Transcript Drafting with Weaving Software

Drafting with Weaving Software
WeaveMaker
#1 Open and Save Files
#2 Data Entry
#3 Preferences
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Drafting with Weaving Software #1
Open and Save Files
1. Open and Save Proprietary Files:
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Each program may have a proprietary file type.
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These files will only open in the program to which they belong.
2. Open/Save or Import/Export WIF Files
3. Import/Export Graphics Files
4. WIF files: Weaving Information Files
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A standard for sharing weaving files among different weaving
programs and the human reader.
Helps
Note: ‘Save’ keeps the same file name and overwrites original file;
‘Save As’ allows you to change the name of a file and keeps both files.
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1. Open/Save Proprietary Files
File types
.wmd draft file
.wmp color palette
Use:
File  Open
Note: Both file types can be
selected at the same time.
File  Save
File  Save As
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2. Open/Save WIF Files
Use:
File  Open
Note: Both file types or just
WIF can be selected.
File  Export as WIF
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3. Save TIF Files
Use:
File
File
File
File
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Export Fabric
Export Grid
Grid Options
Export 3D
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WIF Files
WIF files are text files
WIF files can be read in text editors such as
Notepad (Windows) and Simple Text (Mac)
See each program for information about
opening/saving/exporting WIF files.
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WIF Files
Part of a WIF file
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WIF Files Helps
WIF file does not open when clicked.
Open your weaving program and open/import
the WIF file from the programs menu.
It still will not open or opens incorrectly.
WIF files can have up to 255 shafts. If a draft
has 73 shafts and your weaving software
allows 32, it will not open or will open
incorrectly. (Drawloom and pickup designs
often have lots of shafts.)
Check to see if the software has an
update.
Often this solves the problem.
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WIF Files—Helps
The colors are not the same.
Colors often give different results when using
WIF files. Using the default warp and weft
colors often gives poor results. Experiment.
Thickness does not appear in the draft.
Not all programs have a thickness feature.
It appears as text in an email.
Copy the lines of text into Notepad or Simple Text.
Do not use HTML or word processors. Save the file.
For Windows make sure the file has a .WIF suffix.
(Just rename the file and change .txt to .WIF.)
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WIF Files—Helps
The file will not open using a Mac.
Open the file in Simple Text and re-save it.
Email the file to yourself and save as text file.
Use SetItsType!.sit to help identify files.
Look at files in a text editor.
Compare it to a WIF file that works in your software.
Ask the software programmer for help.
All of the programs included here write WIF
files that can be opened by the other
programs in Windows. I have tested many of
them using OS8.6 and WeaveMaker.
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Drafting with Weaving Software #2
Enter Data
2. Enter Data
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Threading, treadling, tie-up, dents, and color.
Questions:
Insert/ Delete keys will insert/delete ends, picks, treadles. (Yes/No)
Blank ends, picks, and treadles are allowed. (Yes/No)
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2. Enter Data
2a. Line/Freehand
2b. Cornucopia
2c. Color
2d. Color Ways
2f. Treadle as Drawn In
Insert/Delete No
Blanks OK
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2a. Enter Data
Line Draw
Use pencil tool to
click and drag a line
between two points
Works in threading, tieup
and treadling.
Freehand Draw
Change the pencil under
Edit  Preferences
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2b. Enter Data
Library and
Cornucopia
Fill with preset draft
elements.
Cornucopia generates design
elements.
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2c. Enter Data
Color
Create Color Palette and
add colors to Colorway.
Use pencil tool to place color
in the color bar.
Or use pencil tool to click on
a shaft and change all
threads to new color. Here
shaft 2 was changed to
lime green.
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2d. Enter Data
Colorway
Use multiple colorways
to design different
versions of the same
draft.
Colorway 1
Colorway 3
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Preferences
3. Preferences
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Configure program defaults
Record Notes/Records
Calculations
Yarn Database
Choose number of shafts, treadles, etc.
Choose draft layout, symbols, view, magnification
Miscellaneous settings
Project records and calculations
Yarn Databases with fiber, color, sett, cost, and/or vendor
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3. Preferences
3a. Preferences
3b. Print Options
3c. Notes
Edit  Preferences
File  Print Options
Edit  Remarks
3d. Calculations
Special  Yarn Conversions…
3e. No Yarn Database
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3a.
Edit  Preferences
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3b. Print Options
File  Print Options
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3c. Notes
Edit  Remarks
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3d. Yarn Conversions
Special  Yarn Conversions…
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Drafting with Weaving Software
Program Version #’s
Fiberworks Bronze/Silver
Patternland
pixeLoom
ProWeave
WeaveDesign
WeaveIt Basic/Pro
WeaveMaker
WeavePoint
4.031.04/4.0.31.15, 4.1.0.12
V6.07
2.2.5, 3.1.1, 4.5.7
5.0 Release A
1.6.0.4
5.01, 5.05
7.99, 8.4.4.0
V 6.0, 6.1
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