Quick Start Manual

Contents Before Using Getting Started Design Center Layout & Editing
Programmable
Stitch Creator
Quick Reference Alphabetic Index
• Moving patterns................................................... 66
• Scaling patterns................................................... 66
• Flipping a pattern horizontally or vertically ......... 67
• Rotating a pattern................................................ 67
Point Edit Mode......................................................... 68
• Moving points ...................................................... 68
• Inserting points .................................................... 68
• Deleting points..................................................... 68
Line Drawing Mode ................................................... 69
• Drawing a broken line ......................................... 69
Zoom-in Mode ........................................................... 69
Fit Design Page to Window ...................................... 70
Zoom-out Mode......................................................... 70
Enlarging Selected Outlines to the Screen Size ...... 70
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Using the Stage 4 Tool Box ................................... 71
Region Setting Mode ................................................ 71
• Applying the sewing attributes to a region ......... 71
• Checking the sewing attributes of a region ........ 72
Line (all) Setting Mode .............................................. 73
• Applying the sewing attributes to an outline....... 73
• Checking the sewing attributes of an outline ..... 73
Line (part) Setting Mode ........................................... 74
• Applying the sewing attributes to a portion of the
outline ..................................................................74
• Checking the sewing attributes of a portion of an
outline ..................................................................75
Hole Sewing Mode.................................................... 76
Zoom-in Mode ........................................................... 76
Fit Design Page to Window ...................................... 76
Zoom-out Mode......................................................... 76
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Using the Sewing Attributes Bar........................... 77
Setting the Thread Color and Stitch ......................... 77
• Region sew.......................................................... 77
• Line sew ............................................................. 78
• Color ................................................................... 79
• Stitch ................................................................... 80
■ Using the Menu Bar and the Toolbar ................... 81
File Menu................................................................... 81
• New Line Image .................................................. 82
• New Figure Data ................................................. 82
• Wizard ................................................................. 83
• Open.................................................................... 85
• Select TWAIN device.......................................... 86
• Input from TWAIN device.................................... 86
• Input from Clipboard ........................................... 87
• Output to Clipboard............................................. 88
• Import Figure ....................................................... 88
• Save..................................................................... 89
• Save As ............................................................... 89
• Exit....................................................................... 90
Edit Menu .................................................................. 91
• Undo .................................................................... 91
• Redo .................................................................... 91
• Cut ....................................................................... 91
• Copy.................................................................... 92
• Duplicate ............................................................. 92
• Paste................................................................... 92
• Delete.................................................................. 92
• Mirror – Horizontal .............................................. 93
• Mirror – Vertical .................................................. 93
• Rotate ................................................................. 94
• Numerical Setting-Size....................................... 94
• Numerical Setting-Rotate ................................... 95
• Select All ............................................................. 95
Sew Menu................................................................. 96
• Sewing Attributes................................................ 96
• Sewing Order.................................................... 100
Display Menu .......................................................... 103
• Grid Setup......................................................... 103
• Preview ............................................................. 104
• Refresh Window ............................................... 104
• Realistic Preview .............................................. 104
• Realistic Preview Attribute Setting ................... 104
• Toolbar.............................................................. 105
• Status Bar ......................................................... 105
Option Menu ........................................................... 106
• Layout & Editing ............................................... 106
• Programmable Stitch Creator .......................... 106
• Design Page Property ...................................... 106
• Select System Unit ........................................... 107
Stage Menu ............................................................ 108
• To Original Image............................................. 108
• To Line Image................................................... 108
• To Figure Handle.............................................. 110
• To Sew Setting ................................................. 112
Help Menu............................................................... 113
• Contents............................................................ 113
• Customer support............................................. 113
• About Design Center........................................ 113
Layout & Editing
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The Screen.............................................................. 115
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Using the Tool Box................................................ 116
Selection Mode....................................................... 117
• Selecting patterns............................................. 117
• Selecting patterns 2.......................................... 117
• Moving patterns ................................................ 117
• Scaling patterns................................................ 118
• Flipping a pattern horizontally or vertically....... 118
• Rotating a pattern ............................................. 119
Point Edit Mode ...................................................... 120
• Moving points.................................................... 120
• Reorienting a tangent to a point....................... 121
• Inserting points ................................................. 121
• Deleting points.................................................. 122
• Realigning......................................................... 122
• Selecting characters on a text pattern ............. 123