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)
Arranging Embroidery Designs (Layout & Editing)
3. Specify the settings for creating the
embroidery pattern.
4. Click Next.
→ The Edit Cross Stitch dialog box appears.
5. If necessary, edit the stitches.
1) Selecting stitches to be added/deleted
(cross-stitches): Specifies a cross-
stitch inside a box.
(backstitches): Specifies a back stitch
inside ( or ) or on the edge (
or ) of a box.
2) Selecting the thread color to be specified
The currently selected color appears below
Color Option.
To change the color, click Change Color to
display the Thread Color dialog box, and
then click the desired color.
To select the color to be used for a stitch,
click , and then click the stitch to be
sewn with that color.
3) Clicking/dragging to add/delete stitches
♦ For cross-stitches
Clicking a box: Adds one stitch.
♦ For backstitches
Clicking an edge of a box: Adds one
stitch at the edge.
Clicking a diagonal line in a box: Adds
one stitch on the diagonal.
♦ For both cross-stitches and backstitches
Dragging the pointer: Adds consecutive
stitches.
Right-clicking/dragging with the right
mouse button held down: Deletes one
stitch/deletes consecutive stitches.
6. Under Cross Stitch Times and Backstitch
Times, specify the number of times each
stitch is sewn.
Select Single, Double or Triple.
7. After selecting the desired settings, click
Finish.
→ The cross stitch pattern is created and
displayed in the Design Page.
→ The image is automatically hidden.
b Memo:
Colors that are crossed out are set to not be
sewn.
Cross size
Sets the horizontal and vertical size of
the pattern.
Thread Chart
You can select the brand of thread to
use in the created cross stitch pattern. A
user thread chart can also be selected.
The best corresponding thread colors
from the selected thread chart will be
selected.
Max.
Number of
Colors
Sets the number of colors used in the
created pattern.
The embroidery pattern is created using
no more than the number of colors
specified.
To view the results of the changes, click
Retry.
a Note:
If
Previous
is clicked to return to the
previous dialog box after the stitches have
been edited, the edited stitches are reset to
their previous arrangement.
b Memo:
• To display the image enlarged (or reduced),
move the
ZOOM
slider up (or down).
• To display the template, click
Display
Template
.