Patent ID: 8135489

Claim:
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.