The workspace is the overall design area where you can view and edit one or more canvases or panels simultaneously.
A panel represents a section of the garment, such as the front, back, sleeve, or collar. Each panel is displayed on its own canvas, which provides the editing surface where you create and modify the panel's design.
While working on a design, you can add canvases to the workspace by duplicating an existing canvas, creating a new one, or uploading a previously created design.
Each canvas maintains its own independent edit history. To edit a panel, first select it by clicking anywhere on its canvas. When selected, the canvas border turns black, indicating it is active and ready to be edited.
You can navigate the workspace using the mouse or trackpad. With the mouse, use the scroll wheel to move vertically, press the wheel to pan, or hold Space and left-click to move around. To zoom, use the scroll wheel with Ctrl (Windows) or Cmd (Mac). On a trackpad, slide two fingers to pan., and pinch on the trackpad to zoom.
At the bottom center of the screen, you'll find a small toolbar with navigation controls:
Use the +/- magnifying glass to zoom in and out, Zoom to canvas to center the active canvas on screen, and Zoom to selection to quickly locate a selected area.
The Canvas
A canvas is the rectangular editing area associated with a single panel. It displays the panel and provides the space where you create and modify its design
It represents the knitting area, with a white/black frame (unactive/ active) marking the boundaries. The grey area around the canvases cannot be edited.
When you zoom in, you'll see the yellow area is made up of front stitches. Each loop corresponds to one stitch. Zooming in also reveals a horizontal ruler at the bottom, counting the number of stitches from left to right, and a vertical ruler on the left, counting rows from bottom to top. These rulers show that the default rectangular canvas is 50 stitches wide by 100 rows high. You'll learn how to adjust these dimensions, insert and delete rows and columns, and edit other settings later in this manual.
By default, the design editor shows the panels in Pattern View mode, where the yellow color shows the assigned yarn feeder (feeder 3). Switch to Stitch View to see the colors of the stitch symbols.
