Leather Goods
Leather goods and upholstery: pattern pieces with their stitching, skives, folds and labels. A drawing whose industry is Leather goods offers these tools in the toolbar and in Edit › Tool. Nesting the pieces on a hide is done by Nest.
Tools
| Tool | Does | |
|---|---|---|
| Stitch Line | A stitch line the margin in from an edge, with round holes, chisel slits or marks at each stitch, as many as fit evenly | |
| Skive | The band along an edge to skive, with a note of its width | |
| Fold Line | A fold, with the band skived either side of it | |
| Piece Label | A piece's name, how many to cut (in mirrored pairs) and the material, by a grain or stretch arrow | |
| Grain Line | A grain line arrow | |
| Seam Allowance | A turned-edge or seam allowance round a piece | |
| Notch | Matching notches on a seam line | |
| Bridge | Bridges (nicks) in a cut, to hold a piece in the hide | |
| Buttonhole | Buttonholes, or the buttons' places, along a line |
Cuts and stitch holes go on the Cut layer, folds on the Crease layer, and the stitch lines, skives and labels on the Dimension layer (marks, not cuts).
Designs in the library
File › Run Parametric… has a Leather goods folder (see Run Parametric). Each design's stitch holes are spaced evenly at about the irons' pitch on every piece, so they line up when the pieces are put together.
| Design | What it is |
|---|---|
| Card wallet | A card holder: a back and one or two pockets with a thumb cut-out |
| Bifold wallet | An outer folded in the middle (the fold skived) and four stepped card pockets |
| Key fob | A strap folded over the ring, with a rivet or snap hole through both ends |
| Belt | A belt from the waist size: the tip's shape, the buckle's turn-back and tongue slot, screw holes, adjustment holes, a keeper |
| Watch strap | A two-piece strap tapering from the lug width to the buckle's, with holes, folds and stitching |
| Tote panels | A tote's front and back, its gusset and two handles, all stitched |
For a laser, File › Export › Export… writes a LightBurn project or SVG for Glowforge and xTool: cuts on the Cut layer cut, folds on the Crease layer scored, the Dimension layer's marks left out.
For pattern software and cutting rooms, File › Export › Export… writes AAMA/ASTM DXF; to cut by hand, a tiled print puts the pattern full size on sheets of paper, and a projector PDF shows it on the hide from a projector over the table.
Machine profiles
Make It (File › Export › Make It, Ctrl+Shift+M, or the Make It button at the top of the window) writes the cutting room's DXF (Cutting room CAD (AAMA / ASTM DXF)) in one click, beside the drawing, after checking the design: see Make It.
File › Export › Export… lists this trade's formats first. File › Send Using Machine Profile sends the drawing to a machine in one click, with the format, options, layer names and pens it needs; those that come with the app for this trade: Pattern plotter (HP-GL/2), Laser CAM by colour (DXF), Rule bender (CF2), Rule bender (DDES3), Cutting room CAD (AAMA / ASTM DXF), LightBurn laser (project). See Export by Industry and Machine Profiles.
See also: Industries and Tool Sets, Tools.