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# Sectional Warping Plan

### What It Does

The **Sectional Warping Plan** is a printable (PDF) guide for dressing a loom with a **sectional warp beam** — the kind with pegs dividing the beam into fixed-width sections, wound from a spool rack one section at a time.

It takes your draft's warp (every end, in order, with its colour and yarn) and works out:

* how many **ends go into each section** of your beam, given your sett and the width of one section, and
* exactly **which colors, and how many of each**, to wind into each section — in the order they appear across the warp.

Then it lays that out section by section so you can wind straight from the report: fill section 1, move the rack to section 2, and so on, with no counting or arithmetic at the rack.

It's the sectional-beam counterpart to the **Warp Winding Plan** (which lists the same color-by-color winding order for a plain beam). Same warp data — just partitioned across the pegs of your sectional beam with a **Section #** column added.

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### Before You Start

You'll get the most out of it if your draft already has:

* **Warp colors assigned** — the plan reads the colour (and yarn name, if you've named your yarns) of each warp end.
* **A sett (EPI/PPI)** set for the project — this drives how many ends fit in a section. If you've set per-thread warp spacing, the plan uses the resulting calculated EPI; otherwise it uses the project sett.
* **A Section Width** defined (see below) — *required*. Without it the report won't run.

**Tier:** the Sectional Warping Plan is available to **Core and Pro** licenses. (Demo and Lite see the button disabled.)

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### Setting Up the Sectional Beam

The plan needs to know how wide one section of your beam is. You set this once, per project:

1. Open **Project Info** (Project tab).
2. Find the **Sectional Beam** group.
3. Enter your **Section Width** and choose the unit — **in** or **cm**.

> Set this to the spacing between your beam's pegs — the finished width of one wound section (commonly 1 in / 2 in on US beams, or in cm on metric beams).

If you leave Section Width at **0**, TempoWeave treats the project as *not* using a sectional beam, and trying to print the plan shows: *"Section Width must be defined in Project Info for this report."* Set a width and try again.

#### Floating selvedges

Also in Project Info, the **Floating Selvedge** options (Right thread 1 / Left last thread / Double) add selvedge ends to your warp. The Sectional Warping Plan **includes these in the totals** — so the ends-per-section and grand total reflect the selvedges you'll actually wind. When any are enabled, the report's header reads *"Total warp ends (with selvedges)."*

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### Printing the Plan

1. **File menu (backstage) ▸ Print tab.**
2. Click **Print Sectional Warping Plan**.

It generates a PDF using your current Print Options (paper size, orientation, etc. — see below).

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### Reading the Report

A summary line at the top states the plan at a glance:

> **Section width:** 2 in • **Sett:** 24.0 EPI • **Ends per section:** 48 • **Sections:** 10 • **Total warp ends:** 480

Below it is the winding table, with these columns:

| Column              | What it tells you                                                                                                                     |
| ------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Section**         | Which beam section this row belongs to (1, 2, 3 …).                                                                                   |
| **Name**            | The yarn's name (from your palette), if you've named your yarns.                                                                      |
| **Color**           | A colour swatch so you can grab the right cone at a glance.                                                                           |
| **Wind**            | How many ends of this color to wind **in this section**, in order. (With multi-color winding on, this is shown as wraps — see below.) |
| **Cumulative Ends** | A running total of ends wound so far — a quick check that you're on track.                                                            |

Each section's rows are followed by a **section-total spacer row**, and the report ends with a **TOTAL ENDS** line so you can confirm the whole warp is accounted for.

To wind: work top to bottom. Each block of rows under a Section number is everything that goes onto that section, in the order to wind it; when you reach the next Section number, move the rack to the next peg group.

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### How the Plan Is Calculated

So you can sanity-check the numbers:

* **Ends per section** = sett (ends per inch) × section width in inches, rounded to the nearest whole end. (A cm section width is converted to inches first.)
* **Total warp ends** = your warp ends + any floating-selvedge ends.
* **Number of sections** = total warp ends ÷ ends per section, rounded **down** — so the plan never asks you to wind past the end of the warp.
* **Leftover ends** (the remainder that doesn't divide evenly) are **spread evenly** across the sections: every section gets a share, and the first few sections each take one extra. This guarantees **every warp end lands on the beam** — sections may differ by a single end, which is normal and keeps the warp width correct.

In short: each section is filled to about the same width, the colour order always follows your draft, and nothing is left over or overshot.

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### Multi-Colour Winding (Winding a Bundle)

If you wind several ends together as a bundle (holding 2–4 cones at once), turn on **Warp Winding Color Pattern** in **Print Options** and set the number of colours (2–4).

The plan then treats one **wrap** — one pass with all the cones in your hand — as the indivisible unit:

* A single wrap (N ends, one of each colour you're holding) won't be split mid-wrap across two sections.
* Multiple wraps of the same pattern can still split across sections.
* If the next whole wrap won't fit, the section closes a touch short and the following sections absorb the difference, working to the overall target — so the totals still come out exactly right.

This matches how you actually wind a bundled warp at the rack: you never break a wrap partway.

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### Print Options That Apply

The plan honors your current **Print Options**:

* **Paper size** and **orientation** (Portrait / Landscape).
* **Continuous page** — render as one long page instead of paginating (handy for long warps).
* **Show Report Name** / **Show Document Title** / **Page Numbers** in the header/footer.
* **Warp Winding Color Pattern** (2–4) — the bundle/multi-colour winding described above.
* **Show Variegated Yarns** — variegated yarns render with their colour blend in the swatch rather than a flat colour.

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### Tips

* **Match Section Width to your beam.** The plan is only as accurate as this number — set it to your actual peg spacing.
* **Set your sett before printing.** Ends-per-section comes straight from the sett; if you change EPI, reprint.
* **Slightly uneven sections are expected.** The even leftover distribution means some sections hold one more end than others — that's intentional and keeps the total warp width correct.
* **Name your yarns** (in the palette / Yarn Catalog) so the **Name** column is meaningful at the rack, especially when several colours look similar.
* **Winding a bundle?** Turn on the Warp Winding Color Pattern so the counts come out in whole wraps.
* For a **plain (non-sectional) beam**, use **Print Warp Winding Plan** instead — same color order, no section split.