Design & Edit Scope

The areas of design creation and pattern editing are two of the most critical and fundamental building blocks for the foundation of good digital textile design. EAT has always concentrated its programming focus on the development of software functions and modules that have a direct relationship to the design of woven fabrics and all of their technical requirements. One of the basic requirements for designing woven textiles is the ability to handle different pixel ratios within one design. Different ratios are required because there are different densities* in both the warp and weft directions.

EAT?s Design and Edit Scope module allows the user to design using different densities applied to the whole design, or by using different densities in different areas within the same design. These features are particularly important when designing for constructions with very small warp yarns and very large weft yarns, or filling stripe designs where each stripe has a different density.

The arrangement of the tools within the user interface of Design and Edit Scope may be customized and adjusted for each different user. All design display areas within the EAT software are calculated so that they show the imagess distortion-free at all zoom levels. The size of a design area (in x and y) is only limited by computer hardware specifications and is thus, in principal, unlimited. *Density is defined as the number of yarns (warp/weft) per unit of measurement (cm/in).