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JacqCAD MASTER®   is a computer program for creating textile designs on computers. It contains extensive features designed to assist in designing, editing, creating loom control files, and punching of textile designs.

Industry standard TIFF and PICT files are supported, providing compatibility with many other applications, including programs for painting, scanning, processing, editing, publishing, and analyzing images. Sub-areas of PICT files may be selected and scaled to any desired number of Ends and Picks. Designs of up to 16,000 Ends by 32,000 Picks are supported. Textile designs are displayed in the correct as woven aspect ratio (Warp/Weft ratios of .05:1 to 20.00:1). Up to 20 image windows may be opened simultaneously to support cut/paste of design elements between designs or between design and scratch pad windows.

Loom Control File Formats

    JacqCAD MASTER®   is compatible with a wide range of loom control formats:

  • Actrom-5 Punch Machines
  • Bonas .EP files for electronic heads
  • Digital Weaving Norway TC1
  • Schleicher electronic jacquard heads
  • Socos dobby file (3.5" floppy disk or PCMCIA card)
  • Staübli Jacquard heads, including CX860, CX960, CX1060. Allows creation of floppy disks for JC 3, JC 4, JC 4B, JC 5 loom controllers.
  • Staübli Punches and Card Readers
    The programs which control the punches and readers via serial lines can be used on either the main design computer or on a separate system.
  • TIS electronic heads
  • AVL Jacquard .J1P format files

Image Formats

    JacqCAD MASTER®   is also compatible with many textile CAD formats:

  • EAT image and weave files
  • Grosse DES, LIG, and WEA
  • Nedgraphics .PAT , .BMP and .DES files
  • Muller .M3D, .UPT, .UNI
  • Sophis image and weave files
  • Weavette .PJOB,.PUN, .RLS, , .VPN, .WOO, .FNT
    An 8" floppy disk drive is available with an application that allows reading and writing 8" floppy disks.
  • Other formats can be added as needed

JacqCAD MASTER®   supports multiple image formats: standard images from PICT or TIFF files, and Expanded Images which contain a textile compatible structure. Standard images, which include those produced by scanning or painting programs, are organized simply by row and column. Expanded Images are structured by Pick and Shuttles and contain information about regulators and shuttle box assignments. Up to 32 'logical shuttles' can be assigned per Pick, each logical shuttle may either be 'always activated', as for Damask fabric or ground picks, or 'conditionally activated' under control of the design colors, as for Brocade fabric.

Overview Of Editing Tools

Overview Of Program Menus

System Requirements

JacqCAD MASTER®   runs under Mac OS 9 or under Mac OS X (10.0 .. 10.4) using Classic. It requires a PowerPC (PPC) based Macintosh (or older 68K).
It is not compatible with the Intel-based Macintosh models nor with Mac OS 10.5 (Leopard), neither of which support Classic.
A minimum of 64 megabytes of memory for JacqCAD are recommended. A large hard disc is needed for storage of files and applications and some form of backup storage device is recommended. All standard display sizes are supported; these range from small 13" (640x480) to large 24" (1600x1280) displays. Multiple monitors can be used to display a single window across 2 or more monitors or to view a single repeat on one monitor and a repeated view on the 2nd monitor.

We are dedicated to giving you the assistance that you will need in selecting, configuring, and installing your hardware.

 

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