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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About the Instruction Manual (PDF Format)
For details on Design Database, Programmable Stitch Creator and Font Creator, refer to the Instruction
Manual (PDF format).
For a better understanding of the PE-DESIGN operations, an advanced tutorial, tips and techniques, and lists
of menus/tools for each application are provided in the Instruction Manual (PDF format). In addition, this
manual contains a troubleshooting section. Refer to this section if you have any problems while using this
software.
Contents of the Instruction Manual (PDF format)
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
Basic Programmable Stitch Creator
Operations ............................................... 199
Creating Custom Stitch Patterns
(Programmable Stitch Creator) .............. 205
Basic Font Creator Operations .............. 217
Creating Custom Fonts
(Font Creator) .......................................... 225
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 ......................................262