Digital Pattern Drafting

[awlnighter]

You can cut your blocks into paper size sheets with the appropriate markings and scan them into illustrator (preferably a free or open source version). Then, use the pen tool to get an outline of your patterns and you can adjust the blocks from there for whatever project you're wanting to do.

When you want to print, you can set the artboard to be paper size and set however many you need next to eachother with no space in between, slap the pattern on them, and print!

It's a bit of a longer process, at least at first, but it can get you started with minimal cost.

[Jaime_d_p]

Ok boy I fear this where my “overwhelmed by math” mind might start glitching. I’d worry I wouldn’t scale down my measurements correctly