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Hi, I'm currently working on a tool that would do this. I'm targeting Blender's MB-Lab plugin, which uses some absolute measurements as understood by the tailoring world. Other parameters are non-absolute scalars. My understanding is that MakeHuman does not lend itself well to parametric design, and is intended rather to just generate good-looking models based on some abstract input.

My tool is basically a translator, which can take a .csv exported from SeamlyMe and output a file that can be imported by MB-Lab to create a model that matches the given measurements.

It's not as simple as a 1-to-1 translation unfortunately... most of those non-absolute scalars correspond to absolute measurements in SeamlyMe, so I need to do some experimenting to figure out how their proportionality to other absolute measurements works.

I then intend to write some automation for Blender (by way of Nodes, probably) which will aid in importing the SVG from Seamly2D as 3D sheets, then use the Simply Cloth Pro plugin to turn them into simulated fabric and sew it together onto the model. This will allow you to see how well your pattern fits and moves, à la Marvelous Designer.

I'm not currently interested in writing this in C++ as a feature of the Seamly2D project itself. I'm writing it as a standalone utility in Clojure. However, once that's done, and if I can figure out how to interop from your C++ runtime, I'll happily try to integrate them so the user can just click a button in SeamlyMe and export the MB-Lab file.

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This is going to be a long, slow process for me, but I'm highly motivated. Help would be welcome. Releasing my work is contingent on my employer open-sourcing a Clojure library I wrote, which they have stated they intend to do.

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Oh, and if anyone knows of any existing work that I'm duplicating, please let me know. I'd rather not reinvent the wheel, if it's out there and sufficiently round.

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