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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Manually Creating Embroidery Patterns From Images (Design Center)
■ Line sewing
1. Click or on the Tool Box.
2. If necessary, change the color and sew type.
c
“Using the sewing attributes bar” on
page 164.
3. Click the outline to apply the sewing attributes.
→ “Marching lines” appears along the
selected outline, and the color and sew
type selected on the Sewing Attributes
bar are applied to the outline.
Using the sewing attributes
bar
The Sewing Attributes bar, available in the Sew
Setting Stage, allows you to set the color and sew
type of region and outlines.
The sewing attributes that are available depend on
the tool selected in the Tool Box.
Example 1: When on the Tool Box is selected
Example 2: When or on the Tool Box is
selected
b Memo:
• Although a region may seem closed, if the
sewing attributes cannot be specified for the
region, the region may not actually be
closed. To find the opening in the region,
use the line drawing mode in the Figure
Handle Stage to divide the region into
smaller regions, and then check which
region sewing attributes cannot be applied
to in the Sew Setting Stage.
• Point edit mode is useful for closing regions.
• After sewing attributes have been specified,
right-clicking an area where settings have
been specified displays the
Sewing
Attribute Setting
dialog box so that
detailed sewing attribute settings can be
viewed.
b Memo:
• When on the Tool Box is selected,
settings are applied only to a portion of the
clicked outline.
• After sewing attributes have been specified,
right-clicking a line where settings have
been specified displays the
Sewing
Attribute Setting
dialog box so that
detailed sewing attribute settings can be
viewed.
Region sew: Switches on/off
sewing for the region.
Line sew: Switches on/off
sewing for the line.
Region color, Line color:
Click this button to set the
thread color for lines or regions.
Region sew type, Line sew
type:
Use these selectors to set
the sew type for lines or regions.