The 2025 development cycle delivers more than 915 enhancements across ArahWeave, ArahPaint6, and ArahDrape — all focused on improving speed, stability, and everyday workflow efficiency. Highlights Major performance boosts for large fabrics and complex weaves Increased stability and more reliable jacquard/regulator behavior Cleaner, more intuitive weave...
ArahPaint6 now supports its own native .ARI format, allowing users to save images with layers. At Arahne, we’ve always used standard formats. That’s why our paint program originally saved files in .GIF, later switching to the superior .PNG format. This ensured compatibility with other drawing tools...
Wood patterns have always been a source of inspiration for textile designers. They can be printed or woven jacquards. In this video we show how to create a walnut burl veneer pattern in ArahPaint. Walnut burl veneer is made from a burl, which is a growth...
We issued new release notes in English and Italian containing a selection of new features developed throughout the last year, from January 2024 to January 2025. You will find new interesting functions in ArahWeave and ArahPaint software that will help you with your design and...
We added a new smart function in ArahPaint6 that shows used colors in a design in rows and columns. It is very useful for making corrections on larger images consisting of several colors, to detect an unwanted colored pixel easily. It is also very convenient...
Wᴇ'ʀᴇ ᴇxᴄɪᴛᴇᴅ ᴛᴏ ɪɴᴛʀᴏᴅᴜᴄᴇ ᴛʜᴇ ᴡᴇᴀᴠᴇ ɢᴇɴᴇʀᴀᴛᴏʀ, ᴀ ғᴀɴᴛᴀsᴛɪᴄ ɴᴇᴡ ᴛᴏᴏʟ ɪɴ AʀᴀʜPᴀɪɴᴛ6 ᴛʜᴀᴛ ᴡɪʟʟ ʜᴇʟᴘ ʏᴏᴜ ᴛᴏ ᴄʀᴇᴀᴛᴇ ɴᴇᴡ ɪɴᴛᴇʀᴇsᴛɪɴɢ ᴡᴇᴀᴠᴇs! You already know that you can set the angle and zoom for your brush patterns (please see this post). If you use a simple weave...
We are exciting to introduce a new and unique function in ArahPaint6 with which you can rotate and zoom the brush pattern. When drawing with brushes you can set the angle and zoom of the brush pattern. And it gets even better: even if rotated...
ArahPaint6 jacquard drawing program is now also available in Persian (Farsi), thanks to Bert Pols and Hamidreza Ghabraee of Stäubli. The Mac version still keeps menu orientation left to right, while on Linux and Windows version, the menus also follow right to left direction of writing....
As customary at the beginning of every year, we prepared a short document presenting a selection of new features developed from January 2022 till January 2023. New features have been developed in ArahWeave and ArahPaint. In ArahWeave you will find support and improvements for new textile...
ArahPaint6 has a new gradient function, that you can use with any drawing tool, from freehand drawing, draw line, polygon, arc, curve, bezier, circle, ellipse, rectangle, square, fill tool, spray. To use it, select any of the drawing tools, increase the pen size, choose one of...
