArmScyeDepth l Edit First Measure Second Measure Fixed Dist CenterBack 16 240 a sida eg None Ed ArmScye 17 000 1 1 Bust 36 000 ShoulderHt 3 000 Notes Waist 28 000 6 7 1 000 26 27 2 500 17 B 4 978 36 6 3 695 SK XCancei Change 33 35 5 422 18 13 4 750 ArmScyeDepth 8 800 29 14 F 3 542 F 30 4 4 412 19 D 23 4 581 23 8 4 3 911 Armscye F B 16 446 Sleevelnseam 16 750 52 59 0 000 10 S24 0 000 nr Table Important The measures offered in this list are only the prompted measures and Math Math4 measures L 2015 PatternMaker Software Working with Logic 145 Basic results A basic result recalculates a Measure You use the same dialog that appears with Edit measurementle8 and it works just the same including the ability to change types with the Chan
115. l styles that are descendants of the selected style O 2015 PatternMaker Software Working with Logic Kum Use Parent if 76 lt Bustcire lt 80 A Standard difference if 80 lt Bustcir lt 84 ArmScyedepth 22 4 if 84 lt Bustcire lt 88 if 88 lt Bustcire lt 92 if 92 lt Bustcire lt 96 Result s if 100 lt Bustcire lt 104 if 104 lt Bustcire lt 110 if 110 lt Bustcire lt 116 waan m aan lt New Step Jump to step New Result gt Advanced Result Show All Points None v a Components of the Logic Window are e Steps list This is an outline of all your macro s logic The items in the Steps list can include 1 Points A point name in the list shows where in the sequence of events the point s location is calculated using the formula you created for it elsewhere see Point types s4 This order of events can be important if a measurement that a point depends on is changed before or after the point is calculated Note By default points are NOT shown until the check box Show All Points is checked 2 Conditional blocks IF THEN blocks also known as Conditions A condition is a mathematical expression that may be true or false If it is true a block of calculations called Results is executed The Results field of the Logic window shows the set of results for whichever step is highlighted in the Steps screen on the left Optionally you can also add results that happen if the c
116. l to check the point in PatternMaker and see its point name Dont forget to disable this function when you create your final macro Otherwise your users also see these points names 1 2 v 4uto Arrange v Display Point Name Inches e Metric a 2 2 Style Options Fil Add Translation Table s Check the command in MG4 2 Displayed in PatternMaker Note When you do not see the point names in PatternMaker activate the command in PatternMaker gt View gt Points gt Show Names O 2015 PatternMaker Software Settings menu 149 10 2 Inches Centimeters Select Inches or Metric centimeters to choose the units you are working in The internal units of macros are always in inches but MacroGen automatically converts all measurements so that the user working in metric units need not worry about this unless using the advanced Code feature 10 3 Exclusion Rules Use the Exclusion Rules form to remove certain combinations of style options from a choice box at run time Style Exclusions This command is an application of conditional logic i e if the user selects a given style option or combination of options then certain styles don t appear in a subsequent dialog box For example if a user selects a strapless style for a dress then only the style Sleeveless should be valid and the other sleeve styles should be excluded Or if a user selects as Sleeve style a Short sleeve or Sleeveless the style Cuff after t
117. ld be available with this style If the user selects while running the macro this style the dependent measure will be asked to fill in Procedure 1 Highlight the style to include a dependent measure 2 Select the Dependent Measure drawer by clicking this button a see picture on the right 3 Check the dependent measures to be displayed for this style See picture down Show Style Dependent Drawer 2015 PatternMaker Software Using the Style Manager Style Manager Macro Title Picture Blouse Name __ _ _ Piece List Style Tree Dependent Measures Blouse Sleeve style Sleeveless Mj Sleevelenath 60 000 D Active Style Sleeve style Display Name Sleeve Show lt lt Exclusions Important Styles do not inherit style dependent measurements from their parents These boxes are never checked automatically and you must set them for every style in the style tree A Style Dependent measure is always a prompted measure Therefore you will find more information about the style dependent measure in the chapter Prompted Measure see Style dependent measurel567 Note in one style a dependent measure is used In the other style where the prothe prompted is not asked because of a dependent measure the default defined measure should be used This works then exactly as a regular prompted The defined default value is used until you change it into your own value 3 3 Style Exclusions
118. ll Jennifer Smith Thea Botter Eugenie Naber Cover Designer Tara Banfield Team Coordinator Gary Pick rell Production Thea Botter Contents 3 Table of Contents Foreword 0 Part1 Start 9 1 Whats Maca 9 2 What can do with MacroGein ceceececeececeececeecececceceecececcececeececeeceeeecececeececeuceseeeeceeeeseeeeses 10 3 Work iFloW cuina 12 4 toi A A vataaeve dat T 13 5 W TAER AET iea EA E E E dedcases ali 16 6 You Necd Hal ata E E E E E 16 Part 2 File Menu 18 1 Lonbart ai N ia Rees 18 2 NOW cerati aaa salia 18 3 Ope yate ea 18 4 SAVE _s aabduchsecsacuctsccedesdeade svasacscuctesesececstecedensadeasancacacecssctessucsacaccastuaeadeasacedatesensaceatheaee 19 5 Save As Mew file namas on 19 6 Export Project liwachuuebasmacsaniateamienusinny 19 7 Import Projects o e 19 8 Calculator a dci 20 9 HAU A A A TS 20 10 Purge WSS A sali tussansiatveathecaaten 21 11 Create MAGI EEA E E EEE allende EE iras 21 12 Test Macro in PatternMaker omoccccccccocononananananonononananana nano no nono nannan oeiia nionaid iao diata Sanai 21 13 Edit Macro in PatternMaker ccccconnnnnananncnnnnnnnanananancnonononannnnnn cnn cnn conan cnn rca nana nan nan nana 22 14 EX caia a a a EEE 24 15 Ele Struct Sua ia 24 Part 3 Using the Style Manager 26 1 Start a Macro insti 27 Macro Mts deep 27 NAAA ON 28 Re ame Piede O 29 Data Pira das 30 Piece list a ee a eit ete aaa aaa ei a a e raaa e a aa erate da 30 Style aa E E E E E A E E
119. lly execute only if the condition for that Step is true But if you select False in the logic field you can add results that execute only if the condition is not true This lets you create If Then Else blocks in your macro O 2015 PatternMaker Software Working with Logic m 9 1 1 Create a Step To add a Step to the Steps list Procedure Menu gt Point gt Logic gt New Step or to edit an existing Step double click it Menu gt Point gt Logic gt highlight a Step gt double click Measure Measure Constant Measure gt Constant None y None v To MU e foo ES UI Name f 96 lt Bustcirc lt 100 M Always True Advanced Step Ok Cancel The default form of a Step is an If Then condition if a measure meets a mathematical comparison as defined in the dialog then the Results for that condition are executed The format of the formulas is much the same as for the equations that define Points and Measures See Point types 84 and Mathls2 for a description of the interface for mathematical formulas The formula in the illustration would be read as if 96 lt Bust Circumferencec lt 100 Read as If Bust Circumference is greater than 96 and less than or equal to 100 lt gt The Logic fields are the only parts of the formula that are different from the point and measurement formulas The choices are lt less than lt less than or equal to equals l is not equa
120. mber gets plugged in and the point is drawn accordingly 1 3 Work Flow The steps in creating a MacroGen macro are Preparation plan your design e Design a pattern it is helpful to begin with a sloper as a start for your designs e Design fitting rules and define the measurements that go with the rules e Prepare complete drafting instructions for your pattern The above steps should be done on paper before you start work in MacroGen They are a great deal of work but MacroGen lets you reuse your work For most patterns you will use existing fitting rules and once you have set them up in your MacroGen project for instance translating a commercial fit rule to MacroGen you can import the measurement tables into each new project MacroGen Define the measurements that the user must input it is helpful to input all the measurements from your drafting system even if you won t use all the measurements for this particular pattern Define the points the macro must calculate This includes intermediate steps that won t actually be drawn Do internal calculations mostly by defining special measurements and points Define the objects that the macro will actually draw Define the style choices available to the user for each piece style tree Build the objects by connecting points Add illustrations and other help for the user Output a macro file Afterward e Once the macro is created use the Collection Creator to prepare your macro f
121. n pr bs ie la Irae cao Ecos ENE Mi File Measure Point Object Settings Customize Zoom Help x D Ba ix 2 3 q D ja 6005 8 Jl o 18a T Measure Point Object J peel a L J le J i Object as 220 1A Add Edit Dim Text 18a 7 Measure Point je 2 27 188 25 ib A A AS Hide Edit eel Add Edit Dim Text 1 15 D 1 E Bodice Front 26 27 B8 all zee E2 r a Hide Edit Bodice Back P T BodiceBack la 15 D 1 V Bodice Front F 23 Bodice Back 28 E E2 21 JT BodiceFront en 3 Y Bodice Back vT BodiceBack 24 Bodice Front 13 4 8 c3 3 F 23 34 35 Hide in List Hide in Draw au Dees la 24 13 4 8 ca 3 Text Landa A Dim None 34 35 Hide in List Hide in Draw Edit Delete Object 31 5 6 7 1211 2 GE Delete e All 1 336 eee Text l yy 38 Dim None Ok Cancel Close mM a 31 5 67 1211 2 Edit l Delete 24 02 2 99 336 27 m 38 Normal view on objects pb E Ok Cancel Close 4 WW gt 24 02 0 32 Objects Hide All The Pattern area displays all non hidden points that are defined in the entire project but only objects belonging to the selected style are shown Clicking on points The pattern area is a multi function area and several different things can happen if you mouse click on a point e If you currently are in the point tab the point s dialog box appears for editing This is the dialog box you used to originally create the point and you can use it to edit the point s defin
122. n ee 6 6 Math A math measurement is actually a simple equation a linear combination of two other measurements In other words an equation of the form Measure1 Constant1 Measure2 Constant2 Constant3 C3 is also called Fixed Distance MathMeasurement First Measure Second Measure y y Fixed Dist Measurel Measure2 v A X Cancel Change It is permissible to select none for either or both measurements and also 0 for the last Constant or Fixed Distance in which case those terms of the equation are set to 0 Procedure Tab Panel gt Measure gt Add gt Math measure 1 Type a name for the new measurement see examples below box 1 2 Select an existing measurement from the pull down box for the First Measure box 2 3 If you want to divide the measurement in the box First Measure for example Waist Circumference divided by 2 enter a number divisor in box 3 4 If you want to add two measurements together select another measurement in box Second Measure box 4 5 Enter another divisor here if you wish box 5 6 If you wish enter a number fixed distance which will be added to the one or two measurements you ve selected see Example 1 below box 6 7 Click the OK button to return to your drawing If you need to edit this measurement at some point you can access it through the list Example 1 Bust Ease Bust 6 Bust Circumference 6 cm 2015 PatternMaker Software Wor
123. n the Advanced form go with your mouse over the Advanced button It will show the values in the Status bar at the bottom with a tool tip to your cursor O 2015 PatternMaker Software Working with Logic 190 MacroGen 4 5 9 Working with Logic The Logic window is a worksheet to arrange the logical order of steps in your macro You open the Logic window through Menu gt Point gt Logic It is also a tool for adding mathematical calculations making logical IF THEN decisions and adding custom programming code in the PatternMaker macro language This dialog is the key control for organizing a macro A MacroGen macro divides into three major parts 1 Take the user s inputs 2 Calculate all the measures and points 3 Create objects from the points The Step window gives a master view of all of step 2 With it you can e Set the order in which points are calculated e Add mathematical calculations e Recalculate the values of measures and points e Add decisions based on measure values that is IF blocks e Make While loops that repeat over and over e Add custom code in the PatternMaker programming language For advanced use only custom code requires that the programmer already know the PatternMaker language Notes e The usual result of any mathematical calculation is a measure Any measure prompted or calculated can be changed by a step in the Step window The values they start wth are not set in stone For progr
124. nMaker Software ez MacroGen 4 5 6 Save the table 7 Click New 8 Type the Table Name for the second table 9 Type the Table For 10 Check the measurements that you want to include in the second table lingerie measurements 11 Add pictures and text to the measurements 12 Save to table The rest of the measurements that are not in the first or the second table are asked in separate measurement dialog boxes one for every style O 2015 PatternMaker Software Working with Points e MacroGen 4 5 7 Working with Points Points are the basic building blocks of a MacroGen pattern Each point has an X and Y value that are calculated based on the formulas you program and the measurements the user enters Every time the user runs the macro all the points are recalculated The formulas that determine the locations of the points also determine the sizes and shapes of the objects that are made from those points Every point you define goes into a list These points can be used to help define measurements to locate other points and finally to draw the pattern objects A discussion of the various uses of the term point is at What is a Point 158 The point functions let you add points to the point list edit and delete them The different point types listed under Add Points 86 give you a variety of formulas to define where a point goes These simulate various pencil and paper operations such as marking off a measured
125. name in the list point in screen 8 Another way to select a point to edit is to click onthe 21 9 oint in the drawing itself 10 i d 11 Double click Next you will see a dialog box with exactly the same 3odice Back bbs at point fields created when the point was added Click in any 14 field that you want to change and make the necessary modifications You can change the name of the point here as well as any information about its reference to cg 3 18a another point You also have the option to change the point type by clicking the Change button Select point and click Edit button When you are finished click the OK button to return to the drawing screen If you have a point in your drawing whose position is determined by the point you just edited it will be moved to reflect the changes 12 1 For more information about changing points in a child and not in a parent style See Use parentl113 O 2015 PatternMaker Software Working with Points 1 1 7 6 Delete point Purpose Delete a point that was previously entered Procedure Tab Panel gt Point gt Edit gt You will see a list of the points that have been entered Click on an item in the list and then click the Delete button You will then be returned to the drawing window Note Measure Point Object If the point you want to delete is used by another point measurement or object you
126. name of the new corner point Corner new Xarc Start Xarc Corner Xarc End Points Three points that determine the arc before cutting A B C Xarc Start End Point This is one end of the new arc after cutting C E Note should be the same as either Xarc Start or Xarc End MacroGen does not enforce this rule but results are not defined if it is anything else Point on Xarc Point The point where the original arc was cut therefore also the end of the new piece This point should already be defined with either Arc Line Intersect or Arc Arc Intersect before creating the Place Corner point MacroGen does not enforce this rule but results are not defined if it is anything else Use Parent OK Cancel Change See Add Points 8s See also Edit Macrol 221 7 3 13 Mirror Mirror command in PatternMaker A Mirror point is the mirror image reflection of a point across a line as the result of a PatternMaker Mirror function After a mirror command with Editing in PatternMaker the object is also mirrored in MacroGen 4 This action creates several new mirror points and objects Mirror with no Snap Function In the point list create new points for every mirrored point The point name gets a 2 extension But also there are created a point called Copy Start and a Copy End point These points are from a certain distance of the Start point Mirror with using the Snap End Point function Create new points for every rotated point with
127. nce boxes A minus gives direction to the left of the from point Use Parent OK Cancel Change See Add Points 8e O 2015 PatternMaker Software Working with Points ss 7 3 2 Center A Center point is defined by two other points It lies exactly halfway between them Center M Use Parent X Cancel Change Procedure Tab Panel gt Point gt Add gt Center Name Type the name of the point C new From Type or choose the first point from the pull down box A To Type or choose the second point from the pull down box B It does not matter which order these are in Use Parent OK Cancel Change See Add Points se O 2015 PatternMaker Software 90 MacroGen 4 5 7 3 3 Rectangle A Rectangle point lies at the corner of a rectangle defined by two other points In other words it is the intersection of a vertical line through the first point and a horizontal line through the second point Rectangle x SIA 5 Name D new Coord Name Y Coord Name D D new Use Parer X Cancel Change Procedure Tab Panel gt Point gt Add gt Rectangle Point Name Type the name of the rectangle point D X Coord Name Point The new point takes this point s X coordinate i e lies on a vertical line through this point A Y Coord Name Point The new point takes this point s Y coordinate i e lies on a horizontal line through this point C Use Parent OK Cancel Change See Add Poin
128. ne Notches have no effect in Text or Dimension objects uroup s AG Connection Front Point Type er 9 XArc Start une i 6 Line a 38 Line 35 Line 33 Line 32 Line 28 XArc saer E Corner 27 Line v Notch Direction 29 XArc 14 Corner Cancel 13 Corner Insert Delete The point gets a mark Notch The is the notch direction You can change the Notch Direction when it is drawn in the wrong direction Note It is recommended to create notches at the same time you create the main object i e Front piece See also Add Objects h2 Edit Objects h2 Delete Objects i241 Show Hide Objects 125 Dim Objects h2 Text Objects h2 Grouping Objects 133 2015 PatternMaker Software MacroGen 4 5 8 10 Advanced tools The Advanced button in the Object tab opens the Offset dialog which sets two parameters in the current object Offset and Arrange Measure Point Object Add Edit Dim Text Click on a point or O New Object Name Bodice Front Group Rename Front v V Closed 4 Line 6 Line 38 Line 35 Line 33 Line 32 Line 28 XArc Offset E Corner 27 Line M Advanced Measure 14 Corner F X rc Notch 13 Corner 1 Ok Cancel Close 29 XArc None V Arrange Ok Cancel It only works with the command
129. nge objects You must verify only one is visible at a time otherwise PatternMaker may lockup Do you want to do this Inches O Metric cm Ja Nee Exclusion Rules F11 Language Translation v Auto Arrange v Multiple Arrange After checking this Multiple Arrange command it is possible to check more then one object as Arrange Depending on the conditions and the given measurements only one main object will appear on the screen and be part of the group See also Arrangehs Auto Arrangehs 2015 PatternMaker Software Programming Topics 158 MacroGen 4 5 11 Programming Topics Macro Generator is a Visual Development Tool One of its strengths is that people don t need to know they are programming when using it That means a non technical designer can use it without having to worry about learning a bunch of tech talk On the other hand advanced people with programming skills can look under the hood and add new features This makes Macro Generator an extremely flexible and powerful program The Macro Language is a C style language Many features that aren t useful in designing garments such as pointers and structures have been removed Special features that are useful to designing garments have been added 11 1 Whatis a Point A point has a pair of X Y coordinates They are used to do the calculations to create a drawing They contain a bit of programming code to determine wha
130. nt X coca 0009 As with measures you can change its definition and even its type v a the Change button e Add Code Point An advanced feature that opens up the custom code dialog and inserts custom code as a Result This is known as a Code point because the macro code appears in the Steps list along with the point definitions See Code 1481 for a full description of code points We strongly recommend you to do some examples as shown in the chapter Reference amp Examplesl73 9 2 Code Procedure Menu gt Point gt Code Point gt Code takes you to the Code dialog This allows you to set the location of a point directly by setting its X and Y coordinates or to insert any statements in the PatternMaker macro language Code points can do logic that other points can not The cost is they are more complicated to use See Direct Code Entry hs Code Point Exampleli78 Customizelt6 O 2015 PatternMaker Software Settings menu 1 MacroGen 4 5 10 Settings menu The commands in the Settings menu show how your MacroGen 4 project is displayed They have no effect on the macro being created Display Point Names Inches O Metric cm Exclusion Rules Fil Language Translation Y Auto Arrange Multiple Arrange 10 1 Display Point Names Display point name toggles the display of point names on off only in PatternMaker When a point in PatternMaker does not do what you expect it to do it can be helpfu
131. nt listl 45 Every time a point or measurement changes MacroGen goes through all the points and measurements that are dependent on the changed value and updates all of them This can lead to multiple rounds of updates from a single change It is possible for one value to be changed many times during the macro but MacroGen always ensures that only the final value matters Create the objects For each object add all of its points as listed in the Object list 477 in the Object display tab MacroGen works through the Pieces in the order they are listed in Style Tree and for each piece it creates those objects that are defined for the style the user has selected in the order listed in the Object list 471 in the Object display tab Group objects Auto arrange those objects that are marked for auto arrange Zoom to fit the entire macro results on screen MacroGen macros do not affect what is already in a PatternMaker file 11 9 Cascade Results The following is an advanced topic beyond the needs of most designers Do not worry if you do not understand it When a point or measurement is changed then all measurements dependent on it are recalculated For example a measure that is the distance between two points is recalculated when either point changes This ensures the measure is always the distance between the two points If a math measure uses a distance measure the math measure is recalculated when the distance measure is changed This creates
132. ntent is the same as the Help Help FL Tutorials Manual Open Examples Refresh Register About 12 4 Open examples The examples mg4 files used in the tutorials or the manual are placed in My Documents Patternmaker Personal files Designers Tutorials When you select in the Help menu Open examples the folder Tutorials in the Designers folder will open and you can select the right mg4 file Help FL Tutorials Manual Open Examples Refresh Register About You can also use the Open file command The folder Designers will open automatically because this is the folder to save you mg4 projects and you can select the folder Tutorials which will show all the saved tutorial projects O 2015 PatternMaker Software 168 MacroGen 4 5 12 5 Refresh Purpose Recalculates all the points and measures To increase speed MacroGen recalculates only what it needs to when a change is made Sometimes it gets confused and the drawing is incorrect The Refresh command recalculates all the points and measures so the drawing is correct 12 6 Register In MacroGen 4 5 you use a serial number to unlock the program If you don t register the program you can still use it but you can t generate and test a macro for use in PatternMaker When you ask for a demo or have bought a version you will receive by mail a serial number that you need for registration Procedure 1 Registering
133. of flat pattern drafting MacroGen will not tell you for example how to determine where a point should be added but it will help you with how to add it once you have determined where it belongs Have math skills at least at the basic algebra level XY coordinates positive and negative numbers angles and simple algebraic equations like 2X 3Y Z Have common Windows user skills such as opening and saving files using pull down menus cutting and pasting text and should understand terms such as double click menu bar and dialog box But the most important prerequisite for working in MacroGen is that you must e Be VERY familiar with the pattern measurements and construction steps you are going to program For more complex macros you do need pattern making skills Try asking yourself the following questions e How many actual pattern pieces will make up the final pattern How many PatternMaker drawing objects e Can describe exactly in algebraic equation or geometric lines and angles terms where to place every point of every pattern piece e Does it matter in what order calculate these points e Which pieces will involve offering style choices to the user e Does it matter in what order these choices are offered Bodice silhouette before sleeve options Sleeve 2015 PatternMaker Software 10 MacroGen 4 5 options before cuff options e What body or garment measurements will need the user to enter e Will the us
134. ole 14 D First make four Arc Distance measurements With the Math4 you can F 2 Bodice Ba count up all 4 measurements in one click dice Front 13 4 8 2015 PatternMaker Software MacroGen 4 5 Name armhole length First Measure Second Measure F 13 4 E 2 EP A AA A 2 ho CI Third Measure Fourth Measure 230 1 9 Ad po TT S si me A X Cancel Change Fixed Dist See also e Prompted Measurel 53 e Distance measurel59 e Arc Distance Measure 60 gt e Angle measurel61 e Math 62 e Division se 6 8 Division A division measure is one measure divided by another In this example we can calculate the panel width of a panel skirt Measure Point Object Add Panelwidth 10 00 O 2015 PatternMaker Software Procedure Tab Panel gt Measure gt Add gt Division measure 1 Name Type in the name of the new measurement 2 Select a measurement in the pull down box above the divider 3 Select a measurement in the pull down box below the divider 4 Note that a constant or Fixed Distance can also be added See also e Prompted Measurel 531 e Distance measurel 591 e Arc Distance Measurel 60 e Angle measurel 61 e Mathle2 e Math4 65 e Divisionlee O 2015 PatternMaker Software Working with Measurements e MacroGen 4 5 6 9 Edit measure Clicking the Edit sub tab in Measure makes the list of all made measur
135. ondition is NOT true an IF THEN ELSE block 3 Non conditional blocks You can make a block of Results that always executes by making a Condition that is always TRUE Check the always true box in the Condition Step dialog MacroGen treats non conditional blocks much like regular Conditional blocks If points Note Each step in the Steps list represents not just a single Result but a block of Results The Results field does not show all the results for the entire macro but only for the Step that is currently selected in the left list field and for the true or false choice that s selected in the Logic field on the right 4 Custom program code advanced users only You can insert program statements directly into the macro via the Advanced button MacroGen does not validate the content which must be in the PatternMaker macro language This feature is only for advanced users who already know the language 5 While loops While JumpToPoint An f block can also cause the macro to jump back to a previous Step in the list and repeat it The macro keeps repeating the steps in between as long as the condition is true This is a While loop MacroGen protects against infinite loops by putting a limit of 20 repetitions on a 2015 PatternMaker Software 12 MacroGen 4 5 loop Create While loops with the If condition jump to point field above If None is selected there is no jump You can only jump backward not forward
136. ons such as rotating a piece that are simple to do graphically but would require tedious work to reprogram point by point Procedure 4 Use Icon Edit Macro or Menu gt File gt Edit Macro in PatternMaker The PatternMaker program starts and your macro begins to run At the prompts select the style choices you want to edit note that the measurements are not seen They are ignored in this edit mode e After the macro completes use PatternMaker s Edit and Points commands to alter the resulting pattern The allowed commands are a reduced set of the PatternMaker commands They are 1 Undo 8 Erase 2 Move 9 Cut 3 Copy 10 Join 4 Mirror 11 Move Vertex 5 Rotate 12 Rotate Vertex 6 Scale 13 Align X 7 Resize XY 14 Align Y You can also use some of the snap modes Snap actions are preserved in the point definitions of the edited points That is if you capture a Snap EndPoint during a move for instance the action will snap to the chosen point in the end macro even if its location changes The following snap modes are supported See PatternMaker manual 1 Snap Center 2 Snap EndPoint 3 Snap Intersect 4 Snap None e Exit PatternMaker do not save the file in PatternMaker e MacroGen opens again and you will see the changes you made in PatternMaker in the drawing on the screen Points measurements and or objects can be added to your macro You will recognize these added points of an addition of 2 behind the poin
137. option Normal the macro always draw the hip circumference like you did in the drawing Note You can check the mg4 file Skirt with 3 ease options to see if you did it right Note There are more ways to do this logic We have chosen to use a separate measure for Hip circumference plus ease that is used in the project to draw the objects In this way the measure Hip circumference is always the original hip circumference You could also have made separate logic steps for the ease so no logic in the parent because that draws the default measurements And in the style Tight a separate ease step Tight and in the Loose style a separate ease step Loose 2015 PatternMaker Software Reference and examples 175 13 3 Skirt with variable darts This skirt has two darts one at front and ont at back with a variable dart width depending on the difference between hip circumference and waist circumference When the difference is small the darts will be small When the difference is bigger the darts will be wider When the darts become wider the length of the dart has to be longer We want to make variable dart lengths The rule for the length of the dart is When the width of the dartis1cm the dart depth is 5 cm For every 1 cm extra width the dart length is 4 cm So if the dart width is 3 cm then the dart length is 5 4 4 13 cm If the dart width is 1 5 then the dart length is 5 4 when the dart width is bigger than 1 and smaller
138. or release to the public This program is available through PatternMaker Software It allows you to turn your macro s into a professional program that installs on your customer s computer Collection Creator allows you to set a password for installation 2015 PatternMaker Software Start 13 1 4 Getting Started Once you have a plan open MacroGen and select New Project at the first window Welcome to MacroGen New Project Open Manual Last Project Tutorialg Open Tutorials Dpen Project Exit the program From this form you have also easy access to the project that was opened the last another saved project the manual of MacroGen 4 5 or the tutorials Projects In general a MacroGen project includes all the work you have open in the MacroGen program at one time and it corresponds to a single project mg4 file A project also corresponds to a single macro mac file If you have a very complex project with multiple garments and styles it will save as one mg4 file and create one macro If you have several related macros with different mac files each one will be a separate mg4 file Use Style Manager See Style Manager 26 Style Manager Enter the name of the first piece Enter the styles you want to create Macro Title BAS Repeat for other pieces Name In the Piece List highlight the first Piece In the Style Tree highlight the top level of the tree Click the Show Hide button below
139. oulderHt Sleevelnseam _ Waist _ Seamallowance Sleevelength Measurement Table Table Name J Lock New X x Table For Type your name here New Save Import x Checked measures will belong to Measurement Table 2015 PatternMaker Software Working with Measurements 6 13 5 Import from Table Purpose The Import from Table button opens an existing measurement table mmt file into your current macro When you click this button a standard Windows file selection dialog box appears When you select a file the Measure Table dialog box is populated with its information Notice that all of the measurements for the current project also appear in the Measurements in tablel7e field if they weren t already in the table so you can add them to the table if you wish Measurement T able Table Name Lock New v Xl Table For IT ype your name here New Save EN Notes e When you start a new macro and want to use the same measurements or a few of these measurements import the table again to avoid mistakes and your user can use the same MTB file again for this macro e When you only use a few measurements from this table the rest of the measurements in this table are ignored and the user wil not be asked for them You dont have to delete them from the table 6 13 6 Save Table Using the Save command in the Measurement Table field the measurement table the table name the default value p
140. r no points visible Hide None for no points hidden 6 7 12 11 2015 PatternMaker Software Working with Points 1 13 7 9 Use Parent The Use Parent check box in a points form selects whether or not this point takes its definition from the parent of the current style in the Style Treel2e1 If it is checked all of the other fields in the dialog are disabled grayed out Initially all child Use Parent check boxes are checked This means that the child inherits the characteristics of the parent When you uncheck the Use Parent box the child can be different then the parent Moving certain points to different places is one of the key tools for making one style different from another To change a point uncheck the box and change the formula that defines it For those points that do not change from style to style leave the Use Parent check box checked Whenever you create a point in a style the point becomes defined in all that style s child styles see Style Treel 28 The Use Parent checkbox is unchecked by default in the parent style but it is checked in all child styles Notes e To make one style different from another change point definitions in the Style Tree Uncheck the Use Parent AE Coordinate S Name From X Measure None o X Fixed Distance 10 1 Y Measure CenterBack v Y Fixed Distance 10 1 Notes v Use Parent or X Cancel Chang
141. rdinatel 887 point Only the presentation in the dialog box is different If it is a point created by editing in PatternMaker you can edit the point to rename it or to adjust the From and To fields Also with automatic points often there are new measurements and new points in the list You can rename these points and measurements and edit them to get the correct results 7 3 13 Place Corner Cut curved line in PatternMaker A Place Corner point is used to shape an arc that has been cut with the PatternMaker Cut function After a cut command with Editing in PatternMaker the object is also cut in MacroGen 4 This action creates several new corner points and objects When a Curved line is cut it creates two new Corner Points called CP and CP 1 You can edit and rename these new points and objects in MacroGen Cut curved Line in MacroGen The fields in the dialog box are three points that define an arc and two points that are the end point s of the arc after cutting The result is the location for the corner point of the new arc so that it matches the shape of the original 2015 PatternMaker Software Working with Points 101 2 Place Corner xarc Start Xare Start End ae A Xare Ler C new are Start xarc Comer xarc End Comer new Point on Xarc a ais cut here xB Xare Corner Point on Xarc EF a r x Cancel Procedure Tab Panel gt Point gt Add gt Place Corner Name Type in the
142. re 56 Logic can be used for several reasons For example if you want to put in extra ease if the bust width is large you ll use logic If you have a table of values that is dependent on measures you ll use logic There is an endless number of possibilities where you may want to use logic O 2015 PatternMaker Software MacroGen 4 5 6 13 Measurement Tables There are several types of measurement tables Master Measurement Tables MMT This is a template file that lets your user know which measurements are required for a macro The user will open this file and replace the existing default numbers with their own They will save their changes in their own MTB file MacroGen programmers also use MMT tables to import common groups of measurements that are used in more than one MacroGen project See Master Measurement Table 79 Personal Measurement Table MTB This is a personal measurement table The PatternMaker user opens the MMT and replaces the standard measurements with her his personal measurements When he saves his measurements the file becomes a MTB file So the MMT has to be provided in your installation The user uses this personal measurement table for every macro from your collection s See Personal Measurement Tablelso Standard Measurement tables MTB This is a set of standardized measurements that you can provide if you wish in your installation The user has the option of selecting one of the
143. re each defined by two points Line Line Intersect Name E new Line 1 Start Line 1 End fa v e v Line 2 Start Line 2 End X coca 0009 Procedure Tab Panel gt Point gt Add gt Line Line Intersect Name Type in the name of the Line Line Intersect point E new Line 1 Start Line 1 End Points These points determine the first line A C It does not matter which order they appear in Line 2 Start Line 2 End Points These points determine the second line B D It does not matter what order the two lines appear in Use Parent OK Cancel Change See Add Points se Note It is possible for the intersection point to be mathematically undefined if the two lines are parallel or if the Start and End points of a line are the same In this case the new point defaults to the Start point Note MacroGen extends the lines defined with the two points this means that an intersection is also possible outside the points of the two lines 2015 PatternMaker Software Working with Points 93 7 3 6 Arc Line Intersect A Arc Line Intersect point is the intersection of a line with an arc The line is defined by two points and the arc by 3 points following the PatternMaker formula for arcs see PatternMaker manual Arc Line Intersect Name E new Arc Start Are Comer Are End B e v D v Line Start Line End rc X Cancel Change Procedure Tab Panel gt Point gt Ad
144. rect intermediate branch Objects that exist in all style branches should be created in the root of the Style Tree Points and objects both inherit properties from higher branches in the Style tree but they do so in different ways Points are always defined in every style even if they are not used For points there is a Use Parent check box If this is checked the point uses the same definition as the parent style s point otherwise the point may be different Each object on the other hand exists only in the style branch and sub branches for which it is defined An object is the same in all styles that it exists in in the sense that it has the same name point list and other attributes But the object may look different from one style to another if the points it uses are changed Connection dialog The Connection dialog sets parameters of a point within an object From the Object tab double click on any point in the list box on the right to open the Connection dialog O 2015 PatternMaker Software ns MacroGen 4 5 ga Connection Point Type Line C Are Start C Are Comer Notch None v T Notch Direction i E Cancel Insert Delete The default point type is Line To create an arc select Xarc Start or Xarc Corner MacroGen automatically changes the adjacent point to the right type recall that in PatternMaker an Xarc start must always be followed by a corner point however it is possible to create
145. s Measure Point Object D Edit ArmScye 17 000 a Bust 36 000 ShoulderHt 3 000 Waist 28 000 6 7 1 000 26 27 2 500 17 B 4 978 36 6 3 695 33 35 7 408 Y Beie ameg Ok Cancel Close Tab Panel Measure Edit Edit Click edit button to edit a measurement See Edit measurement se Delete Click delete button to delete a measurement from your project See Delete measure 711 Table Click Table button to import export a measurement table See Measurement table 727 Note Doubleclick on a measurement in the edit list opens also the measurement so that you can edit 4 44 Point Tab The Point Tab lists the points that are defined in your MacroGen project and contains two sub views Add and Edit e Tab Add Measure Point_ Object Goa in E inate T The Point Add dialog lists the various point types T Select a Point Type to add a new point See Add Points 8s for the various point types Ok Close Tab Panel Point Add Procedure Style Tree gt Show Style gt Point tab gt Add sub tab gt click an icon 2015 PatternMaker Software MacroGen 4 5 e Tab Edit Procedure Hide Hide All Hide None Edit Delete Insert Measure Point ro gis dialog lists all the points that you have defined in your MacroGen project vou can hide insert edit or delete points via this dialog h Speci made points Custom points he can be a
146. s Examples are during testing when a custom tailor makes many garments for a single customer or when a fashion house has a specified set of measurements for its standard sizes A Measurement Table has an internal name the name of the table We advice to give the measurement table a descriptive name for instance Leena_default_women A user can tell which one to use for a particular macro In the macro is described which measurement table internal name mmt should be connected to the macro When you run a macro PatternMaker will look for mtb files with this internal name written in it Only those mtb s with this internal name in it will be shown when the Open Measurement Table form appears It is therefore not possible to connect a wrong mtb file to a macro made with another mmt 2015 PatternMaker Software s MacroGen 4 5 PA Open Master Measurement Table Shared Files Thea Botter Look in y O2 regm A default_babies mmt A default_men mmt A default_misses mmt A default_women mmt A wrenaissance mmt I Show Explorer tree Cancel 6 13 9 Personal Measurement Table A personal measurement table is made from the original MMT and made in PatternMaker by the user of the macro You have to provide the original MMT from your macros into the Installation The user can make a personal measurement table with the following steps Procedure _ Bb OO DY Start PatternMaker Select Create Measurements from
147. se sets of measurements instead of their own For example you could include measurement tables for standard industry sizes 6 8 10 12 or 36 38 40 42 etc Including any MTB files is entirely optional MTB tables are created either by the Macro Installer or by the PatternMaker program Read the manuals for those programs for more details See Standard Measurement Tablelst Reusing Measurement Tables If your drafting system consistently uses the same set of prompted measurements you can save them in a list and import them into new macros See Saving and reusing default measurements 77 6 13 1 New Table When you want your macro to ask the user in PM to open a measurement table see picture below then you should begin with this command This command inserts a code into your current macro The result of this code is that PatternMaker adds an extra dialog box to the macro for connecting a MTB file to the macro The chosen MTB can be a personal measurement table or a standard size table When you run the macro the macro comes with a dialog box to open a measurement table Procedure Tab Panel gt Measure gt Edit gt Table F4 1 Click on New 2 Type in the Table Namel 74 3 Type in the Table For 751 4 Check all the measurements you want to include in this table All the prompted measurements that were allready made are visible in the list at the right side See Measurements in Tablel7e 2015 PatternMaker Sof
148. sed 2 3 Open sen opens a MacroGen project from a file It works like the Open functions in most Windows programs MacroGen project files have a mg4 filename extension Only one drawing can be open at atime Opening a file replaces the project currently on the screen 2015 PatternMaker Software File Menu to 2 4 Save You have several options when it comes time to save your work CIN Save command works as is typical for other Windows programs MacroGen will automatically create a folder Designers in My documents PatternMaker personal files when you save a project for the first time with MacroGen 4 5 When you want to save a project after that the folder Designers will be opened automatically Using Save also automatically saves your project in the current folder with the existing name if any If you have not previously saved the active project this command acts like Save ashe Note When you want to make use ofthe Collection Creator for making setups of your macro in the future we advise you to save your projects in the folder Designers See for more information to the Help of Collection Creator The Save As command allows you to give the project a different name You can also select a different location to which the file will be saved although we do not recommend this Save only saves your MacroGen project work mg4 file format It does not create a macro or save ancillary files such as Measurement tablel72 and images
149. set Distance is 3 and the Base pnt Offset distance is also 3 The Direction is checked For point G the previous base and next points are B C and D The previous pnt Offset Distance is 3 and the Base pnt Offset distance is also 3 The Direction is checked For point H the previous base and next points are C D and A The previous pnt Offset Distance is 3 and the Base pnt Offset distance is also 0 The Direction is checked Direction The direction of the Offset Distance point inside or outside the object can be set by the measure a positive or O 2015 PatternMaker Software 100 MacroGen 4 5 negative number or by the checkbox Direction A positive number combined with a checked Direction box will give the same result as a negative number and an unchecked box When in the example above the direction box is unchecked you will get the points placed outside the object above it is inside the object unchecked Direction box The Offset Distance point works similar as the Snap Offset command in PatternMaker 7 3 13 Automatic Point Types The following point types are created by the Edit Macro in PatternMaker 22 function but they can also be added directly by the user Each one represents the result of one of PatternMaker s edit functions Most of the automatic point types do things that can also be done using ordinary point types and measures For instance a Move t0A point could also be made using Distance measures 5 and a Coo
150. st File Version The version of the package that the widget was imported from Each widget stores the version of its package This allows multiple versions of widgets from the same package Type Is the highlighted widget a point or a measure Widget Description A description of this widget 2015 PatternMaker Software Programming Topics 163 11 7 2 Functions Functions calculate either points or measures Values can be passed to them using Accessors he Multiple functions can be created in the same code block Functions need to be called from code points See Customize Examplel173 11 7 3 Declarations Global variables can be added in Declarations Most commonly they are table arrays see Customize Examplelt7 They also can be used to buffer values of a complicated calculation An example of declaration code would be double Size 4 11 7 4 Initializations Initialization goes hand in hand with Declarations he Here are two examples of a declaration Example 1 Size 0 1 Size 1 4 Size 2 9 Example 2 initSize This assumes initSize is declared in Functions h6 See Customize Examplelt7 amp 11 8 Order of Events The macro that your MacroGen project creates does things in a specific order This order is not always apparent when you are moving between MacroGen s different displays and windows For basic work the user can let the software take care of the order but users of
151. sure Height Width When Cascade is checked CascadeMeasure is calculated when Height is modified in the logic When we add 10 to Height then CascadeMeasure 10 since 20 10 10 When Cascade is unchecked CascadeMeasure is not recalculated when Height is modified This means CascadeMeasure 0 since 10 10 0 The distance between 4 and 5 is CascadeMeasure When Cascade is checked point 5 is 10 units above point 4 and the shape is a house When Cascade is unchecked point 5 is on point 4 and the shape is a box O 2015 PatternMaker Software 182 MacroGen 4 5 Index XLS 150 mg4 19 A About 170 Active Style 33 Add Objects 120 Add Points 86 Adding Offset 135 Advanced tools 134 Advanced Topics 158 algebra 9 Angle measure 61 Apex 96 Apex Point 96 Arc Arc Intersect 94 Arc Distance 60 Arc Line Intersect 93 Arrange 136 154 155 Auto arrange 136 154 155 Automatic 100 Automatic Point Types 100 C Calculated Measurements 51 calculations 51 Calculator 20 caption 28 C Clockwise 114 Center 89 Change measure 69 child 32 Clicking on points 42 commercial 10 connections 47 Continue 91 Coordinate 88 Coordinates 85 Create macro 21 curved 100 curved line 100 Customize 161 D Dart 96 Dart point 96 degrees 61 Delete 79 Delete measure 71 Delete objects 124 Delete Piece 30 Delete point 111 Delete Style 35 Delete table 79 Dim 127 Dim Objects 127 Direct Code Entry 159 disable 148 D
152. sy to forget what a point or measurement is for All of them have a notes field where you can enter personal notes to remind you why you did what you did The pictures for points and measures do not all contain this field Center r Lox X Cancel Change 6 2 Prompted Measure Prompted measurements are numbers that the macro user types into a dialog box Usually but not always these are a person s body measurements For example a bodice pattern macro may ask for Sleeve Length Bust and Waist measurements among others The user can then enter his or her own measurements to create a pattern that is designed specifically to fit them Prompted measures can be stored in a Measurement Tablel 721 so they can be entered once rather than each time the macro is run They also can be attached to a specific style See Style dependent measurel58 An example would be if you create a shirt sleeve It can be short or long sleeved You ll want the sleeve length to be asked only for the long sleeve Each prompted measure has a picture attached to it and a picture description to show and explain to the user what this measure is and how to take it Because prompted measure are so closely related to Measurement Tables 7A they are entered in the same form O 2015 PatternMaker Software sa MacroGen 4 5 M Prompted Measurements oO mea Prompted Measurement In Table Measurements N Center Back cms Arm Scye Seam allowance Bust S
153. t Point C End Point C Text Point X Cancel Select one The selected point replaces the object s current start end or text insertion point e Exit the Edit function by clicking either the OK or Cancel buttons Tip When you want the text lower or higher then the text point you can add an offset to it Click on the 3th point in the edit list text insertion point an offset dialog appears Offset x Offset None Y Offset None Type the offset into fixed fields and click OK Note Certain functions such as the Object pull down menu functions are disabled during editing If a function you want is disabled click the Cancel button and start over See also Add Objects haat Edit Objects h2A Delete Objects 124 Show Hide Objects 123 Text Objects h2 Grouping Objects 33 Add Notches 13A 2015 PatternMaker Software Working with Objects 129 8 7 Text Objects Use the Text tab to create and edit Text objects A text object in MacroGen creates a text object in PatternMaker A text object has the same attributes as a PatternMaker text object name text insertion point size and angle In addition it has an Xand Y offset from the insertion point Measure Point Object Add Edit Dim Text Click Ok ale Add Text Name object T_BodiceFront Group Rename Front v Text Bodice Front Height None v 0 8 p_ _o oo O 1 Angle None v 0 6 Point for Text 24 Po
154. t inputs are used and how the two values are created In the macro code there are two arrays x and y which store all the point values The value of a point can be accessed as Point PointName X Point PointName Y The index in the x and y array can be found using Point PointName This is used to pass points to a function When you see a point listed in the Point listl45 this represents a block of code that calculates that point s X and Y values When you add a point to an object the macro reads that point s X Y values and uses them to create the corresponding PatternMaker item that s why it s possible to use a MacroGen point many times to add points to different objects When you create the different Point types with their different formulas for calculating X and Y you are setting the code contained in those points calculations And a code point is a block of macro language statements that fits into the list of point code even though it may not have a point structure connected See Code Examples 178 and Declarations 4 for more information on how to use points in code 11 2 What is a Measure A measure is the equivalent of a variable They contain a bit of programming code to determine what inputs are used and how the two values are created Measure MeasureName Value The index in the array can be accessed via Measure MeasureName This is used to pass measures to functions See Code Examples t78 and Declara
155. t name or a default new name See Automatic point types ho for more information IMPORTANT When you run a macro you have to make style option choices The editing you do to any object will only be made in the selected styles This means when you have made a style Pocket parent with 2 style options children for instance Straight pocket and Curved pocket the change will only be implemented in the selected style Straight pocket not in Pocket parent and not in other child Curved pocket see more about this in the Style treefs O 2015 PatternMaker Software File Menu 23 Note you edit only the style you selected while running the macro This means when you have made children to a parent you can never edit a parent anymore It is only possible to edit the child Note to be able to edit an object it is often necessary to create a temporary object For instance if you want to move an object 5 cm to the left first you have to create the line that wil show the move distance With using snap endpoint you can select the start point and destination point of the created line object After editing the object you can delete the line because move points have been made into your MacroGen macro What Does Edit Macro Do When the Edit Macro command completes it returns to MacroGen a list of commands and command events inputs that have occurred MacroGen uses these events to add new points and objects to the project remember they go into
156. tance measure in the name field 2 From Point Type or choose a point name from the pull down box 3 To Point Type or choose a point name from the pull down box 4 Click OK 5 The measure will be added to the list in Measure gt Edit For Cancel and Change see working with measurements 51 See also e Prompted Measurel 53 e Arc Distance Measure 60 e Angle measurels1 e Math 62 e Math4 65 e Division 66 O 2015 PatternMaker Software 60 MacroGen 4 5 6 4 Arc Distance measure Arc Distance measure is the length of an arc or curved segment Recall from your PatternMaker User s Manual that an arc is defined by a start point an end point and a corner point Unlike in PatternMaker there does not have to be an arc or even an object actually drawn with the given points in order to calculate the length of the arc that they define Enter the names of the start point the end point and the corner point and the name of the measurement Arc Distance Comer 2 z E z Edit Ch Yo _X Cancel Change Height 10 00 Width 10 00 Arc Distance Measure Result Note This picture doesn t include the Notes 5 field Procedure Tab Panel gt Measure gt Add gt Arc Distance Name Type the name for the measurement Start Type or choose a point from the pull down a Corner Type or choose a point from the pull down a corner point End Type or choose a point from th
157. tant that you select the right button OK or Cancel If you did not change anything to the object you just wanted to see the points in the object select always Cancel because otherwise the objects in the children could be reset to the parent If you have already children in this style changes in an object of the parent will affect the object in the children A change in an object could give unwanted changes in a child therefore MacroGen will give a choice in the changes that should be made to the children Clicking the OK button saving the drawn object when there are children will show a message popping which says What do You want Yes all children are reset to the changed parent No the children stay unchanged changes are made only to the parent you may also want to make the change in the children Cancel the change in the parent is cancelled Note Selecting the right button is very important for the object in the children If you select Yes all objects are reset to the parent this means all made changes to the children are lost If you select No only the parent object is changed The objects in the children stay the way they were This means that you have to figure out which answer is the most efficient answer If you have made many changes to the object in a child selecting No could mean less work You have to make the last changes also to the children To show or hide objects O 2015 PatternMaker Software 12 Ma
158. te a new MacroGen point 25 26 27 18 198 28 Offset x Offset None v Y Offset 24 None v Front Piece Cul 2x 34 35 Cancel Point for Text 24 j1 Move the cursor over the point the X and y offset will show 731 Geo When the point for text has been filled in you will see in the Status bar the X and Y offset Also moving the cursor over the text point will show the X and y offset as a hint Textis placed 1 inch cm from point 24 and 1 inch crn below point 24 Note In MacroGen 3 you had to add a special text point but in MacroGen 4 you can use the offset box to place the text on an existing point It creates a blue insertion point in PatternMak er To edit a text object To edit a text object first select it by name then edit it in the Text sub tab of the Object tab There are two paths to this function 1 From the Tab Panel e Tab Panel gt Object gt Edit e Check Hide Object Type Object and Hide Object Type Dim The remaining listed objects are the text objects Select the desired object by name Double click the text object to edit or highlight it and click Edit button Either of the above methods makes the Text sub tab active Change whatever properties of the object you desire 2 From the Object pull down menu e Menu gt Object gt Edit Object A list of all objects in the MacroGen project appears 2015 PatternMaker Software Working with Objects 131 e Select
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160. th caution Measures and points are never undefined but they default to a value of 0 Start for points before they are first set 2015 PatternMaker Software Working with Measurements 6 11 Delete measure Procedure Tab Panel gt Measure gt Edit gt Delete Delete Measure lets you delete a measurement from the project Choose the measurement from the list that appears and its definition is removed from the project You are not allowed to delete a measurement that is referenced by the calculations for another measurement or point unless you delete all its dependencies first MacroGen will give you a message that the measure is referenced by another point or measure and can not be deleted Measure Point Object Add Edit Edit Bust 36 000 A ShoulderHt 3 000 Waist 28 000 6 7 1 000 26 27 2 500 17 B 4 978 36 6 3 695 33 35 5 422 8 13 4 750 ArmScyeDepth 8 800 29 14 F 3 542 F 30 4 4 412 19 D 23 4 581 23 8 4 3 911 Armscye F B 16 446 Sleevelnseam 16 750 Measure 29 14 F is referenced by Measure Armscye F B S2 S9 0 000 10 S24 0 000 22 S23 0 000 27 S29 0 000 26 28 0 000 32 513 0 000 33 S13 0 000 Edit Table Can not delete measure 6 12 Logic It is possible to make measures that don t always follow the same formula To apply if then logic to measures see Working with Logicl44 This is not the same as using a Style dependent measu
161. th the value of the rotation in the constant field Rotate by using the Snap EndPoint function Creates new points for every rotated point with the 2 extension No Rotate About point is created because you defined the rotate about point with the Snap Endpoint function It also created a new math measure called Rotate Angle with the value of the rotation 45 degrees in the constant field You can edit and rename these new points and measurements in MacroGen O 2015 PatternMaker Software Working with Points 103 Stal 2 Rotate Angle 1 2 Point to Rotate Rotate About Angle Measure Rotate Angle Fixed Angle 4 2 3 2 2 rr a 3 2 _X Cancel Change Rotate Angle in MacroGen Procedure Tab Panel gt Point gt Add gt Rotate Angle Name Type the name of the new Rotate angle point Point to Rotate Point The starting position of the rotation About Point The center of the rotation Angle Measure Measure for the angle to rotate degrees See Add Points 861 for a description of the equation format Use Parent OK Cancel Change See Add Points ss See also Edit Macro 221 7 3 13 Rotate Distance Rotate in PatternMaker A Rotate Distance point is the result of rotating a point by a given distance as in the PatternMaker Rotate function The rotation is measured in cm or inches Positive values are counterclockwise and negative values are clockwise After a rotate command with Editin
162. the 2 extension No Copy Start and Copy End points are created because you defined the reflection line point with the SnapEndPoint function O 2015 PatternMaker Software 102 MacroGen 4 5 You can edit and rename these new points and measurements in MacroGen 2 2 _________ Sta1 2 2 3 2 AR CG x Cancel Change Mirror command in MacroGen Procedure Tab Panel gt Point gt Add gt Mirror Name Type in the new name of the new mirror point Line Start Line End Points Two points that determine the line of reflection Point to Mirror The point to be mirrored Use Parent OK Cancel Change See Add Points ss See also Edit Macro 221 7 3 13 Rotate Angle Rotate in PatternMaker A Rotate Angle point is the result of rotating a point by a given angle as in the PatternMaker Rotate function The angle is measured in degrees Positive angles are counterclockwise and negative angles are clockwise After a rotate command is done by Editing in PatternMaker the object is also rotated in MacroGen 4 This action creates several new points and measurements depending how you did the rotation in PatternMaker Rotate with no Snap Function New points are created in the point list for every rotated point the new point name gets a 2 extension A point called Rotate About is also created This point is a specific distance from the Start point There new math measure is called Rotate Angle wi
163. the Style Piece List Style Tree Base Tree The Pattern Area of the Style window opens Active Style Base Display Name Base The Pattern Area of the style O 2015 PatternMaker Software ta MacroGen 4 5 It will be empty except for the word Start in the upper left corner On the right side you will see the Tab form for adding editing your Measurements Points and Objects NoName Base E il T De ball b Saet Measure Point Object Add Edit Dim Text Click New _New_ Enter Prompted Measurements See Prompted Measurement 53 e Open the the Measure tab on the right side and then select the Add tab gt Prompted measure e Type the name of the measurement you wish the user to enter this name will be displayed to the user e Type the default number these will be replaced by the user s numbers e Save to a measurement table if desired Enter Points See Working with Points 84 e Review the XY coordinate format and grid concepts e Open the Point tab on the right side and select the Add tab The Coordinate point type is your first point relative to the Start point to enter e Enter additional points e The position of a point relative to another point can either be a variable measurement one quarter of the waist 2015 PatternMaker Software Start 15 measurement which is derived from the values the
164. the current style Use Edit to display objects and to select an object for hide editing or delete With the Text sub tab you can add text to your drawing With the Dim sub tab you can add a dimension line to your drawing Use also Edit to edit an already made text or dimension object O 2015 PatternMaker Software Zoom Functions a 5 Zoom Functions Zoom the Pattern Area in or out with MacroGen s four Zoom commands Access these commands via icons on the main toolbar or the Zoom menu The zoom icons are MEAP e Zoom All adjusts zoom to fit all objects on screen Zoom In e Zoom Out or e Scrollwheel of mouse Zoom in or out with the scroll wheel on your mouse Zooming with the scroll wheel is easy to use Here is how it works It scrolls to your mouse pointer when the scrollbars at the bottom and right side of the drawing area are both visible Move your mouse to the desired point each time you scroll 1 First select Zoom All to get the entire picture 2 Move your mouse to the point you want to see closer don t click 3 Scroll short with your mouse 4 Move your mouse again to the same point and scroll again 5 Repeat until you see enough of the point or the area around that point Note Zooming is sometimes essential when the Pattern Area is too cluttered to find the item you re interested in Remember you can also make the screen less cluttered by hiding points see Point list T 5 and objects see Edit objects
165. the desired object by name e Double click or click OK Note The Text sub tab is used both to create and edit Text objects and its appearance is very similar in both cases The prompt Click Ok appears when you are editing If it does not appear click the Cancel button and start over e Exit the Edit function by clicking either the OK or Cancel buttons Note Certain functions such as the Object pull down menu functions are disabled during editing If a function you want is disabled click the Cancel button and start over After a text object is created you can treat it just like any other object It can be deleted and it can be temporarily hidden See also Add Objects k2 Edit Objects f22 Delete Objects h2 Show Hide Objects 123 Dim Objects h2 Grouping Objects 133 Add Notches 133 2015 PatternMaker Software 132 MacroGen 4 5 8 8 Grouping Objects Objects can be grouped together in MacroGen just as in PatternMaker The Group field is found in the edit windows for all three object types Poly Text and Dim To create a group type in a new group name in the main object no text or dim objects of that group To add an object to an existing group use the pull down list under the Group caption Procedure Tab Panel gt Object gt Edit gt 1 Double click on the object that should get a group name 2 Enter a group name in the Group field in the object s Add sub tab Measure Point O
166. the new folder Translations in My Documents PatternMaker Personal Files opens e Give your translation file a name and notice that it has the extension trf In Explorer you can find the translation file to send to the translation agency This trf file can be opened with Excel When opening the file select Show all files For opening the file select the Separate option and Divided with Tabs In the Excel file you will find all languages in separate columns Translate the words and save the file lt has to stay a trf file when being imported in the macro project afterwards B D E F G H JEnglish Finnish Dutch German Spanish French Italian 2 Pocket Pocket Zak Tasche 3 Next Next Volgende N chste 4 Back Back Terug Zur ck 5 Done Done Klaar 6 Heigth Heigth Hoogte 7 Width Width Breedte 8 Base Base Base 9 straight pocket straight pocket rechte zak 10 curved pocket curved pocket ronde zak 11 Flap Flap Klep 12 straight flap straight flap rechte klep 13 curved flap curved flap afgeronde klep 14 G_pocket G_pocket G_pocket 15 16 O 2015 PatternMaker Software Settings menu 153 10 4 3 Import Language Translation Purpose Add a foreign external language file to your macro When you receive the translation file back from the translation agency you can import this file back to your macro Save this trf file in My Documents PatternMaker Personal Files Translations Procedure Menu gt Settings gt Ad
167. the opening is a given value Name Ic new Opening Point Apex Point Apex point B Width Measure D art Width Fixed Distance o zo M C Clockwise Notes r X Cancel Change Procedure Tab Panel gt Point gt Add gt Dart O 2015 PatternMaker Software Working with Points 97 Name Type in the name of the new Dart point C new Opening Point Point A Apex Point Point B Distance Measure Measure This equation gives the width of the opening See Add Points ss for a description of the equation format C Clockwise This check box chooses which of two intersection points to use There are two possible points looking toward the Opening point is used If it is not checked the point on the left is used Use Parent OK Cancel Change See Add Points 8e Note If there is no valid point found the given width is too wide the new point defaults to the Start point 7 3 10 Line Point A Line Point marks a perpendicular from a point to a line In the illustration below the angle between the solid line and the dotted line is always a right angle Line Point Line Start Leg C Name F Line Start Line End Start D Line Point F Line Point new fee au r X Cancel Procedure Tab Panel gt Point gt Add gt Line Point Name Type in the name of the new Line Point D new Line Start Line End Points The new point lies on the line that these points
168. tions hes for more information O 2015 PatternMaker Software Programming Topics 159 11 3 Whatis a Piece A Piece is the same thing as a Marker Piece in PatternMaker Professional version What is the relationship between a Piece a Style an Object and a group The Style Manager window Using the Style Managen 281 is organized into a list of Pieces A Piece generally corresponds to a pattern piece of the finished garment such as a bodice piece with associated darts grain lines and descriptive text or to a Marker piece as described in the PatternMaker manual However this usage is ultimately up to the MacroGen programmer To MacroGen a Piece isa root node on the Style Tree Thus each set of style branches consists of the various options possible for a given piece 11 4 Direct Code Entry You can enter macro code directly into a MacroGen project if you know the PatternMaker macro language Any time you see the big edit field in any of the advanced code dialog boxes this is what happens This is the Point gt Code dialog box n Type List Accel Point vs Point PointB sl Point PointB x E ES Point PointB X 7 5 X Cancel Think of this window as an aid to typing in code It helps you put together complicated symbolic names but it does not prevent you from typing what you want or making errors The point and measure names used by MacroGen are symbolic and cannot be used directly in the act
169. tive Style select Triangle Notice how the triangle object is shown It was created in the style Triangle Start 2 Show Me with Triangle as Active Style 13 5 Tutorials For more examples go through the tutorials Select in the Help menu Tutorials and the Tutorials PDF file will open All the examples of the tutorials are saved in My Documents Patternmaker Personal files Designers Tutorials Selecting the Open file command will browse you to this folder The tutorials are 1 Drafting a Hood Get started drafting something easy 2 Translating Drafting Instructions How to convert drafting instructions into Macro Generator 3 Drafting Ladies Pants A complicated draft 4 Editing in PatternMaker Adding pleats to the pants by cutting in PatternMaker 5 Adding Style Options Drawing a sleeve to the bodice and adding sleeve options long or short sleeve Adding two necklines 6 Pattern Markings Notches Seam Allowance Text and groups O 2015 PatternMaker Software 178 MacroGen 4 5 7 Creating Commercial Files Measurement Tables and translating into other languages 8 Advanced Style Options Adding Style Pictures and Style specific points Using Style Exclusions to create a cuff that isn t created with a short sleeve Adding a cuff depth measurement that is only displayed with the cuff style 9 Advanced Programming Show and hiding darts using logic and three techniques modifying a measure modifying a point and hiding
170. ts Shows All points in the style Hide All Points Hides All points in the style 2015 PatternMaker Software Working with Objects 127 8 6 Dim Objects Use the Dimension tab to create and edit dimension objects A dimension object in MacroGen creates a dimension object in PatternMaker A dimension object has the same attributes as a PatternMaker dimension object a name two end points and an insertion point Measure Point Object Add Edit Dim Text Click Ok New Object Name My Dimension object Group Rename None v l Ok Cancel Close Replace picture with dim points example Procedure Tab Panel gt Object gt Sub Tab Dimension gt New Name field Enter an object name for the new text object Required e Click on three points in the Pattern Area See PatternMaker manual for a description of the three points of a Dimension object You will not see anything happen until all three points are selected then the object appears in the Pattern Area To edit a dimension object e Editing dimension objects is similar to editing poly or text objects Text objects 124 Select the object and open the Dimension sub tab for the selected object To change a dimension object s point list e Click a new point in the Pattern Area A dialog box lets you choose which of the dimension object s three points this will be O 2015 PatternMaker Software 128 MacroGen 4 5 gA Point Type Dim Position Star
171. ts 8e O 2015 PatternMaker Software Working with Points 91 7 3 4 Continue A Continue point lies on or continues a line defined by two points at a distance measured from the second To point 1 Continue Name C new Start Point End Point lA z P Measure Fixed Distance A C new B C new 10 r x Cancel Change Procedure Tab Panel gt Point gt Add gt Continue Name Type name for Continue point Here C new Start Point Type or choose from pull down box a Point The Start point of the line A End Point Type or choose from the pull down box The End point of the line B The distance is measured from this point Measure Measure for the distance from End Point You can use either a positive or a negative number in the divisor field Using a positive divisor value places the point from the End point further along the line A B See point C new Using a negative divisor value places the point from the Endpoint backwards along the line A_B See Add Points se for a description of the equation format Note Point C new can be on the line between A B or on the line after point B depending if you use a minus in the constant value field of the measure Use Parent OK Cancel Change See Add Points 8s O 2015 PatternMaker Software 92 MacroGen 4 5 7 3 5 Line Line Intersect A Line Line Intersect point is the intersection of two lines These lines a
172. tware Working with Measurements 5 Attach pictures and text to each measurement See Add Picture to Table 55 6 Save to table 771 g Prompted Measurements Prompted Measurement In Table Measurements Nana Center Back Center Back Shoulder Height Value Sleeve In Seam Waist f12 J Style Dependent Picture pg w_meas_bklength Back Length Put on a thin necklace Table Name or drape a piece of string around your neck Measure from the place where New ad Xi the necklace falls on the back of your Pil ercinementilintie Table For neck to the lower edge of waist elastic BE Name I Lock Type your name here x New Save Import Notes Table For DAR Eigenaar Look in Personal Files J02 erem Folder 16 09 2006 15 58 File Folder 06 12 2006 14 41 File Folder 12 12 2006 10 32 I7 Show Explorer tree Cancel Dialog box Open measurementtable in PatternMaker 2015 PatternMaker Software MacroGen 4 5 6 13 2 Table Name The table name is included in the macro It needs to be a unique name since PatternMaker will only show the MTB files created from this table If two designers use the same name PatternMaker will allow both tables to be loaded This will create problems We advice you to add your designers name to the name of the table like Leena_default women
173. tyle options See also Style Treel31 Deleting a Piecel 30 Renaming a Piecel 29 Display Name 33 3 1 3 Rename Piece Purpose Change the name of the piece If you change the name of a piece it will also change the name of the root style in the piece to match If you find you need to change the name of a Piece it is easy to do Procedure 1 Right mouse click an entry in the Style tree A small Piece Name dialog box opens 2 Type a new name for the Piece and click the OK button New Name Bodice Style X Cancel Changing the Piece name does not affect the Display name Check afterwards if the displayed name is also the way you want it See also Adding a Piecel28 Deleting a Piecel 30 2015 PatternMaker Software 30 MacroGen 4 5 3 1 4 Delete Piece Purpose Delete a piece from the piece list Caution This action cannot be reversed The entire piece and any associated styles will immediately be erased At times you may find it necessary to remove an item from the Piece list This could happen if you decide not to include a piece in your design or if you need to change the order in which the Pieces dialog boxes are displayed to the user when the macro is run You might want to save your work before you delete a piece Note If you simply want to give a Piece a different name see Renaming a Piece Deleting a piece 1 Highlight an entry in the Piece List 2 Click the Delete button ne
174. ual macro Rather than document the syntax PatternMaker Software has provided an Accelerator feature to construct correct reference names for you Names are of the general form OType Name member Name Type in the name of the desired point or measurement not required if you use the other inputs MacroGen does not require the name you enter to be a valid one Type of data structure Choices are Point Measure and Object List A list of the available items of the selected Type This box updates whenever you change the Name or Type Accel The Accelerator puts together the full reference name for the data item you selected Choices in this list show all the elements for the data type you selected for instance a Point is a structure with an X value a Y value and a name Paste The Insert button pastes the contents of the Accel field into the big Code field Note that it only inserts the correct reference name for the data item you selected it does not construct a complete macro language statement O 2015 PatternMaker Software 160 MacroGen 4 5 e Code field The contents of this field are inserted verbatim into your macro If it contains errors your macro will have bugs You can type or paste text directly or insert the contents of the Accel field e OK button If the button is grayed out there is a problem with your syntax If your syntax is correct but there is another error you will get a message but the code point will be
175. ve the style where those points are made PatternMaker does not allow you to do things that are not correct 2015 PatternMaker Software Using the Style Manager 35 3 1 6 6 Show Style Windows Most procedures in MacroGen require that at least one style window be open Menu command options such as Objects and Zoom cannot be done if there are no windows open Highlight a style from the style tree and then click the Show button The selected style window opens You can also double click on the style in the Style tree to open the style window 3 1 6 7 Rename Style Styles can be renamed just like pieces Click on the style you want to rename with the left mouse button and then click it with the right mouse button A small dialog box appears where you can type a new name If you rename the root style in a piece you will also rename the piece Procedure 1 Right mouse click an entry in the Style tree A small Name dialog box opens 2 Type a new name for the Piece and click the OK button New Name Bodice Style X Cancel Changing the Piece name does not affect the Display name Check afterwards if the displayed name is also the way you want it 3 1 6 8 Delete Style Purpose To delete a Style select the style you want to delete and click on the red X A warning appears asking if you really want to do it 3 1 6 9 Style Picture Purpose Use the Style Picture to add an illustration of the style This illustr
176. will get a Add Edit message box advising you of this and the Delete Hide Edit action will be canceled Ms a You can not delete a point from which other points measurements or objects are dependent 9 10 11 L 12 13 Can not delete point x 14 15 16 17 Point 14 is referenced by Point 18 18a 18 19 2 O x 20 C Hide All Hide None Edit 7 7 Purge points Purpose To clean up the unused points Procedure Menu gt Points gt Purge Unused All unused points will be deleted except those are used in a object or have references to other points It would be good practice to save your work before you run this command Take care this command can not be undone 2015 PatternMaker Software 112 MacroGen 4 5 7 8 Show hide points Purpose Select which points in the drawing will be visible If you have a large number of points in your drawing you may want to hide some of them temporarily Procedure Tab Panel gt Points gt Edit All points are visible in the list Check the check box Hide for any point you want to hide in the drawing When you want don t want to see any points click the button Hide All When you want to see all the points again click the button Hide None Measure Point Object 17 pa A add fean mm 197 Hide Edit 6 de 1 i 8 21 g 23 Bodice Back k 14 15 16 8 3 17 c9 Checked points are hidden on Hide All fo
177. x that asks the user for the measurement Usually but not always these are body measurements taken with a measuring tape This is the dialog for creating a prompted measurement M Prompted Measurements coe el The measurement contains these elements e Name the name or caption that the macro user sees in the dialog box Value the default value that appears before the user types in a Measurement Table number a Style Dependent when checked this measurement is dependent on a choosen style Picture the illustration that goes with the measurement in the dialog box see also Master Measurement Table 79 Picture Description text description for the measurement Notes the notes about this prompted measure Calculated measurements Most of the measurement types are created and edited with very similar dialog boxes Here is a typical dialog box for the Distance measurement O 2015 PatternMaker Software 52 MacroGen 4 5 ga Distance Name Start 2 From Point To Point Start X coca 000 Internal measurements only have internal names plus the parameters of the various formulas used to calculate them Every measure has a name Most measures also require you to select some points or measures in this case the From Point and To Point These fields are pull down lists that show the names of all the points that currently exist in the project Note that if a measure depends on
178. xt to the Piece List Red X 3 The Piece is immediately removed There is no confirmation message Important If you want to delete a piece in which measurements or points are made that are used in pieces after MacroGen will give you a warning that deleting is not possible because of measurement X or point Y It is therefore not possible to delete pieces with important information for pieces after it See also New Piece Name 287 Renaming a Piece 29 3 1 5 Piece List In the Piece List you see all pattern pieces you need in your pattern When you have only pattern pieces with no options these pieces will not appear in PatternMaker when you run the macro However when you add Style options on a pattern piece the piece names will be visible in PatternMaker as a Style option window with your added choices B4 Bodice Style Bodice Style Bust dart to side seam Next Cancel Example of a Style Option window in PM See also New Piecel 28 Add Macro Titlel 27 O 2015 PatternMaker Software Using the Style Manager 31 Delete Piecel30 Rename Piecel291 3 1 6 Style Tree The style tree is where options for each piece is created Each style is listed and has it s own set of points and objects The bottom most styles Grandchild 1 Grandchild 2 etc will show up as style options when the macro is run in PatternMaker Style Tree Mother Child 1 Grandchild 1 al Grandchild 2 Child 2 x Gran
179. ys true Select the Open file command Open the Tutorials folder Open the MacroGen 4 5 file Skirt with NO Logic in 2015 PatternMaker Software Reference and examples 173 To save the original file save the file as a new name In the Style manager rename the Base Style to Hip Ease Make three sub styles children in the Style Tree e Normal e Tight e Loose Open the Parent Style Hip Ease Open the logic form with Menu gt point gt logic there are 2 ways to open the logic form select the right style highlighted and go to Menu Point Logic or via Open Style with Show and then go to Menu Point Logic Click New Step Check the always radio button Rename the name True into Ease Click OK Highlight the Hip Ease step in the Step form Click New Result The measure list opens Select Hip ease Hip ease Hip Circumference 1 2 In the parent we have the default setting ease is normal Click OK Click New result Select Waist ease Waist ease Waist Circumference 1 2 In the parent we have the default setting the ease is normal Click OK Click OK to close the Logic form of the style Hip Ease We are back in the Style Manager The child style Normal has the same ease as the parent so we do not have to change anything in this style Open the child style Tight Open the logic form with Menu gt point gt logic On the left we see the step Ease To be able to change the results of the Hip Ease step unch

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