Vector

For the weaving process, textile design data must be pixelized. When editing a design or design element in the design & editing process, it is often necessary that you re-size and rotate those elements. Due to the different densities in the warp and weft, these operations often lead to a certain destruction of the contours of the color areas when a design is in this pixelized form.

The resulting design and/or design elements usually requires time-consuming and manual re-editing in order to make the areas look presentable again for the weaving process.

Better results can be achieved by using vectorized data. This data can be scaled and turned with less destruction of the contours. For this process, however, all pixel data must be converted into vector data first. After the final editing, the files need to be converted back into pixel data to again make the file ready to be woven

EAT's vector scaling and rotating procedure consists of three steps combined together ?on the fly? in one seamless step.

• Conversion of pixel data into vector data
• Scaling and/or Rotating of the vector data
• Conversion of the vector data back into pixel data

Vector & Line Shape

When the vector data format is used in combination with the ?Line Shape? function, creating and manipulating even very complex designs may be completed easily and quickly.