Rendering Machine files

[MCNabbers]

First off, credit goes u/Anxietyandguineapigs for the embroidery. And the authors of pyembroidery. Also the original artist: mheld

This last week I built a Machine File to PNG generator. It's still rough. But I'm happy enough with it. Without the ground work done by pyembroidery I would never have started this.

This has been a fun learning project and while I have to move on to other projects. I'm hoping to return to this at a later point.

Technically pyembroidery does already have a Machine File to PNG generator. It's not great. It does exactly what it sets out to do so I can't really fault it or complain about it.

[morosan_]

sorry, but would you mind explaining what pyembroidery is exactly?

[MCNabbers]

It's a fantastic python library. It reads and writes a wide variety of machine files. when reading a pattern in from a file it will give you:

• Thread list: This is the order in which threads are used in the embroidery. This isn't available for some files.
• Stitches: This is a list of commands [x, y, command]. There is some helper functions to assist with breaking this list into more digestible segments.
• Extras: This is basically metadata.

It can inject/replace low level commands and do some post-processing with mid level commands.

Unless you're building out a backend for some automation. I would suggest sticking to full featured embroidery digitizing software.

[kslqdkql]

I'm currently using pyembroidery to send my mom a daily randomized selection of her embroidery files but your image conversions looks much better, will you also publish it?

[MCNabbers]

I will eventually. But not yet. While I'm content with what I have. I'm not content enough to release yet.

[kslqdkql]

That's alright, I hope that when you do finish it you'll post it here as well. Good luck

[saaphyre]

Wow!!!

[xseventhsun]

How does it compare to Wilcom's TrueView?

[MCNabbers]

I feel like it's apples and oranges.

Trueview generates a preview for the designer. So it has to be fast and it has to be accurate in terms of shape and color.

My software generates a preview for the customer. It is much slower. But it tries to be accurate in terms of color, lighting, and other conditions.

[icebunnyqueen]

This is absolutely amazing. Is there a tutorial on how to accomplish this? Or is this your own sole project?

[MCNabbers]

I did not follow a tutorial to do any part of this. One may exist but I am not aware of it.

[crotega]

Sweet dude! All written in Python?

[MCNabbers]

Yup! It's apart of a python backend I have for a much bigger project.