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)
■ Color
Click this button to set the thread color for outlines,
inside regions, texts and manual punching patterns.
1. Click the Color button.
• Palette mode
• List mode
2. From the Thread Chart selector, select a
thread brand or your user thread chart.
3. From the list of thread colors, select the
desired color.
c
For details on specifying a user thread
chart or for information on how machines
handle thread colors, refer to “Editing user
thread color lists” on page 110.
c
For details on changing thread colors for
stitch patterns, refer to “Changing colors”
on page 118.
■ Special colors
• NOT DEFINED: Embroidery machines that
feature automatic thread color display will
automatically switch the display to the
specified color. If you are using such a
machine and if you want to be able to select
manually the color for a monochrome
pattern, you can select NOT DEFINED.
• Colors for creating appliqués: You can
create appliqués using the three special
colors shown in the above illustration.
APPLIQUE MATERIAL marks the outline
of the region to cut from the appliqué
material.
b Memo:
• To view the details about the thread colors,
click on
To List mode
button in the bottom
left corner of the
Thread Color
dialog.
• To view the colors without the details, click
on
To Palette mode
button in the bottom
left corner of the
Thread Color
dialog.
b Memo:
At the top of the
Thread Color
dialog box for
TrueType font character patterns and outline
data, you can select the type of stitching
(
Line
,
Region1
or
Region2
) whose color is
being selected.
Line:
Line color
Region1:
Region color
Region2:
Additional color for blending
(
Region 2
can only be selected if a gradation
with a blending effect is specified.)
c
“Creating a gradation/blending”
on page 115.
NOT
DEFINED
APPLIQUE MATERIAL
APPLIQUE
APPLIQUE
POSITION