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)
3. Select the file icon for the design to be
imported, and then click Import, or double-
click the file icon.
→ The embroidery design is displayed in the
Design Page.
4. Click in the upper-right corner of the
Import dialog box to close it.
■ From Design Library
1. Click to display the dialog box in
Design Library view mode.
2. From the Category selector, select a category
to display the corresponding embroidery data.
■ From a folder
1. Click to display the dialog box in
folder view mode.
2. Click .
→ The Browse for folder dialog box
appears.
3. Select a folder, and then click OK.
4. From the File Type box, select a file name
extension to display the corresponding
embroidery data.
■ From an embroidery card
1. Insert an embroidery card into the USB card
writer module.
c
Refer to “Transferring the design to an
original card” on page 17.
2. Click .
→
After the card has been read, the dialog box
appears in card view mode, and the
embroidery designs on the card are displayed.
b Memo:
• The design can be imported by dragging its
file icon from the
Import
dialog box to the
Design Page.
• Multiple files cannot be selected to be
imported at the same time.
a Note:
When importing designs from other vendors,
be sure to choose a design that will fit in the
Design Page.
Indicates the path to the currently selected folder.
b Memo:
Since .dst files do not contain thread color
information, the colors are temporarily
assigned when the design is imported into
Layout & Editing. Therefore, the colors of an
imported .dst file may not appear as expected.
You can change the thread colors using
functions in the
Sewing Order/Lock
dialog
box.
c
“Changing colors” on page 118.
a Note:
Due to copyright issues, some embroidery
cards cannot be used with this function.