InkSim
InkSim is a standalone interactive embroidery simulator and preview renderer. It opens embroidery files, displays their stitch sequence, and lets the user inspect or replay the design before production. It is implemented as a small Python/wxPython/Numba application with its own standalone user interface.
InkSim is experimental software provided for development and testing.
Installation
Install the published PyPI package with uv:
uv tool install inksim
Then run it directly from your shell:
inksim design.pes
Linux users need a wxPython wheel matching their distribution. For example, Ubuntu 24.04 users can install InkSim with:
uv tool install --find-links https://extras.wxpython.org/wxPython4/extras/linux/gtk3/ubuntu-24.04 inksim
See installation and running for other Linux
versions, pip/virtual-environment installation, and developer setup.
Quick start
inksim
inksim design.pes
inksim design.pes --play
Documentation
Background
I started working on embroidery tooling in 2013 with a small project called Orca. It began as a C++/Qt experiment with graph algorithms for Inkscape on Linux and later grew into a digitizer and a stitch viewer. An old recording of the viewer is here:
InkSim is a new, standalone implementation of the same viewer idea, written from scratch in Python, wxPython and Numba and focused on quickly previewing embroidery files. It's a small viewer I was missing myself, so I kept it as a lightweight tool and I'm sharing it here in case it's useful for others in the Inkscape / Ink/Stitch community.
Thanks to the Ink/Stitch project and its community for keeping this space alive and inspiring.
License
InkSim is released under the GNU General Public License v3 or later.
1 maintainer
Metadata
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