The second drawback, in my opinion, is the output format, which is currently limited to. The first is the cost: $135 will buy a lot of sock yarn! The designer has included a broad range of symbols, including cables, twists, increases, decreases, and a set to indicate colors. Rest your mouse over a symbol and a little pop-up tip appears, showing you what the symbol stands for.Īnd you can select cells and add borders, if you need them. You’ll find cool little touches everywhere. You have to abide by some rules, which are clearly delineated in the manual, and be a bit creative when charting patterns with unusual stitches.
It would be flummoxed by something like k2, drop the yarnover from the previous row, k2. There’s a limit to the translator’s intelligence. The program lets you specify whether your pattern should be set up for circular or flat knitting and whether the current entry is a right-side or wrong side row. You can enter the chart symbols directly in Stitch Paint mode, or you can type in text and watch as Knit Visualizer miraculously translates these into a graph for you.Īnd here’s what Knit Visualizer displays when I press the Enter key. There are several ways to use the program. No, I don’t know when the next version will be released, but there’s a Yahoo group you can join to keep up with her progress (and make suggestions, report bugs, and chat with other users).Īs you can see from the picture above (which will be far clearer if you click on it.These blurry Blogger thumbnails are just awful), the layout consists of the main chart window, a panel of stitch symbols on the right, a text entry field on the bottom, and an icon toolbar under the Main Menu bar on the top. However, the next version will let you chart directly in color (and will include more symbols, too). This version is not especially appropriate for charting in color-there are better programs currently available for this kind of design (and I will talk about them in later postings). After Excel, it’s the program I turn to most for charting tasks, especially if I want especially handsome printed output. The program not only lets you paint stitches onto a graph, it also can translate written directions into a chart for you. Knit Visualizer is an astounding programming tour de force.
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