What's New with WeavePoint

New in WeavePoint 6.4

WeavePoint 6.4 is the next step forward in industry leading textile design and loom control software for the handweaver. For over four years, WeavePoint 6.0-6.2 customers have been receiving free upgrades. That's unbeatable value. Now, for a nominal upgrade fee, WeavePoint 6.4 gives you some great new features and sets you up for future upgrades.

Numbers Next to Marking Lines

Grid (Options menu) now includes numbers next to the marking lines in the threading and treadling/liftplan. The numbers are available in zoom level 7 and up. The numbers get larger at higher zoom levels. In Print Draft and Export/Save Draft as PNG-image, you can select/unselect the numbers.

This is a great help when one needs to get close in on a large draft. Very easy visual to help with locating where you are in the overall pattern, as well as guidance when altering threading, treadling.

Print to Scale in Print Draft

You can now print to scale in Print Draft. Set ends per inch or grid square size in millimeters. Even after setting the scale you can adjust the number of ends and picks to print. Select to print the full draft, the threading only or the treadling/liftplan only.

Having various print options is always good, as one doesn’t need the treadling when one wants to thread and/or use a Compu-Dobby. Also, the scale feature is great because you can design something and print to the scale of the finished fabric. Makes a great design tool, especially as one can now print in color (see below).

Color Printing of the Threading and Treadling/Liftplan

Print your threading and treadling/liftplan in color in Print Draft. When selected, the threading and treadling/liftplan will be printed in the designated colors instead of showing the colors in adjacent grids. Tip: Select both the color and number options to ensure visibility when white or a very light color is used.

Show Your Structure in Style

A new option, under Style (Options menu) is Show Structure. You can select to Show All, a specific area of the cloth, or a repeat. Showing the first repeat as structure is typically useful in an educational situation. The structure area selected will be saved with the pattern. The structure colors are white and a selected color. Click the Structure Color to change the color. A lot of drafting books present drafts in this manner, so it is good to be able to render your draft in this mode, too.

Improved Functionality of the Float Window

The Float window (Analyze menu) remains open and can be moved around the screen while you locate a specific float. After making a change, the window will remain open, and you may click the Update button to update the float information. This is great, as one does not have to open and close repeatedly to check corrections.

Other Improvements

• In Paste Special (Edit Menu), a Transparent button is added. For pasting in liftplan, tie-up, treadling, and also in design mode.
• WeavePoint will now remember the window size, instead of always opening in full screen. Especially useful with large and wide screen monitors.
• The name of WIF files is now displayed in the title bar.
• The toolbar has added a Notes button for quicker access to notes saved with a draft.

Previous Releases

New in WeavePoint 6.2.3

Improved compatibility with Windows Vista. WeavePoint is fully functional in Vista!

New in WeavePoint 6.2

• New menu item in the Edit menu: Modify. To quickly invert, flip, rotate or cycle (wrap) the selection.
• In Design mode, a selected area will now be darkened (except the darkest colors will be lightened) to more easily see the selection.
• In loom control, when placing the mouse cursor in the liftplan, the shaft number pointed at will be displayed in the status line.
• Louet loom driver for Megado, Magic Dobby and Octado looms is now available.

New in WeavePoint 6.1.2

• Color option added in Insert Threading, Insert Treadling and Insert in Liftplan.
• In Insert Parallel, Step can now be 0, to just double or triple the threading or treadling.
• In Translate, reanalysis of the threading (to minimize number of shafts) is now optional.
• Improved loom control window: Improved visibility with larger fonts, Go To and Back buttons added, tabby counter added, and more (from version 6.1.0.8).
• Some minor adjustements.

New in WeavePoint 6.1

• New item in Transform menu: Insert one or more parallel threadings quickly and easily, with selected interval and color.
• New option for printing a draft: Fill with numbers.
• Save Draft as PNG-image. Useful for making quality draft images for publication in books etc.
• New item in Edit menu: Crop.
• New option in Insert Threading/Treadling: Above, Below, Overlap.

New in WeavePoint 6.0

• Maximum number of ends and picks increased to 9600.
• Maximum number of shafts and treadles increased to 128.
• Design mode maximum size increased to 2400 ends and picks.
• Preview and Cancel options added in many Edit, Utility and Transform dialogs.
• Undo is now available after most menu commands.
• Marking Lines in grids. Choose interval and colors. You can use this also to visually mark a repeat, by setting the intervals equal to the repeat size. A button is included to quickly set the marking lines to the repeat size.
• New standard palette with more colors.
• Transform/Overlay now also works in Design mode (great for shadow weave).
• In Translate/Overlay library, added weaves for Summer & Winter: alternating, birdseye, x-style and dukagang.
• Fabric can be displayed and printed with a yarn-like surface.
• Save Fabric as PNG-Image, to let you open large patterns in other programs for editing or printing.
• New twill generator.
• The Notes window can now be floating, so that you can edit the pattern while the Notes window is open, and it is now resizeable.
• Link/Unlink Colors when inserting and deleting.
• Date and time is added on printouts.
• And much more...

New in WeavePoint 5.4.4:

Various improvements with handling Options. The Save Settings command is moved from the Options menu to the Options dialog. In addition, a few minor changes.

WeavePoint Project Planner 2.1

A few improvements to the program interface: Recent files will now appear at the bottom of the File menu. The program will now ask if you want to save your project, only if any changes was made since the last save. Added shortcuts in the File menu.

Complex Drafting 5.4

The Complex Drafting special version of WeavePoint is now released in a true Windows version.

New in WeavePoint 5.4:

• Changed to flat speed buttons in the toolbar and added a speed button for Options.
• In Tromp As Writ - added Switch Warp/Weft Colors.
• New drawdown style option: Outlined threads.
• New option to select the position of shaft 1 in the threading - at the top or bottom of the threading grid.
• In Draft mode, you can now scroll the pattern up and down with the wheel on a wheelmouse.
• Added keyboard shortcuts to switch drawing mode: Press the S key or M key.

New in WeavePoint 5.3:

• Traditional Block Substitution is now added, and you can draw your own blocks.
• Keyboard Input, for editing the draft with keyboard only, without using the mouse.
• Numeric Input of sequences in threading and treadling, using formulas like 3(1-8-1 8).
• New option to start the threading from the left side.
• New option to have treadle 1 on the right or left side.

WeavePoint Project Planner 2.0

• The Project Planner, which is included with WeavePoint, is now in version 2.0, rearranged according to user feedback. Sectional warping calculation is added.
• Tex and Denier yarn conversion is included. A few things are corrected and Help is extended with calculation formulas and more.

New in WeavePoint 5.2:

• The Project Planner can now be started from the Options menu in WeavePoint.
• New option in the Print Draft dialog, to print the Note below the draft image. This is a very easy way to add text to a draft printout.
• In the Note window, an Edit menu is added. This makes it easier to copy and paste text from other sources, like the Project Planner.

New in WeavePoint 5.1c:

• Utilities/Tromp as Writ has added the option to copy also from treadling to threading.
• If threading is not on display in the draft on the screen (toggle threading speed button), printing the draft will not print the threading.
• A few minor adjustments.

New in WeavePoint 5.1:

• New option to weave top down!
• New Library menu - pick common threadings, generate endless twill variations automatically, create satins with the satin wizard.
• Paste Special now works also in tie-up.
• Advancing twill function added.
• Various smaller additions and adjustments...

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