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FlatspecGarment spec sheets

Step 05Image and video

Where it is taken, agreed in writing

This is the step the rest of the product exists to reach, and the only one that cannot be skipped.

The most common cause of a sample coming back wrong is not arithmetic. It is that two people measured in different places, and both were confident they were right. A number without a location is not a specification.

The same chest measurement taken two ways: across the widest point, and flat at 2.5 cm below the armhole

Left

Across the widest point

Wherever the body happens to be widest — which moves as the pattern changes.

Right

2.5 cm below the armhole

A fixed distance from a fixed point, so it means the same thing to everyone who reads it.

01Row by row

Confirm each measurement against its diagram

Working, not a picture of it. Select a row to see its point diagram, then confirm it. Tab and Enter get through the whole thing without a mouse.

There is no bulk confirm, on any plan, at any price. A confirmation that can be applied to forty rows at once is not a confirmation, and the one thing this product is for is making sure that step actually happens.

Point diagram — Half chest

Technical flat, front view: oversized boxy shirt with dropped shoulder

Measured flat, 2.5 cm below the armhole, side seam to side seam.

58.0 cm22 7/8 in± 1.0 cm

Confirm each row

0 of 5 confirmed

Confirm all remaining rowsNot available on any plan

Export gate

5 rows are still unconfirmed. Until every row is confirmed against its diagram, the pack will not generate — on any plan.

What blocks an export

  • Any row not confirmed by you
  • Any row without a point diagram
  • Any row without a tolerance
  • Any row without a method sentence
  • A derived value not marked as inferred
  • A flat carrying shading or a body
  • Uploaded artwork without a rights confirmation
  • A label template without its disclaimer shown

What the export contains

  • A disclaimer page first, before anything else
  • Front and back flats, plus detail views
  • The measurement table with diagrams alongside
  • The grading table with its increments stated
  • Fabric, trims and construction notes
  • PDF and PNG, A4 and Letter, fonts embedded

02Measurement walkthrough

Twenty seconds that settle it

The flat holds still and each measurement line draws itself on, one at a time, with its value and method beside it. Nothing else happens in the video, because nothing else needs to.

Length
2 to 3 seconds per measurement, 20 to 45 seconds in total.
Ratios
16:9 to send alongside the pack, 1:1 for messaging apps.
Audio
None. There is no audio track in the file at all, and no voiceover — factory conversations cross languages, and a line being drawn does not need translating.
On screen
The measurement name and value only, overlaid. No music, no branding animation, no intro.
Plan
Included on Studio. Not included on Draft or Free.

This is the whole of what the video feature does. There is no promotional film, no lookbook and no product showcase, because neither of those helps anyone agree where a chest is measured.

Walkthrough, 16:9

No audio track

The file carries no audio stream. Captions are unnecessary because nothing is spoken; the on-screen text is the content.

1:1

Silent

Square crop, for sending in a messaging app.
Filmstrip of four identical shirt flats, each with one more red measurement line drawn on than the last.
Frames from the sequence: lines accumulate, the drawing never moves.

03The export

The first page is the disclaimer

Not a footer, not an appendix. The first page a production room turns to, in the same words every time.

Underneath it, the pack states how many open questions are still unanswered and how many values are inferred. A pack with outstanding items is not blocked from export — it is allowed out, honestly labelled, because a spec with three known gaps is far more useful to a factory than one pretending to have none.

What is blocked is an unconfirmed measurement. That one is not a gap you can declare; it is a gap that silently produces the wrong garment.

What this is, and what it is not

Page layout diagram: a document page with a thick red bar across the top third and placeholder ruled lines beneath it.
The disclaimer occupies the top of the first page at a size that cannot be missed, above the style code and the date.

Exports are available on Draft and Studio. On Free the preview is watermarked and cannot be exported. Prices are in USD.