User Guide

Copyright © 2000 Buzz Tools
®
, Inc. | Introduction – 15
Introduction to BuzzEdit
™
Congratulations on your purchase of BuzzEdit
™
. BuzzEdit
™
allows
you to easily edit the stitch-based designs in your embroidery design
collection, doing anything from simple color changes to more
complicated operations with a new ease you have come to expect
from Buzz Tools
®
programs.
About BuzzEdit
™
BuzzEdit
™
is…
BuzzEdit
™
is a full-featured stitch editor. It works like a text editor in
that you read in a file, make changes to it and save out the file. Of
course, BuzzEdit
™
works on embroidery design files rather than text
files. BuzzEdit
™
can read and write most stitch-based home
embroidery file formats. See Appendix B | Supported File Types &
Hoops on page 163 for a list.
" Note: BuzzEdit
™
saves only stitch data – not object data.
When a design containing both objects and stitches is saved in
BuzzEdit
™
, the object data is lost. For example, if you draw a
circle in Layout & Editing (part of Brother
®
's P.E. Design) and
save it, the PES file will contain both an object definition for
the circle and the circle's stitches. Now you edit the PES file
with BuzzEdit
™
and then read the file back into Layout &
Editing. You will see the stitches of the circle, but you will no
longer be able to modify object properties of the circle such as
fill style or line width.
You can make simple changes, such as modifying design colors or
resizing and rotating designs. But that's just the beginning. The
patent pending Stitches-in-Time

display of BuzzEdit
™
shows your
design as it is stitched out over time. It makes it easy to select
different elements of your design, whether the element comprises a