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# Fiberworks → TempoWeave Cross-Reference

This reference is a translation guide intended for weavers familiar with **Fiberworks** and new to  **TempoWeave**. This guide covers both the Windows and Mac versions of Fiberworks Silver, and is intended to be a general guide and may not be complete. The reference materials come from the following:

* **Fiberworks PCW4.2 Silver — Windows**
* **Fiberworks Silver — Mac**

The two are the same product family but **different applications** with different menu layouts. This guide is organized by feature; where a command lives in a **different Fiberworks menu** on each platform, the note says so. Most weaving features exist in both — only the menu home (or a few extras) differ.

Notation **▸** means *tab ▸ group ▸ command* in TempoWeave.

**Legend:** ⚠️ partial / different approach · ❌ no direct equivalent · 🔒 TempoWeave PRO tier · ✨ TempoWeave addition · **\[Win]** Windows-Fiberworks only · **\[Mac]** Mac-Fiberworks only. Unmarked rows apply to both.

### Where the menus live: Windows vs Mac Fiberworks (quick orientation) <a href="#where-the-menus-live-windows-vs-mac-fiberworks-quick-orientation" id="where-the-menus-live-windows-vs-mac-fiberworks-quick-orientation"></a>

The Mac edition reshuffles the Windows menus. If you used **Mac** Fiberworks, look here first:

| Feature area                                         | Windows menu            | Mac menu                                                               |
| ---------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| About / Preferences / Quit                           | File & Help             | **Fiberworks** (app) menu                                              |
| Drawing tools (straight/point/line/freehand/network) | Edit ▸ Drawing mode     | **Drawing** menu (own menu)                                            |
| Pickup Color, Shaft Shuffler                         | Edit / Tools            | **Drawing** menu (treated as tools)                                    |
| Modify colors, color palette                         | Cloth menu              | **Colors** menu (Mac Color Panel)                                      |
| Interleave                                           | Edit ▸ Interleave Paste | **Warp ▸ Interleave Threading** / **Treadling ▸ Interleave Treadling** |
| Treadling commands ("Weft" on Windows)               | **Weft** menu           | **Treadling** menu                                                     |
| Multipedal / skeleton tieup                          | Tieup menu              | **Treadling** menu (+ Tieup ▸ Convert to Skeleton Tieup)               |
| Turn Draft                                           | Tieup menu              | **Tools** menu                                                         |
| Sketchpad                                            | integrated              | **separate app** (Export/Import to Sketchpad)                          |

### File menu <a href="#file-menu" id="file-menu"></a>

| Fiberworks                                          | TempoWeave                                                      | Notes                                                                                      |
| --------------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| New / Open                                          | Home ▸ File ▸ **New** / **Open**                                | Ctrl/Cmd+N, +O. Opens WIF directly                                                         |
| Save / Save As                                      | Home ▸ File ▸ **Save** / **Save As**                            |                                                                                            |
| Close                                               | File backstage ▸ **Close**                                      |                                                                                            |
| **Duplicate** **\[Mac]**                            | File backstage ▸ **Duplicate to New Tab**                       | ✅ near-exact match                                                                         |
| **Revert to Saved** **\[Mac]**                      | ⚠️ snapshot/version history                                     | No one-click "revert to last saved"; closest is version history                            |
| Preview and Print / Print                           | File backstage ▸ **Print** (Page Setup + per-component buttons) | TempoWeave prints Threading/Treadling/Tie-Up/Drawdown/Color Card/Project Report separately |
| Print Setup / Page Setup                            | File backstage ▸ Print ▸ **Page Setup**                         |                                                                                            |
| Preferences **\[Win: File · Mac: Fiberworks menu]** | File backstage ▸ **Settings**                                   | See Settings section                                                                       |
| Recent files / Open Recent                          | Home ▸ File ▸ **Recent Files**                                  |                                                                                            |
| Exit / Quit                                         | File backstage ▸ **Exit**                                       |                                                                                            |
| (WIF import/export)                                 | Open = WIF; File backstage ▸ Export ▸ **Export to WIF**         | TempoWeave is WIF-native                                                                   |
| New/Open **Sketchpad**                              | ❌                                                               | No sketchpad (separate app on Mac; integrated on Windows)                                  |

### Edit menu <a href="#edit-menu" id="edit-menu"></a>

| Fiberworks                                                                      | TempoWeave                                                                        | Notes                                                       |
| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------- |
| Undo                                                                            | Home ▸ Edit ▸ **Undo**                                                            |                                                             |
| **Redo** **\[Mac]**                                                             | Home ▸ Edit ▸ **Redo**                                                            | ✨ Both have it; Windows Fiberworks lacked Redo              |
| Cut / Copy / Paste                                                              | Home ▸ Edit ▸ **Cut / Copy / Paste**                                              |                                                             |
| Transparent Mode **\[Win]** / Paste Transparent **\[Mac]**                      | Home ▸ Edit ▸ **Paste Overlay**                                                   | ⚠️ Closest equivalent (note: Win=toggle, Mac=command)       |
| Interleave Paste **\[Win: Edit]**                                               | Design ▸ Warp Advanced ▸ **Interleave Warp** 🔒 (weft: **Combine Weft**)          | ⚠️ PRO tier. On Mac this is **Warp/Treadling ▸ Interleave** |
| Transform                                                                       | Design ▸ **Warp / Weft / Tie-Up** popups (Invert, Reverse, Mirror, Shift, Rotate) | Split across the three Design popups                        |
| Drawing mode: Straight/Point/Line/Freehand **\[Win: Edit · Mac: Drawing menu]** | Home ▸ Drawing Tools ▸ **Straight / Point / Line / Freehand**                     | Direct match                                                |
| Drawing mode: 1:3 Network **\[Win]** / Network Left + Network Right **\[Mac]**  | Design ▸ Warp Advanced ▸ **Plot on Network Warp** 🔒                              | ⚠️ Not a live draw tool                                     |
| Select / Select All (Mac: "Select Drafts")                                      | Home ▸ Select ▸ **Select** / **Select All** (+ **Select Special**)                |                                                             |
| Pickup Color **\[Win: Edit · Mac: Drawing menu]**                               | use Yarn Catalog / palette                                                        |                                                             |
| Copy Image                                                                      | View / Save                                                                       | No clipboard-image command available                        |
| Insert / Delete threads                                                         | Home ▸ Add/Remove Threads ▸ **Insert Thread** / **Remove Thread**                 |                                                             |
| Link / Unlink                                                                   | Home ▸ Sync Operations ▸ **Sync Color** / **Sync Thickness**                      | Inverse toggle: unchecking = unlinked                       |

### View menu <a href="#view-menu" id="view-menu"></a>

| Fiberworks                                                                               | TempoWeave                                                               | Notes                 |
| ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------ | --------------------- |
| Zoom in/out (Mac: Make Larger/Smaller)                                                   | View ▸ **Zoom** group                                                    |                       |
| Color View (color ↔ structure)                                                           | View ▸ Cloth View ▸ **Structure Only**                                   | Inverse toggle        |
| Back View / View Back                                                                    | View ▸ View ▸ **Front / Back View**                                      |                       |
| Grid in Cloth                                                                            | Project ▸ **Project Info**; Settings                                     |                       |
| Compact / Expand **\[Win]**                                                              | ❌                                                                        | Zoom covers this      |
| Show/Hide Toolbar & Status Bar                                                           | Window ▸ Screen ▸ **Focus Mode**                                         | ⚠️ hides whole ribbon |
| Ruler Units / Set Scale **\[Mac]**                                                       | ⚠️ Settings (Imperial/Metric); rulers in Fabric Viewer                   |                       |
| **Draft Layout** **\[Mac]** (draw up/down, threading L↔R, shaft-1 / treadle-1 placement) | Settings ▸ **Draft Style / Origin Side / Shaft 1 / Treadle 1 placement** | ✅ strong match        |
| View / Show Thread Numbering **\[Mac]**                                                  | Always Shows                                                             |                       |

### Cloth menu (display modes) <a href="#cloth-menu-display-modes" id="cloth-menu-display-modes"></a>

| Fiberworks                       | TempoWeave                                                                       | Notes                                 |
| -------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------- |
| Normal Cloth / Color Drawdown    | Project ▸ Cloth Type ▸ **Normal**                                                |                                       |
| Interlacement                    | View ▸ View ▸ **Show Interlacement**                                             |                                       |
| Rep / Warp Faced                 | Project ▸ Cloth Type ▸ **Warp Faced**                                            |                                       |
| Weft Faced                       | Project ▸ Cloth Type ▸ **Weft Faced**                                            |                                       |
| Bound Weave                      | ⚠️ closest: Weft Faced                                                           | No dedicated bound-weave mode         |
| Double Weave                     | View ▸ Cloth View ▸ **View Fabric** (Double Weave  option)                       |                                       |
| Warp / Weft Drawdown (structure) | ⚠️ Structure Only + Draft Style                                                  | No explicit warp/weft-drawdown toggle |
| Notes and Records                | Project ▸ **Project Info**; counts → Print ▸ **Project Report** / **Color Card** |                                       |

### Colors (Mac: own **Colors** menu · Windows: in **Cloth** menu) <a href="#colors-mac-own-colors-menu--windows-in-cloth-menu" id="colors-mac-own-colors-menu--windows-in-cloth-menu"></a>

| Fiberworks                                             | TempoWeave                                                    | Notes                                |
| ------------------------------------------------------ | ------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------ |
| Modify Colors **\[Win]** / Show Color Panel **\[Mac]** | **Yarns** tab / Yarn Catalog                                  | Mac uses the macOS Color Panel       |
| Select Color Palette / Open New Color Group            | Yarns ▸ **Yarns and Palettes** (+ Settings ▸ Default Palette) | ⚠️ "color groups" concept not 1:1    |
| Save / Remove a Color Group **\[Mac]**                 | Yarns ▸ **Export Yarns / Import Yarns**                       | ⚠️ partial                           |
| **Create Gradient** **\[Mac]**                         | ❌ On the Roadmap                                              |                                      |
| **Colorways** (store ≤6 colorways) **\[Mac]**          | ⚠️ Duplicate to New Tab / snapshots                           | No multi-colorway store in one draft |

### Warp menu (the Weft/**Treadling** menu mirrors these) <a href="#warp-menu-the-wefttreadling-menu-mirrors-these" id="warp-menu-the-wefttreadling-menu-mirrors-these"></a>

| Fiberworks                                          | TempoWeave                                                                                        | Notes |
| --------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----- |
| Fill Threading (Win: 4 fills · **Mac: 11 fills**)   | Design ▸ **Design Repeats** or Design ▸ Weave Explorer ▸ **Common Weaves**                        |       |
| Fill Warp Colors (Win: 2 colors · **Mac: up to 4**) | Design ▸ **Color Repeats** or Design ▸ Warp ▸ **Randomize Warp Colors** or **Color Pattern Draw** |       |
| Fill Thickness                                      | Design ▸ **Thickness Repeats**                                                                    |       |
| Repeat                                              | Design ▸ Repeats ▸ **Design / Color / Thickness Repeats**                                         |       |
| Parallel Repeat (Mac adds **Three-way parallel**)   | Design ▸ Warp Advanced ▸ **Echo** / **Warp Amalgamation** 🔒                                      |       |
| Make Symmetrical (Mac: **Flip Sequence**)           | Design ▸ Warp/Weft ▸ **Mirror All**                                                               |       |
| Reverse Sequence (Mac: **Flip Sequence**)           | Design ▸ Warp/Weft ▸ **Reverse**                                                                  |       |
| Redraw on Network                                   | Design ▸ Warp/Weft Advanced ▸ **Plot on Network** 🔒                                              |       |

### Tieup menu <a href="#tieup-menu" id="tieup-menu"></a>

| Fiberworks                                                                                                                                     | TempoWeave                                                       | Notes                               |
| ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------- |
| Twill Repeat                                                                                                                                   | Design ▸ Tie-Up ▸ **Diagonal**                                   | ⚠️ auto-twill; not full step dialog |
| Repeat by Quarters                                                                                                                             | ❌                                                                |                                     |
| Change Face                                                                                                                                    | Design ▸ Tie-Up ▸ **Change Face**                                |                                     |
| Turn Draft **\[Win: Tieup · Mac: Tools]**                                                                                                      | Tools ▸ Transform ▸ **Turn Draft**                               |                                     |
| Sinking Shed                                                                                                                                   | Project ▸ Mode ▸ **Sinking Shed** (or Settings default)          |                                     |
| **Multipedal / Skeleton tieup** (Win: Tieup ▸ Allow Multipedal · Mac: Treadling ▸ Allow Multipedal Action + Tieup ▸ Convert to Skeleton Tieup) | Project ▸ **Project Info ▸ Setup ▸ Multi-Treadle**               |                                     |
| Tie-up ↔ Liftplan mode                                                                                                                         | Tools ▸ Conversions ▸ **Convert to Tieup / Convert to Liftplan** |                                     |
| Shafts and Treadles (count)                                                                                                                    | Project ▸ **Project Info ▸ Setup**                               |                                     |

### Weft / Treadling-specific <a href="#weft--treadling-specific" id="weft--treadling-specific"></a>

| Fiberworks                        | TempoWeave                              | Notes |
| --------------------------------- | --------------------------------------- | ----- |
| Weave As Drawn In / Tromp as Writ | Tools ▸ Conversions ▸ **Tromp as Writ** |       |
| Add Tabby / Insert Tabby          | Tools ▸ Tabby ▸ **Add Tabby**           |       |
| Remove Tabby                      | Tools ▸ Tabby ▸ **Remove Tabby**        |       |

### Tools menu <a href="#tools-menu" id="tools-menu"></a>

| Fiberworks                                           | TempoWeave                                               | Notes        |
| ---------------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------- | ------------ |
| Float Search                                         | Project ▸ Project ▸ **Float Check**                      |              |
| Block Substitution                                   | Design ▸ Assembly ▸ **Block Substitution**               |              |
| Fold Double                                          | Tools ▸ Transform ▸ **Double Cloth**                     |              |
| Namedraft                                            | ❌ planned → Design ▸ Weave Explorer                      |              |
| Shaft Shuffler **\[Win: Tools · Mac: Drawing menu]** | Tools ▸ Optimize ▸ **Arrange Shafts / Arrange Treadles** |              |
| Export to Sketchpad                                  | ❌                                                        | No sketchpad |

### Window & Help menus <a href="#window--help-menus" id="window--help-menus"></a>

| Fiberworks                             | TempoWeave                 | Notes                                             |
| -------------------------------------- | -------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------- |
| Open Windows List / Cascade / Tile     | **Tabs** + Window ▸ Layout | TempoWeave is tab-based, not MDI/floating windows |
| Help Topics / Fiberworks Help / Search | Help ▸ **User Guide**      |                                                   |
| About                                  | Help ▸ **About**           |                                                   |

### Settings / Preferences mapping <a href="#settings--preferences-mapping" id="settings--preferences-mapping"></a>

Fiberworks Preferences → TempoWeave **File backstage ▸ Settings** (Default Settings + Settings tabs). Highlights: default shafts/treadles, loom type (tie-up/liftplan), units, initial zoom, default palette/colors, rising vs sinking shed, **shaft-1 / treadle-1 placement & origin side** (matches Mac's Draft Layout), grid overlays, theme, and file locations.