1. GKS User Guide
  2. How to Proceed
  3. Edit Geometry
  4. How to Change the Stepping of a Line
  5. Fair Isle

Fair Isle

How to define a Fair Isle narrowing at the body:

  • Fair Isle narrowing by six steps is required.
  • The dimensioned shape is opened in the Dimensioning View .
  • The armhole narrowing startpoint and the shoulder endpoint are dimensioned horizontally and vertically.
  1. Open the context menu for the left diagonal shape line of the narrowing at the rear.
  1. Select the Line Properties.
  • The Line Properties tool window appears.
  1. Activate Show Line View.
  • The selected shape line appears in the line view.
  1. Go to the Stepping Parameters group box.
  1. Select the Fair Isle option in the Stepping Kind list box.
  • The line view updates.
  1. Select the Steppingsoption button.
  • The edit box on the right appears enabled.
  • The edit box for the Markings option button appears grayed out.
  1. Select the quantity 6 in the edit box.
  • The line view updates.
  1. Select the even-numbered option in the Stepping in the Height list box.
  1. Select the 1 Stitch option in the Cover Width list box.
  1. Select the underneath option in the Look of the Narrowing list box.
  1. Click on the line ID MM of the main row in the Line table.
  • In the group box below appear the attributes of the main row.
  1. Go to the Attributes of line M section.
  1. Select the Fair Isle + Doubling, Stitch v module in the list box of the Multi-step Narrowing group box.
  1. Keep the value 0 in the Inner distance edit box.
  1. Click on the line ID S. 1 of the first sub-row in the Line table.
  • In the group box below appear the attributes of the S. 1 row.
  1. Go to the Attributes of line S. 1 section.
  1. Keep the selected module in the list box of the Multi-step Narrowing group box.
  1. Select the value 7 in the Inner distance edit box.
  1. Click on the line ID S. 2 of the second sub-row in the Line table.
  • In the group box below appear the attributes of the S. 2 row.
  1. Go to the Attributes of line S. 2 section.
  1. Keep the selected module in the list box of the Multi-step Narrowing group box.
  1. Select the value 7 in the Inner distance edit box.
  1. Click on the line ID S. 3 of the third sub-row in the Line table.
  • In the group box below appear the attributes of the S. 3 row.
  1. Go to the Attributes of line S. 3 section.
  1. Keep the selected module in the list box of the Multi-step Narrowing group box.
  1. Select the value 7 in the Inner distance edit box.
  • The Fair Isle narrowing at the rear is represented by a six-step shape line.

A Fair Isle narrowing is defined alternatively via the quantity of markings instead of the steps.

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