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)
Preventing overlapping stitching
of regions (hole sewing)
By specifying hole sewing, the stitching in
overlapping regions will not be sewn twice. Hole
sewing can be set only when one region completely
encloses another.
1. Click on the Tool Box.
2. Click the region that completely encloses
another region.
3. Click OK to set hole sewing.
Applying stamps
Stamps created with Programmable Stitch Creator
can be applied to regions in the Sew Setting Stage
of Design Center. Some stamp patterns are
provided with this application; however, by using
Programmable Stitch Creator, you can edit the
patterns that are provided or you can create your
own.
Click to apply a stamp. To edit the applied
stamp, click .
Settings for stamps are specified in the same way
that they are in Layout & Editing.
c
“Applying and editing Stamps” on
page 114.
Checking and editing the
sewing order
The sewing order of pattern colors as well as the
sewing order of pattern objects of the same color can
be checked and modified as necessary.
1. Click , or click Sew, then Sewing Order.
2.
To change the sewing order of a color, select
the frame for the color, and then drag the frame
to the desired position.
→ A red line appears, indicating the position
where the frame is being moved.
b Memo:
To cancel hole sewing, click the white inner
region. The inner region will be sewn twice
when it appears in the same color as the outer
region.
b Memo:
• To select additional frames, hold down the
or key and select each
frame.
• The frames containing regions are
separated from the frames containing
outlines with a thick vertical line. Frames
from one side of the line cannot be moved
to the other side.
• To enlarge the pattern for better viewing,
click .
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