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)
Writing Embroidery Design Files to an
Original Card
Selected files can be written to original cards. The
embroidery patterns written to original cards can
then be transferred to an embroidery machine and
sewn.
1. Insert an original card into the USB card writer
module.
Files other than .phc files can be written.
c
“Transferring the design to an original
card” on page 17.
2. Click .
→ The Card writing box appears.
3. From the Hoop size selector, select the
appropriate size of embroidery hoop.
4. Click , and then select the folder
where the desired design file is saved.
→ All embroidery files in the selected folder
are displayed in the contents pane.
5. In the contents pane, select the embroidery
file.
6. Click or right-click the file, and then
click Add to Writing List.
→ The selected file is added to the writing
list.
b Memo:
• To hide the card writing box, click
Contents pane
(Available patterns)
Writing list
(Selected patterns)
a Note:
Do not select a hoop size larger than the
embroidery hoop that can be used with your
embroidery machine. Otherwise, the created
original card will not work correctly with the
embroidery machine.
b Memo:
A file can also be added to the writing list by
selecting it in the contents pane, then
dragging it to the writing list.
a Note:
If the pattern in the selected embroidery file
is larger than the hoop size selected in step
3 or the number of stitches or number of
colors for the pattern exceeds the maximum
for the hoop selected in step 3, that file
cannot be added to the writing list.
Only the embroidery designs displayed in
the writing list will be written to the original
card.










