Drafting with Weaving Software WeaveMaker

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1 Drafting with Weaving Software WeaveMaker #1 Open and Save Files #2 Data Entry #3 Preferences

2 Drafting with Weaving Software #1 Open and Save Files 1. Open and Save Proprietary Files: Each program may have a proprietary file type. 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 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.

3 WeaveMaker 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

4 WeaveMaker 2. Open/Save WIF Files Use: File Open Note: Both file types or just WIF can be selected. File Export as WIF

5 Use: File Export Fabric File Export Grid File Grid Options File Export 3D WeaveMaker 3. Save TIF Files

6 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.

7 WIF Files Part of a WIF file

8 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.

9 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 . 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.)

10 WIF Files Helps The file will not open using a Mac. Open the file in Simple Text and re-save it. 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.

11 Drafting with Weaving Software #2 Enter Data 2. Enter Data 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)

12 2a. Line/Freehand 2b. Cornucopia 2c. Color 2d. Color Ways 2f. Treadle as Drawn In WeaveMaker 2. Enter Data Insert/Delete No Blanks OK

13 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 WeaveMaker 2a. Enter Data

14 WeaveMaker 2b. Enter Data Library and Cornucopia Fill with preset draft elements. Cornucopia generates design elements.

15 Color Create Color Palette and add colors to Colorway. WeaveMaker 2c. Enter Data 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.

16 Colorway Use multiple colorways to design different versions of the same draft. WeaveMaker 2d. Enter Data Colorway 1 Colorway 3

17 Drafting with Weaving Software #3 Preferences 3. Preferences 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 Judie Eatough 2006

18 WeaveMaker 3. Preferences 3a. Preferences Edit Preferences 3b. Print Options File Print Options 3c. Notes Edit Remarks 3d. Calculations Special Yarn Conversions 3e. No Yarn Database Judie Eatough 2006

19 WeaveMaker 3a. Edit Preferences Judie Eatough 2006

20 WeaveMaker 3b. Print Options File Print Options Judie Eatough 2006

21 WeaveMaker 3c. Notes Edit Remarks Judie Eatough 2006

22 WeaveMaker 3d. Yarn Conversions Special Yarn Conversions Judie Eatough 2006

23 Drafting with Weaving Software Program Version # s Fiberworks Bronze/Silver / , Patternland V6.07 pixeloom 2.2.5, 3.1.1, ProWeave 5.0 Release A WeaveDesign WeaveIt Basic/Pro 5.01, 5.05 WeaveMaker 7.99, WeavePoint V 6.0, 6.1 Judie Eatough 2006