Color Arrangements for Your Own Jacquard Backs

The color arrangement in a jacquard pattern area can determine the following:

Examples of Color Arrangements for Jacquard backs

Create the Color Arrangement CA1-Private and CA2-Private:

  1. 'CA_Jacquards' pattern project is created.
  2. CA_Jacquards-Privat design pattern exists.
    1
    Draw pattern areas (1) and (2) into the Design Pattern.
    : Colors from the Yarn Colors table were used to draw the basic pattern.

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CA1-Private

Pattern area of 2-color Jacquard

Backing:
Rear Stitch with Casting-off at the Rear
: With it, floats > 1 inch can be achieved.

2

CA2-Privat

Pattern area of 2-color Jacquard

Backing: Rear Stitch with Transfer toward Front
: With it, floats > 1 inch can be achieved, but will still be included into the fabric.

    2
    Select the first 2 pattern rows of area (1) in the Pattern Row control column.
    3
    Position the cursor in the pattern area.
    4
    Call-up the context menu -> Selection / Create Color Arrangement: .
    - or -
    Click directly the button in the ribbon.
  1. The Color Arrangement Editor with the original standard knitting process of the 2 selected pattern rows is opened.

Color Arrangement for area 1+2

    5
    Select Move drawing tool.
    6
    Define the desired function in the ribbon
    - or -
    Open the pop-up window with CTRL + SPACEBAR.
  1. The pop-up window appears.
    2. 7
    With the Segment Rows selection in the Overwrite mode, move the entries in the processing area into the desired position.
    8
    Add the missing colors #3 and #7 each to both color segments in the processing area.
    9
    Set the missing or incorrect entries for the Reference Numbers:
    10
    Position the cursor on the column selection bar.
    11
    Select the color column in the color segment of the yarn color #7 (red) with LMB.
    12
    Open the context menu with RMB.
  1. The context menu appears.

1

Duplicate Column

Copy content of the selected column

Duplicate Selected Columns

Copy content of the selected column(s)

  • Individual selection
  • Multiple selection

2

Insert Empty Column to the Left

Insertion of columns to the left of the selected column

Insert Empty Column to the Right

Insertion of columns to the right of the selected column

3

Delete Column

Without selection delete a column

Delete Selected Columns

With selection delete a column

  • Individual selection
  • Multiple selection

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Options to work with color segments

Duplicate Segment

New Color Segment to the Left

>>

Quantity of color segments to be inserted (1-10) to the left in relation to the selection

New Color Segment to the Right

>>

Quantity of color segments to be inserted (1-10) to the right in relation to the selection

Delete Segment

  • At the cursor position
  • Selection

Select Segment

The color segment at the cursor position is selected

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    Duplicate the desired number of columns for the yarn color #7, e.g. 5 column.
    : The number of columns depends on the cycle of the desired Jacquard back.
    14
    Select the color column in the color segment of the yarn color #3 (blue).
    15
    Open the context menu with RMB.
  1. The context menu appears.
    2. 16
    Duplicate the desired number of columns for the yarn color #3, e.g. 5 column.
    : The number of columns depends on the cycle of the desired Jacquard back.
    17
    Draw the desired Jacquard front and back with needle actions into the 'processing area' of both yarn colors.

    18
    Select the technical rows (2) and (4) additively in the CA editor.
    19
    Select the drawing tool Paste.
  1. The Insert Selection tool window is opened.
    2. 20
    Make the following selection:
    21
    Enter the empty rows via the arrow up key.
    22
    Close the tool window with X.
  1. One empty row is inserted at the selected positions.
    2. 23
    Set the missing reference numbers for the newly inserted empty rows:

Content of additional rows

Properties and Behavior

With yarn color or yarn carrier color

You have to draw-in a knitting needle action if you enter additional rows with Yarn Color or Yarn Carrier Color into a color column.

Without yarn color or yarn carrier color

You have to draw in a Transfer, Cast-off or Loop sinking needle action (not knitting) if you enter additional rows without Yarn Color or Yarn Carrier Color into a color column.

Behavior:

  • The additional rows must contain needle actions as no data will be read from the reference row of the basic pattern (source pattern).
  • In additional rows with yarn color or yarn carrier color and a knitting needle action, no automatic tuck binding will be entered into the neighboring color field.
  • No pattern parameters will be applied to additional rows with yarn color or yarn carrier color and a knitting needle action.
    Exception: NP data.

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    Draw the desired needle action into the empty rows:
    25
    If necessary, allocate a different stitch length to the Front Stitch Length (NPv) / Rear Stitch Length (NP^) control columns of the CA.

CA1-Private: With Cast-off

CA2-Private: With Transfer

    26
    Check the generated Color Arrangement on correct entries with the Check button.
    : The knitting procedure cannot be checked!
    27
    If necessary, in case of a Color Arrangement already used in the design pattern, apply the changes to the basic pattern with the Apply button.

    - or -
    Close the tool window with .
    28
    Close the prompt with the desired button:
    29
    Enter the generated Color Arrangement via the control column into the desired rows of the design pattern.
    30
    Start the Technical Processing.
  1. The Color Arrangement is expanded by the technical processing.
    2. 31
    Generate Sintral.
    32
    Start the Sintral Check.
    33
    Extract the knitting program.
    34
    Load knitting program into the machine.