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/PySide6/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
See installation and running for pip/virtual-environment
installation and developer setup.
Quick start
inksim
inksim design.pes
inksim design.pes --play
Documentation
Background
The idea behind this tool dates back to 2013 with an experimental C++/Qt project called Orca, which originally explored graph algorithms for Inkscape on Linux before turning into a digitizer and stitch viewer. Here is an old recording of that early prototype in action:
InkSim is a fresh, standalone rewrite of that viewer concept -- built from scratch using Python, PySide6, and Numba. The main goal is to provide a fast, lightweight way to preview embroidery files without heavy overhead.
It was built to fill a small workflow gap, and it's shared with the hope that others in the Inkscape and Ink/Stitch community might find it helpful as well.
Special thanks to the Ink/Stitch team and community for keeping open-source embroidery alive and inspiring.
License
InkSim is released under the GNU General Public License v3 or later.
1 maintainer
Metadata
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