TempoWeave Designer Introduction
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If your window is not maximized, you may need to click the menu icon in the upper left corner of your screen to see the navigation panel for this documentation. This is a picture of the icon:
The documentation, under "Help By Menu Tabs", is organized based on the TempoWeave menu. Click the right arrow to expand options:
On the Project tab, for example, notice that Project Information can be expanded to a number of documents covering features:
Under general topics (scroll down on the left navigator panel to find), there are topics that are not related to specific menu items.
You can also search the documentation for any phrase or word using the Search box on the top right corner of this documentation:
There are videos throughout the documentation, as well as a collection under the Learning Video Collection. In addition, we are beginning to add E-Learning Mini-Lessons that focus on a specific weaving structure or topic and combine PDF and Videos in the lesson.
To print the documentation, the topic can be exported to PDF. Keep in mind that we continuously add new documentation, so a printed copy will quickly become out of date. The following screen show shows the "Export as PDF link on the right.
To export the entire documentation as a PDF, instead when clicking export as PDF, then click the All Pages button on the lower side of the left hand panel. You will receive a message requesting a click to extend for another 50 pages. Note that the full PDF will be very large.
This documentation can be viewed in standard or dark mode. To change the mode, look to the bottom right of the screen for the sun and moon icons:
TempoWeave Designer is an application that gives the designer a platform to create weaving designs that include the draft, colors and project calculation information. TempoWeave creates the design file according to the WIF standard; Weaving designs generated to this standard can be opened and used in most any weaving design software.
The goal of TempoWeave is to provide the weaver with useful tools to quickly generate weaving designs for projects and have the freedom to easily play with structure and color.
While TempoWeave is very helpful for any weaver designing projects, it's especially useful for users of TempoTreadle. With TempoTreadle, having a repeat of the threading and treadling with all the color changes is very useful for easier setup and weaving.
TempoWeave runs on the Windows operating system and does not run on an iPad. For hardware requirements, see this page: Hardware Recommendations.
This documentation assumes the weaver has familiarity with the format of weaving drafts.
TempoWeave may be purchased on https://www.tempoweave.com
