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diff --git a/lib/stitch_plan/stop.py b/lib/stitch_plan/stop.py deleted file mode 100644 index 81dec1da..00000000 --- a/lib/stitch_plan/stop.py +++ /dev/null @@ -1,43 +0,0 @@ -def process_stop(color_block): - """Handle the "stop after" checkbox. - - The user wants the machine to pause after this patch. This can - be useful for applique and similar on multi-needle machines that - normally would not stop between colors. - - In machine embroidery files, there's no such thing as an actual - "STOP" instruction. All that exists is a "color change" command - (which libembroidery calls STOP just to be confusing). - - On multi-needle machines, the user assigns needles to the colors in - the design before starting stitching. C01, C02, etc are normal - needles, but C00 is special. For a block of stitches assigned - to C00, the machine will continue sewing with the last color it - had and pause after it completes the C00 block. - - That means we need to add an artificial color change instruction - shortly before the current stitch so that the user can set that color - block to C00. We'll go back 3 stitches and mark the start of the C00 - block: - """ - - if len(color_block.stitches) >= 3: - # make a copy of the stitch and set it as a color change - stitch = color_block.stitches[-3].copy() - stitch.color_change = True - - # mark this stitch as a "stop" so that we can avoid - # adding tie stitches in ties.py - stitch.stop = True - - # insert it after the stitch - color_block.stitches.insert(-2, stitch) - - # and also add a color change on this stitch, completing the C00 - # block: - - stitch = color_block.stitches[-1].copy() - stitch.color_change = True - color_block.add_stitch(stitch) - - # reference for the above: https://github.com/lexelby/inkstitch/pull/29#issuecomment-359175447 |