AVL Looms Compu-Dobby 5, User Manual

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Additional Functions: K-Series Loom Compu-Dobby 5 User’s Manual
Page | 56 Controlling the Cloth Advance
7) Wind the warp onto the warp beam. For more information, see the
weaving section in your loom manual.
8) You can click Power to return the loom to standby when threading
the heddles and reed. If you are going to turn off power to the
loom, shutdown the loom through the software.
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The cloth advance controls allow you to advance the warp without weaving,
or reverse the warp. You can also set the picks per inch (PPI). The default
PPI is 15.
Set the PPI
The default for the cloth advance is picks per inch, but you can change
inches to centimeters in the options tab. See page 62 for instructions on
changing to centimeters.
It’s important to note that PPI can be affected by types of yarn and the sett,
so please use the PPI as indicated in the Cloth Advance Box as a starting
point, and understand that numbers may need to be adjusted to get the
correct PPI on the cloth. However, once you have the PPI set, it will not
change on the cloth until adjusted in the software.
1) In the software go to the Cloth Advance area and click in the PPI
field.
2) Use the small arrow keys to change the value, or click in the field
and type in the value you want. You can enter fractional values
when typing, for example “15.25”.