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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Arranging Embroidery Designs (Layout & Editing)
Arranging Embroidery Designs (Layout & Editing)
Layout & Editing Window
1 Toolbar
Provides shortcuts for the menu commands.
2 Sewing Attributes bar
Sets the sewing attributes (color and sew type)
of lines and regions in the pattern.
3 Tool Box
Used to create, select and edit patterns.
4 Reference Window
Displays all patterns in the work area, giving you
an overview while you work on a detailed area.
c
“Viewing design in the reference window”
on page 66.
5 Design Page
The actual part of the work area that can be
saved and sewn.
6 Work area
7 Thread colors, sewing attributes and text
attributes
This dialog box combines tabs for specifying
thread colors, sewing attributes and text
attributes. Click a tab to display the parameters.
Opening/Importing Embroidery Designs
Creating a new embroidery
design
Toolbar button:
1. Click , or click File, then New.
→ A new Design Page appears.
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3
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4
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b Memo:
The default value for the design page size in
this example is 100 ×100 mm (4 × 4 inches).
b Memo:
• To display this dialog box, click or ,
or select the menu command
Sew
-
Sewing
Attribute Setting
or
Text
-
Text Attribute
Setting
.
To close this dialog box, click .
• When the application is first started, this
combined dialog box is attached at the right
side of the window. This dialog box can be
moved by dragging it or double-clicking its
title bar (bar at the top of the dialog box). To
return the dialog box to its original attached
position, drag it to the right side of the
window or double-click its title bar.
b Memo:
Multiple files can be opened in Layout & Editing. In addition, data can be copied and pasted between files that
are open at the same time.
b Memo:
The size of the Design Page can be changed.
c
“Specifying the Design Page Size
and Color” on page 68.










