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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Managing Embroidery Design Files (Design Database)
Checking Embroidery Designs
Previewing files
A preview of the embroidery design can be
displayed.
Toolbar button:
1. In the folder pane, select the folder containing
the embroidery design that you want to
preview.
2. In the contents pane, select the embroidery
design.
3. Click , or click Display, then Preview.
Checking file information
Sewing information such as the file name, size,
stitch count, sewing time, color count and
modification date can be checked in the Property
dialog box. With .pes file, additional information
about the embroidery design can be viewed.
Toolbar button:
1. In the contents pane, select the embroidery
design corresponding to the information that
you want to view.
2. Click , or click Display, then Property.
→ If the Design Page was set to Custom
Size or Hoop Size is multi-position hoop
(100 x 172 mm, 130 x 300 mm), a
Property dialog box similar to the one
shown below appears.
b Memo:
Files in the .pen format cannot be previewed.
a Note:
• The displayed sewing time is an estimate.
The actual sewing time depends on the
machine model used and the specified
settings.
• The sewing time is not displayed with .pen
files.
b Memo:
• The red box in the dialog box shows the
position of the displayed pattern section.
• To display information for other hoop
positions, click or .
Non-PES files and
PES files
(version 3.0 or earlier)
PES files
(version 4.0 or later)