Edit
- Number of warp and weft ends freely adjustable
- Number of shafts and treadles freely adjustable
- Cut, copy, paste, paste transparently
- Mirror horizontal and vertical, rotate, invert, delete, roll
- Find central-symmetry of selection
- Increase and decrease slope of selection
- Easily move shafts and treadles
- Insert and delete warp and weft ends, shafts and treadles
- Twill-completion
- Easily create warp and weft lancee
- 100-step undo and redo
- Threading and treadling configurable: rising, falling, crossed, 2 choirs, 3 choirs, fixed and userdefined
- Threading as treadling
- Treadling as Threading
- Mirror and delete threading and treadling
- Invert and delete tie-up and pegplan
- Restrict cursor to repeat
- Insert predefined standard patterns
- Define and insert up to ten user defined standard patterns
Usage
Try out the free demos and order your weaving software soon. WeaveIt Pro for Mac. Is a weaving application for creating, designing and displaying Weaving drafts and patterns. Weavers create the threading, treadling and tie-up and WeaveIt will display the draft as a drawdown. VisualWEAVE is new Weave Design Software for Custom Rod Builders. It is designed to make the job of creating grid patterns and Left Lists for weaving as simple as possible. The software allows you to easily. Load an image file, create a grid pattern, and create a left list. VisualWEAVE is from David Boyle, author of the VisualWRAP Cross Wrap. Weaving Software. The software packages listed below support files in the Weaving Information File (WIF) format. All of the drafts downloaded from Handweaving.net use WIF format because many different weaving software packages will read this. Many more weaving packages than are listed here will likely work with WIFs downloaded from this site.
- Easily usable with mouse
- Fast and effective keyboard interface
- Toolbar and context menus for accelerated usage
- Important information is being displayed in the status bar and hence permanently visible
View
- View is easily configurable. threading, treadling, warp and weft colors can be made invisible
- 10-step zoom
- Suppression of pattern or threading/tie-Up/treadling data
- Three different views: draft, color and fabric
- Different possibilities for displaying threading, treadling and tie-up
- Overview mode
- Support-lines assist in structuring your designs
- Warp/weft ratio freely configurable
Printing
- Flexible page configuration. Define page margins, header and footer
- Print preview on screen
- Automatic calculation of print range. Only the minimal required range gets printed.
- Print range: You decide what to print
Color
- Two different color palettes are predefined. They can easily be changed
- Per pattern there are 236 simultaneous colors possible. They can be chosen from up to 16 million colors.
- Define colors with the HSV/HSB or the RGB color model.
- Warp colors as weft colors
- Weft colors as warp colors
- Create color blending with weighting and variable number of steps
- Set warp and weft color
- Switch warp and weft colors
- Replace a specific color
General
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- Tie-up and pegplan mode
- Repeat and override of repeat for special effects
- Automatic calculation of repeat
- Lift out, binding and unbinding points for double and multiple weaves
- Import pictures from BMP files
- Export pattern to BMP files for further usage in Word or a graphic program
- Block substitution with up to 9 substitution ranges
- Range substitution with up to 9 substitution ranges
- Drawing mode with line, rectangle, square, ellipse and circle tool
- Nine independent ranges
- Information like author, organisation and remarks are saved with the pattern.
- Various pattern information like number of shafts, size of repeat, color, float and heddle statistics can be printed or exported in other programs
- Templates for easy reusage of patterns and settings.
- Usable with mouse and keyboard
- Export to WIF format for easy pattern transfer
- Three base settings: american, swiss, scandinavian
Weaving
- Weave your designs directly from the screen.
- Repeating-mode, the defined range is endlessly repeated.
- Single-mode, the defined range is once woven and then the program stops.
- fivefold repeat-range with at most 9 repeats per range.
- Invers weaving
- Automatic scrolling
- Easy configuration of your loom
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Supported Looms
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- ARM Patronic
- ARM Designer electronic
- Generic SLIPS (experimental)