For independent sewing-pattern designers
One master file.Every format.
Drop in your layered pattern. Get back home-printing tiles, copyshop sheets and a projector file, with size layers kept and every file measured to scale.
Free for your testers. $12 when you launch.
Your file is read in your browser. Nothing is uploaded until you press.
Verified · 100.00 mmPress the example trouser
This is the release screen from the app. Drop your own master on it and see it tiled, right here. Or pick up the example trouser and press every format.
Not sure it'll work with your file?
Every master is odd in its own way. Don't take our word for it:
- 1Drop it hereOn the release screen below. It's read in your browser, and nothing is uploaded.
- 2Build a pattern you've already releasedTester files are free, so start with one you know inside out.
- 3Print one pageAt actual size, on your own printer.
- 4Hold the square to a rulerIt should measure exactly what it says.
Pick up a master file and drop it on the press.
Both are the example trouser: three sizes, shared grainlines and notches, a 100 mm test square. One has a catch.
Drop a master file here
Your own SVG, PDF, .ai or .dxf, or one of the example files. Yours stays on your computer: nothing is uploaded.
Every format, laid out from one drawing
The master is placed once and never redrawn, so every format matches to the stitch. Switch formats, hide sizes, pull the pages apart.
- Pages to print
- 17
- A cover with the test square, then 16 pattern pages (4 rows × 5 columns, 4 blank left out)
- Overlap
- 10 mm
- Chalk diamonds on every shared edge, and a tile ID in the corner.
- Test square
- 100.00 mm
- Measured in this file by two PDF engines.
The pattern is done. The files take another day.
Sewpress does all three of these in a few minutes, for every release.
Illustrator tiles or keeps layers
It takes workarounds. Every release means rebuilding A4, Letter, A0 and projector files by hand, size by size.
Scale mistakes become support emails
One file exported at 72 instead of 96 ppi, or printed with Fit to page, and a customer cuts a whole garment at the wrong size.
Projector files are now expected
Sewists ask for them, and they need heavier lines, layers and calibration marks that print files don't have.
Most scale mistakes happen in the print dialog
Sewpress files tell the viewer to print at actual size, so customers don't have to remember. Try it both ways.
96.2 mm
Every tile about 4% small. Across a trouser leg that's about 4 cm, and nobody notices until it's cut.
And before you ever see a file, its test square is measured from the vectors and from a 600 dpi render:
| File | Vector | Printed |
|---|---|---|
| A4 tiles | 100.00 mm | 100.03 mm |
| A0 sheet | 100.00 mm | 99.99 mm |
| Projector | 100.00 mm | 100.01 mm |
Two PDF engines, two methods: the vector geometry, and a 600 dpi render. A file more than 0.1 mm out doesn't ship.
Test free. Pay when you sell.
Every pattern gets free tester files. Failed builds never cost a credit.
- Every format from one master file
- Size layers kept, every file measured
- Marked TEST COPY, for you and your testers, deleted after 30 days
- Every format, with no mark
- Free corrections for a year
- Credits never expire
- Clean a whole catalogue at your own pace
- Free corrections for a year on each
- Credits never expire
Before you press
What do I need?
Your master pattern as an Illustrator .ai file, a layered PDF, an Inkscape SVG or a DXF from pattern CAD: one layer per size, plus shared layers like grainlines, and a 100 mm test square. Other layer names are fine; you map them on screen.
Which formats do I get?
Tiled A4 and US Letter for home printing, ISO A0 and 36 × 48 in (Arch E) for copyshops, a projector file, previews and a zip. Leave out any you don't sell.
How do you check the scale?
Every output is re-opened and its test square measured twice: from the vector geometry, and from a 600 dpi render by a second PDF engine. More than 0.1 mm out and the file doesn't ship.
Will my customers' layer panels work?
Each size is its own PDF layer in every file, so sewists hide sizes in Acrobat Reader, the Pattern Projector app or any viewer with a layers panel.
Who can see my unreleased pattern?
Only you. The master file is read by our build software and kept 7 days, so you can clean your tester files without uploading again. Once you've paid for a build it goes after 24 hours unless you choose to keep it longer, and you can delete it any time.
What does it cost?
Tester files are free: every format, marked TEST COPY, for you and your testers. Clean files to sell are $12 a release, or 5 for $39, 20 for $119.
Press your first pattern today
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