Dakota Design

[Christy]

Hello,
The Dakota Design is a tractor trailor, WH0800, the customer wants it sized in 1/2 for his t-shirts. Can someone please tell me how do adjust the design so it will sew out nice ?
Thank You !

[signman]

With luck someone that does digitizing will jump in here. This much shrinkage is not an easy job. You can 'select all' and then shrink by using 'properties, status' but then you still have to go in
and redo every piece of it-check line width, stitch density, etc. or
it is just going to be cramming same amount of stitches into less space. I 'm in the middle of shrinking a custom logo now-15,000 stitches but I have to bring it down to 10,000 and told the customer it won't work.
4500 of the stitches are in Garamond lettering, already .2" tall-pushing the limits for that font. I can shrink their graphic-but no more on the lettering and still be legible or even sew decently. So they have to decide on keeping or throwing out the tagline.
For your tractor trailer-I will easily bet that you have to throw out 1/3 of the detail in the design anyways...because you cannot take that much detail and still sew it at half size.
Open it in Design shop, select all and then shrink it down-then look at on your monitor at maybe 125% of size. If YOU can't see the detail at that size-start deleting it-customer won't see it either at 100%. That will help get you going.

[Aaron]

This design is 6" wide and a full tractor trailer. I wouldn't suggest resizing this design for left chest. I would have a digitizer setup a tractor trailer specifically for left chest so it will actually have a chance to look ok. If you have a picture of their truck send it to www.clearsky247.net and have them digitize for left chest and they will charge you $50. You will have a heck of a time getting the dakota design to ever look good left chest. Just my opinion.

[Christy]

Thank You for the suggetions, I do use Clearsky and they are good !