User Guide

16 – BuzzEdit
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complete color break or just a portion of one. You can then
manipulate the element independently from the rest of the design.
BuzzEdit
™
's Stitches-in-Space tools allow you to move, resize,
mirror, rotate and stretch elements in any conceivable way. The
insert and move stitch tools allow you to insert and move individual
stitches. And of course, you can cut and paste elements to merge
parts of different designs together.
In addition, BuzzEdit
™
gives you layout capabilities for extra-large
designs. BuzzEdit
™
allows you to create extra large design areas for
jumbo designs comprised of more than one design file or design
section. These designs might fit into one of the supported
embroidery machine's multiple-position hoops or one of the
supported Giant Hoop-it-All
™
hoops, or the design may require
re-hooping the fabric by hand.
The powerful BuzzEdit
™
editing capabilities give you the ability to
split oversized designs to sew in your embroidery machine's hoop
area or to combine designs to create extensive embroidery scenes.
BuzzEdit
™
also includes a sew simulator that allows you to "see"
how your design will stitch at the sewing machine. This allows you to
see common design stitching problems, such as excess thread
jumps between design areas that would need to be cut by hand. If
desired, you can then use this information and the BuzzEdit
™
editing
capabilities to improve how your designs sew.
BuzzEdit
™
is not…
BuzzEdit
™
is not a digitizing program. It does not allow you to add
shapes or letters to your design. You must start with a stitch-based
design.
BuzzEdit
™
is not a smart resizing program. When you resize a
design or part of a design with BuzzEdit
™
, the number of stitches
does not change. Therefore, you can only safely resize a design by
about 10-20%.