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)
Manually Creating Embroidery Patterns From Images (Design Center)
■ Region sew / Line sew
switches on/off region sewing; switches
on/off line sewing.
1. Clicking the button switches between the two
settings. Click the button to switch on or off
sewing.
On: The Region color/Line color button and
the Region sew type/Line sew type selector
are displayed.
2. Click the region or outline where the sewing
attributes are to be applied.
If region sewing or line sewing has been
switched on, the regions or lines appear in the
selected thread color. If it has been switched
off, the regions appear in white or the outlines
appear as dotted lines.
■ Color
Click this button to set the thread color for lines or
regions.
1. Click the Color button.
2. From the Thread Chart selector, select a
thread color chart or a user thread chart.
3. From the list of thread colors, click the desired
color.
→ The new color is displayed on the Region
color button or Line color button.
4. Click the region or outline to apply the color
setting.
■ Sew type
Use these selectors to set the sew type for lines or
regions.
1. Click in a sew type selector.
2. Click the desired sew type.
3. Click the region or outline to apply the sew
type setting.
■ Specifying sewing attributes
Various sewing attributes for lines and regions can
be set in the Sewing Attribute Setting dialog box.
Toolbar button:
1. Click .
b Memo:
When line sewing or region sewing is
switched off, the lines or regions are not sewn.
Region sew
Region color
Region sew type
Line sew
Line color
Line sew type
b Memo:
For details on the four buttons under the list,
refer to “Special colors” on page 95.
b Memo:
The region sew attributes appear in the
Sewing Attribute Setting
dialog box when
on the Tool Box is selected. The line
sew attributes appear in the
Sewing Attribute
Setting
dialog box when or on the
Tool Box is selected.
Line sew type
Region sew type
Line sew type
Region sew type










