scale

The scale setting is an overall scaling factor that will influence a variety of factors to better support very small patterns.

To be clear, scale does not change the size of the pattern itself. It merely controls things like the various stroke width, the size of arrows on dimensions, the size of the text on the pattern, and so on.

Signature

const settings = {
  Number scale=1
}

Example

import { Aaron } from "@freesewing/aaron"

const pattern = new Aaron({
  scale: 0.5
})

Notes

This was a feature requested by those users who are generating patterns for dolls. At such small sizes, many snippets, text, or logos become so large (in comparison to the pattern) that they are problematic.

For most elements, scale simply changes the size of the element linearly by the value of scale. For example, the size of the logo at a scale of 0.5 is exactly half the size of the logo at a scale of 1.0.

For elements that depend on specific lengths or starting/ending points (for example, dimensions, cutonfold, and grainline), the element lengths are not changed. However, other aspects of the elements, like text size and line weight, do get scaled.

Similarly, for bartacks the lengths of the bartacks do not change, but the bartack widths and line weights are scaled.

For the scalebox and miniscale, as scale decreases these scale boxes are replaced with other scale boxes with smaller dimensions. The text in the smaller scale boxes is also replaced so that each scale box always reports its correct dimensions. For example, the default size scale box text might say, “The inside of this box should measure 10 cm x 5 cm”. But, when scale is reduced, the text in the smaller scale box might instead say, “The inside of this box should measure 6 cm x 3 cm.”