A new version of the bead crochet design software for the PC. It doesn't have a lot of fancy bells and whistles, but it's elegantly simple and does what it does very well. Bead Crochet Pattern Designer (BCPD) lets you do patterns up to 89-around and 85 rows. Well, that's almost a purse, not a plain rope!
I did both the Urban Stripes and the Native Stripes projects with the software. Of course I had "broken" versions, "test this" versions. "do you like this" versions and I managed to find every fault and problem there was. I still managed to design all of the sections for my two projects in spite of the problems along the way. I love not having to hand write a stringing table and being able to see how a pattern meets in the back of a rope.
The program has:
* 14 Bead color palette key, customizable with a color wheel
* 3-around to 89-around
* 2 to 85 row graph
* Rotating zipper graph and rope simulations
* Stringing table with bead counts
* Graph zooms to 5 levels
* You can open, save and print designs
* HELP/Quick Start information
It will be for sale at Bead-Patterns in the next couple of days. I just need to tie up some of the small details.
I'm excited that now it'll be easier for people to design their own patterns.
Congratulations! What a lot of work! I have enjoyed working with the string-along "Native Stripes" and look forward to seeing how it looks and wears when I am done. I am anxious to see your new product.....again, huge congrats! -Marlene
ReplyDeleteCongrats on the completion of BCPD. I can't wait to try it...but...I am an Apple imac person.
ReplyDeleteWill the program work on Apple software??? I sure hope so!
I'm sorry, but it's PC only... no Apple i-anything. I've been told that it will work on Windows Virtual Machine on an Intel-based Mac.
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