New Users of the Kniterate Machine
Having recently acquired a Kniterate machine I'd be interested to connect with anyone else who has a machine.
I am having a lot of difficulties with the software, which is VERY buggy, and would like to know if other people are having similar issues, and if anyone has found any workarounds.
Some of the more common problems -
Loss of the stitch sizes during editing designs, or after closing them and re-opening. They revert to the default 4. And YES I have saved before closing! In fact I am so worried about losing stuff that I save quite often.
Finding that when copying and pasting part of a design, the parameters I have edited in the side panel are, more often than not, lost and revert to the defaults.
Unable to use the bind off part of the app as it starts from needle 1 instead of from the needle my design begins on. And I have tried editing it but there are always "phantom" stitches that remain and give me error messages. I have spent hours trying to correct the design to make it work but have not succeeded.
Error messages that I do not understand eg "Got 6, max is 5". I have no idea what this refers to so had to abandon a design I'd spent all afternoon on.
Having to exit and re-open a design in order to see which stitch an error message refers to.
I need to open a new tab each time I open a new design, or the designs overwrite each other.
I am tearing my hair out. After 3 weeks I still have not managed to create a single perfect swatch, as I am not even able to bind off! So no hope of being able to knit anything useable any time soon..... And with all the bugs, creating even the simplest swatch in the design app can take ages.
I'm not quite sure what happened to all of the people who were posting on the old forum, as I can't seem to get into that any more, and no-one seems to be using this new platform. Which leaves me feeling very alone!
Sorry to sound so whiny, but I feel like I'm going nowhere, backwards. :-(
Can anyone help? I have the impression there is a Beta version of the app being trialed, as I have seen stuff knitted online that isn't possible in the public app. But as I can't get into the old forum, I don't know what is on the software timeline.
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Just to add some detail to the above post... Gerard Rubio Jipke Lezwijn Katy Grieve
I first raised this issue with the bind off about a month ago, and thought I had resolved it when I found that it didn’t seem to occur if I added the bind off before adjusting the parameters in the side bar of the app (stitch sizes etc).
However I am now finding that this doesn’t always work. Yesterday I was trying to make a swatch of rib followed by a fair isle 4 coloured knit, and no matter how I approached this there was always a problem with the bind off. I did find that adding the bind off before the bind on gave a correct bind off configuration, but although the app said this was a valid design it would not compile.
I also had problems with the “phantom” stitch error, when the app says there is a long float at the beginning of the bind off (transfer row). I have posted about his previously.
And several times had a bind on that was narrower than the swatch.
Having discussed this with Tim, we thought that perhaps a Zoom tutorial/trouble shooting session, to which everyone with a machine is invited, might uncover what is causing these glitches. It would seem that some users are not having issues and it would be interesting to find out if this is because they have a different work flow, are using k code rather than the app, or are knitting things with different configurations that don’t cause the bugs.
I have had a machine for almost 3 months now and have mastered various techniques, but being unable to combine them and get a successful bind on/bind off means that to date I have still not managed to knit anything successfully.
And to make things even more confusing, it seems that something that works one day will not work another day.
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My machine hasn't arrived just yet, but I would also be interested in attending a zoom meeting regarding software bugs and best practices. It seems like a good idea.
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Hi Cadenzaclothes and Robert Ingemarsson,
We had a good look at it last week, and I believe Gerard sent on a video discussing the way around this issue with small adjustments - for those with similar problems who would like to see it can be accessed here (to understand the issue of the compiling and validating with the bind off) and here (for bind off on rear bed). I hope the issue was solved and you are able to continue?
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Hi Katy,
Gerard's work around for the bind off starting at needle 1 works, which is good news. However, no-one has looked at the other bind-off issue, which is still occurring frequently for me -
Currently the only way I can get around this is to start the design again, copy and pasting the body into another file. When the stitch sizes don't save this adds extra time to the work around, as does having to edit the bind-off roll downs, so not ideal.
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Gerard Rubio Katy Grieve Jipke Lezwijn
Hello all,
I am STILL having issues with the error I brought up in the previous post, above, and in other earlier posts too.
I have mentioned this several times and no-one has replied yet. I am also finding that even when I copy and paste the design into another file then add the start and bind off to it, I still get the same error, making the design I have spent hours creating scrap. This, despite the fact that the design will validate and compile without the bind off added.
PLEASE can you look at this?
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Hi Cadenzaclothes apologies for missing that question:
Could you try removing or adding a row? The compiler might be complaining because the feeder is on the right-hand side of your knit when it is told to bind-off. In this situation, the feeder would have to travel to the left-hand side of your knit as the only way to re-position itself for the bind-off, which would create a large float.
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Hi Gerard Rubio - Thank you, that worked!
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Jipke Lezwijn Gerard Rubio Katy Grieve
Hi All,
I am trying to knit a sleeve with shaping - just increases on either edge, and initially ran into problems every time I added a bind on - the design would no longer compile. I worked around this by creating a bind on in a separate design then combining the 2 designs in a text document.
So far so good, until almost at the end, the second colour of my 2 colour design, knitting in reversible jacquard, didn't get knitted any more. I have looked at the k code and cannot work out why. There is no error in the design app. I was wondering if anyone could explain why this might be happening? I have tried knitting it twice with the same result both times.
Here is the bit of code where it goes wrong, after row 727 -
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<< Kn-Kn 0 300 525 0
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>> Kn-Kn 0 300 0 0
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<< Kn-Kn 0 500 0 0
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>> Kn-Kn 0 300 525 0
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>> Kn-Kn 0 500 0 0
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<< Kn-Kn 0 500 0 0
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>> Kn-Kn 0 500 0 0
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<< Kn-Kn 0 300 525 0
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// row: 736
// racking: 0.0I would be happy to email the complete k code to you if you need to look at the whole thing. Any input greatly appreciated! Thank you.
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I couldn't spot anything wrong in that kcode. Could you describe the issue in more detail and share the entire file at support@kniterate.com? thanks!
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