Computer Jacquard System Manual for Designer and Weaver
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1. User Manual Picasso Versions 6xx and NAMAD Versions 1xx NRX1025P Chapter 1 Introduction Card less Jacquard system is a complex mechanical electronic system attached to a PC as its central core eliminating old punched cards Installing this system over weaving machines increases the factory throughput and provides extended facilities for changing carpet designs It also dramatically reduces the time of producing carpets Weaving commands are transferred from PC to the weaving machine eliminating the need of punched cards Diagram below shows different parts and their interconnections Display Jacquard Unit Computer Interface Controllers Weaving Machine Operator controls the weave cycles via PC He is responsible to select the carpet design and select all the preferences regarding the orders given Operator can select the number of carpets should be weaved change the carpet colors assign spaces between carpets etc Many other facilities are described using same software Using such a system saves valuable time and costs of your company by e Eliminating the cost of punch cards and storing the decks e Eliminating the errors in punch cards e Eliminating the loss of material in time of design change Extending weaving throughput by Reducing the time for installing new designs Reducing the time for creel color assignment Reducing the manual operation times2. Shift F1 in each environment and entering valid password in password dialog box Figure 11 changes the environment To enter Weave environment Weaver Password and to enter Design environment Designer Password is required Note Have in mind that to transfer from Weaving Environment to Design Environment weaving process should be stopped Figure 1 User Manual Picasso Versions 6xx and NAMAD Versions 1 xx 26 NRX1025P Chapter 8 Saving a Carpet Group Design After changing editing Design information changes should be saved By pressing F2 and entering a valid design name in file dialog Figure 12 or using the same name changes will be saved in design file in hard disk A Warning message will be shown for duplicate name oo Ew Figure 12 8 maximum 8 characters User Manual Picasso Versions 6xx and NAMAD Versions 1 xx 27 NRX1025P Chapter 9 File processing within software Some file processing is available within system such as 1 Deleting a Carpet File 2 Deleting a Carpet Group Design File 3 Transferring files from Floppy or Flash Disk 9 1 Deleting a Carpet file In Design Environment pressing F10 key and selecting Delete Carpet command from Carpet menu will bring a dialog box on screen User can select a file from the list of carpets Next dialog box asks for
3. the distance between Proxy and the Heald frame moving in front of it should be checked and then should be synchronized with Proxy1 report to Namad Parda if error persists 6 Guide Not found Guide file was not found or is not in it s place config What to do Check config directory for guide file and if it exists report to Namad Parda User Manual Picasso Versions 6xx and NAMAD Versions 1xx 38 NRX1025P 7 Error in Guide File Guide file is corrupted and should be changed What to do Report to Namad Parda and ask for new file 8 Carpet has more than The number of colors in PCX file of the carpet is maximum colors more than number of colors set for system What to do Select another carpet which matches the settings 9 Carpet is not No color is assigned to the Carpet colored What to do Try Color Setting in Design Environment and save the setting 10 Error in Carpet File Error Opening the carpet file a No such File exists b Too many open files c Permission denied What to do Check which reason caused the error and try to repair the error and try again 11 Not Enough Memory is not enough for starting system Memory What to do Check for extra resident files at system startup which does not belong to Namad Parda software Sometimes Viruses or other malwares occupy the ram stopping other software Remove them and try
4. This cross defines the current row and column c A status line at the bottom of page displays all active keys user can use User Manual Picasso Versions 6xx and NAMAD Versions 1xx 33 NRX1025P Active keys are described below User Manual Picasso Versions 6xx and NAMAD Versions 1xx Esc Exits the page Ctrl Home Displays the carpet from top left corner Ctrl End Displays the carpet from bottom right corner Home Jumps to the beginning of the current course horizontally End Jumps to the end of the current course horizontally in Num Pad Enlarges the picture zoom in 2 in Num Pad Shrinks the picture zoom out d moves a column to the left f moves a column to the right M moves a line up kkj moves a line down N Ctrl EWS moves 20 pixels to either sides Page Up previous page Page Down next page NRX1025P Chapter 12 System Settings To keep the computer and its software in optimal status there are some capabilities built in the software 12 1 Power Saving Designer can select Power Saving command from Picasso menu while in stop weave state and enter Designer Password to enable or disable this feature This feature reduces the energy used Figure 19 When enabled system applies some internal controls to save energy This feature only works in Solenoid systems Enable or Disable state c
5. for Solenoid systems or F10 for Piezo systems This menu has 4 commands a Station Test This command activates station test as the system start up b Power Saving Brings up the Power Saving Dialogue to enable or disable power saving Chapter 12 1 just applied for solenoid systems c Auto Correct Brings up the Auto Correct Dialogue to enable or disable Auto Correct Chapter 12 2 d System Date Only supervisor can see the system date CAC E 0 2079 Figure 22 User Manual Picasso Versions 6xx and NAMAD Versions 1xx 43 NRX1025P Menu Title 2 User This menu has 3 commands a Weaver Shift F1 Transfers from Design Environment to Weave Environment after entering a valid weaver password This item is disabled in Weave Environment b Designer Shift F1 Transfers from Weave Environment to Design Environment after entering a valid designer password This item is disabled in Design Environment c Help F1 Brings up a quick help screen according to current environment RANG 3 39 Be 4 072079 Figure 23 User Manual Picasso Versions 6xx and NAMAD Versions 1 xx 44 NRX1025P Menu Title 3 Carpet This menu contains 11 commands 1 Select F5 Brings up the carpet selection dialogue box for selecting a pcx file in Design Environment This command is not active in Weave Environment Display F6 Display
6. Manual Picasso Versions 6xx and NAMAD Versions 1xx 36 NRX1025P Appendix 1 Error messages and Warnings Software errors happen These Errors or warnings are shown via Message Boxes on screen Figure 21 00000 TEST 699x899 139x209cm 2 Eel Warning Figure 21 User Manual Picasso Versions 6xx and NAMAD Versions 1 xx NRX1025P List of software messages Row Messages Meaning of the messages 1 Design Not Found Error Opening the Design file a No such File exists b Too many open files c Permission denied reported by operating system What to do Check which reason caused the error repair the error and restart the action 2 Error in Loading Design data is corrupted design What to do Rebuild Carpet Group again 3 Overwrite the Design file already exists and you are trying to Existing Design save over it If you do so the design file will be destroyed and you have to rebuild it again What to do If you want to write over an existing file press OK to overwrite the file otherwise cancel and change file name 4 Error in Weave Data is corrupted and can not be saved Saving What to do Restart the system and try again Report to Namad Parda if error persists 5 Possible error on Proxy3 is not synchronized with Proxy1 or PX3 Proxy3could not be seen by software What to do Proxy3 cabling and connectors must be checked
7. This section is a detail from upper left corner of carpet design b In lower left of the screen carpet s colors and color s number are shown User can assign any color number to the existing color and change the carpet s color and see the applied setting in the above display c A row of colors in small boxes show the predefined colors or default colors An extra box for weaving pile less weft is placed with the number 0 assigned to it User Manual Picasso Versions 6xx and NAMAD Versions 1 xx 31 NRX1025P In first row you see the colors of the carpet In the lower row you can assign numbers to the above row The second row reads its number from Creel colors Thus you can change the colors of the carpet by assigning different numbers from the same creel This feature gives you ultimate power to change the colors of the same design producing different carpets according to your customer preferences Use cursor keys to move between boxes in second row Typing numbers from Zero to 5 or 6 or 7 depending of your system changes the above box colors Colors in the above section of the screen will change according to the colors changed This will give you a perfect view of what will be weaved d In lower right of the screen the creel colors are shown in boxes The numbers above are equal to the numbers mentioned in section b The Creel colors have been described in section 2 3 e A status line in the bottom of page displays all
8. and Design Table Station Test Table is the third table in the software 3 1 Weave Table Weave Table is used in the time of weaving Carpet Weaving attributes needed to weave a carpet is saved in Design Table in a ds6 file The file containing these attributes should be selected in Weave Table by pressing F3 or selecting Load design command from the Design menu After selecting a Design Table will be filled with assigned attributes This table has 6 columns and 9 rows as follows 3 1 1 Column definition 3 1 1 1 1st column Carpet Name This column shows the carpet s name which must be at most 8 letter characters 3 1 1 2 2 column Weaved This column shows the number of weaved carpets 3 1 1 3 3rd column Remained This column shows the number of remained carpets 3 1 1 4 4 column Ratio This column shows the current ratio1 For example Ratio 2232 causes first course be weaved 2 times second line 2 times third line 3 times and fourth course 2 times This algorithm repeats for the rest of weaving The number in this column will be updated while weaving Generally Ratio is 1 for Textima machines and is 2 for VanDeWiele machines Ratio is a string of digits each shows the repetition of a course line while weaving User Manual Picasso Versions 6xx and NAMAD Versions 1xx NRX1025P 3 1 1 5 5 Column Card This column shows the total n
9. available keys user can use Esc exits and ignores the changes and returns to Design Environment Tab moves from the left box to the right box above status bar F1 saves the setting and returns to Design Environment Characters 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F are the color numbers for assigning colors F10 shows the main colors real colors from PCX file User Manual Picasso Versions 6xx and NAMAD Versions 1xx 32 NRX1025P Chapter 11 Displaying a Carpet You can have a view of the carpet with the colors assigned to it in both environments Chapter 10 Pressing F6 shows the active carpet with the colors assigned to it Carpet Display command from Carpet menu will do the same for you Carpet display screen Figure 18 has three parts hitter iSe 14 77 10 2 jer 2 mh si Se ies Se na Sh Ss Se ws Se a A SS ms Sh te fon Sesh tes is eh ten eh en Ss we nee et ctl Peat alt Pete Pete ie OAP ATAT ATPT NN AN AEN AN LN NNN LEI SI II I n i LA X RA lt 4 gt v y D Wy D gt Y W X x N4 RA M4 vy A 7 Y A tf WZ D X D LA 4 NaS Figure 18 a On top of the screen carpet colors are shown in rectangles and below each the percentage of each color are displayed b In middle of the screen carpet design with assigned colors is shown A cross line points to the current row and column of the carpet
10. for control of the machine Facilitating the weaver activities Vs old fashion way User Manual Picasso Versions 6xx and NAMAD Versions 1xx 3 NRX1025P Reducing the total amount of capital e Reducing the goods inventory by weaving the exact number of carpets e Extending the opportunity to weave new designs in minutes in minimum number e Extending the opportunity of having a broad set of new designs at hand e Providing the opportunity of production based on market research providing the possibility of marketing by using weaved carpet as a sample User Manual Picasso Versions 6xx and NAMAD Versions 1xx NRX1025P Chapter 2 System Preparation To prepare a system these steps should be followed 2 1 Turning on the computer Before turning on the PC make sure that all the connections are properly in place After the PC is turned on Namad Parda software automatically tests the hardware connected to PC The Station Test window shows the results Figure1 If the result is successful the operator can start weaving If the result is unsuccessful operator can not weave but is able to use all the other features of the software like selecting design or color setting Station Test Result Return To System Figure 1 User Manual Picasso Versions 6xx and NAMAD Versions 1 xx 5 NRX1025P 2 2 Managing System Directories All operations on Carpet and Design information are a
11. your confirmation to delete the selected carpet Pressing OK will delete the file from hard disk Pressing Esc will ignore the deletion command Figure 13 en Delete a Carpet RANG 3 1125_C PCX BAHIZ iles 1125_C7 PCX Figure 13 User Manual Picasso Versions 6xx and NAMAD Versions 1xx 28 NRX1025P 9 2 Deleting a Carpet Group Design file In Design Environment pressing F10 key and selecting Delete Design command from Design menu will bring a dialog box on screen User can select a file from the list of designs Next dialog box asks for your confirmation to delete the selected design Pressing OK will delete the file from hard disk Pressing Esc will ignore the deletion command Figure 14 PRANG 3 BAH12 2M L I5 Delete Design AYAR NY iles 2020 DS6 Figure 14 User Manual Picasso Versions 6xx and NAMAD Versions 1xx 29 NRX1025P 9 3 Transferring files from Floppy or Flash Disk User can transfer a new Carpet design pcx from Floppy or Flash Disk to the system directories where Carpet files are saved D picasso dat carpet for V6 users or D namad dat carpet for Namad users directory In Design Environment pressing F4 key or selecting Transfer Carpet command from Carpet menu will bring a dialog box on screen User
12. NRX1025P Computer Jacquard System Manual for Designer and Weaver Version 2 0 Namd Parda Co User Operator must have about high school diploma and have general computer knowledge User Manual Picasso Versions 6xx and NAMAD Versions 1xx NRX1025P Table of Contents Page 3 Chapter 1 Introduction 5 Chapter 2 System Preparation 5 2 1 Turning On The Computer 6 2 2 Managing System Directory 7 2 3 Defining Creel Table 9 Chapter 3 Table Definition 9 12 16 17 18 18 3 1 Weave Table 3 2 Design Table 3 3 Station Test Table Chapter 4 Defining a Carpet Group Design Table 4 1 Emptying a design table 4 2 Designing a new Carpet group Design 20 Chapter 5 Select a Carpet Group Design for editing 22 Chapter 6 Select a Carpet Group Design for weaving 23 Chapter 7 Changing Environment from Design to Weave and vise versa 24 Chapter 8 Saving a Carpet Group Design 25 Chapter 9 File Processing in System 25 9 1 Delete a Carpet from System 26 9 2 Delete a design from System 27 9 3 Transfer a new Carpet from Floppy or Flash Disk 28 Chapter 10 Select and assign Carpet Color 30 Chapter 11 Displaying a Carpet 32 Chapter 12 System Settings 32 12 1 Power Saving Just applied for Solenoid systems V6 33 12 2 Auto Correct 34 Appendix 1 Error messages and Warnings 40 _ System Menu 45 Appendix 2 Glossary
13. ace config directory What to do Check config directory and report to Namad Parda 20 Invalid VESA Error in Graphic Board in PC What to do Report to Namad Parda 21 Error opening file Error Opening the file No such File exists Too many open files or Permission denied What to do Check which reason caused the error and try to repair the error and try again 22 Invalid graphic File This file is not transferred by software and is not acceptable What to do Transfer file in Design Environment to produce valid file 23 Error in Carpet An error occurred while converting the file File Conversion may be damaged What to do Try again User Manual Picasso Versions 6xx and NAMAD Versions 1xx 40 NRX1025P 24 Sure to delete this System asks user to ensure the delete file file command What to do Accept the dialogue if you re sure and cancel if not 25 Sure to delete this System asks user to ensure the delete directory directory command What to do Accept the dialogue if you re sure and cancel if not 26 Error in Directory An Error happened while deleting the directory Deletion directory is not empty What to do First delete all the files inside the directory and try again 27 Error in Design Path Selected Design path is invalid What to do Try correct path and retry 28 Not Enough Width Warns that carpet group exceeds system width l
14. again contact Namad Parda if there was no extra files 12 No Match in Heald amp Heald and Ratio are not harmonized System may Ratio have stopped in bad Ratio value What to do Stop weaving and start weave again The harmonization will be done automatically if Auto Correction is Enabled Otherwise operator should correct it manually 13 Weave Stop Weaving process has been stopped by pressing Esc while weaving What to do Accept the dialogue It only informs you 14 Weaving successfully Weaving process has been finished finished What to do Accept the dialogue It only informs you User Manual Picasso Versions 6xx and NAMAD Versions 1xx 39 NRX1025P 15 TX Error in Station Computer connection to Micros is lost Possible causes are a Problem in serial cable b Problem in 5volt power supply c Problem in interface fuse What to do React according to the problem or report to Namad Parda 16 CS Error in Station a Noise in system b loose connections c error in data What to do React according to the problem or report to Namad Parda 17 Error in Password An invalid Password is entered What to do Enter a valid Password 18 Checksum Error in A serious error occurred in system Dat file What to do Report to Namad Parda 19 Guide Not found Guide file could not be found it may be corrupted or not in it s pl
15. an be selected from Power Saving dialog Alt E selects Enable and Alt D selects Disable state Tab key moves through the buttons Select Ok button to accept the selection and Cancel button or Esc to ignore the selection ae Tl PRANG 3 1500x2039 300x475cm 2 IKA 100 1 PowerSaving Mode BAH12 22 100 Z EAE ance l Figure 19 Just applied for Solenoid systems V6 User Manual Picasso Versions 6xx and NAMAD Versions 1xx 35 NRX1025P 12 2 Auto Correct Designer can select Auto Correct command from the first menu while in stop weave state and enter Designer Password to enable or disable this feature Enable automatically checks Heald frame and Ratio and corrects the values if not harmonized This feature avoids the back of the carpet weaved whitened Figure 20 If Disabled system produces an error message on inharmonic states ttt tt tatanan EERE aa He i RANG 3 1500x2039 300x475cm 1 AutoCorrect BAH12 ancel Figure 20 Enable or Disable state can be selected from Auto Correct dialog Alt E selects Enable and Alt D selects Disable state Tab key moves through the buttons Select Ok button to accept the selection and Cancel button or Esc to ignore the selection User
16. can select a file from the list of carpets on floppy diskette or flash disk This is the source location where user can select the carpet file from it Figure 15 0535 PCX 00000 iles 0535 PCX Figure 15 After selecting a source file user should select the destination location where selected file should be transfer to Selecting the destination location is done by another dialog box where user can navigate and select the location Figure 16 Figure 16 User Manual Picasso Versions 6xx and NAMAD Versions 1xx 30 NRX1025P Chapter 10 Select and assign Carpet Color Color assignment is essential for weaving a carpet Carpets can not be Displayed or Weaved until colors are assigned to them For carpets that no colors are assigned to selecting these commands will bring up an error message To assign color to a carpet file either press F7 or select coloring command from Carpet menu Figure 17 OORT GONZO ZEN ACN AN Creel 1012 7 131510 L Esc Exit Tab ChangeWindow F1 Save 0123456789ABCDEF Cir No F10 Real Color Figure 17 Color setting page shows the carpet design with main colors or previously assigned colors The page has four parts a Carpet design b Carpet color with coloring numbers c Creel colors with coloring numbers d Status line a A section of the carpet design is shown in upper section of the screen
17. carpet s color Chapter 10 F8 deletes current line in table Alt X Exits the program List of shortcuts to menu command that are available in this window e E starts file transfer process E10 activates the menu bar User Manual Picasso Versions 6xx and NAMAD Versions 1xx 18 NRX1025P 3 3 Station test table This table shows the result of the system s station test It has three columns described below 1 Column Station or controller order number 2 Column Number of blocks assigned to each controller Initial state 3 Column Number of blocks of each controller recognized by system Current state This column is either empty witch shows an out of service state or a value equal to the previous column witch shows a ready to use state Any other value in this column indicates an error in hardware and should be reported to a service center If the check out is OK the system will continue but if the check out is not OK you may not weave anything but have all the other accesses to the software After this check out system automatically jumps to Weave Environment Station Test Result Return To System Figure 6 User Manual Picasso Versions 6xx and NAMAD Versions 1xx 19 NRX1025P Chapter 4 Defining a Carpet Group Design table Defining a carpet group is done to prepare a set of carpets ready to be weaved This group can be used f
18. ill do the same Figure 9 This dialog lists all former designed files ds6 in default directory Design DS6 User can select a formerly defined Design file from the list using cursor keys and pressing Enter Then Design table will be filled with information from selected design file To close this box without selecting any file press Esc a Design Sel ARIZ DS6 iles ARIZ DS6 Figure 9 User Manual Picasso Versions 6xx and NAMAD Versions 1xx 23 NRX1025P 5 5 Design Table contains Carpet Groups Design information User can display carpet with formerly assigned colors on screen using Display Carpet command from Design menu or pressing F6 If no color was assigned to a carpet an error message will inform you To assign color to a carpet read Chapter 11 Esc closes the display screen and returns to the Design Environment If you have edited any of the permitted fields pressing F2 saves the Group defined edited Pressing Esc will ignore the changes To edit another Carpet Group Design you have to start from step 5 4 User Manual Picasso Versions 6xx and NAMAD Versions 1xx 24 NRX1025P Chapter 6 Select a Carpet Group Design for weaving Software starts in Weave Environment In order to select a new Carpet Group follow these steps 6 1 Press Esc to Stop weaving An ale
19. imits What to do Accept and try to change carpet group to fit system width Extra piles will be ignored and not weaved 29 Select previous No gaps could be left between a section s carpets carpet First What to do Fill the gap and try to save the group again 30 Overwrite Warns for saving on an existing file What to do If you want to write over an existing file accept the dialogue or cancel and try another file name User Manual Picasso Versions 6xx and NAMAD Versions 1xx 41 NRX1025P 31 Error in XCopy Error in XCopy command XCopy exe is a DOS command It may be damaged not present or not in system Path What to do a Check XCopy exe in Operating System b Using Path command check if the DOS directory is in the path like CADOS c Call Namad Prada if the problem persists 32 PkUnzip Error Error in PkUnzip command PkUnzip exe is a DOS command It may be damaged not present or not in system Path What to do d Check PkUnzip exe in Operating System e Using Path command check if the DOS directory is in the path like CADOS f Call Namad Prada if the problem persists User Manual Picasso Versions 6xx and NAMAD Versions 1xx 42 NRX1025P System Menu Namad Parda software uses menu to facilitate the use of it The description of each menu and its commands are described below Menu Title 1 F1Help F10 gt Picasso V640E
20. isk and used for weaving This file should be saved in 16 or 256 color PCX format Color Setting Assigning a color from Creel to each color of carpet Common Terms Course The common terms appeared in this document are described below A line of yarn in a carpet Density The number of pile threads in one meter of a carpet Design environment Part of the software that the Carpet Group or Design is defined in a table Designer User responsible for defining the carpet groups and the related operations such as color setting Heald Frame A mechanical part of the weaving machine responsible to move the warps up and down Height Density Number of weft per meter Pile Color threads that makes the surface of Carpet Pile less woofs A part of weaved woof without pile Warp Warp is the total vertical yarn of a carpet spooled around the bobbin Weaver User responsible for weaving operations Weft or Woof Horizontal threads that the Pile is weaved into Width Density Number of piles per one meter User Manual Picasso Versions 6xx and NAMAD Versions 1xx 48
21. l command from Design menu opens color setting window with Namad Parda default color information The colors set will remain for future use Thus for the next time this window opens up you will see the former setting on the screen User can edit the desired colors and save the changes to harmonize the colors in Creel with new carpet design Figure 3 Picasso Y640E Creel Definition 3rd Carpet 2nd Carpet 1st Carpet Color 1 Color 2 Color 3 Color 4 Color 5 Color 6 Color 7 UH E Ss 1 Le lt lt lt lt RED gt gt gt gt lt lt lt lt Green gt gt gt gt lt lt lt lt Blue gt gt gt gt Figure 3 Color setting window has three sections 1 Main section 2 RGB definition 3 Status Bar 1 Main Section In this section three columns and n rows depending on the number of system colors can be seen First left column 3 Carpet middle column 2 carpet and the right column 1 carpet shows color information for each carpet By using this page you may define three different creel color sets to weave three different carpets with different designs and different colors Move through different rows using cursor N keys GWA User Manual Picasso Versions 6xx and NAMAD Versions 1xx 7 NRX1025P Note Have in mind that the color of threads in Creel are different from the colors you see in the color selection menu This section is made to facili
22. le less courses are weft after every 5 carpet is weaved The default value is 10 3 2 3 2 Simple Cutting Simple Cutting number refers to the number of pile less weft that are weaved after certain number of carpets defined in Cutting Place This will help the weaver to find the correct place to cut and also help him not to harm the carpet while cutting 3 2 4 Design Name Design name is shown at the middle top of the table The first time a carpet group is an empty table The table has no name assigned to it After the table is filled a name should be assigned to it in Save Design dialogue User Manual Picasso Versions 6xx and NAMAD Versions 1xx 16 NRX1025P Next time to load this table in Load Design dialogue you have to refer to its name Design name is printed at the top of the table It s at most 8 characters width User Manual Picasso Versions 6xx and NAMAD Versions 1xx 17 NRX1025P 3 2 5 Keys and functions Some of the available keys are listed at the bottom of the screen The keys and their functions are described below F2 brings up Save Design dialogue to assign a name for the design F3 brings up Load Design dialogue to select a formerly saved design F5 brings up Load Carpet dialogue to select a Carpet design F6 displays the current carpet in Carpet Display screen Chapter 11 F7 starts Color Setting process to set colors to
23. lor to the carpet by pressing F7 or selecting Coloring command from Carpet menu User can display any colored carpet to see the results by pressing F6 or selecting Display Carpet command from Carpet menu Chapter 11 Width and height of the carpet is extracted from carpet file but other fields are set by default You may change these default fields regarding your needs Finally user must save the defined Carpet Group by pressing F2 or selecting Save Design command from Design menu Chapter 8 Some extra controls will be calculated and required messages will be shown on screen User can assign a new name or use same old name in Save dialogue Design Name width must be at most 8 characters User Manual Picasso Versions 6xx and NAMAD Versions 1xx 22 NRX1025P Chapter 5 Select a Carpet Group Design for editing Software starts in Weave Environment In order to select a new Carpet Group follow these steps 5 1 Press Esc to Stop weaving An alert box informs you that the weave process is stopped 5 2 Push Esc or Enter to close this dialog and Weaving process stops 5 3 Pressing Shift F1 afterwards will bring password dialog box Enter the Designer password and press Enter to continue to Design Environment 5 4 Pressing F3 will bring Design Selection dialog box on screen Selecting Load Design command from Design menu w
24. ons 1 xx 20 NRX1025P 4 1 Emptying a Design Table User can select New Design command from Design menu to prepare a blank design table for starting a new table design A blank table appears after selecting this command 4 2 Designing a new Carpet group Design User can select a carpet by clicking F5 and selecting a PCX file from a file dialog Figure 8 This dialog lists all carpet files in the selected directory Carpet N Carpet Name CO 1 0535 PCX Figure 8 Use cursor keys GOWA to move in rows and use Enter to select it New Carpet not in the list should be transferred from floppy disk or USB to the computer Chapter 9 3 By clicking F4 key or selecting Transfer Carpet command from Carpet menu a list of all carpet files in Floppy or USB appears in transfer dialogue and user can select a carpet by pressing Enter The file is transferred from Floppy or USB to Hard Disk where Carpet files are saved Flash Disk USB is automatically recognized by the system User Manual Picasso Versions 6xx and NAMAD Versions 1 xx 21 NRX1025P By selecting a carpet carpet information is imported and placed in Design table User can edit any field using Tab key for selecting a field In either case Selecting from list or transferring a carpet current course will be filled with selected carpet information extracted from pcx file User can assign the desired co
25. or further uses with or without editing the group To start defining a carpet group first you have to change the environment from Weaving Environment to Design Environment by clicking Shift F 1 Remember that to do so the weaving process should be stopped Designer password dialog box appears and designer password must be entered to proceed Figure 7 Figure 7 Every carpet design should be prepared for weaving Preparation is consisted of a selecting a carpet design b editing carpet colors c saving the results a Carpet design is done by a designer saved in standard PCX format and carried to system This design is then transferred to the computer using transfer option built in software Chapter 9 3 Then some extra information should be added to this PCX file b In defining a carpet group the PCX file is read by the software and extra information is added to it Extra information are a carpet color assignment Chapter 10 b repetition number c simple pile less wefts d simple pile less warps e ratio etc c Save the results Chapter 8 a ds6 file is produced after these tasks Above tasks make a carpet ready to be weaved Remember that before producing and saving a ds6 file no carpet can be weaved In this environment 7 columns must be filled described in Chapter 3 2 Available Features in this environment are described below User Manual Picasso Versions 6xx and NAMAD Versi
26. pplied on two main directories by default a D Picasso Dat Carpet and D Picasso Dat Design for solenoid systems V6xx b D Namad Dat Carpet and D Namad Dat Design for piezo systems Namad 1xx Designer can manage these directories as needed For example for 2X3 meters carpets it s helpful to make subdirectories like Carpet 2X3 directory and save these types of carpets in this directory Using Make Directory and Delete Directory commands under Design and Carpet menu you can manage to make as many directories as you wish Note All the names and embedded directories follow the rules of operating system In Design environment you can select these commands from Carpet and Design menu In Carpet menu Create Delete Carpet directory command creates or deletes the selected carpet subdirectories shown in the File Dialogue box In Design menu Create Delete Design directory command creates or deletes the selected design subdirectories shown in the File Dialogue box Figure 2 j Make Dir Dir Name NewDir Figure 2 User Manual Picasso Versions 6xx and NAMAD Versions 1xx 6 NRX1025P 2 3 Defining Creel Table Defining Color Group or Creel table is an important task for preparing system to start weaving Pressing Shift F7 in Design Environment or selecting Cree
27. pplied only to the current carpet 3 1 4 Weave Stop On the lower left corner of the table there is a field titled Weave or Stop which shows the state of the system either working or not working 3 1 5 Design Name Design name is shown at the middle top of the table This name is the one that you have selected in Select a Carpet Group refer to Chapter 6 3 1 6 Keys and Functions Some of the available keys listed in Status Bar are described below o Esc stop weaving F2 starts weaving F3 brings up Load Design dialogue to select a formerly saved design F4 number in the card column is decreased by 1 F5 number in the Card column is increased by 1 F6 displays the current carpet in Carpet Display screen Chapter 11 F8 changes the course of the current carpet to 0 start of the carpet e F9 toggles between Together and Separated Shortcuts for the commands in Menu are listed below e Ctrl F4 decreases the number in this column by 20 e Ctrl F5 increases the number in this column by 20 Current carpet is the highlighted row and you can select a different one using Tab User Manual Picasso Versions 6xx and NAMAD Versions 1xx 11 NRX1025P e E10 activates the menu bar when in Stop state e Alt X exits the program when in Stop state User Manual Picas
28. rsions 6xx and NAMAD Versions 1xx 46 NRX1025P Menu Title 4 Design This menu has 6 commands 1 New Design Cleans the Design Table and makes it ready to define a new carpet group This command is not available in Weave Environment Select F3 Brings up the design selection dialogue box for selecting a ds6 file Save F2 Brings up the Save design dialogue box for saving a carpet group in ds6 file Chapter 8 Delete Design Brings up design delete dialogue box to select and delete a ds6 file from hard disk This command is not active in Weave Environment Make Directory Brings up Make directory dialogue box to make a new directory under Design directory This command is not active in Weave Environment Delete Directory Brings up Delete directory dialogue box to delete an existing directory under Design directory This command is not active in Weave Environment Figure 24 User Manual Picasso Versions 6xx and NAMAD Versions 1xx 47 NRX1025P Appendix 2 Glossary Block A block of 16 28 needles In a single SB there may be two or three blocks of needles Bobbin Huge cylinder that yarn is spooled around Common Terms The common terms appeared in this document are described below Carpet or a Designed Carpet A carpet designed by some designing software like Photo Shop or FreeHand and transferred to the system by diskette or Flash d
29. rt box informs you that the weave process is stopped 6 2 Push Esc or Enter to close this dialog and Weaving process stops 6 3 Pressing F3 will bring Design Selection dialog box on screen Selecting Load Design command from Design menu will do the same Figure 10 This dialog lists all design files ds6 in default directory Design DS6 User can select a formerly defined Design file from the list using cursor keys and pressing Enter Then Weave Table will be filled with information from selected design file To close this box without selecting any file you can press Esc FiHelp F10 gt Picasso V640E User Carpet Design Carpet N Design Name COSE ARiz ps6 F ARIZ DS6 Figure 10 6 4 Weave Table contains Carpet Groups Design information User can display carpet with formerly assigned colors on screen using Display Carpet command from Design menu or pressing F6 key If no color was assigned to a carpet an error message will inform you To assign color to a carpet read Chapter 11 Esc key closes the display screen and returns to the Weave Environment Pressing F2 starts weaving the carpet group Pressing Esc will stop weaving User Manual Picasso Versions 6xx and NAMAD Versions 1xx 25 NRX1025P Chapter 7 Changing Environment from Design to Weave and vise versa Pressing
30. s carpet design in carpet design screen Chapter 11 Coloring F7 Brings up carpet color setting screen for the selected carpet Chapter 10 This command is not active in Weave Environment Delete F8 Deletes current row in design table This command is not active in Weave Environment Together Separated F9 Toggles between Together and Separated state in Weave Environment This command is not active in Design Environment Transfer F4 Starts carpet file transfer process Chapter 9 3 This command is not active in Weave Environment Figure 23 User Manual Picasso Versions 6xx and NAMAD Versions 1xx 45 NRX1025P 7 Unzip Alt F2 Starts file unzip process This command is not active in Weave Environment 8 Creel Shift F7 Brings up Creel defining screen to define creel s colors Chapter 2 3 This command is not active in Weave Environment 9 Delete Carpet Brings up carpet delete dialogue box to select and delete a pcx file from hard disk This command is not active in Weave Environment 10 Make Directory Brings up Make directory dialogue box to make a new directory under Carpet directory This command is not active in Weave Environment 11 Delete Directory Brings up Delete directory dialogue box to delete an existing directory under Carpet directory This command is not active in Weave Environment User Manual Picasso Ve
31. so Versions 6xx and NAMAD Versions 1xx NRX1025P 3 2 Design Table Design Table is used to define Carpet Groups with assigned attributes to each User can define placements for any Carpet to be weaved on side on top or below each one Other attributes such as Color Simple Horizontal and Cutting Place are defined in Design Table before it can be weaved If theses attributes are not defined default values are used In either ways the Carpet Group should be saved The saved Carpet Group file will then be used by Weave Table for weaving process This table has 7 columns and 9 rows as follows 00 0510 1 175x350 E 2 0518 176x533 EZKU 2 Figure 5 3 2 1 Column definition 3 2 1 1 1st column Carpet Name This column shows the carpet s name 3 2 1 2 2 column Weft x Warp 3 Weft is the horizontal threads that the Pile is weaved into Warp is the total vertical yarn of a carpet spooled around the bobbin User Manual Picasso Versions 6xx and NAMAD Versions 1xx 13 NRX1025P These values are extracted from the selected carpet file showing number of rows and columns in a Carpet s design 3 2 1 3 3 column Width x Height This column shows the dimensions of the selected file of the carpet and is extracted after selecting the carpet Height is calculated from the dividing of carpet s Weft by Height density Width is calc
32. sso Versions 6xx and NAMAD Versions 1xx 14 NRX1025P 3 2 1 6 6 column Repeat This column shows how many times a carpet will be weaved User Manual Picasso Versions 6xx and NAMAD Versions 1xx NRX1025P 3 2 1 07 7th column Simple Horizontal Simple Horizontal is the number of pile less weft separating carpets Default number is set to 2 piles Simple Horizontal has two uses 1 To move the rightmost carpet to left 2 putting pile less weft between neighboring carpets 3 2 2 Row definition Design Table has 3 sections each have at most three carpets Carpets in a section will be weaved next to each other and if they all finish together next weaving section will be start Otherwise a section must be completely finished before next can section start When setting carpets in a Carpet group designer should consider the width and height of the carpets and also Machine s width If carpets doesn t fill the Machine s width it will be weaved by Pile less woofs it may be harmful for machine refer to your machine technical manual Note If you wish to weave only two carpets first one should be placed in the 1 row and second in the second row The third row can be leaved empty 3 2 3 There are two extra fields located on the right side of the table 3 2 3 1 Cutting Place After specified number of carpets is weaved carpets are being cut For example 5 means that extra simple pi
33. tate what you see on the screen with what is going to be weaved 2 RGB definition Three boxes show RED GREEN BLUE colors indicating percentage of the selected RGB colors in main section User can define the needed colors by increasing decreasing percentages of the color using keys on Num Pad To change a certain color first you have to select it using cursor keys then by pressing and on Num Pad the percentage of the system colors will change Use Tab Key to move between Red Green and Blue These colors are used in Coloring Page If the colors are defined incorrectly you may come back to this page and redefine the colors Coloring page is described in more detail in Chapter 10 3 Status Bar A status line at the bottom of page displays all available keys that can be used in this screen F1 saves the color setting and returns to Design Environment Esc ignores the changes and return to Design Environment Cursor Up Cursor Down moves through color boxes 3 6 increases and decreases RGB value Tab Key is also available for selecting Red Green and Blue section User Manual Picasso Versions 6xx and NAMAD Versions 1xx NRX1025P Chapter 3 Table Definition Three different tables are used in Namad Parda software System has two main environments 1 Weave Environment 2 Design Environment Each having a main table named Weave Table
34. ulated from the dividing of carpet s Warp by width density These values are extracted and calculated from the header of PCX file of the carpet 3 2 1 4 4 column Ratio This column shows the current ratio Ratio is set by a string of numbers each shows the repetition of a course while weaving Note Width density unit for hand made carpets is 7 to 10 centimeter in machine made carpet width density unit is 1 meter To harmonize width density with height density in carpet the repetition of a complete horizontal course is set by Ratio For example Ratio 2 means each course will be weaved twice and Ratio 1 means each course will be weaved once This process continues for the rest of weaving till the end of the carpet 3 2 1 5 5th column Simple Vertical Simple Vertical courses will be weaved after finishing each carpet To make it easy to cut and divide finished carpets some number of Simple Vertical weft must be weaved These separation wefts are called Simple Vertical Default number in simple vertical is set to 30 courses Note There are two different Simple Vertical wefts First one is a divider between carpets Second one is used after certain number of carpets which is used to show the end of a number of carpets ready to be sent for finishing 5 Number of piles per vertical unit based on the number of hooks Number of piles per one meter 7 pile less weft User Manual Pica
35. umber of weaved course per total number of carpet s course The numbers in this column is updated after every course weaved 143 350 418 533 Figure 4 3 1 1 6 6 column Status This column shows whether the carpet must be weaved or not If an X is shown in this column the carpet must be weaved and if there is blank in this place carpet should not be weaved When weaving a carpet is reached to the end this X will disappear automatically You may manually replace X with a blank to stop the carpet from weaving by pressing Space Bar 3 1 2 Row definition Table has 3 sections each have at most three carpets Carpets in a section will be weaved next to each other and if they all finish together next section s weaving will be start Otherwise a section must be completely finished before next section can start User Manual Picasso Versions 6xx and NAMAD Versions 1xx 10 NRX1025P 3 1 3 Together Separated On the lower right corner of the table there is a field titled Together or Separated which enables the weaver to change the course of the carpet s to backwards or forwards for a single carpet or for the whole carpets together F9 toggles between Together and Separated Together If you have selected this command back and forth movements will be applied to all carpets Separated If you have selected this command back and forth movements will be a
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