Patent ID: 6928335

Claim:
An apparatus that optimizes the development of woven fabrics, comprising: a display device that displays the woven fabrics that are developed in the apparatus, a structure input device that inputs freely definable fabric structures for woven fabrics, at least one measuring device for measuring individual yarn diameters, and a control and evaluation device that controls the woven fabrics and that also controls the at least one measuring device using a serial interface and the same time the control and evaluation device receives data on a parallel interface between the measuring device and the control and evaluation device, wherein the structure input device enables inputting and changing the woven fabrics, and wherein an actual fabric is computed and presented on the basis of the individual yarn diameters and the freely definable structures for woven fabrics, whereby a defined structure of the fabric is changeable to adapt and optimize the actual fabric to the measured individual yarn diameters.