File | Close

The File | Close option closes the current design window. Be sure to save changes unless you intend to discard the most recent updates since the last save. A reminder to save appears if changes exist that have not been saved, but it's a good idea to remember to save regardless!

File | Exit

The File | Exit option closes all open windows and exits the TempoWeave application.

The File Menu is where new weaving drafts can be started, existing drafts can be opened, files can be saved, renamed and exported.

The recent designs, folders and browse functions provide methods to quickly access weaving designs on your computer, thumb or cloud drive.

File | Print

Threading Printout

The Threading printout marks threads in increments according to the Grid Overlay Thread as set in Project Shafts and Treadles The following Threading printout has Grid Overlay Thread set to 10.

The following Threading printout has Grid Overlay Thread set to 4 so that thread numbers are recorded in increments of 4 along with a dividing line.

When selecting the Threading printout, the option to print the path of the file name can be chosen with the check box on Include Page Headers.

Treadling Printout

The Treadling printout has options to include the file path and name (page headers), whether or not to print grids in the printout, and an option to number every weft pick (number every thread).

The Treadling printout fits one to 3 columns of treadling on each page, based on the number of treadles, or in the case of lift plans, the number of shafts.

Tie-Up

The Tie-Up simply prints the tie-up box.

Drawdown

The Drawdown printout reflects the threading, tie-up and treadling that is currently visible. To get all, or more of the drawdown in the printout, use the Zoom function along with the scroll bars to select what is to be printed. It is also helpful to click the auto-hide on the Color Palette prior to printing the drawdown.

Winding Plan

Print Preview

Once print is selected, click the Print button on Print Preview (shown below) then select Print to select the from available Printers. At least one of these printers is normally a "Print to PDF" option that is useful for saving or sharing a printout. There are many options shown below, but most are not useful; use of scale or margins may cause part of the graphical output to not be shown.

Another print option on the right that may not be seen without expanding to full screen is "Export to" (see far right below). This is useful for saving a PDF without using a "pdf printer".

After clicking export, a screen with export to pdf options appears. Click "ok" and select the file name and location to save the PDF.

Print Project, is also now available. Most of the information on the Project Menu is printed on this page. More improvements will be made at a later date to this function.

FILE | New

It is recommended that you save your new file soon (see Save As) before starting to invest time in your new design.

File | Save

Keyboard Shortcut: Ctrl-S

File Save will save the changes in the current design window. The short cut, CTRL-S, does the same thing as FILE | SAVE. It is recommended to save frequently when doing a significant amount of design work. A message shows towards the bottom of the screen that your file was saved.

File | Save As

Use the File | Save As option to copy the current WIF file under another name and/or folder.

It’s important to note that when you do a SAVE AS, you are immediately working under the new (save as) name. Any changes made since the last time you did a SAVE (under the prior name) will not be saved to the previous file name, but instead will be saved under the new name indicated on “Save As”.

If the file name you select for your new file already exists, you will be given the option to overwrite (replace) the existing file or to cancel.

It’s helpful to organize your projects by folders. You may want to group weaving projects by end item, such as scarves, table linens, rugs, yardage, or by year, weave construction or anything that helps you organize. Within those category folders, you can further add subfolders as needed. You may find it helpful to create a folder for each of your weaving projects. Within that folder, it is helpful to save the weaving design file as other documents and images related to the project. If you aren’t familiar with file explorer in Windows or Finder on the Mac, it’s helpful to learn to navigate through the file system so that you can stay organized and always know where your designs are saved.

The Save As function defaults to the directory that was last used for a save to open a new design. Use Browse or Recent Folders to locate a different folder

After Saving a draft, a green banner will appear at the bottom of the screen confirming the save is completed. Some keyboard shortcuts and actions will not work until that green save banner disappears.

File Names

Creating a New Design from an Existing One

Sometimes it’s helpful to start a new design from an existing one. To do this, open the existing design and use File | Save As to generate a new name. Do this before making changes to protect the original design from unintended changes.

The Export Function allows the building of an export for TempoTreadle that prepares a compliant design and the associated cached files that allow for fast loading of a project into TempoWeave.

A special version of the WIF file is prepared that strips out any comments (comments over 32 characters cause an issue in TempoTreadle), checks for file names that are too long or have invalid characters and verifies that the number of warp ends and picks are not beyond the maximum number. Certain information that TempoTreadle does not need is also stripped out of the WIF for faster loading. The name of the WIF has an appended "_tt" to avoid any confusion with the original WIF file that is stored on your computer.

The Export function allows the selection of the Drive letter for your micro-sd card, then the creation and copy of the files for TempoWeave are written to the micro-sd card.

The following screen screen options are shown for the Export.

Browse to Select: Click to select the USB drive from on your PC. Be sure to have the USB adapter with the micro-sd card inserted before clicking Browse to Select.

The Export Folder defaults to the location of the WIF on the PC being prepared for Export.

The WIF name is the same as the currently loaded WIF, with the addition of "_tt" after the draft name.

Include Draw Down Image is checked on by default. This prepares a small thumbnail image of the draft that will be shown as an option to view on the TempoTreadle home screen.

Include Load Cache is checked on by default. This prepares the file for a quick load on the project WIF file.

The first options on the Home menu are covered under the File options.

New, Save As, Save: Creating, Saving and Naming Files

Open and Recent: Finding and Opening Files

Print: Print

Close and Exit: File Close and Exit

Home | Draw Options

The drawing tools are used in the warp thread section, tie-up and weft section. The drawing tools are also used in the color bar. The color bar is over the warp threads and to the right of the weft threads.

If a dialog panel is open, such as Section Assembly, the drawing tools will not work. Close the dialog panel to restore access.

If the selection tool or section marker tool is selected, remember that none of the regular drawing tools are activated.

Home | Undo

Keyboard Shortcut: Ctrl-Z

Home | Redo

Keyboard Shortcut: Ctrl-Y

Reverse the most recent "Undo".

Settings that apply to your installation of TempoWeave, regardless of the weaving design, are stored here. Some of these settings are defaults. You can change the settings for an individual project using the Project Information options."

Default Settings - Loom

Default Settings - Files

The default directory location for saving your designs is documents/tempoweave unless a different location is specified in the "Default Location for new WIF Files". Typically this default location will have subfolders created to store WIFs by categories that assist in finding designs.

Telemetry is used for debugging purposes.

Settings - Grid / Layout

The Grid / Layout Options allow the weaver to change the grid with "thick" lines shafts and threads in the the warp and weft.

The Thread Display Option area allows either numeric values or "blocks" to show for the Tie-up, Warp and Weft. These options are also available on the project design under the View options.

The "Cut" function on the home menu removes the selected threads and collapses the space. The following example shows warp ends, but the same Cut function works in the weft threads.

For example, two warp ends on shafts 4 and 5 are selected:

After clicking "Cut", warp ends 12 and 13 are removed as shown below. Note that the selection box is now around the next two warp ends. This selection can be used, or press escape to remove the selection box.

Using this Documentation

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:

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:

About TempoWeave Designer

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.

This documentation assumes the weaver has familiarity with the format of weaving drafts.

TempoWeave may be purchased on https://www.tempoweave.com

To cut out a range of threads and leave the area open (threads removed, but the space available), hold the shift key down when pressing Cut on the Home Menu.

The keyboard short cut for Cut will also work (pressing Shift - Delete) to cut and leave the space open.

In the screenshot below, the threads at the cursor position were Cut out and the space is open and available to use for pasting or clicking in warp threads.

Home | Insert and Cut Menu Options

To insert threads that have previously been copied, establish the cursor position by clicking at the point where the copied threads are to be inserted. The insert will happen before the cursor.

In the following example warp threads 21 and 22 (threaded on shafts 5 and 6) are selected.

Click the Copy button on the Home screen or press Ctrl-C.

Next, click where you want the threads to be inserted. Shown below, the cursor position is established at warp thread 9.

Next click Insert on the Home Menu. Now, as shown below, the two threads that were copied on shafts 5 and 6 are now inserted and reside on warp ends 9 and 10 as shown below.

Home | Insert and Remove Thread

Select this tool to insert or remove individual warp or weft threads. Insert adds a blank thread prior to the current cursor. Remove acts on the thread at the current cursor.

Shortcut keys: 'I' for insert thread, 'R' for remove thread.

In addition, the Insert and Delete keys can be used to insert and remove threads.

Home | Copy and Paste

The copy function places the selected threads in a buffer. Once these threads are copied, they can then be pasted to a new location, overwriting the prior threads. To select a new location, reposition the cursor by clicking. Copied threads can also be inserted at a new cursor location using the Insert button on the Home Menu.

Keyboard Shortcuts: Copy: ctrl-C, Paste: ctrl-V

It is possible to copy between drafts. This video shows an example:

Home | Select and Select Special

There are two selection tools. The most commonly used is Select; simply click and drag around an area in the warp, tie-up, weft or color bars to mark. After selecting, there are various options such as copy and cut to work with the selected threads. Keyboard shortcut for Select is "A"

Select Special allows you to click and drag to select; when the mouse is released, a box pops up with options as shown below allowing you to extend the selected rectangle through the end thread, through a selected thread, or select all threads. This option is especially useful when selecting a large range of threads that cannot be easily selected. Keyboard shortcut for Select Special is "Q" (letter above the shortcut for select).

When a selection tool is used, the cursor location at the upper right changes to dynamically show the number of threads selected. In the example below, the selection area is shaded over 10 threads, ends at thread 14 and begins at thread 4 (Threads 10| 14, 4).

Selected areas are often used in conjunction with copy, insert or delete.

To select everything in the area that has focus (warp, tie-up or weft), ctrl-A will automatically select the entire region.

To remove a selection, press the escape "esc" key and the shaded area will be removed.

In the column under "Open", click to access either recent designs, folders or to open a browse window. If you do not see these options, then the screen is scrolled down where it is showing more designs or folders, simply scroll back to the top to see the options.

Under Recent Designs, the most 30 recent files are displayed in the right panel. Any weaving design opened or saved is included in the recent designs list. The links can be clicked to open the file.

Under Recent Folders, up to 30 recently used folders are displayed. When clicked, the File Explorer opens to that folder where a design can be selected to open.

If TempoWeave is the default program for opening WIF files, a file can also be opened directly from File Explorer or an attachment in email. More than one design can be opened in TempoWeave at one time. To switch between open files, see Switching Between Open Weaving Designs.

TempoWeave saves copies of your weaving design in case you ever need to refer to, or retrieve a prior version of your draft.

Versions (snapshots) of your weaving design are saved each time you save your design as well as when certain transformative functions are performed, such as Create Double Cloth. Prior versions of your draft can be accessed by clicking the version history icon. The date and time the snapshot was taken is shown, along with the path and file name. Any of the versions can be selected and opened; if needed, they can be saved as a new name or overwrite the current version of your draft.

Version history is based on the name you give your draft, not the file location. If you have multiple designs with the same name, you'll see all of those designs in the version history. They can be distinguised by the location. The reason TempoWeave works this way is to preserve version history even if you move your file to another directory.

Most of the project settings, calculations and information are within the Project Information tab.

To cut out a range of threads, select the threads and press Cut; the selected threads will be removed and the area collapsed. To leave the area open (threads removed, but the space available), hold the shift key down when pressing Cut. The delete key (or shift-delete) works the same on selected areas as Cut.

The project information screen is broken into Tabs. See the pages below for descriptions of each tab.

Example of Estimating Yarn Requirements without Weaving Draft

To copy all or a portion of the threading, treadling or tie-up, the copy and paste works between drafts.

As shown in the following example, a new weaving design has been started on the left and another design is opened on the right. The option, Window | Tile Vertical, has been selected so that the two designs are visible at once. Normal copy and past works from window to window.

The current WIF shafts and treadles is set on the first tab of the Project Information selection. The number of shafts and treadles initially defaults to the settings under Home | Settings.

The Multi-Treadle option, if checked, allows for more than one treadle to be pressed at a time. For lift plans, this is always checked. When weaving with a tie-up, if you don't require pressing more than one treadle at a time (such as with a skeleton tie-up), leave the setting unchecked for easier entry of the treadling sequence as the cursor will advance to the next pick after each number is keyed or selection is clicked.

The Print Project button is available on all of the Project Information tabs. It is also available under File | Print.

It is a multi-page report, a sample of one page is shown below

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Dimensions

The Dimensions tab helps determine the number of warp ends and weft picks required to end up with the final size of the woven item as well as the length of warp required to weave all the items. The calculations do not change the weaving draft, but give the weaver an idea of how many warp and weft ends to design and how long the warp needs to be wound. The drivers also impact the yarn requirements calculation for the project.

Calculation Drivers

The calculation drivers are on the upper left. Initially these values are all zero. Any or all of these can be entered to impact the calculations.

Draw-In -the difference in width in the reed and the fell of the cloth.

Warp Take-Up - this percentage increases the minimum warp yardage requirements based on the bending of the warp yarns as they are woven.

Weft Take-Up - this percentage increases the weft yardage requirements based on the bending of the weft yarns as they are woven

Loom Waste - inches/cm not woven at the start and end of the warp

Shrinkage Width and Length - this is the expected shrinkage after wet finishing the cloth

Current WIF:

Current WIF Warp Ends - the current value is automatically populated from the current draft. If the warp ends in the WIF do not represent the entire project (such as having the warp ends repeated a number of times), an override width in the reed can be entered on the next yarn requirements tab so that the yarn requirements will calculation properly.

Current Width in Reed The current value is a calculation of Warp Ends in the WIF divided by the Ends per Inch (or Ends per CM). .

Weft Picks The number of weft picks in the current WIF.

Woven Length The number of weft picks times the Picks per Inch or Centimeter.

Finished Estimate Width and Length The calculation drivers are used against the current WIF to determine the estimated finished size of the piece.

Target Finished Size per Piece (right column)

Entry of the Target Width and Length optional. The purpose of entering the Target Size is to calculate the size requirements needed for the draft, such as number or warp ends, woven and warp length, so that the finished piece will meet the target. When entering a target width and length, these should be the size of a finished piece after wet finishing. Allowance for hems, if any, should be included in the target length.

Notice that the "No Pieces" is the number of the target size pieces you plan to weave.

If you plan to do some sampling on the warp, enter the inches planned to weave. Fringe is listed separately as it is not woven, is not subject to take-up and does not consume weft. If your fringe will consume loom waste, there is no need to enter fringe separately in this section, but when planning multiple pieces, the warp that consumed that is not a part of the waste can be important for the calculations.

For example, suppose you are planning to weave two scarves that will be 70" long by 8" wide and have a 6-inch fringe on each end. Enter these values in the target size area, enter estimates in the calculation drivers and click "Calculate Dimensions" . The Size Requirements for Target area will reflect the calculations as well as current WIF estimated final size.

Size Requirements for Target - Calculations

No. Pieces defaults to 1 if left blank or set to 0

Number Warp Ends for Target Width = Req'd Width * EPI/EPCM.

Req'd Width in Reed = (Finished Width + DrawIn) * (1 + Shrinkage in Width)

Minimum Warp Length = (((Woven Length per Piece * (1+Takeup Pct)) + Fringes)) * No. Pieces) + (Sampling * (1+TakeupPct)) + Loom Waste (shown in yds/meters)

Woven Length Per Piece = Target Finished Length * (1 + Shrinkage in Length).

Number of Picks per Piece = Woven Length per Piece * EPI/EPCM

Total Woven Length = Woven Length per Piece * No. Pieces in Project + Sampling (shown in yards or meters)

The Setup information has the unit of measurement, sett and optional reed and raddle information. The unit of measurement and sett is used in many areas of TempoWeave for showing width and length, so it's recommended that this be entered for each project.

Project units can be selected in English (Imperial) or Metric. This setting applies throughout the project, although a reed from a different system can be used.

Reed and Raddle settings are also on this Setup screen. These options are also available on the Tools Menu. Please refer to the documentation on these options under Reed Sley Selection and Calculator and Raddle Sley Selection and Calculator.

To view and print Reed or Raddle Charts, click the Reed Chart or Raddle Chart button. Reed charts will only print the reeds in the measurement system selected on Edit Reed Options. Raddle charts are available only for the LoftyFiber Raddle (4 spaces per inch) and the Louet Built-n Raddle (.5 spaces per cm).

This is a snapshot of the printout for an English red chart:

Yarn Reqs (requirements)

This tab allows the weaver to calculate the yardage/meters of the warp and weft required a project. For a breakdown on requirements by color, see the Color Information section.

Length of Warp should be entered as the length of the warp planned. To assist in deciding on the length of warp to wind, you can use the dimensions tab to view the minimum warp length required.

Override Dimensions allow the weaver to set the width in the reed and woven length to a different dimension than reflected in the current wif. This can be useful, for example, if your WIF has warp ends that you plan to repeat 40 times. This way you can have the correct amount of yarn calculated. Similarly, the total length to be woven for the warp can also be entered as an override.

If using Section Assembly on your project, it's usually simplest to use the project planning on the generated WIF, not the master wif with the marked sections.

After making any changes to the warp length and override dimensions, click the "Calculate Yarn Requirements" button for the warp and weft yardage or meters required.

The weft calculation does use the weft take-up percentage entered on the calculation drivers section of the Dimensions tab.

Once the Calculate Yarn Requirements button is clicked, the yardage by color is available on the Color Information tab:

The primary reason for entering Cloth Construction is to enable the cloth viewer (cloth sim, under the View menu option) to properly display the rendering of the generated cloth.

The cloth construction defaults to Normal:

For double weave, it is assumed that a single, integrated cloth is being woven with the top and bottom layers interchanging. For double weave, the weaver specifies the shuttle sequence of starting with either the top or bottom layer.

Double Cloth, cloth that is woven using half the width and produces a fold on either the left or right side is specified by either selecting "B,T,T,B" for weaving the bottom layer, top layer one direction, top layer the coming back, followed by the bottom layer once again over and over. A custom sequence can also be entered. Sometimes with color and weave and double cloth, more than one shuttle is used requiring a sequence such as TBBTBTTB .

Double cloth opens additonal fields for entry to allow specification of the shafts that are weaving the top layer: For a 4-shaft design, as shown below, only 4 shafts are made available. A 32-shaft design, for example, would require entering the top layer shafts and all 32 shafts are available for selection.

The project notes section allows the weaver to update a title, the author of the draft and fill in notes about the draft. At the bottom of the notes section, the source reflects the weaving software and version from the last save.

Usage of the notes section is optional.

A caution for exporting a WIF for TempoTreadle - no single line of notes can exceed 32 characters. When the Export for TempoTreadle features is finished, the Project Notes will be stripped out for the TempoTreadle file. Until that time, it's best to save a version for TempoTreadle without Project Notes and a file name of 8-characters or less.

If you are using the export function in TempoWeave, saving a version without project notes is not necessary. The export function will take care of this for you.

This information totals the number of warp and weft threads in the project, as well as the warp and weft yards required by color, and a total yardage by color.

Heddle counts are based on warp ends in the WIF.

When designing using section assembly, check the heddle counts in the generated WIF, not the master.

When winding warp chains or preparing sectional warps, this feature prepares a printout that can be taken to the warping board or reel to help with accurately warping the planned colors.

Based on the threading and colors in the WIF, a screen similar to the following is presented. The print button can be used for a printout.

In the example above, the WIF (starting at thread 1) calls for 32 Marine Blue warp threads, followed by colors Teal and Fluorescent Green held together for 16 passes (32 ends), etc.

As it is very common to use alternating colors, TempoWeave identifies these alternating pairs of 2 colors to make it easier to accurately wind color pairs as well as singles.

A later feature will detect more color patterns, such as repeating colors of 4.

The weft color plan counts the number of picks per color and produces a printout similar to the Warp Winding Plan. This can be useful when the treadling is easy to memorize, and the weaver wants to count picks of each color.

This icon is available on the Project Tab.

Select whether to show floats only in the warp direction, weft direction or both.

Set the float values to any length. The default is 4.

Floats can be shown on the front, back or both using the "Cloth side" setting.

When "Show Floats" is clicked, a listing of each float matching the selected criteria is shown. In addition, the floats identified are surrounded by a red line in the drawdown when the identified float location is clicked.

By clicking on any of the identified positions, the drawdown will be repositioned to show the selected float.

The Tie-Up Group has a tie-up icon with drop down options as well as the capability to click a Diagonal icon to generate a tie-up. The options shown under tie-up may also be accessed by selecting a region of the tie-up and using the right-click.

Changing the Tie-Up by Selecting and Right Click

Tie-Up Actions

Select the entire tie-up, or a region as shown above. Transformation actions are presented in two ways. The menu drop downs under tie-up, as shown in the first picture above, or a right click within the tie-up box reveals the transformation options. Options as shown: clear, change face, invert, reverse, rotate right 90 degrees, rotate right 180 degrees, shift, right, shift left, shift up and shift down are documented here: Tie-Up Actions

Tie-Up Diagonal

This option, accessible on the menu in the tie-up group, allows one or more treadles to be copied to others by stepping the contents. See this feature documented here: Tie-Up Diagonal

A simple radio button can be used to set whether or not your project is being woven on a rising or sinking shed loom.

If you aren't familiar with these terms, a rising shed loom is the most common. Most jack looms are rising shed. When a treadle is tied to a shaft, the shaft rises when the treadle is pressed.

An example of a popular jack loom that is a sinking shed is the David loom.

If the setting is set to Sinking Shed, the cloth on the drawdown represents the weaving as if the shafts are pulled down by the treadles. The normal "face" view will look the same as the back view on a risng shed loom.

This option, accessible on the menu in the tie-up group, allows one or more treadles to be copied to others by stepping the contents. Often this is a diagonal line, such as in a twill. The default values, as shown in the picture below on a draft with 8 treadles, allow for the tie-up to be generated based on the value on the first treadle, and shifting each of the shaft selections up by 1 on each subsequent treadle in the tie-up, wrapping when the shift goes past the highest shaft. Any prior values in the tie-up are erased and replaced.

The fields that may be selected for the Tie-Up diagonal button are:

• Start - first treadle in the tie-up to use as the copy-from

• Step - number of shafts to step when copying the values from the prior treadle. The direction of the step is UP, unless the down Down button is clicked.

• Treadles - Number of treadles to copy on each iternation of the copy.

• Stop - Treadle for the last copy operation. Shaft selections in the Treadles after the Stop value will not be changed.

• Down - direction of the copy.

Example - Copying one treadle to the end

For example, the following tie-up shows treadle one with shafts 1,2,4,6 and 8 selected.

Example - Copying two treadles and stepping by 2

Using these options: Starting with 1, using 2 treadles (1 and 2), stepping by 2 and stopping at treadle 8

Result:

Note that in this example, shafts that were selected on Treadle 1 (1,2,4,5,7) are now copied to Treadle 3; since step was 2, the 1 moved to 3, 2 moved to 4, 4 moved to 6, 5 moved to 7, and 7 wrapped around and moved to 1.

A similar action was taken on treadle 2 to generate the entries on treadle 4.

Next, the new values on treadle 3 are used to generate values in treadle 5, etc.

Selecting Repeat under the Warp Icon reveals the following panel that allows selection of a from and through warp thread, along with options of where to start a repeating sequence and how to handle the repeat.

The from and to threads can be typed in or filled automatically by selecting an area with the selection tool. By default, the start thread under "To" will be set equal to the from through thread plus 1. In the above screenshot, warp threads 1 through 3 are selected and the default is to start the repeats at thread 4. The To Start Thread can be changed.

Set the number of repeats as desired.

After tabbing out of the number of repeats field, the end thread and width will be calculated for you. The end thread is the ending thread of the repeats. This can be useful if you want to have the software help you determine how many repeats to use to reach a certain thread number in your design. The width is the total width of the warp in the reed, not the width of the repeating section. As you change the number of repeats, the width will change according to any additional threads being added.

The options area lists regular, advancing and decreasing. If advancing or descreasing is selected, a Step field is available. The default step is "1".

To include colors from the copied threads, check the include color box.

Click apply to perform the repeats.

For example, if warp threads 1 through 3 are selected to be copied starting at warp 4, advancing with a step of 1, the following result will be obtained. Note that the first repeat of 1-2-3 goes to 2-3-4, etc.

The following video shows the use of Advancing Repeats:

Notice that you can also click in other tabs for the Quick Repeat and the Weft Repeat. This same function is also available on the Design menu option under an icon labelled "Design Repeats".

To use the tie-up actions, first select the area in the tie-up to be modified. The selection tool can be used to select a region of the tie-up or the entire tie-up. A short cut when selecting the entire tie-up is to use ctrl-A with your cursor anywhere in the tie-up box.

Either the options via the design menu or right click can be used. In the following example, a region within the tie-up is selected and the right click options are shown. The selection region will remain selected so that repeated actions can be made without needing to reselect the region.

Tie-Up Actions Examples. (same when selected from design menu in the tie-up area, or with the right click in the tie-up area)

For the selected rectange (original)

Clear - all tie-up entries are cleared in the selected region

Change Face - selected numbers are cleared, non-selected are entered:

Invert - rows are inverted such that top row is moved to the bottom, next to top to the second from bottom, etc.

Reverse - in thie action, the 4th column of the selected region becomes the 1st, the 3rd column the 2nd, the 2nd column the third, and the 1st column the fourth. If this action is taken twice, the second time it returns to the original.

Shift Right - everything in the selection is shifted right by one column with wrap. If you hold down the shift key while performing this action, the wrap action is turned off and as columns shift, they will become blank.

The fourth shift rigth returns to the original before shift.

Shift Left - this is exactly like Shift Right, except that the shifting goes to the left. As tihe Shift Right, the columns in the selected region shift and wrap. If the shift key is held down when this option is selected, no wrap will occur.

Shift Up - this option shifts the bottom row of the selected region up by one row on each click of Shift Up. As with the other options, the region remains selected so that shift up can be selected again. Also, as with the other options, the shift up action wraps such taht the top most row becomes the bottom row with each shift up. If the Shift Key is held while performing this action, no wrap occurs.

Shift Down - exactly like shift up except that each row in the selected region goes down one row at a time, wrapping back to the top of the region unless the shift key is held down when selecting shift down.

Note that there are additional tie-up transformation tools on the Design menu. See Tie-Up for more features involving copying by step values to other treadles.

The warp group has options to transform or change the warp threads in several ways. The drop down under Warp has repeating and transformation options. Some of the same options are available with the right click on an area of selected warp.

The plot on network and amalgamation also act on the warp threads.

Some of the same options (invert, mirror, reverse, shift up and shift down) are available on the warp drop down as well as right click. When doing repeated actions on the same selection, it is suggested that the warp options drop down be used instead of doing this from the right click; the selected area will stay selected when using the warp options drop down.

Warp Invert "flips" the threading such that thread 1 moves to the highest available shaft, thread 2 to the next highest, and so on until the highest shaft threads are moved to shaft 1.

First select the warp threads that are to be inverted. To select all warp threads, using ctrl-A may be easier than drawing the selection box around all the wrap threads.

Another way to do the invert on a selected section is to Right-Click and select Invert:

The purpose of mirroring is to provide a symmetrical mirror image of the warp threads. This function adds the same number of warp threads, minus one, to the left of the warp or selected region. This can be thought of as pivoting on the leftmost thread.

Warp Mirror Selected

Warp Mirror All

To mirror all the warp threads, click mirror all.

To Shift threads in the Warp, highlight a selection and choose either Shift Right, Left, Up or Down. Alternatively, the highlight warp threads may be shifted by using the left, right, up and down arrow keys.

This 8-shaft draft has 6-warp threads selected; under the Warp menu.

If Shift Up is selected (or the up arrow pressed), the six warp threads are all one shaft higher; the selection remains in place so that the threads can be shifted again, repeatedly, if desired. When threads are shifted up, they will eventually wrap back to shaft one. If you want the threads to wrap before reaching the maximum shaft, draw the box only as high as you highest shaft before wrapping.

Note that the Shift can be done repeatedly without reselecting the warp threads.

Select the area of warp to modified before clicking Warp Reverse. Warp Reverse moves each warp thread in reverse order. The highest warp end, warp 18 in the example below, becomes warp end 1 after the reverse action is applied, continuing on 17 becomes 2, 16 becomes 3, until warp 1 becomes the 18th warp end.

Once the design line is drawn, select the icon for Plot on Network - Warp.

The following panel opens with options. The top has choices of no reduction, or reducing the number of shafts using telescoping or digitizing. For either telescoping or digitizing, the desired number of shafts after the reduction has to be set in "Reduce Shofts to:".

To see the impact of the design line reduction, uncheck the "plot on network" box. This option can be selected after the reduction is complete.

To keep the design line as-is, leave the default value of "Do not Reduce" and leave the check more in the Plot On Network selection. The default network initial is a 1/3 (4-end straight left) as shown below. Optionally use the drop down to select from other initials, or to create your own.

By clicking apply, of Plot on Network is selected, the design line will be plotted on the network, guided by the network initial for "legal" hits. Using this method, floats will be minimized, yet keep characteristics of the design line.

The dimensions on this panel change according to the selected initial.

A custom initial can be entered by specifying the height and width (shown as a 4X7 in the picture below) and clicking into the grid to define your own initial.

After apply has been used to plot thte design line on the network, the Undo or Accept button can be clicked. If Accept is clicked, the panel closes.

Start with a Design Line:

Choose Telescope in Design Line Reduction. Uncheck the box for Plot on network, so you can see the impact of the telescoping of the design line before plotting on the network.

This is the result of reducing the above design line to 8 shafts. The methodology involves dividing the rows on the threading into a few slices, and telescoping those slices into a single row. In this case, the 37 row high design line has been reduced to 8 rows (shafts).

After digitiing the original 37-row design line to 8 shafts:

Using the design lines created in the prior example, the Telescoped 8-shaft design line is plotted on a network (settings shown at right). After clicking apply, the weft was generated iwth a tromp-as-writ action on the tools menu.

The technique of Warp Amalgamation is supported with this simple process. The Warp Amalgamation tool lets you select a section of the drawdown and paste it into the warp threading.

In this example, a 1/7 satin tie-up and a straight draw threading and treadling has been entered as the draft.

With the selection tool, an area has been selected from the drawdown. While dragging, the rectangle is solid green; when the mouse is released, the selected area is shaded green as shown below. Draw from the top down; you are limited to no more rows than there are shafts.

Next, click where you want the warp threads copied or replaced by clicking on any warp end in the warp. You can choose to overwrite existing threading or place the cursor at the end of the warp as shown below. Click the Warp Amalgamation button and the translation overwrites using the selected drawdown area into the warp threads.

The following picture shows the draft after selecting Tromp as Writ:

The Interleave Warp icon is on the Design Screen in the Warp Group:

Interleave Warp allows you to merge a threading sequence into a draft from another draft (or the same draft) and optionally shift the interleaved threads up by a specified number of shafts.

Starting Thread: You can start the interleave process at the beginning, or at a specified warp thread.

Shift Up: The Shift Up value will add to the shaft from the thread that you are interleaving from. If the Wrap field is checked, the shaft will wrap around to shaft one when the maximum shaft for the current draft is exceeded. If Wrap is not checked, shafts will be added to accomodate the shift.

Wrap: If Wrap is unchecked, then threads being brought in from the Interleave From draft will be added on the same shaft as in the From draft; if the shaft is greater than the maximum shaft in draft that is being worked on, then the number of shafts will be automatically changed to accommodate the highest shaft. Likewise, Wrap is unchecked and the Shift Up calculates a higher shaft, the number of shafts will be automatically changed.

When Wrap is checked, the number of shafts will not change in the draft being worked on. Whether shift is used or not, the new shaft value will be calculated and wrap when the highest shaft is exceeded.

Repeat Through End: When the number of warp threads in the "Interleave FROM" draft is less than the number in the working draft, this option, when checked, will wrap back to thread one in the From draft to continue the interleave process through the end.

Interleave Color: When checked, will copy the color from the "From" draft.

Interleave Thickness: When checked, will copy the thickness value from the "From" draft.

Undo / Apply / Accept

Either the Undo or Apply button will be available. After applying a change, the Undo button will back out the change, and allow the Apply button to be available. To keep the changes, click Accept. Clicking Accept does not save the draft.

Example of Interleave:

Some people may prefer to tile the two drafts on the screen using the Window function so both are visibile.

In this situation, the From draft looks the same as the "to" draft above.

If Apply is clicked with the settings as shown above (start at 1, no wrap), the following is the result:

After clicking Undo, and using the settings:

The following results from a Shift of 4 and no wrap:

The Echo function, found on the Design Tab, takes the current threading and integrates parallel threading(s) creating an echo of the current design line. Color can also be changed for the original pattern line and the generated echoes.

For example, the following design line was drawn using the Free Free draw tool from the home tab:

The following screen shows a selection of Echo-2 (meaning that a single echo will be inserted into the threading, producing 2 parallel lines) and a shift of 4. The original pattern line will be purple and the echo line magenta as shown with the color selections on the right labelled pattern and 2nd Echo. To insert a color, click from the color palette to change the current color then click in the square with the label on the Echo function.

Now click Apply and the following threading results:

Note that the second Echo is always 4 shafts higher than the original pattern line, wrapping if necessary.

Also note that the original colors are always replaced in the warp according to the selection in the Echo function.

Currently the limit for the number of parallel lines is 6 and the shift is 16.

The echo function only works on Warp Threads at this time. Consider using the Turn Draft function if you need to have an echo line in the treadling.

Note that this function can also be used on a design that has been plotted on a network, as described in Marian Stubenitsky's book, Weaving with Echo and Iris.

The weft group has options to transform or change the weft threads in several ways.

The Weft option allows options to mirror, invert and rotate weft picks.

The Plot on Network is a powerful tool that allows placing a design line on a network, or in the case of a liftplan, allows two weaving presets to be selected and a ribbon width or the design line.

Combine and Interleave weft is a powerful tool that allows the merging of the treadling for two wefts. The merged wefts can be interleaved or overlayed, and optionally shifted when doing the merge.

The screenshot below shows a draft with the panel for the Combine Weft selected. The combine weft function is in the Weft Group on the Design Menu.

The panel, a s shown beside a draft below, starts with a Combine From selection. It is necessary to have at least two drafts open in TempoWeave to use the Combine Weft. The draft that has "focus" is the one that will be modified, however the draft that will have the weft sequence to be interleaved or overlayed must be open in TempoWeave and selected in the "Combine FROM" box.

• Combine FROM: selected window for the from weft sequence.

• Combine Type: Interleave - combine, but add a separate weft pick; Overlay - combine the changes on the pick in the To draft, do not add a separate weft pick.

• Starting Thread: Start the combination of the wefts at pick 1 in the TO draft. If left 0, it will start at pick 1.

• Shift Right: If a value is entered for the shift, move the "from" treadle, or shaft if working in a lift plan, to the right by the specified value. If shifting beyond the last available treadle (or shaft for lift plan), be sure to uncheck Wrap to add treadles or shafts to accommodate the new value.

• Ratio X:1: The ratio allows bringing the from weft picks in and interleaving or overlaying on something other than a 1:1 ratio. For example if 2 is entered in this field and performing and the combine type is Interleave, every other weft pick in the draft TO draft will have a pick from the FROM draft inserted; likewise if the combine type is overlay, every other weft pick will have a pick from the FROM draft used for the overlay. Note that the FROM draft always uses each pick, it is not possible to use a ratio of anything but "1" for the FROM draft.

• Wrap: When using a Shift Right, the checked Wrap box will will cause a shaft back to treadle/shaft 1 after the highest treadle/shaft is is reached. When Wrap is not checked, additional shafts/treadles will be added. The Tie-up will not be changed for added treadles, and must be changed manually.

• Repeat Through End: If the number of weft picks in the From draft are less than needed to complete the combine/overlay throughout the entire TO draft, checking this box will have the From draft cycle back to pick 1 and continue the combination through the end.

• Interleave Color: If checked, the color in the from draft will be used when performing the combine or overlay.

• Interleave Thickness: If checked, the thickness value in the from draft will be used with the combined weft.

Undo / Apply / Accept

Either the Undo or Apply button will be available (one is always "greyed out"). After applying a change, the Undo button will back out the change and allow the Apply button to be available for another combination. To keep the changes, click Accept. Clicking Accept does not save the draft.

Using the select and copy functions, areas of warp and weft can be selected and copied. The Design Repeats provides options that can make copying faster.

Quick Repeats Tab

Starting with a simple example, the Quick Repeats tab allows a quick selection of all the Warp and/or Weft and allows a specified number of repeats.

In the above example the Warp is to be repeated 4 times and will measure 3.75 inches (based on ends per inch/cm from Project Information | Planning | Setup). Similarly you can see the length, calculated a 7 inches in the above example, based on 6 repeats and picks per inch/cm in the project setup. Once Apply is clicked, the changes are reflected in the design.

Tip: Ctrl-Z will undo the copy.

Warp Repeat Tab

Weft Repeat Tab

Warp and Weft Threads can always be recolored by selecting a color from the palette, and using a drawing tool, clicking or dragging in the color bars above the warp or to the right of the weft threads. The Color Repeats tool allows replacing color in either warp or weft automatically with several options as described below.

Select any color from the palette and click into the vertical column. In the picture below, a green color has been selected from the palette and a single click into the first cell shows the color and the number of repeats defaults to one. Additional colors can be added in the column and the number of repeats specified for the color.

Colors entries can be deleted by clicking the row to select and pressing delete. A color can be inserted by right clicking on a color to add an empty row in the color column.

Colors can be mirrored by clicking Mirror and cleared with the Clear button.

At the top, click on whether the action is to apply to Warp or Weft.

The option of starting thread, repeats, ending and ratio will be described below. The Apply button is used to take the options and color choices and apply the color as instructed to the warp or weft in the draft. Changes can be easily made and applied, followed by clicking Cloth View (or keyboard shortcut "V") to see the impact of the changes.

Repeats option

The default option is Repeats (the button group showing Repeats - Ending - Ratio). The number of repeats defaults to 1 and can be changed. Any colors in the lower part, along with their specified repeats, will be used to color in the warp or weft for the exact number of times specified. The starting thread can also be changed to something other than 1.

For example, this instruction results in the warp colors shown below the Design screen once Apply is clicked.

Ending option

The ending option allows the specified colors (and their repeats) to repeat across the entire draft or to stop at the specified thread. The ending thread defaults to the last thread; the starting and ending threads can be changed.

Resulting coloring:

Ratio Option (supports Fibonacci Stripes)

The ratio option is very powerful option to spread the desired sequence of colors in the selected proportions across warp or weft. This feature is most often used to apply the fibonnaci widths to stripes; this along with the optional ability to mirror the color sequences makes for very fast designing and testing of stripes.

The repeats color is used for the ratio numbers. Most often, one of the Fibonacci numbers is used; a hover over the Repeats column heading provides a handy reminder of 1,2,3,5,8,13,21,34

In the following example, we have chosen Ratio, Listed Pattern (meaning to take the instructions from the column of colors and repeats), Fit is checked and left the default ending thread of the last warp end.

After applying, this is the resulting picture from Cloth View.

After clicking Mirror on the above panel, the colors and repeats are mirrored (pivots back from the last color which is Wasabi in this example). Now after clicking Apply, the Wasabi is in the middle of the design.

If the Weft button and apply is clicked, leaving the same colors and repeats, the following cloth is generated:

The FIT box is selected by default. This means that if the ratio doesn't fit evenly into the number of threads, then small adjustments are made to spread the colors such that each thread is colored.

By unchecking FIT, you may see extra colors where there is no structure and the ratios are exact as you specified. In this situation, you can then choose whether or not to add more structure so that all the colors are used.

It is possible to apply the ratio color repeats to any section of warp or weft by specifying the starting and ending thread. For example, if you decided to do an alternating dark light on some of the stripes, hover over the drawdown to determine the thread numbers and apply the replacing color pattern to only that section; either a normal repeat or a ratio spread can be used on this smaller section of the draft.

Thickness of threads defaults to "4". The range of thickness values are from 1 to 16, with 16 being the largest.

Individual threads can be resized by clicking into the area above color. To either view a summary of all thickness, or apply a pattern of values, this menu option is used.

The first selection is warp or weft. Once selected, the current thickness panel at the right shows the thickness of each thread; a scroll bar may be needed to view all the threads.

If a change is desired, note the starting thread (default is 1), then enter either the number of repeats for the pattern or the ending thread.

The following screen shows selecting a pattern of thickness; use the drop down arrows to select the thickness number. If Size 2 and Size 8 are selected and Apply Thickness Pattern is pressed, then the threads will alternate between size 2 and 8.

Use the clear pattern button to remove the entries so that different values can be entered.

Selecting Color Pattern Draw on the Design Menu allows you to select a sequence of colors from the color palette and draw with that sequence. The "Draw with Color Pattern" needs to be switched on as shown below, then the drawing tools used in the color bars for warp and weft will use the defined sequence.

In addition to defining a series of colors planned for warp and weft, this tool can also simulate a variegated yarn, although not as accurately as defining a varieted yarn in the Yarn Catalog (upcoming feature).

When ready to stop drawing with the color pattern, simply click the "on" bar to turn this off and return to drawing color with the currently selected color from the palette. Closing the dialog box and reopening will have the last used colors available. Use the Clear button to remove all the colors.

Quick Summary

Sections of Warp and Weft are marked. Once marked, they are grouped and repeated. The Refresh button will show calculated sizes based on the ends per inch and picks per inch defined in Project Information. It's easy to change the number of repeats, click refresh and get the sizing just like you want. Once you are ready to give your design a "go", click the green checkmark button from any of the sections to generate a new WIF based on your selections. Either close the generated WIF, make some tweaks and try again, or if you like what you see, save it!

Remember that you need to include a Group and at least one section in both Warp and Weft before generating a new WIF.

What to look for in Section Assembly

Sections that have been marked are always shown at the top under available sections. The following example is a huck lace design where each 5-thread threading and treadling unit has been defined for each section along with 2-thread plain weave.

To help eliminate confusion between warp and weft assembly, the Available Sections title is red for Weft Assembly and green for Warp Assembly.

You can elect to have only one group for your design, or multiple groups as needed. Sections are dragged into groups in the desired order. Sections may be reused in multiple positons within groups. Both sections and groups may be repeated more than once.

First create a group by clicking Add Group. The group will be added where you "drop it". It's easy to reorder a groups by changing the order number.

To drag a section into a group, select by clicking the section and drag to the desired position below.

When a large number of sections are available, it's helpful to use the scroll bars as well as to drag the divider line (pointed to by the red arrow below) to resize the available sections area and the section assembly area below. Also keep the window maximized to allow the scroll bars to be visible.

How to Reorder Groups and Sections

Again, if you drop sections in the wrong order you can change the order column on the section.

After changing the order column on groups or sections, tab or click into another row and click refresh to complete the reorder process.

How to Delete Groups or Sections

Click to select the group or section and press delete to delete the group or section in the assembly area.

Generating a WIF from Section Assembly

When working with your design, it's useful to frequently generate a WIF to check your progress. The green checkmark button shown in the following screen will generate a new WIF using your warp and weft section assembly and any color information. The new WIF opens in a new window and is untitled. Simply close the window (control-W is a convenient command) to return to your assembly process without saving the generated WIF. If you like what you see, you can save the generated WIF.

Adjusting Repeats to Obtain Width and Length - Use Refresh!

When changing groups and number of repeats, be sure to click "Refresh" to update the calculated number of threads and length. For example, if tweaking stripe repeats for a towel that you want to be 20" in the reed, you can quickly get a calculation by clicking "Refresh" and seeing the width in the reed. Likewise, on the Weft tab, the "Refresh" button will relcalculated the length.

Warp Color and Weft Color

Warp and Weft colors can also be grouped and repeated to save a lot of time in generating colors in the WIF. The default uses the colors from the drawdown. If "Use Color from Drawdown" is selected, then the colors are brought forward from the marked sections.

However if "Enable Color Assembly" is selected, you have the option to create groups, drag multiple colors from the palette into the groups and repeat both the colors and groups multiple times.

The following example shows Warp Threads in a repeating color sequence. Only one group has been used in this example and it's used only once (no repeats). The individual colors, however, do have repeats. The number of threads is shown at 170 total at the top of the group, and the threads and width column are calculated and the width is derived using the SETT as provided under planning in project information. There are more colors than will fit on the screen, so a scroll bar is provided at the right.

Scroll down and at the end, you have the total number of threads and the total width (or length if using Weft Color Assembly) is shown.

Weft repeats has the same options as Warp Repeats. A From and To Thread field allow typing of the weft numbers. Alternatively, the selection tool can be used to select weft threads. When the selection tool is used, the from and to threads will automatically be filled in.

The "To" area allowed the starting thread to be filled in where the repeats will begin. By default, the start To thread will be equal to the from "to" plus 1.

Enter the number of repeats.

Once the number of repeats is entered, the ending thread for the repeats will be calculated and the length of the entire WIF will be automatically shown. Note that this is not necessarly the length of the repeating area.

The option to perform a regular repeat, advancing or decreasing repeat is available. Once Advancing or Decreasing is selected, a Step option is available:

Click Apply to perform the repeats, Close to close the Repeat panel.

At the top, tabs to perform the quick repeat or warp repeat are also available.

To use block substitution, open or create a profile draft. A profile draft can be a 2-block design with 2-shafts and treadles, or have additional shafts and treadles for more blocks.

Save your profile draft, then select one of the weave structures and click Generate. A new draft will be opened in a new window with the block substitution applied. The new draft can be saved or simply closed to return to the profile draft.

See this following profile draft with two blocks, thus two shafts:

The draft must be given a name and saved before using block substitution.

Click the block substitution button on the Design menu to see the panel of available blocks or unit weaves.

The additional structures will be added in future releases. Click on a column heading to sort alphabetically.

To filter and show only certain types, click on the filter icon (circled) and click on the weave type:

To use block substitution, select the name and click Generate. A new window will open with the generated design with the substitution. If you want to keep the design, do a Save As. If you do not want to keep it, simply close the window and you'll be returned to the profile draft where you can try another block.

In the example below, the profile above had Satin 4 chosen and generated:

Sections can be marked over any span of warp or weft threads. These marked sections are used later in section assembly to generate a new WIF.

The section marker tool is on the design menu. This tool is similar to the selection tool, except that when you drag across threads a section is recorded and the section is highlighted in a color for easy identification.

The following screen shows sections marked in the threading. Hovering over one of the section, the popup shows the name of the section, and location (warp threads 19-23).

The default names of the section start with "Section" plus a number. The section can be easily renamed, deleted or modified. When hovering over the section using the section marker tool, right click to edit (see Section Editor below).

The section editor can also be accessed from section assembly by double clicked the section in the available sections area.

If you inadvertently draw a 1-thread section, it's difficult to select and right click it to remove it. Instead, click Section Assembly to view the sections and double click the section you want to delete or modify. The following example shows selecting a Weft marked section after double clicking:

The maximum number of marked sections is 80 for warp and 80 for weft.

The templates available for huck include:

1. Huck Full Unit - Lace

   • This selection works well with most profile drafts and does not require that the blocks are in sequential order. Blocks include two half unit lace units of 5-threads each; each block is substituted with 10 warp threads and 10 weft picks. Pattern blocks in the drawdown are replaced with a full huck lace unit as shown below with weft and warp floats.

   • Full Unit of Huck Lace

2. Huck Half Unit - Lace in Pattern

• The half unit lace blocks require the profile blocks to be sequential (move one step up or down at a time). If this block is used with profile draft above (note the jumps between 1 and 3) the cloth will not work. Notice the excessive floats with pattern blocks going from shafts and treadles 3 to 5.

3. Huck Half Unit - Warp Floats in Pattern

This template only produces warp floats, no weft floats. Example:

From the Design Menu under weft, the following options are available:

The repeat offers special options documented here: Weft Repeats

The shift options (right, left, up and down) also work with the arrow keys on selected weft.

Mirror and Mirror All: This option works on the selected region (Mirror) or all the weft (Mirror All). It pivots at the last weft pick and starts to mirror the weft. The end result adds the number of weft threads, minus one.

Change Face: in the selected region, weft that is drawn-in undone, and where there is no weft drawn- in it is changed to drawn-in. This option is not available when there is a tie-up; it only works on lift plan weft.

Flip: flips the columns in the selected area such that what is in the first column is in the last, second column in next to last, etc. This can be thought of as rotating around a vertical axis.

Reverse: reverse flips the values in the columns and also reverses the order of the rows. This can be thought of as rotating around a horizontal axis.

Shift Operations: Shift operations move the threads in the selected region left, right, up or down. In addition to using the menu options, the left, right, up and down arrow keys may be used.

It's important to note that if you hold the shift key down while doing these operations, wrapping is turned off.

Also, the selected region stays selected, so repeated operations, especially efficient if the arrows are pressed multiple times, allowing for shifting multiple times.

When the Add Tabby icon is selected, a screen similar ot the following is presented. The default tabby 1 and 2 treadle are the highest treadles in the tie-up. These treadles can be changed to any other treadles.

Note that TempoWeave does not try to create a tabby pick. It assumes the weaver has defined the tabby treadles and the appropriate tieups. TempoWeave uses those designated treadles to alternate between existing weft picks (doubling the number of weft picks).

The color used for these new tabby picks will be the current palette color.

Tromp as Writ is a weaving term that means treadle as written in the weaving draft; the shaft numbers used in the threading are used to generate the treadle numbers in the weft.

In TempoWeave, when this option is selected from the Tools command, you are first given a prompt as to whether or not to include structure only, structure and color or color only. Structure replacement means that the shaft number for each thread becomes the corresponding treadle for each weft pick. If there were more weft picks than warp threads prior to executing Tromp as Writ with structure, then the weft picks after executing the commond will equal the number of warp threads. If color only is copied, the treadling is not changed.

In the following example, tromp as writ has been applied to structure and color to produce a perfectly square cloth where the warp and weft colors as are in the same sequence and the treadle numbers for each pick are the same as the shaft numbers.

First save your design under another name using "File | Save As" . You may want to add "threading" to the file name to avoid confusion. Next, do Tromp as Writ with Structure and Color and save your threading draft.

While threading the loom, press the dobby treadle for each warp thread, raising a single shaft at a time, verifying that the color called for i the color you are threading through the heddle.

When a LiftPlan is open, the button "Convert to Tieup" is available. When clicked, you are prompted to save the newly created Tie-Up version under a new name. TempoWeave defaults the suggestion to the current draft name with "-TU" added to the end.

In this LiftPlan:

After clicking Convert To TieUp, the draft will now have as many treadles as necessary without pressing more than one treadle at once as shown below.

Lift plans are special formats of WIF files used for table and dobby looms. Lift plans do not have a tie-up, but instead indicate which shafts are lifted or lowered on each weft pick. You know that a draft is a liftplan if the tie-up area is blank.

Many weavers design with a tie-up, even if the draft is being planned for a table or dobby loom. When the design is ready, TempoWeave will create a new version of the tie-up draft as a lift plan.

For example, the following draft has a tie-up:

Once Convert to LiftPlan is clicked, the following message is displayed:

TempoWeave now does the translation to a lift plan and prompts the weaver to save the converted draft under a new name. By default, TempoWeave fills in the former draft name appended with a "-LP" for Lift Plan. You should not use the same name for the tie-up and lift plan draft! You can reopen the original version at any time. It's recommended that you keep the convention of adding "LP" for lift plan on your computer's hard drive to avoid confusion between the original draft you have designed and the converted liftplan version of the design.

In this example,the file Napkins.wif has a tie-up and "Convert to LiftPlan" has been selected. TempoWeave suggests the name of the converted file to be "Napkins-LP.wif".

Now the design window has the lift plan version displayed. Notice the tie-up section is not in the lift plan version and the treadling sequence now no longer shows treadles, but the shafts used on each pick.

Your other design file with the tie-up still exists, but it is closed. You can reopen it at any time. Unless you are designing with the lift plan as the primary file, it's recommended that you remember to make any changes to the tie-up version and resave the lift plan whenever needed.

If you are using TempoTreadle on a table loom, you'll must convert any design using a tie-up to a liftplan save on the MicroSD card that goes in your system unit. If you ever open a weaving design on a table loom and see only one lever at a time, think about whether or not that's intended! It's often a mistake and you've forgotten to save the draft as a liftplan.

When working on a draft that either has no tie-up or has a direct tie-up, you can use the Convert to LiftPlan option without being required to save the file first.

If using a raddle with smaller divisions of space, you may find this calculator helpful to find a pattern to spread the warp such that the warp is spread to the project's weaving width.

This function is very similar to the Reed Sley Selection and Calculator. The dents per inch or centimeter may be selected for the raddle.

If the drop down is selected beside the Raddle field, a list of sley patterns is presented for either the LoftyFiber 4-dents per inch raddle (if "in" is selected) or the Louet built-in raddle (if "cm" is selected.

In the above example, a sley pattern of 6-6-6-8 is selected using the LoftyFiber raddle. If clicked, this pattern and raddle selection will be saved with the project wif.

When using a raddle to warp back to front, it's important not to split threading groups. Be sure to put a muliple of the threading groups in each dent when determining the spread. For example, if you wound your warp with two threads at a time, always use 2 or a multiple of two in each dent to avoid splitting the threading group.

If preparing to weave on a Louet loom using the built-in raddle, put .5 in the raddle dents per centimeter (cm) as shown below.

In the above example, if spreading the warp with a 2-4-2-4-2-4-4 sleying pattern in a Louet reed, the EPI would be 15.97, so very close to 16 epi.

As with the reed sley selection and calculator, the sley pattern can be entered and calculated (by clicking Calculate) to create your own sley patterns instead of using the drop down list to select.

The raddle selection and sley pattern, if used, is saved along with the Project WIF.

Arrange treadles allows the weaver to place the treadles in a new order. This feature may be convenient for weavers who like to "walk the treadles". The reordering does not change the resulting cloth.

A listing of the current treadles, 1 to "n" where "n" is the highest treadle number in the current WIF is shown. The numbers can be arranged in any sequence. When ready to make the moves, click "Reorder Treadles". The tie-up and use of the treadle in the weft is then moved according to the "To Treadle" sequence. Each treadle must be used once or an error message will be presented.

The purpose of this tool is to help the weaver find a sleying sequence that works for the reed to approximate the desired Sett. In addition, the reed and sley pattern that is chosen is saved along with your project for future reference.

This function is accessible in two places in TempoWeave. One is on the Tools Menu, the other is in the Project Information | Planning | Setup Screen.

The number corresponding to the dents per inch, or for metric, dents per 10 cm, may be directly typed into the field labeled Reed. Also, the drop down may be used to select from a list of reeds.

Both Imperial and Metric reeds are supported; a Metric reed may be used on a project where the default units are Imperial and visa-versa. The button to the right of the Reed number indicates whether the reed is metric or imperial.

Selecting a Reed and Sley Pattern

If the drop down beside the Reed number is selected, a list of reeds and common sley patterns is presented. The scroll bar is used to view options for various setts. The Sley pattern has a Zero when dents are to be skipped. Both the ends per inch and ends per centimeter sett numbers are displayed. The UOM is either "I" or "M" for imperial or metric, and is filtered in the drop down based on the selection above of "in" or "10 cm".

In the example above, once the selected record is clicked, the reed size and sley pattern are brought into the project.

Entering a Sley Pattern and Calculating Sett

To use, first put in density of your reed. In the following example, 10 is entered and the "inch" field is selected to indicate 10 dents per inch.

The usage of this calculator involves trial and error. Put in a pattern and click Calculate. You'll be shown the effective ends per inch and ends per cm. One will typically do this several times, tweaking to get the exact SETT they are looking for.

If a pattern space is left empty, then it ignores the entry. A zero in the entry means that the space is skipped. The calculator assumes that the pattern entered will be repeated;

Another usage of this tool is to calculate the average ends per inch when using the "cram and dent" technique. In the example below, two warp ends are sleyed in a dent, skipping the next, putting 4 ends in the next dent and skipping a dent for an effective 15 epi in a 10-dent reed.

Finding a Pattern for Spreading in a Raddle

You can also key in a sley pattern and have TempoWeave calculate the sett. When the Calculate button is clicked, TempoWeave will use the Reed you have selected, and use any numbers (including 0 for skipped dents) and show the calculated ends per inch as well as the ends per centimer.

This pattern and reed selection will be saved along with the WIF as a record of your project settings.

Calculating Average Ends per Inch

Some projects use different size threads or leave spaces in the reed. This calculator is also convenient to calculate and average ends per inch / ends per cm.

Sett as calculated in the Reed Sley Calculator vs Project Sett

The Sett that you define in Project Setup is independent of the calculated sett derived and saved in the Reed Sley Calculator. Be sure that you update the Project Sett on the Project Setup Screen if the sett is changing based on the reed and sley pattern chosen; normally these should be the same. The Project Sett is the value used in calculations throughout TempoWeave.

The Warp Spread function is useful for weavers who have more shafts than are needed for their design and want to avoid moving heddles. This function can be used on a Tie-Up or LiftPlan.

The algorithm works by first asking the shaft that you want to "spread". The "To Shafts" needs to repeat that "from shaft" and any other shafts that are to be used as an "alias" for the from shaft. For example, if you select "From Shaft 1" and "To Shaft 1, 5", the first time a warp thread is encountered on Shaft 1, it will stay there. The next time it will be moved to Shaft 5. This process repeats across the warp threads. In addition, the required tie-up changes are made such that there in no resulting change in the drawdown based on the spreading operation.

This video demonstrates the Warp Spread feature:

Turning a draft will rotate the draft so that the threading becomes the treadling and vica-versa.

Suppose you wanted to weave the following draft using one shuttle, instead of alternating the two colors in the weft. Note that this draft using 10 treadles.

Clicking the Turn Draft Icon one time:

Yields the following:

Now the draft requires 10 shafts and uses 8 treadles. Look at the tie-up, it also has turned accordingly.

The Yarn Catalog is deployed with several current weaving yarn lines and colors. The Yarn Catalog cannot be updated, however you can copy yarns from the catalog to "My Yarns", as well as generate your own entries and create your own personal collection of yarns and color palettes.

The Yarn Catalog is on the Tool Menu. Yarn lines are indicated in the grey areas and can be expanded by clicking the ">" symbol to show available colors. Also notice that there are two tabs at the bottom: Yarn Lines and My Yarns. You have the option to create your own yarn line entries and colors and save in My Yarns.

Adding colors from the Yarn Catalog to the Palette

Add a single color to your palette by selecting the color from the yarn database and clicking the icon highlighted below (the color wheel with the eyedropper). Alternatively, a right click on the color also gives the option to add to the palette.

Several colors can be added at once using standard windows functions, such as selecting the first color in a group, holding the shift key down and selecting the ending color, then clicking add to palette.

Replacing the Color Palette with a Yarn Line from the Yarn Catalog

To add all the colors in a Yarn Line to the palette, such as Brassard Cotton as shown below, right click and select Add Selection to Palette. This will remove the current colors that are not used and add all the colors from the line.

Once the color is copied to the palette, when hovering over the color inside the palette you can see the name and yarn line.

Replacing a Single Color Throughout the WIF from the Yarn Catalog

If you want to replace a single color in your palette with another, do the following:

1) Click the color in the palette that you want to replace.

2) Click the color in the yarn catalog that you want to change to

3) Either click the "Replace Selection in Palette" button or right click and select Replace Selection in Palette:

The replaced color will be updated throughout the WIF, including Section Color Assembly if using.

For example, if you want to replace the first grey in the warp with Charcoal from Brassard Cotton yarn line in the Yarn Catalog, click to select the color that you want to replace in the palette, click to select the color that should be used for the replacement in the Yarn Catalog followed by clicking the icon on the upper right (this option is also availalable with a right click).

When using the Yarn Catalog, yarn lines are indicated in the grey headers and can be expanded or collapes. Click the Name Column to sort the yarn colors by Name; toggling the Name column will alternate between sorting ascending or descending. Likewise click the order column to sort colors by order. The order was assigned in roughly the color wheel order.

Any flat woven cloth can be translated into a double cloth with a fold on either the left or right by using this utility on the design menu:

First design your cloth as if it were going to be woven without the fold (e.g. woven flat) at full width. Be sure to save your draft before clicking create double cloth as this action will transform your draft. It's good practice to save the full width draft with a name different than the double cloth version so that changes, if needed, can be easily made and the double draft regenerated.

For example, the simple twill pattern below, requiring 4 shafts and 4 treadles has a total of 800 warp ends, sett at 20 epi and requires 40 inches in the reed. Woven double, the draft will require 20 inches in the reed and 8 shafts and treadles.

After clicking the Create Double Cloth icon on the design tab, the above options are shown. Choosing fold on left and clicking ok transforms the draft into the following that will weave with a fold on the left and sett at 40 epi, requires double the shafts and treadles.

The generated draft weaves the bottom layer with shafts 5-8 and assumes a treadling sequence of TBBT.

The project information cloth construction settings now move from Normal cloth to the following:

View your new blanket using Cloth Sim on the View Menu:

NOTE - if your cloth, prior to creating the folded double cloth, requires two shuttles, the shuttle sequence needs to be altered. We are working on an option for a future release that will ask if you plan to weave with 2-shuttles so that the treadling will work correctly.

HINTS ON MANAGING YOUR DOUBLE FOLDED PROJECTS:

1. As mentioned earlier, always design and save a file with your Project designed "Flat", as if you were weaving with the full width.

2. Always plan for an even number of Warp Ends.

3. Use the Project Settings Dimensions to view the predicted final size that are calculated based using your Calculation drivers using the Flat version of your design. Also, calculate yarn requirements on the project settings using Flat version of your design.

4. Be certain to always save any changes to the Flat version before clicking "Create Double Cloth". Once you do "Create Double Cloth", immediately do a "SAVE-AS" to save it as a name you recognize as being folded. Often it's helpful to go back and make changes to the flat version, then redo the "Create Double Cloth".

5. When designing with stripes, check the Warp Winding Plan on the Folded Version of your design; depending on where you placed the color changes in the flat version, when folding it could create a lot of color changes for your warp chain. Sometimes a simple, small change in the width of a stripe can eliminate many of the color changes that result when winding for the folded project.

The Rotate Draft function is very simlar to turn draft, except that the treadling is rotated when duplicated in the threading.

To replace the palette (available colors) with any of the palettes from either the Yarn Catalog or My Yarns, do the following:

3) Next, either right click and select Add Selection to Palette or click the icon that looks like the multicolored windows above.

You will see a warning to confirm that you want to replace your current palette. Confirm and the palette is replaced.

Any used colors from the prior palette will not be replaced. You can use the feature Color Swap if you want to replace those with a yarn color from the new line.

This video is a demo of using and maintaining yarns in the Yarn Catalog. Features covered in include Yarn Lines, My Yarns, Creating your own colors, Clear Palette, Adding colors to the palette and replacing color.

All the functions from the supplied Yarn Catalog for certain commercially available yarns are also extended to personal yarns and color palettes that the weaver can maintain.

The My Yarns section is available at the bottom of Yarn Catalog on the Tools Menu:

My Yarns can be populated by adding entries "manually" by creating categories and color entries. In addition My Yarns can be populated by copying selected colors from the TempoWeave deployed Yarn Catalog for commercial yarns.

It is very important that you SAVE your My Yarns catalog after adding or changing entries, otherwise your updates will not be available the next time you launch TempoWeave.

There is also a function to export your My Yarns catalog and import for use on another computer. Your My Yarns catalog is preserved on your computer when TempoWeave updates.

See the following entries for more information on MyYarns:

Maintaining My Yarns does not automatically make the colors available for your current WIF. As with using the yarn catalog that is deployed with TempoWeave, you need to add the colors from My Yarns in to your palette for the design you create.

Once you add colors to your palette, the WIF that you save will have these colors permanently available in your weaving design, even when you share the WIF with other weavers using other weave design software.

To add colors to your palette, select a single or range of colors and click the Add to Palette icon:

Use the Right Click on a color to reveal and extra menu with options as shown below.

Delete a color entry, or range of selected color entries, by selecting Delete Selection.

The Add Selection to Palette does the same action as clicking the icon at the above to Add Selection.

The Replace Selection in Palette causes the selected color in your current palette to be replaced with the color selected from MyYarns.

Double clicking a yarn entry brings up the same options to adjust color, name, order and yards per pound as when adding a new color.

To delete colors or categories, the delete key may be used for the selection. Be careful as there is no warning or undo! If you accidentally delete more than you want, close the My Yarns without saving. When TempoWeave is reopened, the latest changes will not be there.

To reorder colors or categories, use the order field to force a resequencing. For example, in the following entry, 1000 was added to the prior color order each time add color was clicked with the "Light Teal" selected.

When the order field is changed from 2010 to 200,

Clicking Refresh will cause the list to be reordered and renumbered.

Remember to click SAVE to save your changes to MyYarns.

Click the tab at the bottom of the yarn catalog for My Yarns.

If you have never added any entries to My Yarns, your screen will be blank as shown above.

Yarns are arranged by Categories. Categories can be used to group a yarn line, a certain color palette, etc. You can put all your yarns in one category or create multiple categories. Within a category, you add color entires.

To add a new yarn category click the New Yarn Category icon at the top of the panel.

After clicking to add a new Yarn Category, the name defaults to "Category". Double click to update the following fields:

• Name - change to something meaningful to you.

• Order - you can leave as 0 and TempoWeave will maintain an order for sequencing this category, or if you want to force a category to appear before or below another, a number can be used for sequencing.

• Color - no need to enter a value for the category.

• Yards / Lb - optional.

Click Update to save your changes to the category name.

Select the category by clicking on the category line followed by clicking the Add Yarn - Color icon. This icon can be clicked multiple times to add several blank color entries.

Notice the ">" symbol beside the category below. Click to expand to reveal color entires within that category.

Double click on a color entry to enter the editing screen as shown below.

There are several ways to enter the color.

The RGB value can be directly typed if you have that information. In the screen below, 100,200,200 has been entered as the RGB value and that color automatically appears. (See note below on caution with the 4th entry).

Another way to select a color is to click the down arrow at the right of the color box.

One of the colors can be selected from the Theme Colors, or More Colors can be clicked to give more selections.

Clicking more colors gives more control over selecting the hue, saturation and luminance. It is recommended that the opacity remain at 0 so that your WIF will show properly in other weaving programs. Most weaving programs support the three values for Red, Green and Blue.

Another way to add a color to MyYarns is to add it from a picture. Open a picture of the yarn, resize your TempoWeave window so that you can see both your picture and the TempoWeave application at the same time.

Click on the color area in MyYarns for the color you want to add or modify, then press Shift-Left Click. At this point, you'll see a magnifying glass icon.

Drag the magnifying glass over to your picture and hover over the pixels to get the closest representation of the color. Look at the selected color in the upper right corner of the magnifying glass as shown below. IN this example, the selected color RGB value is 38,83,110 and that representation is shown with the little dot of color on the magnifying glass. Click to select and the selected color will now be colored according to your selection.

The Order Field is automatically assigned by TempoWeave based on the sequence that you add categories and names. If you want to customize the sequence, simply change the numbers to reorder.

TempoWeave will reassign the numbers upon pressing refresh or reopening the program to allow more spaces to insert colors or categories in the middle of the lists.

Yards per pound is optional and not used for calculations at this time.

Be certain to save your changes to My Yarns!

Your MyYarns catalog is saved in a file stored in your computer under your TempoWeave directory called "myYarns.xml".

To save a copy of your My Yarns, click the Export MyYarns button and choose where to save your copy. A copy can be saved as a backup or for the purpose of loading on another computer.

To replace your MyYarns entries from a saved copy, use Import MyYarns.

The Clear Palette function removes all colors that are unused (not in the active colors). Black and White are the only colors that remain if no colors are used.

This option creates a new draft that allows treadling of the threading. Although it's intended to be used for Dobby looms, it also can be used with table looms using TempoTreadle to save progress and track the threading.

For example, this is a 16-shaft liftplan:

To create a draft for the threading, click Prepare Threading WIF and you will be prompted to finalize the name and location to save the threading WIF. By default, TempoWeave suggests the name of the WIF and appends "-THREADING".

After saving, the threading draft opens and looks similar to the following. Notice that the treadling simply is the same as the threading.

TempoWeave currently supports the Louet Dobby looms. It is on our roadmap to support other dobby looms.

On the tools menu, there are two options for Dobby. The Dobby icon takes you into the dobby screen, where you can configure the port for your loom and weave the draft that is currently loaded.

The Prepare Threading WIF simply takes the threading, allows treadling the threading. Especially on high-shaft dobby looms, raising the shafts one-by-one as you thread helps avoid mistakes.

Show interlacement is checked by default. Without interlacement the drawdown shows color with no shadowing to help the warp and weft colors appear as if they are woven.

By default, the front view (face) of the drawdown shows.

Numeric tie-up, warp, and weft choices cause numbers for the shafts and treadles to show on the design screen instead of black rectangles. Options to include color blocks are available for warp and weft. Changing these on the View Screen are temporary for the current session; to permanently change the style of showing numbers, blocks, or colors, see Default Settings - Loom under Gris / Layout.

At zoom level 7 and lower, the numbers no longer show for warp and weft even if the numeric selection is clicked. Tie-up can no longer show numbers at zoom level 9.

To hide the threading entirely, unclick the Visible box in Warp Style. This can be useful when working on the treadling in a draft with a large number of shafts.

The Structure Only selection removes color and is useful in designing structures such as Jin and Double Weave to check the interlacement. When using Structure Only with a large design, zoom in to see the structure. Normally the structure view is used with Quick or Full Render.

The Full Render view takes into account thread thickness and interlacement to produce a more realistic image; Full Render is slower, so the option to use Quick Render is available for a quick look.

Zoom levels can changed on this menu, with the mouse, or by holding the ctrl key down and pressing the key with the plus or minus sign. It is not necessary to also hold down the shift key zoom in and out.

To change the zoom level that is used when new drafts are opened, set the desired zoom level and click so that the number turns green. This will be used as the default whenver a draft is opened or a new draft is started.

Zoom Level Video

Setting the Default Zoom Level

Zoom levels can also be changed by holding down the ctrl key and using the scroll wheel on the mouse while hovering over the drawdown, threading, weft or tie-up area of the screen.

This is an example of the screen when the Dobby option on the Tools menu is selected:

Notice that the current pick is outlined in red. In this case, it is a new draft and the current pick is weft sequence 1. In the draft, pick 1 is at the top, in dobby, the earlier picks are shown at the bottom, so the building of the cloth reflects what you are seeing on the loom (or will be seeing) as you are weaving.

Color dots for the weft color are shown at the right.

To begin weaving, press the green arrow. You should hear a "click" as the dobby is engaged. If you do not, look at the next document for the dobby settings, required cable and troubleshooting.

If the settings are correct, each time the treadle is pressed, the screen will advance to the next pick.

The pick can be reset by clicking "Set Pick" and typing in the weft sequence for the reposition.

By default, the direction of the weaving is Forward. It is possible to change this to Reverse, for example if you want to Mirror the draft you just wove. It is also possible to use Reverse to back out picks, but if only one or two picks needs to be backed out, consider using "Repeat Last". The reason for this is it's easy to forget to change the direction back to Forward.

Manual controls can be used to advance through the draft. Engage solenoids should send a signal to the dobby that results in a "click".

When taking a break from weaving, click Close. The Dobby Screen will be closed and you are placed back in the Weaving Draft. Be sure to click Save on the weaving draft to save your progress in the Dobby. Next time you load the draft and go into the Dobby, the sequence will be at the correct position.

Dobby Interface Options:

At the top of the Dobby screen is a button that allows selection of the following options:

Change Color Alert: By default, this is on. A special tone is sounded each time the weft color changes. Click it off to remove the audible alert.

The Show Dobby Control is on by default. The dobby control includes the forward, reverse, repeat last and set pick options. This can be turned off to see more of the draft.

The show sections is not currently functional. In a future release, drafts will be able to support separate sections such as hem, body, etc.

Note: Depending on the resoluation on your computer, you may need to zoom in or out!

A special cable is required to connect the dobby to the USB port on your computer.

Connect the cable and turn on the loom's dobby (allow it to fully boot) before launching the Dobby in TempoWeave.

Click Dobby Settings on the left side of the screen to pop out the configuration options.

Click Available ports to see the ports on your computer. Usually the port will be COM3 or COM4. You will know if the correct port is selected if the Dobby responds to "Set Pick" or an audible sound when the green button is pressed on the Dobby Control screen.

Depending on the resolution on your computer monitor, you may need to change the Zoom level to see the draft and controls. (Ctrl--)

Cloth Sim renders a three dimensional type view that simulates how light reflects on the woven cloth.

Cloth Sim opens in a new window, and shows something like the following:

There are several options to move the cloth as follows:

Moving the tracking pad or mouse can rotate and flip.

Pressing the space bar flattens the cloth.

Right and left arrows spin the cloth

The Space Bar returns to the initial view.

Pressing 1 folds down the lower right corner, 2 folds down the lower left corner

Up and down arrows rotate the cloth from the front to the back side.

Tubular double weave: (under construction)

Cloth view shows a picture of the complete drawdown. Click Options to reveal the ribbon as shown below.

Save - option to save the image in several formats.

Edit Image - options to crop, adjust contrast, brightness and saturation, mirror, rotate, etc.

Copy to Clipboard

Show front and back views

Zoom works in the cloth view with ctrl+ and ctrl-.

The bottom of the image has information about where the file is stored, and the view (front / back).

he Window menu option has options to arrange or manage the windows in the TempoWeave application.

The New Window command opens a new blank design window. This is the same as "File | New".

Tile Vertical shows all currently loaded design windows side by side. Each window will have it's separate controls to minimize, maximize or close (X).

Tile Horizontal is the same as Tile Vertical, except that all the currently loaded design windows are displayed horizontally.

Cascade shows a view similar to the following:

Close All will close each design window. For designs that have not been saved since the last change, a prompt will ask if you want to save.

To quickly view open designs and swap between windows, the tool at the upper right, shown below, may be more convenient than using the Windows tool bar. See more information at Switching Between Open Weaving Designs

File | Check for Updates

TempoWeave will, by default, check to see if there are new program updates when you start the application. You manually check for updates by clicking the "Check for Updates" button.

Check For Updates button on the Files menu that will allow you to check manually anytime. You will also be able to pause updates or change the schedule of the update check if you like. This should also improve issues that some customers have with antivirus warnings during the installation process.

If TempoWeave is already on the latest release you will see the following Dialog:

If there is a more recent update available then TempoWeave will download it and give you the option to install.