PCW 4.1 Bronze:  Entry level drafting program

• Up to 16 shafts, 32 treadles, block substitution, float search, heddle count, color count, turned drafts, weave as drawn in.
• Features such as easy colour and weave entry, variable thread thickness, automatic double cloth, name drafts all make designing fun and easy.
• Sixteen magnifications allow real time editing in the drafts or in the cloth. Views let you toggle among structure, interlacement (thread by thread view), colour, double weave, bound weave and rep weave.
• Live editing can be done in all views. Extensive copy, paste, move and transform functions extend your design potential.
• Versatile printing functions with heddle count, colour count, notes and titles,numeric drafts, allows you to print any view at sets of 3 to 180 epi. Print your own graph paper as well.
• Drafts can be exported as clipboard graphics ready for pasting into other programs, such as word processors.
• Auto insert and remove tabby.

PCW 4.1 Silver:  For the serious weaver

New Release available. Go to 4.1 Silver to download your copy.

All features of Bronze are also found in Silver. But that is just a start.

• Network drafting using easy drawing tool or a comprehensive dialog.
• Fabric analysis to analyse the designs and develop original drafts.
• Enhanced block substitution, double the number of blocks.
  including Taqueté and Samitum, Bergman, chevron weave and manifold twills....
• 64 shafts and 64 treadles.
• 9,996 picks or lifts per design.
• Sketch pad drawing in a freehand manner and conversion into a drawdown with one click and back again.

And More!

PCW 4.1 Silver Plus: For the Electronic Dobby Looms

• AVL: Compu-Dobby I, Compu-Dobby II, Compu-Dobby III, AVL Cartridge
• Leclerc: 16 and 24 shaft Weavebird
• Louet: Megado 16 and 32 shaft, Magic 24 shaft, Octado 8 shaft
• Macomber with Dobbytron: 16 or 24 shaft
• Noble: 24 shaft
• SLIPs: For self built or generic loom drivers with standard SLIPs interface
• Schacht: Combby¹

Included with the program is the Port Checker. This can help trace communications problems between loom and computer.

Changing the Loom Setup may occasionally require a utility called pcwregistry.exe. Contact Us for a copy of this utility.

¹ LIPs drivers (Schacht Combby) will not work on Windows ME, Windows 2000 Pro nor Windows XP. Use only with Windows 95 and Windows 98 with a printer port only. No USB ports nor adapters.

Manual on Disc

The manual on disc is a PDF file that you can easily open with Adobe Acrobat Reader. The e-manual in full colour and formatted to be read on the screen. It is searchable, and you can navigate it by links and bookmarks. It is easy to print the sections you want to read on the couch, if needed. And you do not need to print it all out.

Optional Printed Manual

There are printed manuals for Bronze, Silver and for the looms.
The manuals are black and white, bound in spiral binding and about 85-125 pages in length.
The loom manual is shorter. It covers the loom interface and then the specifics of each of the looms.

Other Languages

We have had the English manual translated into French and German
They cover the basic functions of the software.
The German manual (PDF e-manual) is available only from <postmaster@beedesign.ch>¹, BeeDesign in Switzerland.

Windows OS

Minimum:

Recommended:

Printers:

Ports:

Note:

Cyrefco, Combby, generic LIPs J-Comp looms
must be run on Windows 95 or Windows 98 only

All other looms will run on Windows 95, 98, ME, 2000 and XP.

We now support Macomber looms with the Dobbytron.

CD with more than 4000 Twill Designs

• 5 to 32 shafts
  • About 800 of the designs use 5 to 8 shafts
  • Almost 2500 designs use 9 to 16 shafts
• Fully indexed, by number of shafts and type of twill
• WIF and DTX files
• Graphics view of each designs
• Easy to open in most modern weaving software
• One click to open in PCW4, a couple more from other weaving software

Frequently asked questions and their answers

Get answers to such questions as, "How do I change a colour on my design?" to "Can I print plain graph paper?"