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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Menus/Tools
■ Text menu
■ Sew menu
Image to Stitch
Wizard
Gives step-by-step instruction for creating embroidery
pattern from image data.
p. 125
Display
Image
On
(100%)
Displays the template image (density: 100%).
F6
p. 123
75%
Displays a faded copy of the template image (density:
75%).
F6
50%
Displays a faded copy of the template image (density:
50%).
F6
25%
Displays a faded copy of the template image (density:
25%).
F6
Off Hides the template image.
F6
Menu Toolbar Purpose Shortcut key Reference
Edit Letters Allows you to edit entered text.
Ctrl + L p. 91
Text Attribute Setting Sets the text attributes of the text pattern.
Ctrl + K p. 83
Fit Text to Path
Setting
Fits a line of text along a path.
Ctrl + T p. 87
Release Text from
Path
Releases the text from the path.
Ctrl + Q p. 88
TrueType Font
Attribute Setting
Sets the attributes, such as the style, for TrueType
fonts that are converted to embroidery pattern.
p. 89
Convert to Outline
Object
Creates outline data from text pattern converted from
a TrueType font.
p. 89
Menu Toolbar Purpose Shortcut key Reference
Sewing Attribute
Setting
Sets the sewing attributes of the regions and the
outlines of a pattern.
Ctrl + W p. 96
Sewing Order/Lock
Allows you to check and change the sewing order of
pattern colors and individual patterns.
In addition, locks the embroidery pattern.
F10 p. 118
Set hole sewing
Sets a pair of patterns for hole sewing (to avoid
sewing twice at the same place when a pattern
encloses another one).
p. 75
Cancel hole sewing Cancels hole sewing.
p. 75
Remove Overlaps
Removes the overlapping area of the bottom
embroidery pattern when multiple embroidery
patterns are overlapped.
p. 75
Merge
Merges together multiple overlapped embroidery
patterns.
p. 76
Divide Stitches by
Color
Divides the stitch data according to the various colors.
p. 64
Stitch to Block
Converts stitch patterns into blocks (manual punching
data), allowing you to set sewing attributes and to
keep the stitching quality when scaling.
p. 63
Menu Toolbar Purpose Shortcut key Reference