Patent ID: 11859321
Assignee: DREXEL UNIVERSITY
Field: Textile and paper machines (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC D | IPC D

Claim 0:
1. A method for designing a knitted textile or fabric, the method comprising:
displaying, to a user, blocks representing individual stitches;
receiving graphical input from the user regarding a knit pattern comprised of different types of individual stitches to be included in a textile or fabric design, wherein receiving graphical input includes allowing the user to graphically lay out the blocks in a desired pattern;
graphically displaying the desired pattern as a grid of the blocks;
selecting edge rolling indicators and/or folding indicators based on stitch pattern conditions of the displayed pattern and a plurality of rules that specify edge rolling and/or folding indicators for different stitch pattern conditions, where the stitch pattern conditions include orientations of edges of segments of stitches of a given type and orientations of boundaries between segments of stitches of different types; and
applying the selected edge rolling indicators and/or folding indicators to the displayed pattern, wherein the edge rolling and/or folding indicators respectively and graphically illustrate predicted edge rolling and folding behaviors of a physical textile or fabric.