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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Basic Design Center Operations
■ Importing into Layout & Editing
The embroidery pattern created in Design Center
can be imported into Layout & Editing, where it can
be edited and combined with other embroidery
patterns.
Click , or click Stage, then To Layout &
Editing.
→ Layout & Editing starts up.
Specify settings for Magnification and
Orientation.
The maximum magnification ratio that can be
specified is the ratio that enlarges the design
to the size of the Design Page. The minimum
magnification ratio is 25%.
Click Import.
→ The embroidery pattern created in Design
Center is imported into Layout & Editing.
a Note:
Sewing attributes for region cannot be
applied to open regions (regions not fully
enclosed in an outline), as shown in the
illustration below.
If attributes cannot be applied to a region,
return to the Figure Handle Stage and make
sure that region is closed. Edit any broken
lines with the Point Edit tool.
c
“Drawing a broken line” on
page 161.
b Memo:
From the
Sewing Attribute Setting
dialog
box, detailed settings for attributes, such as
the width of satin stitches and the run pitch,
can be specified.
c
“Specifying sewing attributes” on
page 165.
a Note:
If the sewing attributes of an outline or region
are not set, the embroidery pattern cannot
be imported.
b Memo:
An embroidery pattern (.pem data) created in
Design Center cannot be written to an original
card. Import the embroidery pattern into
Layout & Editing, and then write the data to a
card in order to transfer the pattern to an
embroidery machine.
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