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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Table of Contents
Instruction Manual (Advanced)
Tutorial (Advanced)................................. 171
Entering Monograms .....................................171
Creating Appliqués ........................................174
Creating Split Embroidery Designs................176
Creating Design for Multi-Position Hoops......182
Managing Embroidery Design Files
(Design Database) ................................... 187
Design Database Window .............................187
Starting Up Design Database ........................187
Checking Embroidery Designs ......................188
Opening Embroidery Designs........................189
Organizing Embroidery Designs....................190
Searching for an Embroidery Design.............192
Converting Embroidery Design Files to
Different Formats...........................................193
Writing Embroidery Design Files to
an Original Card ............................................194
Outputting a Catalog of Embroidery
Designs..........................................................196
Basic Programmable Stitch Creator
Operations ............................................... 199
Programmable Stitch Creator Window ..........199
Creating Fill/Stamp Stitch Pattern .................199
Creating Motif Stitch Pattern..........................203
Creating Custom Stitch Patterns
(Programmable Stitch Creator) .............. 205
Opening a Pattern File...................................206
Creating a New Pattern .................................207
Viewing the Pattern While Creating It............208
Creating a Pattern in Fill/Stamp Mode...........208
Editing a Pattern in Fill/Stamp Mode .............209
Creating Embossing/Engraving Effects
in Fill/Stamp Mode.........................................211
Creating a Pattern in Motif Mode...................212
Editing a Pattern in Motif Mode .....................213
Saving Patterns .............................................214
Changing the Settings ...................................215
Basic Font Creator Operations .............. 217
Font Creator Window.....................................217
Manually Creating Custom Font ....................219
Creating Custom Fonts (Font Creator)..225
Opening a File .............................................. 225
Selecting a Character and Preparing the
Template....................................................... 226
Creating a Font Character Pattern................ 229
Editing Font Character Patterns ................... 230
Editing the Points of a Font Character
Pattern .......................................................... 231
Checking the Created Font Patterns ............ 232
Saving Font Character Patterns ................... 234
Changing the Settings .................................. 235
Tips and Techniques ...............................237
Enlarging/Reducing Stitch Patterns .............. 237
Sewing Direction........................................... 237
Sewing Order................................................ 237
Sewing Wide Areas ...................................... 238
Jump Stitch and Jump Stitch Trimming ........ 238
Fonts Suitable for Embroidering ................... 239
Creating Outlined Characters
(Using Text Converted to Outline Object)..... 240
Converting Characters (Japanese, Chinese,
Korean, etc) to Embroidery Patterns ............ 241
Menus/Tools.............................................243
Layout & Editing............................................ 243
Design Center ............................................... 249
Design Database .......................................... 254
Programmable Stitch Creator ....................... 256
Font Creator.................................................. 259
Troubleshooting ......................................263
Index .........................................................265