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authors: 1
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caption: 'Photo by Deeana Creates from Pexels'
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date: '2020-07-12'
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intro: "We've just release FreeSewing v2.7 🎉"
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title: 'FreeSewing v2.7: Titan, changes to measurements, and a long list of improvements'
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---
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We've just release FreeSewing v2.7 🎉
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There's a lot of work that went into this release, and unfortunately it also
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will cause some breaking changes to your existing patterns and people, but it's
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all for the better.
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Let's have a look at what's new:
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## Titan trouser block
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I have lost count of the number of times I have started working on a trouser
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block over the last couple of years. It's something that's been on my to-do
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list for a long time, yet despite several attempts at making it happen, I
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hadn't come up with something that I was happy with.
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That's because designing trouser patterns is hard. Making sure things fit,
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while also guaranteeing that inseam, outseam, and cross seam are all the same
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length is no walk in the park. Especially if you want a pattern that will
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seamlessly adapt to different sizes and models.
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It would have probably lingered on my to-do list a while longer, but in
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February, Debra reached out to me and proposed we would come up with a pants
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sloper together. I love teaming up with people because it a great way to stay
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motivated, so over the next 4 months or so, we worked on what Debra has named
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[Titan](/designs/titan/), a dart-free unisex trouser block. I'd like to thank
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her for her patience and contributions to make Titan a success
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:::note Help us out: Make a Titan muslin
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A block is just that, a block or sloper. Our next steps are obviously this spin
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this into a number of different trouser patterns. Before we get to that though,
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we'd like to see how Titan performs on a variety of bodies.
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So if you could whip up a muslin of a made-to-measure Titan and let us know how
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it went, that would be wonderful.
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:::
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## Shoulder slope — again — and other changes to measurements
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We've made changes to the different measurements on the site. The roughly fall
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into 3 categories:
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- We've made _waist_ the basis for vertical measurements
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- We've changed the shoulder slope measurement
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- We've simplified the language and terms
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As a result, some vertical measurements that were not based on the waist are
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not gone (hips to upper leg for example). Other measurements have been renamed
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under the hood to make things simpler, but unless you're a developer, you don't
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need to worry about that.
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An important change is the one we made to the shoulder slope measurement. It's
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historically been a measurement that is hard to measure, and the changes we've
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made before to try to address that were in retrospect a bad idea.
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We've changed it again, but this time around, shoulder slope is measured as you
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would expect a slope to be measured: in degrees.
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This required some changes as up until now all measurements used the same
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units, but things should be ok now.
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As a result of all these changes and measurements, there's two things you
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should know:
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- The people you have in your account will have their measurements updated
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(when the names changed) or removed (where the measurement is no longer
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used, or we changed how to measure it)
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- Patterns that you have saved in your account that use some of the changed
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measurements will no longer work. However, we've kept them in your account
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so that if you want, you can extract the data, and re-draft them for the new
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measurements. Feel free to reach out if you need assistance with that.
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:::tip
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We've migrated our backend to these new measurements, but you are likely to
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still have some of the old stuff cached in your profile. To get around this,
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you should probably reload your account
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:::
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## Frontend changes
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We've made a few changes to the website too.
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- We've added a [pattern notation guide](/docs/about/notation/) to take the
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guesswork out of what those markings on your pattern mean.
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- We've added a reload account page to help you
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avoid issues due to cached account data
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- We've changed the styling of the different sizes when you compare a pattern,
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as well as included a legend showing which outline corresponds to which
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size.
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## And many more changes under the hood
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As I said, a lot of work went into this release. See our [monorepo
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changelog](https://github.com/freesewing/freesewing/blob/develop/CHANGELOG.md)
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for all the details.
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