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Question about custom sizing.

We'll look into the custom girls sizes, meanwhile, it seems you were using a size where Hips and Full hips are exactly equal. We are still trying to figure out how that size could be saved, but in general this is not allowed. If you fix the size by editing the full hips measurement, the pattern will go through fine. Could you please try?

Most recently I've been in the habit of reporting full hip as 2cm greater than hip, even if there isn't a measurable difference.  

For Women's sizing you are correct. I did still have one size with hip = full hip = 94.0 and attempting to use that causes an error at pdf generation.  I entered a new size with full hip = 96.0 and the problem was solved.

Oh, it is a new thing, we haven't yet advertised it. I still have to work on the FAQs regarding this, but you are welcome to try changing the secondary sizes. If you change the primary ones, the size will be regenerated. 

I put this to use immediately, it's a huge help to be able to control more of the sizing.  Any chance there could be a "notes" field added to the personal size chart?  I had a couple things about the measurements I wanted to remember.  Things like left hip height +1cm.  I don't need this accessible from a pattern, just a place to keep track of anything unusual about the measurements.

So, I have been playing with the auxiliary sizing and it's a huge help to be able to isolate more measurements.  What I find is it's not possible to change the primary sizes, it would be necessary to start a new size file for that.  There are other entries which are displayed but greyed out because they are dependent on other entered sizes.  I understand that, however, if those sizes are edited, the dependent size never recalculates.  So for example sz76 is not editable because sz76 = sz36 + sz43 - sz44 and the other three are editable.  But when do change one, of the three, sz76 isn't recalculated.  So when I go to use the size, I then need to use the formula instead of calling sz76.

Another small issue with creating custom sizes.  I want to create two sizes that are the same height/bust/hip but different waist and also different in auxiliary measurements.  I've done this and given them different names and I'm able to enter everything and go back and confirm it was saved in both entries.  However when I go to select the second custom size from a pattern, both sizes are highlighted and the first custom size is used instead.  It's as if these two sizes have been identified.  I tried entering a third size with yet another name and then all three are selected at once no matter which I click, and still only the first one entered seems to be accessible.  

Hello and thanks for the headsup. This is being fixed and they promise to upload a fix tomorrow, I'll report here. :)

Fixed and released :)

It's working, thanks!

What's the recommended way to access the hip-to-waist distance?  I tend to use sz86 'height of buttocks' to be hip level and subtract that from sz7 'height of waist'.  Is that correct?  Then the next question, would be can sz86 be added to the sizes available for modification in the extended size chart?  It's very common for drafts to require this distance and just like anything else, for a given individual it won't be perfectly proportional to their height.  Some people have a short torso but log legs, and setting the waist level leads to a waist-hip distance that's too long.  If sz86 is dependent on one of the other sizes, which is it?  The only possibilities I see are sz49 'seat height' or sz77 'crotch'.  

In the size standards that we base the program on somehow this size measurement is not present. Hard to believe, but so it is. I suggest you look up the public skirt/dress patterns for a formula, as it was tested and works fine.

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Thanks!  Good to know I wasn't missing something obvious, and it did seem odd to be going so deep into the size chart, sz86, for a formula.  So I found this in the skirt pattern:

Thanks for the valuable comments - indeed, this is the reason why the pro editing of sizes is still not widely advertised and is so to say in beta mode.

Thanks.  As far as forcing the size, I'm just saying it's a small way I would use it, not recommending to everyone.  As things are, for example, based on my height sz12, gluteal furrow, is being set 2.5 cm shorter than what I actually measure, but I can't change that, so even with a hip level formula, there's an error to contend with.  Now maybe sz12 is another size that shouldn't be alterable because it's too closely tied to some size that can already be entered, but in that case it's probably the same issue that occurs with sz44, and sz12 at least needs to be recalculated when additional data are input.  E.g. if I indicate a high waist, with my input for sz7, if that's what sz12 was based on, it should be recalculated and presumably there'd then be a higher sz12. 

Hello, 

I would like to adjust my size for a sway back and I cant find wich measurement I should adjust for that. Someone  can tell me?

Thanks,

Dear Madeleine,