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Your drawing opens looking the same as before. Pixel edits no longer exist as a separate layer. The first time you open the drawing, 2.8.1 turns each pixel edit into ordinary row edits and, where an edit changes the outline, into the shape's own outline. After that you can select and change them in Edit rows. Nothing is lost along the way. If 2.8.1 can't reproduce a drawing exactly, it keeps your original pixel edits and shows the drawing as it was.

One exception: a stitch that a pixel edit placed beyond the edge of your machine's bed is dropped, because no needle can knit it. Where an edit leaves a small step on a slanted edge, that step is yours to tidy in Edit rows.

The conversion is saved the next time you save the drawing.

They open as the shapes you drew. Two things can differ slightly from before:

• Points move to the nearest stitch. Older drawings could have corner points between stitches. 2.8.1 moves each to the nearest stitch and row crossing, because no one can knit half a stitch. A shape can change by up to one stitch at an edge.
• Row shaping is dropped. If you used the old design-wide shaping interval, it is no longer applied. The rows now follow the outline you drew, so a diagonal or curve that used to be stair-stepped now follows the line.

A drawing you are partway through knitting isn't affected.

Your row edits are kept. If the drawing also used the old shaping interval, 2.8.1 moves each edit to the same row of the drawing as it now derives, shifting the start and end of each run by the same amount.

If a row can't be carried over safely, 2.8.1 leaves that row as the shape gives it and does not shift it somewhere wrong. Two cases where that can happen:

• the row has a different number of runs from before;
• the shift would empty a run or make two runs overlap.

Row edits that were never combined with shaping aren't touched.

Known gap: if a drawing had both shaping and pixel edits, the row edits may not carry over.

In Premium, pick a machine with the same number of needles. We build the grid from your swatch, so you get a realistic finished-garment measurement rather than the as-knit one. In Pro, when it opens, the machine itself matters more — its programmability, its components, and so on. If your machine isn't listed and you'd like it added, open a support ticket: choose Settings, then Support. Describe the machine — maker, name, needles, pitch and how patterning is controlled (mechanical or electronic, the card width if it takes cards, cam systems, a second bed or ribber, and so on). Add anything else you think is useful, and if at all possible attach the manual as a PDF. We'll add your machine as soon as we can.