Bodies and goals: measure only what you need

The Measuring Room keeps your body's numbers for every Workshop tool. There are 38 of them, and you almost never need them all: scaling a helmet takes one; a fitted bodice about twelve.

Before you start

Set up a body

1. Open the Measuring Room

   In the Cosplay Realm's rail, choose The Measuring Room (under The Workshop).

2. Name a body

   Press + New body, give it a name — yours, or Con body, client — Rhea — and press Create. (Save a measurement with no body and one called My measurements is made for you.)

3. Add more if you sew for others

   Each body keeps its own numbers. Tap a body's name to switch; every Workshop tool works from the one you last chose. Rename, Duplicate and Delete sit beside them.

Let the goals lead

1. Read What you can make

   It names the nearest goal — … is one measurement away — still needs … — and Ready now: lists what you can already make. Goals are the pieces Fit Forge scales (helmet, vambrace, boot and so on, one measurement each) and the sewing blocks Pattern Forge drafts.

2. Measure the next one

   Press Measure … for the first missing measurement, or Tape all … to walk through every missing one with a tape.

3. See every goal

   See everything lists them all, each ready or … of … — needs ….

Read your list

Your measurements says … of 38 recorded. Filter by group — Head & neck, Torso, Arms & hands, Legs, Whole body. Each row shows how much to trust it, how it was taken and how old it is (±5 mm · tape · this week); How to measure opens the diagram. Row buttons measure it again, Enter by hand, or Clear it.

Choose when numbers go stale

1. Set the reminder

   Under Remind me to re-measure, type the weeks after After (26 to start, 1 to 520) and press Save.

Next: measure with a tape or the camera.

If something's off

I pressed Clear by mistake

Clear doesn't ask first. Measure it again, or Enter by hand.

“A pair of measurements doesn't fit together”

Each is plausible alone, but not both together — one of those two shots was probably scaled wrong. Re-measure one with a tape.

“Outside the usual range for this measurement…”

The usual cause is marking the wrong edge of the reference object. Retake it, or check with a tape.