posted 66 months ago (Wednesday, December 5) by
jne4sl
Question about custom sizing.
I mostly use Sewist Cad patterns. I seem to have different behavior based on size group. I mostly work in women's and mostly entering a custom size works there. I had found that if I attempt to enter a girl's (or men's or boy's) the custom size never completes, stays on the pending red battery icon, and never becomes available for use with patterns.
I discovered yesterday that if I choose a girl's size that matches the measurements of one of the iso Russia options, then I can create a labeled custom size in girl's. So for example, I click height 140, bust 68, hip 80.2, and then look up the corresponding under bust and full hip (65.5, 78.2). Then, I was able to create a labelled custom size using those five numbers and it's available under "My Sizes" when I'm working with a pattern. But if I used the actual measurements (138, 69, 80, with 59 and 82) the custom size will never generate.
I've never had a problem entering women's sizes, and getting a custom size to generate, but at least in the past, it seemed like if the women's sizes entered didn't match one of the "canned" sizes, the pattern would fail to generate with a system error at the pdf stage. This would happen even if the pattern appeared correct on the layout page and even if the pattern didn't call any "sz" variables (e.g. my draft was only using fixed numbers). Of course, all patterns, other than the accessories size group, must call the sizes behind the scenes to generate the printed labels. Anyway, not sure if the issues are related, or if the issue with women's sizes is now already resolved.
It just seems like, for girl's sizes custom generation only works if the size actually matches an iso Russia option, whereas, entering women's sizes is less restricted, but possibly there will be an issue when it comes time to request a .pdf.