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
Menus/Tools
■ Display menu
Convert to Stitches Converts a shape pattern to a stitch pattern.
p. 62
Applique Wizard
Provides step-by-step instructions for easily creating
appliqués.
p. 137
Select Sewing Area Sets the sewing area.
p. 140
Optimize hoop
change
Optimizes the sewing order of patterns in a Design
Page for multi-position embroidery frames (100 × 172
mm or 130 × 300 mm).
p. 183
Optimize Entry/
Exit points
Optimizes the positions of the entry points and the exit
points for the embroidery pattern.
p. 60
Menu Toolbar Purpose Shortcut key Reference
Grid Setup Controls the display and characteristics of the grid.
p. 69
Preview
Specifies whether the patterns appear as stitches or
in the normal view.
F9 p. 65
Realistic Preview
Displays a realistic image of how either selected patterns
or all patterns will look after being embroidered.
Shift + F9 p. 65
Realistic Preview
Attribute Setting
Sets the preview attributes for the Realistic Preview
function.
p. 65
Refresh Window Updates the screen.
Ctrl + R
Stitch Simulator Displays a simulation of the machine stitching.
p. 66
Reference Window Hides/displays the Reference Window.
F11 p. 66
Ruler Hides/displays the rulers.
p. 69
Toolb ar Hides/displays the Toolbar.
p. 47
Status Bar Hides/displays the status bar.
Menu Toolbar Purpose Shortcut key Reference