Generate Color Arrangement

I. Generating Color Arrangement #1 and entering it:

    1
    Select the pattern in the entire height.
    2
    Click the button.
  1. The Color Arrangement Editor will be opened.
    3
    Modify the Color Arrangement:

 

II. Control column Presser foot:

Control column

This control column can be used in the design pattern and in the Color Arrangement editor as well.

Control Column: Presser foot

Selection Menu:

Switch-on weft yarn presser foot

: The weft yarn presser foot is active ahead of the knitting system

Selection menu for the presser foot type mounted to the machine

  • Presser Foot Type 1: W1 (corresponds to the former W) = Presser foot with flat groove
  • Presser Foot Type 2: W2 = Presser foot with deep groove

Switch-on knitting presser foot

: The weft yarn presser foot is active following the knitting system

Selection menu for the presser foot type mounted to the machine

Swith-on weft yarn presser foot and knitting-in presser foot

: Set the type of presser feet under and .
Example: Selecting type 2 of presser foot at and leads to within the control column

III. Inadmissible combinations:

System 1

Weft yarn presser foot activated

Result:

The presser feet collide.

System 2

Weft yarn presser foot activated

System 2

Weft yarn presser foot activated

System 3

Weft yarn presser foot activated

System 1

Weft yarn presser foot activated

Result:

Presser foot collides with weft yarn carrier

System 2

Weft yarn carrier active

System 2

Weft yarn presser foot activated

System 3

Weft yarn carrier active

Attention!

Presser feet at front and rear must not be activated at the same time, otherwise they will collide.

These unallowed combinations will be detected by the technical processing and the processing will be canceled.

IV. Needle actions for the weft yarn:

Needle action

Meaning

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Yarn color / yarn carrier color

The yarn carrier (weft yarn) runs before the knitting system with the float needle action and in the following knitting system, transfer to the back is performed.

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Yarn color / yarn carrier color

The yarn carrier (weft yarn) runs before the knitting system with the float needle action and in the following knitting system, transfer to the front is performed.

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Yarn color / yarn carrier color

The yarn carrier (weft yarn) runs before the knitting system with the float needle action and in the following knitting system, cast-off at the front needle bed is performed.

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Yarn color / yarn carrier color

The yarn carrier (weft yarn) runs before the knitting system with the float needle action and in the following knitting system, cast-off in the rear needle bed is performed.

 

: These needle actions cannot be combined with the knitting needle action in the same knitting row.

V. Apply the symbols for the weft yarn in the CA:

Symbol

Meaning

Possible definition for a yarn carrier as weft yarn carrier

  • In the control column, the symbol view or in the Color Arrangement
  • In the Plating dialog box

: This yarn carrier runs with a defined distance before the knitting system.
For the Q yarn carrier the same command as for the split-stitch technique is used in Sintral

  • $XS n – m

: This command allows the driving of a yarn carrier in the knitting system when transferring.

 

    1
    Close the Color Arrangement Editor with .
  1. The CA is saved and the color entry is entered in the control column.