Knit simulation device, knit simulation method, and program thereof
AssigneeShima Seiki Manufacturing, Ltd.
InventorsKoichi Terai, Tetsuya Fukuda
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Abstract
The presence or absence of putting round of a yarn is detected according to whether carriers are positioned on a near side or a far side and according to the relationship of connection between loops, and the result is displayed on a monitor. On the monitor, for example, the degree of the deformation of the yarn is changed according to the presence or absence of putting round when the yarn is touched, or a color is changed according to the presence or absence of putting round. The presence or absence of putting round of the yarn can be detected and then displayed to a user.
Claims11
A knit simulation device for simulating a result of knitting operations performed on knit data for a flat-knitting machine having at least a pair of needle beds and carriers that respectively feed yarns to needles of the needle beds and move upper portions of the needle beds in parallel with the needle beds, wherein, when a new knitted loop is formed by a needle of one of the needle beds using a first yarn fed from a first carrier of the carriers in an area on a knitted fabric in which separate knitted loops are formed by separate yarns fed respectively from the carriers, in order to determine whether a second yarn fed from a second carrier out of the carriers is put round or not, the knit simulation device comprises:
- identifying means for obtaining a relationship between a near and a far side of the first carrier and the second carrier as seen from said one of the needle beds;
- and
- determining means for determining, based on said obtained relationship and an order of knitting in the knitted fabric area, whether the other yarn is put round.
A computer-implemented knit simulation method for simulating a result of knitting operations using knit data for a flat-knitting machine having at least a pair of needle beds and carriers that respectively feed yarns to needles of the needle beds and move upper portions of the needle beds in parallel with the needle beds, wherein, when a new knitted loop is formed by a needle of one of the needle beds using a first yarn fed from a first carrier of the carriers in an area on a knitted fabric in which separate knitted loops are formed by separate yarns fed respectively from the carriers, in order to determine whether a second yarn fed from a second carrier out of the carriers is put round or not, the knit simulation method comprises the steps of:
- obtaining at one or more computer processors a relationship between a near and a far side of the first carrier and the second carrier as seen from said one of the needle beds;
- and
- determining at one or more computer processors, based on said obtained relationship and an order of knitting in the knitted fabric area, whether the other yarn is put round.
A computer-readable medium having encoded with a data structure for simulating on knit data a result of knitting operations performed using the knit data for a flat-knitting machine having at least a pair of needle beds and carriers that respectively feed yarns to needles of the needle beds and move upper portions of the needle beds in parallel with the needle beds, wherein, when a new knitted loop is formed by a needle of one of the needle beds using a first yarn fed from a first carrier of the carriers in an area on a knitted fabric in which separate knitted loops are formed by separate yarns fed respectively from the carriers, in order to determine whether a second yarn fed from a second carrier out of the carriers is put round or not, the data structure comprising:
- an identifying instruction for obtaining a relationship a near and a far side of between the first carrier and the second carrier as seen from said one of the needle beds;
- and
- a determining instruction for determining, based on said obtained relationship and an order of knitting in the knitted fabric area, whether the second yarn is put round.
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