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)
Specifying the Design Page Size and Color
The color and size of the Design Page in addition to the color of the background can be changed. You can
select a Design Page size according to the size of hoop that you will be using with your embroidery machine.
You can also specify a custom size for the Design Page for embroidery patterns that will be split and
embroidered in multiple sections.
1. Click Option, then Design Page Property.
2. Select the Design Page size.
To adjust the Design Page size according to
the hoop size, select Hoop Size, and then
select the desired hoop size from the selector.
To specify a custom Design Page size, select
Custom Size, and then type or select the
desired width and height for the Design Page.
c
“Creating Split Embroidery Designs” on
page 176 in the Instruction Manual (PDF
format).
3. From the Page selector, select the desired
color for the Design Page.
4. From the Background selector, select the
desired color for the background.
5. Click OK.
b Memo:
To arrange the pattern in a Design Page
rotated 90 degrees, select the
Rotate 90
Degrees
check box.
b Memo:
To return to the default settings (
100
×
100
mm
(
4”
×
4”
) of
Hoop Size
), click
Default
.
a Note:
• The Design Page sizes
130
×
300 mm
,
100
×
172 mm
indicated by the “*”, are
used to embroider multi-position designs
using a special embroidery hoop attached
to the embroidery machine at three
installation positions.
c
“Creating Design for Multi-
Position Hoops” on page 182 in
the Instruction Manual (PDF
format).
• Do not select a hoop size larger than the
embroidery hoop that can be used with
your machine.










