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
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Arranging Embroidery Designs (Layout & Editing)
Direction
Specify the sewing direction course.
This cannot be specified for text and manual punching
patterns.
Constant: Sews at a fixed angle.
Drag or select a value to specify the angle.
Constant
Variable:Automatically varies the sewing direction
according to the shape of the region.
Variable
Half
Stitch
To specify half stitching, select the check box.
If one side of the zigzag stitching is dense, half stitches
will be sewn automatically to provide a more even stitch
density.
This cannot be specified if the sewing direction is set to
Constant.
Off On
Running
Stitch
Path
Specify the running path of the inside region.
Inside of region (shortest route inside the shape)
Along outline (shortest route along the inside of
the shape outline)
On outline (shortest route on the outline of the
shape)
The inside of region setting is not available if the
Gradation check box is selected.
This cannot be specified under the following conditions.
• The sewing direction is set to Variable.
• Text and manual punching patterns
Inside of region
Along outline
On outline
Pull
compen-
sation
Lengthen the sewing region in the sewing direction to
adjust for pattern shrinkage during sewing.
No compensation
Longest
compensation
b Memo:
“Manually Creating Professional-Level Embroidery Patterns (Manual Punching)” on page 77.
The inside stitching is
dense.
The stitching is adjusted
to a more even density.