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Resize a piece to fit you, with wearing ease

Pick your measurement profile, set the wearing ease, and resize the piece so its fitted ring clears your head, forearm, chest, waist or calf; measure what's missing and come back.

CosplayersUpdated October 11, 2026
  • ~4 min
  • New to it
  • Part 2 of 4

Every blank starts at an average adult's size. Resize to fit sizes the piece's fitted ring β€” the one that has to go round you β€” to your measurement plus some room.

Before you start

  • A piece on the workbench (see part 1).
  • The measurement it fits against in the Measuring Room: head for a helmet or mask, chest for a torso or back plate, forearm for a vambrace or bracer, waist for a belt, calf for greaves.
  1. Open Fit & export

    On the Model tab, find the Fit & export card.
  2. Pick your body

    Under Fit to measurements, choose your profile. Every Workshop tool shares the choice.
  3. Set the ease

    Wearing ease (cm) β€” room for padding, a wig cap and to move. It starts at 1.0 cm; up to 6 cm.
  4. Resize

    Press Resize to fit. It scales the piece's width and depth β€” never its height.

Check it worked

It reads Resized …% to fit …, with … of ease. The tape on the workbench shows your measurement and what the piece now fits (head 57.0 cm Β· fits 59.0 cm).

See it on you

Tick Show the wearer to see a body built from your profile under the piece. Where a number is missing it uses an average adult's, and says so β€” Measure them β€Ί fills them in.

When a measurement is missing

  1. Save first

    Save the design (see part 4), so there's something to come back to.
  2. Measure it

    Where the button was, it reads … has no head circumference yet. Press Measure it β€Ί and take it in the Measuring Room.
  3. Come back

    Press Back to Piece Forge β†’ at the top of the room. Your design reopens; press Resize to fit.

If something's off

β€œA pauldron has no body measurement to fit β€” scale it by eye.”
Pauldrons and props aren't fitted to a measurement. Shape them by eye with the wearer showing, or set ring sizes by hand in the Rings card.
Resize to fit is greyed out
Choose a profile under Fit to measurements first.
The piece is the right width but too tall
Resizing never changes height. Drag the top ring's handles down, or remove a ring.

Still stuck? Browse all help or contact us. To report someone or something, use the report action on the relevant profile, post, or session β€” it sends us the context automatically.