LinkColor Bars and Unlink Color Bars are menu items in the Edit menu, and the toolbar.
Shortcuts: ⌘ U to set Link; Shift ⌘ U to setUnlinked.Normally, inserting a thread adds a blank thread in threading draft, warp color bar and warp thickness bar simultaneously. ![]() Likewise deleting a thread in the warp removes the thread from the threading draft, the warp color bar and the warp thickness bar simultaneously (see example at right). This action is described as Linked. |
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![]() When the Unlink option is set, you can selectively add or remove threads from one or other of the threading draft, or the warp color bar, or the warp spacing bar, independently of each other. In that case the insertion or deletion occurs only in the draft component that contains the insertion point. In other words, threading draft, warp color bar and warp thickness bar are unlinked from each other. In the example on the right, the insertion point is in the threading, and only the threading shifts to open up an empty thread. |
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In the last example, the insertion point is in the warp color bar, and only the warp colors shift when an empty thread is inserted. Unlink also acts on insertions and deletions in the treadling components. |
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