Punching
The digitizing of embroidery is called punching .
In the early days of machine embroidery around 1860, the operator moved a lever connected to the embroidery frame , which led the embroidery frame to the appropriate needle position at the right moment , thereby creating a pattern on the embroidery machine .
Later, at the beginning of the 20th century, this technology was switched to punch card machines, similar to what is known from barrel organs to this day . The punch cards were created by punchers who could also create more complex patterns using the punch card system and allow significantly higher machine speeds.
With the establishment of the EDP , around 1980 the first punch programs were designed. In the beginning in a single color, later in color and increasingly complex, embroidery designs can now be created on the PC. Well-known programs that are often used, especially in industrial embroidery, are z. B. Pulse, Wilcom, Wings, Sierra, Compucon, APS-Ethos ...
In the meantime, pure punch offices have also established themselves that do not embroider themselves, but create embroidery designs for their customers.
With modern punch programs and cloud solutions such as B. My.ZSK, embroidery machines can be integrated into a network and data such as B. Control machine runtimes, rejects, etc. directly from the PC.
literature
- Bonnie Nielsen: The Art of Punching. Basics and creative techniques of machine embroidery Verlagshaus Gruber, Eppertshausen 2006, ISBN 3-00-017753-1
- Bonnie Nielsen: Punch - Digitizing for Embroidery Design Verlagshaus Gruber, Eppertshausen 2010, ISBN 978-3-00-030071-4
- Bonnie Nielsen: Punching - Creative creation of embroidery designs . Translated from English by Dieter Haug. Verlagshaus Gruber, Eppertshausen 2014, ISBN 978-3-00-044615-3
Individual evidence
- ↑ L. Bühring, N. Grawitter: Specialized lexicon embroidery and lace. TITV-Greiz, Greiz 2007.
- ↑ BasePac (GiS) , EPCwin (ZSK)
- ↑ My.ZSK