Owner's Manual
Table Of Contents
- PE-DESIGN8 Instruction Manual
- Turn Any Design Into Original Embroidery With PE-DESIGN
- What You Can Do With PE-DESIGN
- Sew Types
- Basic Operation Map
- New Features of Version 8
- Table of Contents
- How To Use Manuals
- Support/Service
- Tutorial
- Arranging Embroidery Designs (Layout & Editing)
- Layout & Editing Window
- Opening/Importing Embroidery Designs
- Checking Embroidery Patterns
- Editing Embroidery Designs
- Reshaping Embroidery Patterns
- Editing a Stitch Pattern
- Specifying the Design Page Size and Color
- Changing Application Settings
- Drawing Shapes
- Manually Creating Professional-Level Embroidery Patterns (Manual Punching)
- Adding Text
- Entering Monograms
- Applying Sewing Attributes to Lines and Regions
- Editing Regions
- Checking and Editing the Sewing Order/ Lock
- Importing Image Data
- Changing the Image Settings
- Automatically Converting an Image to an Embroidery Pattern (Image to Stitch Wizard)
- Saving and Printing
- Basic Design Center Operations
- Manually Creating Embroidery Patterns From Images (Design Center)
- About the Instruction Manual (PDF Format)
- Tutorial (Advanced)
- Managing Embroidery Design Files (Design Database)
- Design Database Window
- Starting Up Design Database
- Checking Embroidery Designs
- Opening Embroidery Designs
- Organizing Embroidery Designs
- Searching for an Embroidery Design
- Converting Embroidery Design Files to Different Formats
- Writing Embroidery Design Files to an Original Card
- Outputting a Catalog of Embroidery Designs
- Basic Programmable Stitch Creator Operations
- Creating Custom Stitch Patterns (Programmable Stitch Creator)
- Opening a Pattern File
- Creating a New Pattern
- Viewing the Pattern While Creating It
- Creating a Pattern in Fill/Stamp Mode
- Editing a Pattern in Fill/Stamp Mode
- Creating Embossing/Engraving Effects in Fill/Stamp Mode
- Creating a Pattern in Motif Mode
- Editing a Pattern in Motif Mode
- Saving Patterns
- Changing the Settings
- Basic Font Creator Operations
- Creating Custom Fonts (Font Creator)
- Tips and Techniques
- Menus/Tools
- Troubleshooting
- Index
8
Basic Operation Map
This package consists of five applications.
Create Embroidery Patterns Using All Four Applications
The main application (Layout & Editing) is supported by Design Center, Font Creator, Programmable Stitch
Creator and Design Database.
Data Management
Layout & Editing (
☞
p. 47)
Further Customization
Create embroidery patterns
Font Creator
(
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p. 217 in the Instruc-
tion Manual (PDF format)
)
Create custom font patterns
Custom fonts can be created
to be used in text. If symbols
and double-byte characters
are also registered, the font
can be used at any time.
• Automatically convert images to
embroidery designs
• Custom lettering
• Custom designs
• Digitize
Design
Database
(
☞
p. 187 in the Instruction
Manual (PDF format))
Manage design files
• Search for files
• Open files
• Organize files
• Convert files
• Write to cards
Design Center
(
☞
p. 145)
Manually create embroidery
patterns from image
With Design Center, extract
outlines from an image, edit
the shapes of lines and
regions, and then specify
sewing attributes and colors for
each part of the pattern.
Edit/combine embroidery patterns
Programmable
Stitch Creator
(
☞
p. 199 in the Instruction
Manual (PDF format)
)
Create custom stitch patterns
Create and edit fill/stamp stitch
patterns and motif stitch
patterns.
• Combine designs
• Adjust the position, size and shape
• Specify sewing attributes
• Apply stamp patterns
Write to original cards/Save to USB media
Embroider with the machine