H O M E F U R N I S H I N G

TEXTILE MANUFACTURINGFURNITUREINDUSTRIAL FABRICSAUTOMOTIVE & TRANSPORTATION

S O F T W A R E S O L U T I O N S O V E R V I E W

NedGraphics welcomes you to its software solutions overview for home furnishing.

This booklet summarizes NedGraphics most important software products for your business. These solutions help you to optimize the following business processes:• Design & Creation• Workflow Optimization & Integration• Production Interfacing & Virtual Sampling• Presentation, Sales & Marketing

Our software is subject to continuous improvements and additions. These are the result of the input and feedback from our ever growing number of clients worldwide.

I am confident that your company can benefit from our wide array of solutions.

Please contact us if you require any further information, wish to see these solutions in action or would like to discuss what NedGraphics can do to help you achieve your goals.

With kind regards,NedGraphics

Cor van StamManaging DirectorEMEA & Asia Pacific

Foreword

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DESIGNCREATION

MARKETINGPRESENTATION & SALES

PRODUCTIONINTERFACING

VIRTUAL SAMPLING

WORKFLOWOPTIMIZATION& INTEGRATION

With kind regards,NedGraphics

Eric VimontPresidentNorth/South America

Foreword 2Contents 3Why should you choose NedGraphics 4Solution overview 5What our customers say 6Texcelle 8Jacquard Pro 10Virtual Loom 11Dobby Pro 12Printing Studio 14Printing Studio - Color Reduction & Cleaning Pro 15Printing Studio - Design and Repeat Pro 16Printing Studio - Easy Coloring Pro 17Printing Studio - Tonal Designer & Engraver 18Printing Studio - Simulated Printed Fabrics 19Printing Studio - Storyboard & Cataloging 20Design Workshop 22Catalog Creator 23Easy Map 24WeaveGate 26DesignCOM 28Vision Raschel 30Evolution Print 32X-Rite 33Company Profile 34System Requirements 35

Contents

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Why should you choose NedGraphics

More specifically NedGraphics solutions are used to design, sample, present & produce the following products:• Upholstery & furnishing fabrics• Velvet• Curtains / Net Curtains• Terry towels• Kitchen towels • Table linen • Mattress Ticking • Labels

NedGraphics software helps you to opti-mize & integrate the following:• Design & Creation• Workflow Optimization & Integration• Production Interfacing & Virtual

Sampling • Marketing, Presentation & Sales

Each individual NedGraphics solution offers the highest level of functionality available. In addition these solutions act as building blocks that allow you to construct a fully integrated solution to suit your current and future business requirements.

Choosing NedGraphics is the best and safest bet. Here are just some of the reasons why: • Follow the path of industry leaders in

your business• Excellent individual software

solutions that have been developed for the home interior based on the requirements and an evolution of more than 25 years

• Software solutions that interact seam-

lessly and allow you to expand if and when needed

• A well established sales & service network that spans the globe

• Web based solutions that allow you to integrate overseas operations and implement global sourcing

• Integrate your CAD/CAM environment with other business systems such as finance, planning, sampling, produc-tion, marketing and sales

• Use Industry Microsoft standard oper-ating systems, database technology and off the shelf hardware

... or just ask our clients

NedGraphics serves over 3500 customers worldwide. With a dominant market position in home furnishing there is a big chance that the textiles that fill your home, kitchen or beach towels, curtains, furniture fabrics and even the fabric that covers your car interior have been developed on NedGraphics. NedGraphics is all around you as it caters to the world’s finest manufacturers of home furnishing.

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DESIGNCREATION

MARKETINGPRESENTATION & SALES

PRODUCTIONINTERFACING

VIRTUAL SAMPLING

WORKFLOWOPTIMIZATION& INTEGRATION

Solution overviewThe following table helps you to find the NedGraphics solutions of interest to you.

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NedGraphics Solutions

YourBusiness

JacquardWovens

TexcelleDesign Workshop

Vision Raschel

DesignCOM

Jacquard ProVirtual LoomWeaveGate

Vision Raschel

Catalog CreatorEasyMap

DesignCOM

DobbyWovens Dobby Pro Dobby Pro

PrintedFabrics

Printing StudioEvolution Print

Printing StudioEvolution Print

DesignStudio

TexcelleDobby Pro

Printing StudioVision Raschel

Jacquard ProDobby Pro

Printing StudioVision Raschel

X-Rite color management solution

DesignCreation

Workflow Optimization &

Integration

ProductionInterfacing

Virtual Sampling

Marketing, Presentation &

Sales

What our customers say!Abo El SebaaBeach and kitchen towels Mehalla El Kubra, Egypt

www.aboelsebaa.com

Egypt’s leading terry and kitchen towel producer Abo El Sebaa caters to the world’s leading retailers. The company is based in Mehalla El Kubra in Egypt.

“NedGraphics has been with us for more than 8 years. Our mill has expanded tre-mendously; we grew substantially from 10 to 200 looms. Abo El Sebaa has man-aged to keep its creative edge by adding additional NedGraphics stations. These provide us with all we need to provide our customers with the creative answers they require. We have tried other systems but with the ease of use and simulation power offered by Texcelle & Jacquard Pro there really is no alternative.”

Eng. Ismail Ismail Hussien, Managing Director

Rubelli SPAExclusive furnishing Fabrics Cranston, USA

www.rubelli.com

Based in Venice, Rubelli is one of the most important companies worldwide in the market of high-end upholstery fab-rics. Rubelli uses DesignCOM, Texcelle, Jacquard Pro and WeaveGate as Ned-Graphics solutions to fit their require-ments.

“We have always needed powerful tools to design and manufacture sophisticated fabrics. NedGraphics is the producer of one of the most advanced and complete packages in its field, worldwide.”

Mr. Andrea Favaretto Rubelli, Managing Director Rubelli

Cranston Print WorksTextile printer Cranston, USA

www.cranstonvillage.com

Cranston Print Works is one of the oldest printers in the U.S. Cranston continues to succeed with an outstanding combina-tion of creative talent and manufacturing expertise, supported with cutting edge CAD/CAM technology from NedGraphics.

“Printing Studio has exploded our creative options from styling to color-ing and expand on the ‘what if we tried this’ options that lead to more varia-tions to consider and ultimately to better customer appreciation and overall sales…Vision Printing Studio is very easy to learn, with several new designers displaying full productivity only a week after the initial training.”

Diane Hunt, Design Director

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Himatsingka Seide Ltd.Silk fabrics Bangalore, India

www.himatsingka.com

Himatsingka’s quest for quality extends to its suppliers, to whom they set the high-est standards. Design and product devel-opment are crucial for their success. For more than two decades Himatsingka has been working with NedGraphics CAD/CAM systems.

“As innovative as we are in textiles, Ned-Graphics has shown the same spirit in software development. Even our highest density silks and technically most intricate fabrics are easily facilitated by the Ned-Graphics software such as Texcelle and Jacquard Pro.”

Mr. Mohan Rao, President Group Operations

MDP srl.Jacquard Design Studio Faloppio (Como), Italy

www.mdpdisegni.it

MDP, headed by Marco di Pietro special-izes in jacquard design for various appli-cations. The studio started its activities towards the end of 2004 with a highly ex-perienced team of designers. The decision to choose the NedGraphics Windows solu-tion was triggered by the look and feel and the functionality offered by the software.

“NedGraphics software has increased the efficiency and resulted in an increase of design output by over 50%. This has en-abled us to provide our customers with improved quality for a good price, further improving our customer relations.”

Mr. Marco di Pietro, Managing Director

Boyteks Tekstil A.S.Mattress ticking and upholstery Bursa, Turkey

www.boyteks.com

Boyteks Tekstil is one of the largest mat-tress ticking and upholstery producers in the world. Boyteks Tekstil is a fully inte-grated company.

“With WeaveGate we fully manage all of our production data and have a direct link to our looms. Direct benefits are the elimi-nation of production errors due to human mistakes, having one master product that is automatically converted to looms with the proper tie-up. The planning system triggers the creation of the proper produc-tion data thereby preventing human mis-takes and reliving the design department from the time consuming job of generat-ing the (JC5) production files.”

Mr. Feridun KOÇYİĞİT, Managing Director

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TexcelleTexcelle is extremely easy to use. Free hand drawing, scaling, geometric shapes, gradients, motifs, the most complex repeats, you name it Texcelle does it. Every year enhancements are made to optimize Texcelle, according to designers’ wishes and require-ments.

Texcelle is tailored to design, scale and develop products within the restrictions set by production ma-chinery, but also allows you to recolor finished products or simulations for sales presentations and marketing material. Archiving design material has never been easier with the direct link to DesignCOM; saving and loading de-signs with just a single click! Extra in-formation such as collection, designer name can be added each time when you save. This makes future retrieval and sharing much easier and less time consuming.

TexFlash is a light version of Texcelle that comes with an attractive price tag, ideal for starters or adding addi-tional stations with basic functionality.

Texcelle perfectly suits the design needs of the textile industry. With more than 4.000 units sold it is the standard solution for textile design. Its rich function set provides all a designer needs to create; starting from scratch, restyling existing designs or manipulating scanned material.

The Ultimate Creative Design Software

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Highlights and features• Use over 150 design functions

• Create and edit multiple designs simul-

taneously

• Special edge smoothing to prevent jag-

ged edges and contours when scaling

• Huge file support up to 32000 picks /

ends

• Create highly realistic surface and yarn

simulations instantly to preview actual

loom output

• Create, modify and save color palettes

according to designers preferences

• Create smooth curves using Bezier,

splines and control points

• Personalize shortcuts

• Macro’s offer huge time savings by storing

and reiterating command sequences

• Export directly to Excel to get the

technical fiche in the format you require

• Supports the revolutionary warp/weft-

editor to streamline the most complex

jacquard operations

• Fill with patterns, weave structures and

automatically add binder points

Add-on Modules• Conversions for Sophis, Apso, Viable,

EAT, Griffith, Actrom and many more…

• Yarn & texture simulation

• Yarn usage calculation

• Element Make-Up utility

• Weaver module for warp and weft jac-

quard definition

• Full integration with DesignCOM, the

solution for workflow optimization &

integration

• Full integration with WeaveGate, the

solution to integrate with networked

looms

• Store multiple selections for use in one

or more designs

• Integrated Color management based on

industry standard ICC

• Easily align selections in a design

• Rollup property dialogs, creating more

screen space

• Supports Pantone® with the Pantone®

color chooser

• Skew, curve and scale selections for

interesting effects

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Automatic smoothing prevents trapping when scaling designs

The warp/weft-editor automates any loom function

Any type of fabric is supported, whether upholstery, terry, ties, velvet or labels. Realistic 3D fabric simulation offers dramatic cost savings in sampling and can be used for commercial product presentations. All elements used to compose the jacquard fabric such as yarns, weaves, harness lay outs, loom functions are stored in libraries and maintained with easy to use editors. Jacquard Pro stores products locally, in DesignCOM, for workflow optimiza-tion & integration or in WeaveGate, for loom networking and monitoring. When stored in DesignCOM additional data like collection information, design sta-tus or a designer’s name can is added. By using WeaveGate products can be sent directly to the looms.

Jacquard is a light version of Jacquard Pro. Its attractive price tag makes it affordable for starters and lowers the threshold for adding stations with basic functionality.

Even the most complex jacquard fabrics can be designed, colored, estimated, calculated, simulated and sent straight to your looms with Jacquard Pro from NedGraphics.

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Jacquard Pro Jacquard Power & Versatility

Float correction and control in Jacquard Pro

Highlights and features• Visualize your fabric and weave structure

real-time

• Create highly realistic fabric simulations to

replace traditional samples. Even the most

complex weave structures are simulated

realistically (terry, wire velvet…)

• Scan your own yarns

• Create, store and use basic and compound

weaves in easy to access libraries

• Automatically generate weft and warp

scales from the design

GeneralTo obtain your fabric simulation yarn informa-

tion like structure, size and color have to be

added. Furthermore the right warp and weft

densities have to be set.

Now you can visualize or print your upholstery

fabric, curtain, tie, terry towel or any other

textile fabric.

RecoloringThe fabric simulations can now generate a

special True Coloring file.

Multiple copies can be created from your

sample and recoloring can take place. Colors

can be chosen from a standard or personal

colorbook or from a Pantone color database*

* Available From Pantone

• Integrate float checking and correcting

(both automatically and manually)

• Create production data instantly

• Convert to and from any weaving machine

• Use the true coloring tool to recolor the

simulations

• Create basic and compound weaves

• Convert from compound weave to basic

weave and vice versa

• Support for any kind of jacquard (Bonas,

Grosse, Stäubli…) or punching machine

Virtual loom allows you to create highly realistic fabric simulations directly from the jacquard card. A must have for (remote) production sites to check the contents of productions disks and prevent costly mistakes and eliminate sampling.

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Virtual Loom Simulating textile fabrics directly from the jacquard card file

3D view of the weave structure in Jacquard Pro

Develop any type of dobby, starting with a scan, or just express your imagination by entering ideas from scratch. Once the design information has been entered, Dobby Pro does the rest. Generate fabric simulations that can be used in place of samples and export a wealth of information to be used to directly control the manufacturing processes. From yarn selection to run-ning the loom, with Dobby Pro, you can be sure that you have an unequaled advantage!

Dobby is a light version of Dobby Pro. Its attractive price tag makes it affordable for starters and lowers the threshold for adding stations with basic functionality.

Dobby Pro is the ultimate solution to create, sample and produce the finest dobby woven fabrics. The most complex wovens can be designed, colored, estimated, calculated, simulated and sent straight to the looms. Dobby Pro addresses the needs of all users, from stylists to the most demanding production technicians.

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Dobby Pro Woven Designs, from Concept to Loom

Highlights and features• Access multiple libraries and designs for

mixing and matching yarns, weaves, warp

and weft arrangements, harness set ups,

and peg plans

• Create completely new designs by entering

the information that goes into making an

actual woven fabric

• Work visually, and the software will gener-

ate the technical information for the user

• Fabricate and match all types of actual

yarns with our exclusive yarn generator

• Scan and edit yarns to capture even the

most sophisticated textures

• Create simulations that can be used to

replace traditional samples

• Simulates accurate yarn sizes, based on

standard cotton count, denier, tex, metric,

worsted, woolen, silk and more

• Visualize even the most sophisticated

effects, such as variable density reeding,

let-back and tissue picks, variable density

weft, skip dents and top-beam dobbies

• Manage unlimited color variations and ac-

curate color blankets

• Supports Pantone® with the Pantone® color

chooser

• Automatically generate production speci-

fications, essential for manufacturing and

that can be printed or exported in Adobe®

PDF format

• Available as an upgrade from Easy Weave,

with files compatible between the two

programs

• Export machine files that directly drive pro-

duction machinery, these include: Stäubli,

Dornier, Picanol, Sulzer-Ruti, Vamatex, and

Tsudakoma

• Export files for sample machinery, such as

CCI

• Drawing-in machine interfaces include:

Stäubli Delta 200, 100 and Vega

• Export production data in standard ASCI file

for import to database systems

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...only a touch reveals that this is not fabric but a Dobby Pro simulation

Printing StudioPrinting Studio satisfies all CAD-related needs in the (textile) printing industry. Thanks to its modular set up, printing studio can be tailored to your requirements, whether freelance designer, converter, textile printer or engraver.

The Ultimate Modular Design & Engraving Powerhouse

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6 modules help you to process your flat or tonal projects: • Color Reduction & Cleaning Pro:

the ultimate solution for processing scanned designs*

• Design & Repeat Pro: the ultimate design solution*

• Easy Coloring Pro: the ultimate color management solution*

• Tonal Designer & Engraver: the ultimate solution for tonal designs

• Simulating Printed Fabric: the ultimate solution for coloring and digital textile printing

• Storyboard & Cataloging: Layout Design Collections, Colorings and Sketches

*Fashion Studio is a light version of the 3 base modules of Printing Studio. It comes with an attractive price tag, ideal for starters or adding additional stations with basic functionality.

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PrintingWhile scans capture an unlimited number of colors, you are challenged with their interpretation into a precise number of flat and tonal colors. The real time preview assures, you’ll achieve the result you want, in the least amount of time.

Color Reduction & Cleaning Pro

Use a full set of cleaning tools to remove imperfections. As these tools can be applied automatically, you will spend a minimum amount of time manually replacing stray dirt, fabric textures or pencil lines.

Highlights and features• Reduce and separate colors: from mil-

lions, to the number you require

• Import scanned files, digital photographs

or any true color (RGB) file

• Merge multiple scans with sophisticated

rotation and alignment tools and edit the

result with a full range of motif and clone

tools in repeat!

• Provides a wide range of separation tech-

niques for flat colors, textures, tonal and

the most complex watercolor designs incl.

the new 2 Tone Color Shading

• Multiple views and windows display the

color reduced result in real time, allowing

for step by step control

• Specialized cleaning tools eliminate col-

ors where not wanted and replaces them

automatically with the correct colors

• Unique black and white ‘film’ view,

highlights colors to be cleaned

• Layering allows for visualization of the

original underneath the color reduced

image to aiding in cleaning decisions

• Multi-layer tonal and flat separations

can be generated immediately (a plug-in

provides compatibility with Adobe®

Photoshop®)

Studio

Printing StudioIn addition to design Design and Repeat Pro offers a full compliment of engraving tools for manufacturing-ready files.

Design & Repeat Pro

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Capture all of your original concepts, strengthen them through flexible collaboration and ensure they are ac-curately communicated through final production.

Highlights and features• Visualize any number of interactive zoom

views, simultaneously

• Supports all varieties of textile repeats,

including complex mirroring even

• Repeats with curved joins

• Import and export files in standard formats

(JPEG, TIFF etc.) as well as Adobe®

Photoshop® and Illustrator®

• Layering technology for management of

motifs, designs and vector objects,

including native Adobe® Illustrator® files

• Individual symmetries for each vector object

• Open and work between multiple files at

the same time

• Manage color overlays and fall-on color mix-

ing, with full control to define the resulting

color. Including production color prediction

• Color separation overlay and trapping

tables for accurate engraving

• Output color separations to paper or film

plotters

• Export digital separations for rotary and

flat screen engraving including lacquer,

galvano, gravure, flexographic and wax

techniques

• Drive the latest direct digital printing and

engraving machinery

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PrintingEasy Coloring Pro (EC) offers you unified color management. It addresses the entire color workflow, from concept through production. EC allows you to quickly recolor prints, wovens, knits and wall coverings. EC automatically matches the desired color standard on virtually any output device.

Easy Coloring Pro

Easy Coloring Pro offers one of the most advanced color calibration engines available to today. It is fully compatible with Windows ICM/ICC color management. This ensures color fidelity from monitor, to printer, to final product.

Highlights and features• Create color variations for any type of

design, save and manage all color

variations within a single file

• Input custom atlases that correspond

with seasonal colors, collection colors,

color libraries and color trends

• Multi tags for each color allow better

control of trend colors and tracking of

customer requests

• Match color standards precisely on any

printer or monitor (including LCD’s)

• Realistic prediction of fall-on colors

according to dyes and substrates

• Color calibration matches color from

monitor to monitor, to printed color;

paper and digitally printed fabrics

• Import and export digital color file formats

for the most accurate communication of

color with customers and vendors

• Direct spectrophotometer interfaces

measure, compare and match colors;

compatible with products from Gretag-

Macbeth, X-Rite, Datacolor and Konica

Minolta

• Apply monitor and printer profiles using

Delta or ICC calibration standards

• Real-time color gamut indication for

related device profiles

Studio

Printing StudioProjects that will be engraved using tonal lacquer, galvano, wax, flat screen and gravure techniques demand the finest level of technical functionality. Tonal Designer & Engraver (TDE) offers true color drawing and repeat tools and the ability to extract full tonal layers, with unlimited color mixing.

Tonal Designer & Engraver

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Once designs have been separated into tonal layers, colorations can be performed and simulated for various colorants such as reactive, pigment, heat transfer and wall covering meth-ods. Color separations can be export-ed in production ready gray-levels or rasterized for traditional film plotting.

TDE can also be used as a stand-alone solution, offering all you need to process a tonal file from scan to final production ready color separations.

Highlights and features• Sophisticated layering technology

• True color drawing tools, image filters and

repeat functions

• Open and work on multiple files at the

same time

• Manage color overlays and fall-on mixing,

including production color prediction

• Isolate and extract tonal color separations

on multiple layers

• Gamma curve correction for tonal

gradations

• Colorway creation and manipulation in

true color

• Generate true gray-scale digital color

separations

• Apply production raster or dot structure

for more traditional engraving techniques

• Sophisticated separation overlay and

trapping tables for accurate engraving

• CMYK separations with spot color addi-

tions for wall coverings

• Drive direct digital engraving equipment

• Drive the latest digital textile printers

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PrintingSimulated Printed Fabrics is ideal for those utilizing today’s most advanced digital printing equipment. Using film data it generates realistic simulations of what will be achieved in actual production to replace strike-off and samples.

Simulated Printed Fabrics

With the advent of ever faster and more sophisticated machinery, Simulated Printed Fabrics can drive final production runs. Designs are free of the constraints of more traditional printing methods.

Highlights and features• Compatible with Mimaki, Mutoh, Stork,

DuPont and other printing equipment

• Export color calibrated files to be printed

from most industry specific RIP

applications and printer drivers

• Build design files from flat, gray scale or

simulated rasters films

• Realistic prediction of fall-on colors

according to dye types and substrates

• Simulates resist, dot gain or bleed,

over-printing and platform effects

• Input custom color atlases that will

correspond with seasonal colors, collec-

tion colors, color libraries and color trends

• Color calibration that matches color from

monitor to monitor to printed color, for

paper and digitally printed fabric

• Direct spectrophotometer interfaces

measure, compare and match colors

• Import and export digital color file formats

for the most accurate communication of

color with customers and vendors

• Compatible with products from Gretag-

Macbeth, X-Rite, Datacolor and Konica

Minolta

• Apply monitor and printer profiles using

Delta or ICC calibration standards

• Real-time color gamut indication for

related devise profiles

Studio

Just about any type of graphic file can be accessed with the browser and its content manipulated with simple drag and drop positioning, with no limita-tions on layering, ordering and group-ing. Once completed, the presentation can be saved and when opened again, all of the objects are still fully editable.

Because Storyboard and Cataloging can import objects from all Windows software and remembers the sourced double-clicking an object will automati-cally launch the source application. Any editing that is done, will automati-cally update on the presentation.

Storyboard & Cataloging (SBC) is a unique solution to create presentations, storyboards, line sheets, product collections, inspiration boards, color trend sheets, and catalogs. It is an invaluable tool if you need to present fabric designs, sketches, and color standards with all related merchandising content.

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Printing Studio Storyboard & Cataloging

Highlights and features• Arrange page layouts with logo’s, images

and text to create catalog content

• Browse fabric images and then drag and

drop, position, scale, crop, stack, layer, and

organize in any combination

• Drag and drop fabrics to fill sketches using

vectors that rotate and scale designs auto-

matically to specifications

• Import photographs and drag and drop

fabrics that will drape photo-realistically

• Open presentations and all objects and

parameters are fully editable

• Template feature allows for quick creation

of standard layouts

• Import Adobe® Illustrator® (AI) files.

Open SBS the file and Illustrator® will be

launched, with any changes updated auto-

matically

• Export directly to Adobe® PDF or InDesign®

page layout solution

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Design WorkshopDesign Workshop speeds up the creation of geometrical designs such as scarves and table linen. These can be created quickly by placing an unlimited number of borders and motifs around a center. Each modification is updated automatically. This ensures a minimum of manual action and accurate results!

Instant geometrical and repetitive designs

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Design Workshop is productive and time-saving. It can be used at the start of the creative process. The center or border pieces can be taken from any existing design. You automatically repeat borders around the center. By adding borders, the software instantly performs all the tedious manual actions.

Imagine two borders swapping places. Doing this manually would take hours. Design Workshop doest it for you in a snap, without affecting any corners or curves. You can switch the final shape of the design to rectangular, oval, and circular by just one mouse click.

Highlights and features• Create oval, circular or rectangular

designs with just one mouse click

• Directly link to NedGraphics Texcelle

• Rearrange motif placement

• Customize and exchange center & motif

palettes

• Store results in common file formats

• Zoom and scroll in the center, borders or

final result

Instant geometrical and repetitive designs

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Catalog CreatorCatalog Creator allows you to create your catalogs and commercial publications faster and easier. Simply drag and drop designs on a page, edit text, add graphics and create the catalogs and leaflets you need!

Cataloging & publishing made fast and easy

Use color books and print color statistics to get the complete picture. Automatically retrieve detailed infor-mation such as width, height, repeat and paper format.

The ‘books within books’ feature enables you to merge collections into a single catalog. Adjustments can be made directly in existing collection presentations to keep them up to date.

Highlights and features• Create single or multi-page

presentations and catalogs

• Save pages separately and

include them in any catalog

• Create ‘books within books’

• Display detailed information from any

NedGraphics file design or production

format or any other Windows graphics

format

• Make adjustments easily

• Supports transparency

• Use a grid to align page elements

• Undo/Redo any action with the built-in

undo/redo function

• Preview files before opening them with

the file preview option

• Resize, lock, outline and group objects

• Batch import designs or other graphics

Use Easy Map Creator Pro to process existing product photographs for realistic presentation of your designs and color options. Renderings can be printed or shared, to provide impressive content for presentation boards, product catalogs, advertising, packaging and websites.

Easy Map Viewer is geared towards the improvement of sales presentations, either on the road, or in the showroom. Just point and click various designs onto product photos, and visualize new com-binations on screen. Use product CD’s for a unique competitive advantage.

The Easy Map SDK, is a web develop-ment tool that will allow users to inte-grate fully interactive, on-line, mapping capabilities directly on sales oriented websites.

High quality mappings, either printed or viewed on-line, will be virtually indistin-guishable from actual product photo-graphs.

The Easy Map software family allows you to create, show and publish photo realistic images of your designs, fabrics, and colors on objects in photographs.

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Easy Map Virtual Product Presentation

Highlights and features• Load photographs of existing products, so

that new content can be photo-realistically

superimposed and rendered

• Images can be scanned from traditional

photography, or digital

• Import and apply new designs from scans

of actual fabric or any bitmap design

• Render colors, prints, wovens, knits, floor

covering, wall covering, automotive and all

other types of fabrications

• The exclusive mapping process creates

movement in the applied designs and

preserves shading. The resulting image

appears to be authentic; the results cannot

be achieved in standard photo retouching

software

• Designs will be automatically resized so

that the rendering is true to scale

• Resulting mapping can be printed on a digi-

tal printer, on glossy paper and shown as an

actual photo, for customer presentations or

for in-house decisions

• Export final mapping in standard graphic

formats, like TIFF or JPEG

• Output can be used as content for catalogs,

advertising, product packaging, websites

and e-mail

• Easy Map Viewer comes with a free library

of standard product photographs

• Easy Map CD creator allows users to gener-

ate product CD’s

• Each module in the Easy Map Suite can be

used stand-alone or in conjunction with the

other modules, depending upon needs

• Use Easy Map Collection Viewer to view

renderings without the need for a protec-

tion mechanism

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WeaveGate can be fully integrated with NedGraphics’ Jacquard Pro and third party solutions.

WeaveGate delivers production data to the right jacquard controllers at the right time. The system also allows loom operators to retrieve jobs from the server. When the loom operator modifies production information the adjusted pattern can be merged directly with the original.

WeaveGate enables effective and consistent design management. Cur-rent designs can never be overwritten without prior notification. Amendments made on the loom controller can be stored directly in the original database. Corrections are automatically incorpo-rated into the production data the next time it is sent over the network.E-mail notifications can be issued to timely anticipate production flaws or controller availability.

WeaveGate can be integrated with any existing planning system.

Titles, for example an article number or client name, can automatically be in-serted before or after a weave job. This simplifies order tracking, expedition and prevents you from loosing track.

WeaveGate is NedGraphics’ solution to control and manage your electronic jacquard looms and link them with your design archive. Track the status of your weave jobs, do effective version management, monitor loom efficiency, capture, store and transfer loom parameters, add information to weave jobs, automatically rearrange harness lay-outs; WeaveGate provides you with full control and minimizes errors, 24/7.

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Weave Gate Full control over your jacquard looms

Weave Gate network overview

Weave Gate Server

Highlights and features• Supports all Bonas, Stäubli and Grosse

controllers

• Create weaveplans for all Stäubli and Bonas

jacquards

• Send a complete package to the controller

at once

• Pre-define cleaning of designs on the con-

trollers

• Centralize system of all card-files

• Visualize current status of weaving mill in

one screen

• Import weave orders directly from Excel

• Export weave orders directly to Excel

• Handle loom parameters per design

• Automatic card transformations can be ap-

plied by using macro functions

• Improved handling of loom parameters for

Stäubli JC-5 / JC-6 format

• Extended planning including Weave Cyclus,

titles and weft or box motion rearrange-

ments

• Macro’s definitions allow WeaveGate to

modify (part of) the production informa-

tion just before it is sent to the Jacquard

controller. This allows you to tune data to

the loom’s specifics

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Design Data ManagementDesignCOM can be configured accord-ing to your requirements. Designs are retrieved within seconds! Keep track of millions of designs. Designs and product data are made available throughout your organization; for sales, marketing, finance, sampling & production.

IntegrationDesignCOM can be integrated with other enterprise systems to provide detailed, timely information along with the right visual. No more guesswork but the right information along with the right picture. DesignCOM is integrated with all Ned-Graphics solutions. This makes it easy to archive and organize designs, as filing is executed while designers work. Specific business rules can be set in order to automate tasks and link with 3rd party systems.

Presentation & CommunicationDesignCOM Web facilitates enterprise-communication and presentation. Remote sites and customers around the globe have access to your resources without having to install software. DesignCOM offers a variety of layouts to create customized product sheets and reports.

DesignCOM allows you to streamline your product development workflow. It provides full access to the image as well as product data throughout the organization, for clients and suppliers. It is easy to access and implement because of standard internet technology.Improving your workflow will result in a fast return on investment.

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Design COMOrganize, Share & Communicate

Sales & Development Production After Sales

CAD/CAMDesignCOMSimulationRe-coloring

3D Visualization

DesignCOMNetworkingMonitoring

DesignCOM

YourBusiness

Solutions

DesignPresentation

Sampling

Customer visit Sales Production After Sales

The NedGraphics Easy Map and re-color-ing plug-ins are excellent marketing and sales tools. Impress your customers with re-colored designs in interiors. Integrated with a website, DesignCOM offers the content management functions to create e-catalogs. Access can be restricted at vari-ous levels; for example exclusive designs are only visible for authorized clients.

Highlights and features• Automatic filing of designs and design infor-

mation as designers work

• Multi language support including non

western characters (Chinese, Korean, etc.)

• Business process optimization for project

management, sample approval and manage-

ment, sketch and design archiving

• Product presentation using a standard web

browser

• Integrated 3D presentation to show and print

designs in life-like ambiences

• Integrated coloring of designs, with highly

realistic True Color support

• Customized product sheets and reports

• Synchronize online or offline, via CD ex-

change or file transfer

• Run DesignCOM on laptops

• Customize screen lay out or select 1 of the

standard web interfaces

• Support for website integration

• Flexible reporting structure allows you to

create catalog on the fly

• Work with standard or customized color

books

• Import machine production information into

DesignCOM

• Export machine production information

directly to diskette, via intranet or internet

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You just have to scan your favorite hand made sketches and then reduce them to the appropriate technical design accord-ing to the number of needles and rows. Thanks to the user-friendly tools, the editing of your design is quick and effec-tive. Each color will then correspond to a ground or multibar effect.You can manage your own library of weaves according to your knitting refer-ences.

Most of the well-known designing tools dedicated to the textile industry devel-oped since decades are into the editing sketches module.

To detect any mistake or in any case of doubt about the consequences of a very simple change in your design, you just have to press a button to get a technical and realistic simulation of your project. Your work is then more reliable in terms of production on the machine.

When your project is ready, you just have to generate a disk in the appropriate format (Karl Mayer, Liba, Jacob Müller) to transfer the technical information to the machine and start to knit.

This is the easiest method of technical designing. All the technical aspects are managed by the system. The only thing that you have to concentrate on is the artistic aspect of your project. Now you can spend time on being a designer, not a technician even if this solution allows you to go through all the steps from the scan or idea to the technical output ready for the loom.

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Vision Raschel Reach for perfection

Highlights and featuresMultibar functions• Semi-automatic creation of the lapping

movements according to the sketch

• Editing overlapping on fall plate bars

• Picots are put in automatically according to

the predefined sketch

• Technical check of the lapping movements

including a report (collision checking)

• Display of invalid movements

• Mirror functions (like clapping, mirroring,

mirroring shifting, mirroring clapping, etc.)

• Shifting of bars

• Saving of bars configuration to hard disk for

use in another pattern.

Jacquard functions• Assign bindings and structures to the

colors in the sketch. They will be automati-

cally calculated in the Jacquard pattern.

• Create bindings and library management

• View Jacquard data in color or Jacquard pat-

tern mode as well as a technical layout (with

the different Raschel techniques)

• Border commands: Possibility to define

what happens when two colors are next to

each other. This function allows you to add

outlines or shadows to a filled area

• Automatic adjustment of the Jacquard Data

after mirroring

Simulation (for Jacquard and Multibar)• Simple changes of the yarn types and ma-

chine parameters (gauge, rows/cm, etc.)

• User-friendly, because it is already built

into the program. You do not have to start

another program

• Simulation can be placed on a second screen

• Simulation is refreshed by hot keys

• Fall plate patterns are taken into account for

the simulation

View functions• Jacquard data (also known as technical

graphic layering) and multibar data can be

displayed together. This allows very

efficient editing of the multibar and

Jacquard data

• Repeat connections: the repeat is

displayed on the top and bottom of the pat-

tern. It is displayed and, simultaneously, can

also be edited

• The range and nesting of the ‘multibar’ can

be switched on and off

• Display of the current cursor position

(needles/rows), and active bar.

Yarn tension of the Jacquard• The yarn tension is shown graphically. The

difference from the average value is shown

as a line

• By putting in different row sections, it is

possible to make an exact analysis of the

tensions within the fabric

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Reach for perfection

NedGraphics and DigiFab System present: Evolution Print - the state of the art textile/graphics print solution for digital large format printing or multiple printer configurations. Evolution Print combines ease of use with a powerful textile/graphics RIP and print server. Simply open the different colorways of your designs and fill one or more printing areas with the defined repeat

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Evolution PrintEvolution Print can deal with any type of repeat because all calculations are carried out on the fly. All relevant bitmap and vector file formats can be processed. The user also benefits from advanced layout features for presentation boards or to print multiple images at once.

The color managment is fully ICC compatible and has full control over inks and print heads through linearization capabilites, ink reduction,ink limiting as well as channel and head mapping.

Evolution print integrates seamlessy with the NedGraphics software packages allowing for a fast and high quality output on modern printers of all sizes for digital production or sampling. Compatible Printers:Encad - Mimaki - Roland - Epson - HP - Dupont - and more... We support many printer brands and models. Since we write our own drivers, we can develop drivers for your printer.

Main Features:Reads NedGraphics colorways and re-peats - Change Drop, Change Resolution, Scale, Rotate, Flip, Multiply, Mirror, CutPrints multiple design - On the fly continuous printing with any repeat - Color palettes and image information in print header - Total ink and print head control - Print Server/Spooler for multiple printers

The cooperation with X-Rite enables NedGraphics to provide textile and fashion companies with a One Stop color calibrated textile and fashion design and presentation solution.

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X- RiteNedGraphics has entered into a worldwide distributor agreement with X-Rite to bundle color calibration and color management solutions from X-rite with the NedGraphics textile and fashion software solutions. Furthermore, both companies agreed to work together to enable textile and fashion companies obtaining a smooth product creation workflow in a color calibrated and color managed environment using NedGraphics and X-Rite solutions.

Color specification, color visualisation, color management and obtaining color consistency throughout the workflow are essential in textile and fashion.

Textile and fashion design is now done mostly with computers. Further-more, enormous progress is made in creating accurate digital textile simu-lations, digital archiving and digital “internet” communication of product

information and the use of virtual merchandising tools. Therefore accurate visualisation and management of colors in a digital environment has become increasingly important.

NedGraphics provides integrated software solutions for the textile industry world wide.

MarketsThe solutions are targeted at the following markets:• Home Furnishing• Fashion Design• Floor Coverings

ProductsSoftware solutions provided by NedGraphics help our customers to optimize the following business processes:• Design & Creation• Production Interfacing & Virtual Sampling • Marketing, Presentation & Sales• Workflow Optimization & Integration

NedGraphics has offices worldwide and employs a staff of over 110+ qualified technicians and software developers.

NedGraphics serves over 3500 customers in textile fashion worldwide. The software provided by NedGraphics enables its customers to improve sales, minimize time to market, optimize product development workflow, reduce sampling cost and achieve operational excellence.

www.nedgraphics.com

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Company Profile

Software for Textile & Fashion

NedGraphics is a subsidiary of Blue Fox Enterprises N.V. Blue Fox is listed on

the Official Market of the Euronext Amsterdam N.V. stock exchange.

www.nedgraphics.com

DESIGNCREATION

MARKETINGPRESENTATION & SALES

PRODUCTIONINTERFACING

VIRTUAL SAMPLING

WORKFLOWOPTIMIZATION& INTEGRATION

For desktop use NedGraphics recommends the following configuration:

Desktop configuration• Intel P4 (2 Ghz or better), or equivalent AMD

processor• 1 GByte memory• DirectX 9.0b graphics card with 64 Mb RAM, or

better• CDROM or DVD drive• At least 20GByte free hard drive space • Free USB port for installing the NedGraphics

hardlock protection device.• Windows XP or Windows Vista operating

system; Microsoft Windows 2000 (with SP4), some products only

• We no longer support Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows ME and Windows NT 4.

Portable configurationFor mobile use NedGraphics recommends the following configuration;• Pentium Centrino M 725 1.6 Ghz or better, or

equivalent AMD processor• 1 GByte memory• DirectX 9.0b graphics card with 64 Mb RAM, or

better• CDROM or DVD drive• At least 20GByte free hard drive space • Free USB port for installing the NedGraphics

hardlock protection device.• Windows XP or Windows Vista operating

system; Microsoft Windows 2000 (with SP4), some products only

Server based solutionsFor its server bases solutions DesignCOM and WeaveGate NedGraphics recommends the following configuration;• Pentium IV (2.4-Ghz) or comparable

microprocessor• 2048 Mb of RAM• 40 Gb hard disk with at least 2 Gb free hard

disk space• Standard network interface card for

connection to the Jacquard controller• Free Parallel or USB port for installing the

NedGraphics hardlock protection device• Microsoft Windows 2000 or 2003 server with

the latest service pack installed• Microsoft SQL server 2000 or 2005

Monitors (calibrated environment)• Mitsubishi DIAMONDTRON PRO 2070SB• LaCie Electronblue IV• Philips 202P40 a 22”• Philips 202P70• Iiyama A203DT• Iiyama HA203DT

LCD’s monitors• Eizo FlexScan S2111W 21• Viewsonic VX2255wmb• NEC Multisync LCD 1990 Sxi.• NEC Multisync LCD2180Ux• Iiyama ProLite H2130

Printers (Calibrated environment)• Epson x800 series (2800, 3800, 4800)• HP Designjet 130nr• Canon Pixma Pro 9000/9500

NedGraphics software works with standard hardware.In summary the CAD solutions run on Microsoft Windows XP.The server based solutions run on Microsoft Server. Please consult www.nedgraphics.com or contact us for the latest specifications, recommendations and technical details.

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System Requirements

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