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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New Features of Version 8
■ Stitch Generation Features
● A motif pattern can be applied to the stippling stitch.
● The underlay stitching function has been improved.
- New underlay stitching patterns have been added to the settings available for region sewing of text
and manual punching patterns.
- The density for underlay stitching of regions can be set to Dense, Medium or Light.
■ Editing Functions and User Interface
Layout & Editing
● The Remove Overlaps and Merge commands have been added for editing shapes.
- Remove Overlaps: The overlapping regions of the shapes are removed.
- Merge: The overlapping regions of the shapes are merged.
● Designs can be created that combine embroidery with an image used in the background.
Print the image on the fabric by using an iron-on transfer sheet or printable fabric, and then embroider
on this fabric. The positioning sheet allows you to easily align the embroidering position.
● Rulers have been added at the top and left side of the Design Page. Measurement units when checking
sizes and positions can be switched between millimeters and inches.
● Multiple files can be opened. Data can be copied and pasted between files.
● The Sewing Attribute Setting dialog box, Thread Color dialog box, and Text Attribute Setting dialog
box are in a combined dialog box, which is easier to use.
● The functions in the Import dialog box for importing embroidery designs have been improved.
● The functions in the Sewing Order/Lock dialog box have been improved.
- Embroidery patterns can be locked (no changes, such as moving, enlarging/reducing or editing, can
be performed).
- The sewing attribute of the objects in each color can be changed.
● The functions in the Image to Stitch Wizard have been improved.
- Sepia modes have been added to the Photo Stitch and Cross Stitch functions.
- A feature has been added to convert regions to lines when automatically converting to an embroidery
pattern with the Auto Punch function.
- Single cross-stitches and backstitches can be edited when automatically converting an image to an
embroidery pattern with the Cross Stitch function.
● The image can be rotated in 90° increments.
● Tools for drawing lines freehand have been added.
● Arranged text on an arc can be selected from transform text pattern.
● Stitch data can be divided by color.