Scaling
Ability within a program to enlarge or decrease the size of a design.
Traditionally, the following recommendations have been considered industry standards:
- In expanded format (stitch file), most scaling is limited to 10 percent to 20 percent because the stitch count remains the same despite the final size of the design.
- In condensed or outline formats (object file), scale changes may be more dramatic because stitches are recalculated at the new size at the pre-determined density resulting in a proportional change in stitch count.
Today’s re-sizing programs have become increasingly more sophisticated and depending on the design, scaling well beyond these recommendations with good results is possible.
One caveat: whenever you modify a design—and resizing is the most common modification—be sure to test sew the design before putting it into production. No digitizer can guarantee resized results because they cannot control the program you are using to do the scaling.
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