New features and changes in Boutique 4.
Style Editor New screen navigation
Many new styles, necklines, sleeves, and collars, multiple gore and tier options for skirts, waistband and waistline options for skirts and pants, waistline options for jumpsuits, darts including princess panel, and the ability to select the front darts separately from the back darts for blouses, dresses, jackets, and sheaths, new yoked skirt styles
Reduced number of measurements
Measurements changed to settings - Hip Depth, Knee Depth, Bust to Shoulder, Bust Pt to Bust Pt
New settings - shoulder point, kick pleat height, elbow depth, elbow circumference, sleeve hem width, lapel width, lapel angle, notched collar point, skirt flare depth, skirt and pant yoke depth
Designate sleeve and pant lengths and sleeve and pant hem circumference
New sleeve ease markings
Collar roll settings
The new lapel settings will allow you to modify notched lapels separate from the notched collar.
New design and fit settings.All settings will be added to all programs where appropriate.
Hip Depth - moved from measurement screen; controls the location of the hipline for blouses, dresses, pants, and skirtsH
Knee Depth - moved from measurement screen; controls the location of the knee line for slim cut, flared, and boot cut pants
Dart Point Vertical (formerly shoulder to bust point measurement); controls the location of the bust dart points down from the top of the garment
Dart Point Horizontal (formerly bust point to bust point measurement); controls the location of the bust dart point in from the center of the garment
Shoulder Point (formerly drop shoulder) - can be a positive or negative number to move the location of the shoulder point at the armscye for both drop shoulder and sleeveless garments
Elbow Depth - sets the location of the elbow line for sleeves down from the underam point; controls the location of the elbow dart and sleeve flare
Elbow Circumference - controls the circumference of the sleeve at the elbow depth line
Sleeve Hem Width - set the sleeve hem allowance
Skirt Flare Depth - sets the location for skirt flare for the sideseams and gore lines
Lapel Width - sets the width of the lapel for notched collars
Lapel Angle - sets the angle of the lapel for notched collars
Notched Collar Point - sets the width of the notched collar at its widest point
Shawl and Notched Collar Roll Types - sets the type of roll for notched and shawl collars; choose from built up, stand, roll, and flat
User-set Sleeve Lengths and Sleeve Hem Circumference - sets the overarm length and sleeve hem circumference for short, elbow, three quarter, wrist, and extended lengths
User-set Pant Lengths and Pant Hem Circumference - sets the inseam length and pant hem circuference for floor, pants, ankle, capri, toreador, pedal pushers, bermuda, jamaica, and short pants
Skirt and Pant Yoke Depth - sets the depth for skirt and pant yoked waistlines
Front and back kick pleats and center front and center back box pleats on many styles
Client photo added to Client Information screen
Import/Export Styles - for sharing styles among users
Shortened lengths for dresses in Boutique and Celebrations
Full screen mode - load all garment components, new tools
New style pictures including back views and more extensive details
New style summary including body measurements and finished garment measurements
New default settings including setting defaults once for all garment types
New Style Catalog including style photos, fabric swatch, fabric description, and notes
Default print settings for All to Black and Line Width, and suppress print marks
Wild Styles - preset style options for design inspiration and fast printing
Pattern Editor New tools including Continuous Line, Specification tool, Radial Copy, Fill Symbol, Grid
New RGB color settings
Standard Windows shortcuts where possible
New File/Save screen - can add and delete folders
Recent files list on open dialog screen
Yardage Calculator Turn off fabric rectangle before printing
Add text
Move yardage text onto patterns
Automatically rotate patterns 90 degrees on opening a file
Added date to layout statistics
Recent files list on open dialog screen
Help New measurement videos, tutorial videos, and construction guides
We have created a new Style Catalog for v.4. You can now save your style settings to build your own Style Catalog. We added the ability to save photos or sketches and front and back views, fabric swatches, fabric description, and notes. We have also added the ability to import and export styles to and from your catalog so that you can share styles among yourselves. In addition, the style summary, photos, sketches, etc. will be saved to a rich text formatted file that can be opened and edited in Word.
Skirts
We have added several new items for skirts including multiple gore and tier options, center front and center back box pleats, and center front and center back kick pleats. There is also now a setting for kick pleat height. We have need yoked skirt styles including pleats and a very pretty side drape and a new yoked waistline option. All skirt options will be added to Celebrations and Child's Play.
Blouses and Tops
Additions to Blouses and Tops include a new curved vee neckline and a new princess panel dart option which has both a shoulder and armscye princess seam. You can also now choose front darts separately from back darts, i.e. you can choose a front shoulder princess and a back neckline princess, etc.
Defaults
Each garment screen will now have Defaults tab that will display the current defaults for the garment type and measurement chart. All defaults have now been moved to one screen so that you can set them all at once. You will be able to save defaults for multiple garment types at one time. You can also choose to save defaults only for the current measurement chart or for all future charts until you change them. When you click on a default setting, a picture of that setting and a description will be displayed.
Summary
On each garment screen, you will have a Summary tab that will show the current style settings, the current body measurements and the current finished garment measurements. I have also attached an RTF document of the new style summary. It will save to the rich text format and can now be opened in Word or othe word processors. At the bottom, will be an image of the front and back of the garment.
We have moved the seam allowance, facing width, and hem allowance settings to each design screen so that you can set those separately for each garment type.
We have added new print settings including Line Width and All to Black. We have also added the ability to not print the registration marks and row and column numbers for those of you printing to a plotter.
There is now a setting to always ungroup objects when opening the Pattern Editor and to always rotate patterns 90 degrees when opening the Yardage Calculator.