A supporting system of jacquard circular knitting machine for knitting design and manufacturing

A supporting system of jacquard circular knitting machine for knitting design and manufacturing has been designed in this paper. The system has two layers named knitting design layer and knitting manufacturing layer. The knitting design layer is a user interface to design knitting pattern and action by graphic pattern and editable order table. The knitting manufacturing layer is an interface between knitting design and electrical control system and circular knitting machine. The pattern subsystem provides specific drawing tools designed for knitting design. The action subsystem employs knitting process action instead a series of mechanical parts action. These make the knitting design easy and convenient. The knitting manufacturing encode designed pattern and action orders to data which can use for controlling circular knitting machine. This paper introduce how to analyze designed pattern and action. And the system check knitting process before encoding data. Data compression is employed to save memory space. Tests have proved, this supporting system performs well for jacquard circular knitting machine to design and manufacture knitting.