Cross planting feature is one the unique techniques for producing machine-made carpets with higher colors than the machine's setup.

This feature helps you to increase your color range up to 64 colors without any mechanical or electronic changes in your machine.

Just by placing the right colors in the right positions, you will be able to produce the machine-made carpets and rugs up to 64 colors.

With Cross Planting tool you can edit frame setting, setting the colors which should be placed in the same row of the creel, report plant guide, which show the start and end points of the alternative colors and report the frequency of each color usage in the form of histogram diagram.

Planting guide report
 

Histogram of yarn usage
 

Besides, Cross Planting reports help the machine-made carpet and rug weavers to:

• Finding and eliminating not used bobbins in the rows of the creels.
• Finding the bobbins in the rows of the creels which run out more rapidly.
• Finding the same grouped colors and placing them in the creels faster than before and without any mistakes.
• Creating different kind of printed and electronic reports in Excel files for production side.