Background

A short review

The Setup-data are available for CMS machines (from ST 711) since 1998.
Following data can be saved to the setup file:

• WMF(Fabric take-down menu)
• NP (All NP values)
• YD (Position of yarn carriers at the fabric selvedge)
• MSEC (indirect MSEC-setting)
• YLC (Yarn Length Control STIXX/ASCON)

This was the first step to write the pattern related parameters into a separate file. The purpose is to reduce the time of setting up the machine.
Some pattern related parameters were still written in Sintral functions. This means that settings are still to be carried out when converting the pattern into another machine.

You can use the extended setup data from now on.
In order to distinguish them they will be called Setup2 and the previous data Setup1.

The target of Setup2

Transferring a pattern from one machine to another without changing the Sintral program.

Setup2 is extended by the following parameters:

• Yarn carrier staggering (YD / YDI)
• Correcting the Normal Yarn Carriers (YC / YCI)
• Cycle Counters
• Racking Corrections
• Correction of the stitch length for the right carriage with tandem mode (NPR)
• Yarn length control at the left and right-hand side
• Correction value for clamping depth (NCC)
• Comments