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)
2. Click in the Design Page to specify the next
point.
3. Continue clicking to specify every point, and
then double-click the last point, or press the
key.
■ Freehand lines
1. Drag the pointer to draw the line.
2. Release the mouse button to finish drawing.
Changing the attributes of
line ends
The attribute of the ends of lines drawn with the
Outline tool can be changed.
1. Select an object drawn with an Outline tool.
c
“Selecting patterns” on page 52.
→ The Path shape selector appears in the
Sewing Attributes bar.
2. From the selector, select the desired attribute
of the line ends.
→ The line changes to the selected line end
attribute.
b Memo:
To remove the last point that was entered,
click the right mouse button, or press the
key.
BackSpace
Enter
b Memo:
• You can freely switch between the different
line types either by clicking a different
button or by pressing the shortcut key.
• When drawing a straight line, hold down the
key while moving the pointer to draw
vertically or horizontally.
• A template image is needed in order to draw
using the Semi-Automatic tool. If there is no
image, this tool will draw like the Straight
Line tool.
c
“Importing Image Data” on
page 120.
• Even after the pattern is drawn, you can
transform straight lines into curves and vice
versa.
c
“Transforming straight lines into
curves or curves into straight
lines” on page 58.
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