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Designs

Reference — the design library: manage, open, rename, move and delete saved braid designs in folders.

What you use this area for

Designs is your design library – a store of all saved braid patterns, structured like a file explorer with folders and a table overview. Here you manage designs: you sort them into folders, rename, move or delete them and open a design for editing.

Manage the library here – draw in the Designer

Nothing is drawn on this page. The actual designing – choosing the braid type, painting patterns, viewing the animation – takes place in the Designer. This page is the library, the Designer is the drawing tool. Double-clicking a design opens it in the Designer.

The screen at a glance

Design library with folder tree on the left, design table with thumbnails on the right and toolbar above

The page consists of three areas:

  • Toolbar (top) – navigation, search and the actions (create folder/design, clipboard, rename, delete).
  • Folder tree (left) – the folder structure of your designs. A click opens a folder.
  • Design table (right) – all designs of the selected folder as a table with preview image.

Controls in detail

In the toolbar you find – as in a file explorer – the navigation buttons:

Button Effect
Back Back to the previously visited folder.
Forward Forward again (after "Back").
Up one level Switch to the parent folder.
Update Reload the view.

Search

The search field filters the designs. If the search term matches, the view switches to a flat result mode that shows matches from all folders.

Toolbar actions

Button Effect
New folder Creates a folder in the current path.
New design Creates a new design in the current folder and opens it for editing.
Cut Remembers the selected element (folder or design) for a move operation.
Copy Remembers the selected element for a copy operation.
Paste Pastes the cut or copied element into the current folder.
Rename Renames the selected element.
Delete Deletes the selected element (with confirmation prompt).

Cut/copy and paste together form the clipboard: first you mark a design or a folder with Cut (move) or Copy (duplicate), then you switch to the target folder and choose Paste.

The folder tree shows your folder structure. A single click opens the folder; its designs appear on the right. The context menu (right mouse button on a folder) gives you the same actions as the toolbar – Create new design…, New folder…, Rename…, Cut, Copy, Paste and Delete….

Design table (right)

The table lists all designs of the current folder. You can sort them by clicking a column header.

Column Content
Design Preview image (thumbnail) of the pattern.
Product name Name of the design.
Braid type Round braid, flat braid, square braid or packing braid.
Binding Setup/binding (e.g. Normal setup, Tandem setup, Half setup).
Carriers Number of carriers.
Angle Braiding angle.
Ply count Number of threads combined per carrier.
Created Creation date.
Modified Date of the last change.

Double-clicking a row opens the design in the Designer. The context menu of a design offers Rename…, Cut, Copy and Delete….

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