Percentage options

Percentage options are the bread and butter of freesewing. Almost all your options will most likely be percentage options as they ensure that your part will scale regardless of size.

Structure

Your percentage option should be a plain object with these properties:

  • pct : The default percentage
  • min : The minimum percentage that’s allowed
  • max : The maximum percentage that’s allowed
NOTE
Percentage options will be divided by 100 when loaded

You specify percentages in your config file. For example, 50 means 50%. When your configuration is loaded, those percentages will be divided by 100.

So a percentage of 50 in your config file will be 0.5 when you read out that option in your part.

Percentage options are not limited to the range 0-100

The minimum and maximum (and default) percentages are not restricted to the range from 0% to 100%. A percentage option that spans from -25% to 135% is just as valid.

TIP

Like all options that are configured through an object, you can add more properties to the options’ object to implement functionality on top of what’s provided by the core library.

Refer to extending options for more details.

Example

Below is a simple example:

Javascript
options: {
  acrossBackFactor: { 
    pct:  97, 
    min:  93, 
    max: 100 
  }
}

Advanced use

Percentage options have more advanced features that are supported by the core library. You can unlock those features by adding the following properties to your option:

Refer to the relevant documentation for more details:

Millimeter optionsReporting a percentage option value in millimeter