Learn how to speed up the design process
Repeating patterns
Menu Items in Threading and
Treadling menus allow you to repeat a
motif in Threading, Treading, Color Bars or Thickness Bars. The
motif may be the entire entry in the draft or a selected portion.
Different styles of repeat include Direct,
Mirror, Inverted, Rotated, Half Drop, Advancing, Descending.
Menu items in the Tieup menu allow you to generate twill tieups or
repeat an initial quadrant.
Interleaving drafts
Menu Items in Threading and Treadling menus allow you to combine two drafts by interleaving. One draft (A) must first be copied, so that interleaving occurs as a specialized form of paste into the second draft (B). You can control the ratio of A threads to B threads, shaft or treadle placement of A relative to B. During the preview phase, you can click and drag to find the optimum alignment of A relative to B.
Float Search
Float search creates a list of floats, based on a minumum length that you can specify. You can also choose whether to search front or back surface alone, or both combined, warp or weft. Clicking on a float in the list outlines the offending area in the cloth diagram.
Block Substitution
Block substitution contains a library of weave structures that you can substitute into a profile draft. Anything you create in a design window can be used as a profile. After you choose a weave structure, there's a preview step allowing you to change the treadling repeat, add tabby, exchange pattern and ground, or change face.
Namedrafts
The Namedrafts panel allows you to type in a name or phrase, which is translated into a sequence of numbers in overshot order according to a set of seven different coding schemes. The number sequence can be treated as a threading or a profile and expanded into a full weaving draft.
Network Drafting
Network drafting options include drawing tools that draw a simple twill network. The Redraw on Network menu items (Threading and Treadling menus) convert a predrawn freehand pattern line into a network draft, allowing you to choose shaft reduction methods, as well as the style and height of network initial.