Quick Start Manual
Table Of Contents
- Contents
- Before Using
- Getting Started
- Introduction
- About this Chapter
- Using the Auto Punch Function
- Using Design Center
- Using Layout & Editing
- Step 1 Starting Layout & Editing
- Step 2 Importing Embroidery Patterns from Design Center
- Step 3 Zooming In and Out
- Step 4 Moving the Embroidery Pattern
- Step 5 Adding an Oval
- Step 6 Adjusting the Size and Location of the Oval
- Step 7 Adding Text
- Step 8 Fitting the Text around the Oval
- Step 9 Moving the Oval and Text
- Step 10 Adding a Circle for Drawing the Sun
- Step 11 Selecting a Programmable Fill Stitch
- Step 12 Adding Broken Lines for Drawing the Sun Rays
- Step 13 Changing the Sewing Order of Sun and Rays
- Step 14 Adjusting the Rays
- Step 15 Setting Hole Sewing
- Step 16 Previewing the Sewing Image
- Step 17 Transferring the Data to a Card
- Step 18 Saving the File
- Using Programmable Stitch Creator
- Creating data for the multi-position frame
- Design Center
- The Screen
- Using the Stage 2 Tool Box
- Using the Stage 3 Tool Box
- Using the Stage 4 Tool Box
- Using the Sewing Attributes Bar
- Using the Menu Bar and the Toolbar
- Layout & Editing
- The Screen
- Using the Tool Box
- Using the Sewing Attributes Bar
- Using the Menu Bar and the Toolbar
- File Menu
- Edit Menu
- Image Menu
- Input – from File
- Input – from TWAIN device
- Input – from Portrait
- Input – from Clipboard
- Output – to File
- Output – to Clipboard
- Select TWAIN device
- Modify
- Image to Stitch Wizard
- If Auto Punch is selected:
- If Photo Stitch 1 (Color) is selected:
- [Manual Color Selection]
- If Photo Stitch 1 (Mono) is selected:
- If Photo Stitch 2 (Color) is selected:
- If Photo Stitch 2 (Mono) is selected:
- If Cross Stitch is selected:
- Display Image – On/Faded/Off
- Text Menu
- Sew Menu
- Display Menu
- Option Menu
- Help Menu
- Programmable Stitch Creator
- Quick Reference
- Alphabetic Index
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Contents Before Using Getting Started Design Center Layout & Editing
Programmable
Stitch Creator
Quick Reference Alphabetic Index
Design Center is used to create individual patterns from image files created with other applications. You
can also apply stitch patterns created with Programmable Stitch Creator to regions of images displayed
in Design Center. The resulting embroidery pattern can then be imported into the Layout & Editing
Design Page and combined with other patterns.
The embroidery pattern is created in four stages:
◆ STAGE 1: Original image
You can open an image that you purchased from a commercial source, created using an application such
as Paintbrush or scanned from a printed source using a scanner and the appropriate software.
The image file must be in the uncompressed format, its file name extension must be bmp, tif, jpg, j2k, pcx,
wmf, png, eps, pcd, or fpx
.
Note that graphic files in other formats can be converted into the specified format if you have the proper
conversion software.
In Stage 1, the image is displayed with its original colors and you cannot modify it.
◆ STAGE 2: Line image
To move from Stage 1 to Stage 2, you select maximum 5 colors of the image data that will be converted
into black outlines. Unselected colors will be converted into white. You can then correct the black and
white image using pens and erasers of different thicknesses.
If you save the file in Stage 2, its file name extension will be PEL.
◆ STAGE 3: Figure handle image
When you move to Stage 3, the application automatically detects the outline of the black areas and
replaces it with a set of broken lines. The broken lines can be edited (you can move and delete points or
insert new points).
If you save the file in Stage 3, its file name extension will be PEM.
◆ STAGE 4: Sewing settings
You can set the stitch, thread color, etc. for the outlines and regions to complete the embroidery data
If you save the file in Stage 4, its file name extension will be PEM.
If you have to interrupt your work at stage 2, 3 and 4, save the file and retrieve it later to resume working.
Design Center
STAGE 1: Original image
STAGE 2: Line image
STAGE 3: Sewing settings
STAGE 4: Figure handle image