Tie-Up Diagonal Function

Design Menu

Diagonal Button

The Diagonal button (separate from the dropdown) generates a stepped diagonal pattern across the tie-up. It opens a dialog with these settings:

Start Which treadle to begin the diagonal pattern from.

Step How many shafts to step per treadle. A step of 1 creates a simple diagonal (1-2-3-4). A step of 2 skips every other shaft (1-3-5-7).

Treadles per Cycle How many treadles make up one complete cycle before the pattern repeats or extends.

Stop The last treadle to fill with the diagonal pattern.

Direction Step up (shaft numbers increase) or step down (shaft numbers decrease).

If you have a selection in the tie-up, the diagonal is constrained to that shaft range.

This is a time saver for entering tie-ups where the tied-shafts on one treadle increment by stepping up or down by a specified interval.

The diagonal tool works on the entire tie-up. The function starts with the starting treadle (defaults to no. 1), then replaces the entire tie-up of the next treadle with the contents of the first treadle, stepping the

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