Production and export readiness

What you are trying to accomplish

Decide whether a project is ready to become a file that another person can print and use safely.

Why it matters

Export is only a file-making action. It cannot prove that scale, geometry, piece information, or construction relationships are correct. A responsible release separates blocking errors from acknowledged draft limitations.

Pattern evidence

Safe next step

Step by step

1. Confirm that every required piece is present and meaningfully named.
2. Pass the independent true-size check and review any size-suspect pieces.
3. Resolve open, crossing, or visibly unhealthy paths.
4. Confirm grain or fold information, cut quantity, labels, notches, darts, and allowances.
5. Review declared seam relationships and intentional ease.
6. Complete Pattern Check with no blocking issues.
7. Arrange multi-piece patterns for the selected paper size.
8. Choose the export for the intended use and review any draft warning.
9. Print one check page at Actual size and measure it before printing or cutting the full pattern.

What success looks like

Pattern Check names no blocking issue, the print arrangement is current for the chosen paper, the export status is honest, and the physical check measurement confirms the output scale.

Common problems and recovery

• A clean export is blocked: follow the named evidence instead of exporting around it.
• The paper size changes: review the arrangement again because page breaks may move.
• An unsafe draft is necessary: keep the DRAFT marking and communicate why it is not ready to cut.
• The printed check is wrong: stop. Reprint at Actual size or 100% and disable Fit to page.

Quick safety check

The final question is not “Did the download succeed?” It is “Can another person print this at the intended size and understand how to use every piece?”

Related tools and next step

Complete Pattern Check, Arrange for Print, and Export and print at actual size.