freesewing/markdown/dev/tutorials/pattern-design/shaping-the-straps/en.md

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Shaping the straps	200

Our straps should follow the neck opening, which isn't that hard to do. We just need to keep the control points of our curves at similar proportions. Which means, halfway between the start of the curve, and the corner of our rectangle.

For this, you'll be using a new method: Point.shiftFractionTowards(). We've already used Point.shift() and there's also Point.shiftTowards() and Point.shiftOutwards(). As always, the API docs have all the details.

```js function draftBib({ Path, Point, paths, points, measurements, options, part, }) {

// Construct the quarter neck opening let tweak = 1 let target = (measurements.head * options.neckRatio) /4 let delta do { points.right = new Point(tweak * measurements.head / 10, 0) points.bottom = new Point(0, tweak * measurements.head / 12)

points.rightCp1 = points.right.shift(90, points.bottom.dy(points.right)/2)
points.bottomCp2 = points.bottom.shift(0, points.bottom.dx(points.right)/2)

paths.quarterNeck = new Path()
  .move(points.right)
  .curve(points.rightCp1, points.bottomCp2, points.bottom)
  .hide() // Add this line

delta = paths.quarterNeck.length() - target
if (delta > 0) tweak = tweak * 0.99
else tweak = tweak * 1.02

} while (Math.abs(delta) > 1)

// Construct the complete neck opening points.rightCp2 = points.rightCp1.flipY() points.bottomCp1 = points.bottomCp2.flipX() points.left = points.right.flipX() points.leftCp1 = points.rightCp2.flipX() points.leftCp2 = points.rightCp1.flipX() points.top = points.bottom.flipY() points.topCp1 = points.bottomCp2.flipY() points.topCp2 = points.bottomCp1.flipY()

paths.neck = new Path() .move(points.top) .curve(points.topCp2, points.leftCp1, points.left) .curve(points.leftCp2, points.bottomCp1, points.bottom) .curve(points.bottomCp2, points.rightCp1, points.right) .curve(points.rightCp2, points.topCp1, points.top) .close() .addClass('fabric')

// Drawing the bib outline const width = measurements.head * options.widthRatio const length = measurements.head * options.lengthRatio

points.topLeft = new Point( width / -2, points.top.y - (width / 2 - points.right.x) ) points.topRight = points.topLeft.shift(0, width) points.bottomLeft = points.topLeft.shift(-90, length) points.bottomRight = points.topRight.shift(-90, length)

paths.rect = new Path() .move(points.topLeft) .line(points.bottomLeft) .line(points.bottomRight) .line(points.topRight) .line(points.topLeft) .close() .addClass('fabric')

// highlight-start // Shape the straps points.edgeLeft = new Point(points.topLeft.x, points.left.y) points.edgeRight = new Point(points.topRight.x, points.right.y) points.edgeTop = new Point(0, points.topLeft.y)

points.edgeLeftCp = points.edgeLeft.shiftFractionTowards(points.topLeft, 0.5) points.edgeRightCp = points.edgeLeftCp.flipX() points.edgeTopLeftCp = points.edgeTop.shiftFractionTowards( points.topLeft, 0.5 ) points.edgeTopRightCp = points.edgeTopLeftCp.flipX()

// Now, adapt our rect path so it's no longer a rectangle: paths.rect = new Path() .move(points.edgeTop) .curve(points.edgeTopLeftCp, points.edgeLeftCp, points.edgeLeft) .line(points.bottomLeft) .line(points.bottomRight) .line(points.edgeRight) .curve(points.edgeRightCp, points.edgeTopRightCp, points.edgeTop) .close() // highlight-end

return part }

</Example>