18. Wildcard week¶
For this week’s assignment I had to design and produce something using a digital fabrication process which was not covered in another assignment. The digital fabrication process chosen for this week’s assignment was embroidery. This would include documentation on the files used to produce it. There was no group assignment for this week and the requirements are listed below:
Individual assignment:¶
Design and produce something with a digital fabrication process (incorporating computer-aided design and manufacturing) not covered in another assignment, documenting the requirements that your assignment meets, and including everything necessary to reproduce it.
What is Embroidery?¶
Embroidery is the process of creating textured or embellished images on a material (usually fabric) using needles and thread. In the past this was primarily done by hand, however in modern time this has moved to machines.
- First, I downloaded & installed ink stitch (add-on for inkscape) to prepare an image for embroidery.
- Then, I downloaded an image from online of what I wanted to embroider.
- Then I imported the image into Inkscape and resized it to a size I was comfortable with.
- Then, I performed a trace bit map on the image to create vectorized version of it.
- Then, I opened the ink stitch extension to prepare the vectorized image for embroidering. An adjusted the setting seen until I had the desired version of the image and ran the visualization if it worked correctly.
- Then I saved the image as a .pes file for the embroidery machine.
- Then I went to the embroidery machine to manufacture my design and powered the machine
- Then I setup the material that will be used to manufacture the design on the machine.
- Then I inserted my flash drive with my design and navigated through the machine to create my design.
- Some of the causalities that had occurred during this process are seen below. To prevent some of these ensure that thread doesn’t have knots, the material being embroidered should have a backing material to prevent knots and breakage of the neddle.
