BeadTool allows you to create bead patterns in square, loom, brick, and peyote stitches. In the main window you can see, at the top, the main toolbar and main menu; on the left, the drawing toolbar; on the right the tab panels, bead list, and quick palette; at the center is the working area.
The main menu includes all the options. The main tool bar includes quickly access to most common used actions: new, open pattern, open picture, save pattern, print pattern, zoom in, zoom out, toggle picture, transfer picture onto a pattern, put text into your pattern, and undo action. The drawing tool bar includes a pencil for freeform drawing, eraser, selection of a portion of your pattern for editing, dropper, flood filler; draw lines, triangles, diamonds, pentagons, hexagons, octagons, ellipses, and rectangles. To print a pattern you have to consider 3 elements: color chart, word chart, and color legend. Color chart allows you to switch on and off to print in the pattern; Word chart includes the rows of the patterns and the direction; Color legend shows the color of beads that correspond to the bead it's representing. It includes many models of patterns. You can export patterns to formats BMP, JPG, GIF, PNG, TIFF, and SVG. Trial version doesn't allow you to save, print or export.
I can't recommend this software. We purchased it a second time after an auto update on mac made it non functional and we had to buy a windows laptop for the software. The second purchase would not activate so we emailed support. After one month we emailed again and finally got a nasty attitude. There was no record of either purchase on his end and email proof of purchase or the fact we had been printing and saving patterns was ignored. We were told that our only option was spend more money and hope it worked after a third purchase. You will find other comments about his attitude if you search online.
Can you somehow upload your DB numbers into the system so that those are the only ones used for creations? I have a lot but never have the ones suggested.
I can not register beadtool anymore and beadtool.net does not connect. Is beadtool not working anymore? any solution? Thank you