PES / PCS File Export
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| Hello All, I might be asking a huge favor here and what not, but I have been staring at this for about two weeks now, and I don't have the experience to do what I'm trying to do I guess. I'm trying to write a program that you can draw vectors, and then convert them into PES, PCS, or HUS file formats which are used for Embroider Machines. http://www.achatina.de/sewing/main/TECHNICL.HTM The site above has the information on both PES and PCS, but I don't understand how I would take my vector information over to these formats. Any help would be great!! Thanks |
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| There is an Open source program here http://embroidermodder.org/news0.html maybe you could glean something from the code. The site you pointed to isn't very clear on its description. |
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| Sorry I did go through that as well.. https://github.com/Embroidermodder/Embroidermodder/tree/master/libembroidery here is all the C source.. |
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| Yep, that's what you want. It appears to support loading and saving of those file formats :-) |
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| Can you help me better understand the formatting of these? BTW I already have my program saving SVG format, but that does me no good going over to a Embroidery Machine. **EDIT** So have been spending time looking over the code for the last few min again, and looks like there is a lot of custom functions used to store the geometry, and then save to the different formats. |
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| There's a converter program. You can give it an svg input and tell it which format to output. Job done. Just for fun, I made a little app to render the stitch instructions to the screen - so you can watch it creating the image, just as the machine would make it...  |
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| Brucey you are the master of code so yes that stuff would be easy for you to implement, I haven't had much experience with these type of things and most of what I have done is basic application api, and using what is provided to me for graphics through blitzmax.. can you share the code? |
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| It just parses the sample .csv files, and draws the "stitches" with DrawLine. Nothing too exciting really. |
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| I guess need to spend more time on this stuff before I get to crazy, thanks anyways! |
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| I've added a new module : BaH.libembroidery. It's a basic wrap of libembroidery, and handles reading, writing, and probably creating your own from scratch - although I haven't tried that yet. There's a basic demo which is similar to the example I posted above, except it's rendering via the library, rather than parsing a csv file directly. It also shows different thread colours, etc. It's built for NG, and won't do anything if you build it with legacy BlitzMax - generally because wrapping is easier with NG, and saves me time. I've tested it on OSX, Win32 and Linux - all 64-bit. |
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| *DOUBLE POST* - DELETE |
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| I looked through it and I couldn't believe how easy that is to wrap this.. I feel stupid now, but thanks for all your hard work and effort on this Brucey. You are a GOD among men!! FBEpyon |
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