Machine Explorer

All Stoll machines are managed in the Machine Explorer. You can put together your own machine pool. To connect a machine to the network or to enter your own specifications for a machine, it must be transferred from the Stoll machines to the directory of your own machines.

You open the Machine Explorer with the Machine Explorer... function in the Tools menu.

The machine explorer is divided into two windows. On the left side a directory tree is shown in which you can select which machines are to appear on the right-hand side.

The directory tree is divided into the following directories:

• Stoll machines
• B generation
• CMS generation
• My machines
• Favorites

You cannot generate knitting programs for the machines of the B generation. You can, however, use the online function of the pattern workstation if the machines are networked with the workstation.
The different classes of the CMS generation can be identified by the various machine symbols.

In the Favorites directory, you can create links to the machines from the Stoll machines database and the customer machines database. Use this option for machines to which you often make changes (e.g. change of the yarn carrier specifications).

If you hold the cursor shortly on a machine entry, the following information is displayed:

• Type designation (if relevant with component type)
• Control-type
• Number of systems
• Tandem mode (if active)
• Comment (e.g. with information about the component type)

The Machine explorer has a context menu with which you can compose your own machine pool or display the properties of a machine.

The following actions in the Machine Explorer can be carried-out also with Drag & Drop:

• Arrange machine icons manually
• Create My Machine