What was new in CREATE PLUS V2.5

New markings for setup values that are not modified by the technical processing.

Pattern Parameters -> Section Estiragem -> Tab Estirador principal (WMF)

If the data of the WM mín , WM máx , N mín or N máx columns is changed manually, the marking appears beside the entry. It appears exclusively in these columns.

The marking means that the entry cannot be modified by the technical processing.

• Table entries (main take-down)

Filtered view in the tool windows Module, CA and MA

A filtered view can be selected using the context menu on the knitting elements in the Módulos, CA and MA tool windows.

The knitting elements can be filtered by pattern or group.
The groups correspond to the generated groups in the Amostra tool window.

The options (pattern or groups) appear with the activation of a filter above the content view in the tool window.

By clicking on a pattern or a group only the knitting elements that are applied in the pattern or group will be displayed in the content view.

• Context menu on the modules
• CA tool window
• MA tool window

Options when exporting the design view

Exportar como ficheiro de imagem... context menu on the design view of a pattern

• General

There are 3 options for the export of the design view as an image file:

• With or without grid
• With or without contour
• Selection or entire pattern

Grid settings

The grid settings when exporting the image file are applied from the settings of the status bar.

In the dialog box Options of the status bar you define the following settings for the grid in the pattern:

• Display or hide grid
• Select the grid colors of the main and help lines
• Define the distance and offset of the lines

The image file is exported with these grid settings.

• Export image without grid.
  A stitch in the pattern corresponds to one pixel in the image:
  
• Export image with grid.
  A stitch in the pattern corresponds to four pixels in the image:
  (One pixel applies to the frame)
  
• Options (tool window)

With or without contour / Selection or entire pattern

In the dialog box Save As appear the following options for the export of the file:

• com contorno
  If a shape is positioned on the pattern then the selection of exporting the pattern with or without shape contour appears.
• Só salvar a seleção
  If there is an area selected in the pattern then the selection of saving the entire pattern or only the selection appears.

Symbols for Knitting Elements are no longer in Group tool window

The symbols for knitting elements are specific and dependent on the knitting element to be edited. That is why they are only offered in the document window of the corresponding knitting element as a tab.

The symbols for knitting elements can no longer be opened as a tool window in the Início ribbon -> Janela de ferramentas group.

Enter your own path

A private path can be selected in the Substituir / Trocar area with Dados de agulha -> Módulos de estrutura.

In the drop-down menu scroll all the way down and click on the Selecionar elemento de tricotagem de outro caminho... option.

The following dialog box appears:

In it select the path and the desired module.

• Find and Replace

Area Processamento de listas

You can toggle the area forProcessamento de listas of the Localizar e substituir dialog box.

For this click on the right border on the symbol.

• You can apply operations of the Localizar e substituir dialog box to the Processamento de listas area.
• The operations of the list will be done by this sequence.
• You can switch the sequence of the first column by changing the numbering.
• You can disable items of the list by the second column. They will be ignored by the list processing then.
• You can save the lists and load them independently from the pattern.
  STOLL Localizar e substituir (*.srxf)
• List Processing

Mix Colors Function in the Cores de vanizagem Tool Window

The Mix Colors column (1) is available in the Cores de vanizagem tool window.

• 
  The plating color (2) is automatically mixed from the selected colors.
• 
  Entering the color value manually disables the check box.

• Plating colors tool window

New Features of CA

In a reference row in the CA there are two options to define empty needle actions:

• 
  Eliminar ação de agulha / símbolo para elemento de tricotagem
• 
  Transparente

In a column with defined overwriting excess width, the Eliminar ação de agulha / símbolo para elemento de tricotagem selection results in the corresponding area in the adjacent segment being deleted because of this empty needle action. (See 1 in the image)

If the Transparente selection is drawn in, then the area in the adjacent segment is not deleted. (See 2 in the image)

• Color Arrangements

Duplicate and Mirror Shape Element

In the context menu of a shape element there is the Duplicar invertido function.

This function is available within the lined shape project as well as within the lined shape layer of a pattern project.

• Context Menu of Shape Elements

With this function shape elements in a lined shape are able to rapidly be duplicated mirrored.

• Mirrored basic shape
• The shape element is mirrored and is inserted in the mirrored position in the basic shape.
• The anchor point of the shape element is also mirrored at the same time.
• 
• Non-mirrored basic shape
• The mirrored shape element is inserted beside the original shape element.
• Position and anchor point of the shape element cannot be mirrored.

Shape element Spickel / Assimétrico

An asymmetrical shape element gore widening to the left is inserted on the left side of the basic shape and widening to the right on the right side.
Both are symmetrical in their shape

New function Go to Selection

In the Seleção ribbon there is a new feature.

Avançar até a seleção
If there is an area selected in the pattern then it is displayed centered in the document window.

This function can also be carried out with the help of the shortcut CTRL-B.

Seleção in the context menu on the pattern

You can call up all functions of the Seleção ribbon in the context menu of the Design View except Inserir... and Remover....

• Context menu of the pattern layer
• Selection ribbon

New Function in the Amostra Tool Window

Beside the pattern entries in the Amostra tool window are the different symbols as display and button.
A new symbol was added at the end.

A dialog box is opened using this symbol that displays all knitting elements of the pattern.
In the header ribbon of the dialog box there are additionally the same functions as in the pattern entry.

The knitting elements are opened with double clicking.

To close the window again, click on the cross in the top right.

• Pattern Item
• Pattern Tool Window

The knitting elements applied in the pattern are displayed in the Propriedades de amostra dialog box .

The knitting elements are opened with double clicking.

• Pattern Properties

The presentation of the knitting elements in the tool windows was modified.

• Around the thumbnail of the knitting element there is a frame.
  
• In the upper part of the thumbnail you can find different markings that identify the following properties of the knitting element.
• Identifying Color
• Knitting element is applied in the pattern
• Knitting technique MG
• Knitting element with repetitions
• 
  The mark appears at the lower right if the module was created by STOLL.
  A module of your own will not have this mark.
• In the Tool Window module the background color beside the thumbnail has the following meaning.
• If the knitting element is at the cursor, then the background is light blue
  
• If the knitting element is selected, then the background is blue
  
• If the knitting element is selected and is at the cursor, then the background is half blue and the other half is light blue.
  

Panning the View by Mouse and SPACE Key

The behavior to the move of the view was improved in the document window.

• If you move the view with the mouse and spacebar, then the direction and speed of the movement is modified depending on the position of the mouse.
• If the mouse is in the centre of the document window, then the view remains the same.
• If the mouse is outside of the centre, then the view moves in the corresponding direction as long as you press the spacebar.
• The further you move the mouse with pressed spacebar outwards, the faster the view moves in this direction.

MC-Setup Editor is renewed

The MC-Setup Editor was newly developed.

Call it up by:

• Início tab -> Sintral group -> Exibir Setup MC
• As standalone app SetupEditor.exe
  

The layout of the tabs corresponds to the layout of the setup data in the pattern.

• MC-Setup Editor

The help for the dialog boxes and menu bars can be called up using the F1 button.

Menu bars:

Correct positioning of the cursor:

Incorrect positioning of the cursor:

Dialog boxes and tool windows