Designaknit 7 Professional

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DesignaKnit 7 for Windows is a powerful, affordable CAD/CAM program for designing knitwear. The Professional version is the full-featured program, allowing a greater freedom of creativity and a greater degree of control over the design process. If you own DesignaKnit 6 and wish to use the program on the newer computers with ME 2000 XP or Vista you may upgrade your program to DesignaKnit version 7 this will allow you to continue to enjoy the benefits of this program on your newer computers.

DesignaKnit 7 Computer Aided Knitwear Designing Software • Packed with new features For Machine and Hand Knitters • Featuring new brush tools in Stitch Designer • View Thumbnail File Images • View Stitch Symbols on Screen With the Kaleidoscope Tool you can create geometric designs easily. DesignaKnit Professional allows you to create your own garment styles Create stitch patterns with stitch designer. Convert pictures into stitch designs Integrate Shape and Stitch Design Minimum System Requirements Windows (95/98) 6 Megabytes of free disk space VGA (256 color) video card Mouse System Requirements Windows (2000/XP) • 128 Megabytes of system memory 20 Megabytes of free disk space SVGA (Super VGA) video card Graphics Tablet We offer several DesignaKnit tutorial disks also.

DAK is great when you know how to use it. My first project in Designaknit was to enter a sweater similar to the Adrienne Vittadini sweater from the Winter 2003/04 issue of Vogue International Knitting. It was project #9. I used the schematic in the back of the magazine as a guide and entered the numbers into DAK’s Original Pattern Drafting module. The biggest challenge for me was getting the armhole shapes to be close in length so the sleep cap would fit the front and back openings.

The closest I could get was 9.5 inches on the body pieces and 9.7 inches on the sleeve. According to my class notes, as long as I’m within an inch, the knitted fabric will be very forgiving. Tricia stressed in her class that when doing a V-neck, don’t start the V at the shoulders. Have some straight drop first so the neckline won’t ride up your neck and be uncomfortable. I also shortened the depth of the v-neck. Now I need to stop dragging my feet and actually get a DAK Brother cable to knit the design.

Info I love learning new things with my computers. Mastercraft 52 0060 2 manual transmission. Today I did my first screen capture in Windows so you could actually see the sweater pieces. Please keep in mind I am computer literate, especially on a Mac and a strong, independent woman.

Here is how I did it. • Call out for my husband.

• Attempt to make him stop what he is doing. • Complain loudly that I hate Windows and how can I do a screen capture. • Power up the computer. • Start Designaknit. • Open my completed shape file in Original Pattern Drafting. • Call for husband again because he obviously doesn’t know how important this is to me and it is Sunday night and I need to have this done before he goes to bed so I’ll have a blog entry tomorrow.

I don’t care if football is on. • Husband appears. • Maximize Designaknit window by clicking on the maximize button (center button in upper right corner). • Click on the option in Designaknit to display all pattern pieces on the screen at once. • Push Prnt Scrn button (this is short for Print Screen) on the keyboard – this copies the entire screen image to the clipboard. • Open your favorite Paint program. I used Paint Shop Pro 7.