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Personal Embroidery Design Software SystemVer.7 Instruction Manual
i Table of Contents How to Use This Manual ............................. 1 Screen configuration...................................... 1 Operation buttons .......................................... 1 How to use Support menus ........................... 1 How to use Menu areas/Main text areas ....... 2 Printing .......................................................... 3 How to use the Search function..................... 3 Displaying related Web pages ....................... 3 Features ....................................................... 4 What You Can Do With This Software .............. 4 Automatically Create an Embroidery Pattern From an Image .............................................. 4 Automatically Create an Embroidery Pattern From a Photo................................................. 4 Easily Create Custom Font Patterns ............. 5 Have Fun Creating Embroidery Patterns Manually ........................................................ 5 Create Embroidery Patterns Using All Four Applications ................................................... 6 Description of New Features...................... 7 Basic Operation Map .................................. 8 Support/Service........................................... 9 Online Registration ........................................... 9 Checking for the Latest Version of the Program ............................................................ 9 Starting up/Exiting Applications.............. 10 Starting up Layout & Editing ........................... 10 Starting up Design Center............................... 10 Starting up Font Creator ................................. 11 Starting up Programmable Stitch Creator ....... 11 Starting up Design Database .......................... 12 Exiting the Application..................................... 12 Understanding Windows and Using Tools........................................................... 13 Layout & Editing Window ................................ 13 Design Center Window ................................... 14 Font Creator Window ...................................... 15 Programmable Stitch Creator Window............ 16 Design Database Window............................... 17 Tutorial ....................................................... 18 Automatically Converting an Image to an Embroidery Design (Auto Punch Function)..... 18 Step1 Importing image data into Layout & Editing ........................................... 18 Step2 Automatically converting the image to an embroidery pattern .................. 19 Step3 Displaying a preview of the embroidery ................................. 20 Step4 Saving the embroidery design.......... 20Step5 Transferring the design to an original card ................................. 21 Automatically Converting an Image to an Embroidery Design (Cross Stitch Function) .... 22 Step1 Importing image data into Layout & Editing .......................................... 22 Step2 Automatically converting the image to an embroidery pattern (Cross Stitch function) ...................... 23 Step3 Displaying a preview of the embroidery ................................. 24 Step4 Saving the embroidery design .......... 25 Step5 Transferring the design to an original card ................................. 25 Automatically Converting a Photo to an Embroidery Pattern (Photo Stitch Function).... 27 Step1 Importing photo data into Layout & Editing .............................. 27 Step2 Automatically converting the image to an embroidery pattern .................. 28 Step3 Displaying a preview of the embroidery ................................. 30 Step4 Saving the embroidery design .......... 31 Step5 Transferring the design to an original card ...................................... 31 Manually Creating Embroidery Patterns From Images (Design Center)......................... 33 Step1 Opening an image file (Original Image Stage) .................... 33 Step2 Extracting the outlines by selecting colors ................................................ 34 Step3 Editing the outlines (Line Image Stage) ........................... 35 Step4 Specifying sewing attributes (Sew Setting Stage) ......................... 38 Step5 Displaying a preview of the embroidery ................................. 41 Step6 Saving the embroidery pattern ......... 42 Step7 Transferring the design to an original card ................................. 42 Arranging Embroidery Patterns (Layout & Editing)............................................ 45 Step1 Importing an embroidery pattern from Design Center ......................... 46 Step2 Adding text ....................................... 47 Step3 Drawing shapes................................ 51 Step4 Displaying a preview of the embroidery ................................. 58 Step5 Saving the embroidery design .......... 59 Step6 Transferring the design to an original card ................................. 59
ii Table of Contents Managing Embroidery designs (Design Database) .......................................... 61 Step1 Checking embroidery design files ... 61 Step2 Opening an embroidery design file in Layout & Editing ........................... 63 Case1 Printing a catalog of embroidery designs ............................................ 63 Case2 Searching for an embroidery design............................................... 64 Entering Monograms (Layout & Editing) ......... 66 Step1 Creating monograms ....................... 66 Step2 Changing the font and character size ................................................... 67 Step3 Changing the thread color and sew type .................................................. 68 Step4 Adjusting the size and position of the decorative pattern .................. 69 Step5 Saving the embroidery design.......... 70 Step6 Transferring the design to an original card...................................... 71 Creating Appliqués.......................................... 72 Step1 Creating an appliqué pattern ........... 72 Step2 Saving the design............................. 74 Step3 Transferring the design to an original card................................. 74 Automatically Converting an Image to an Embroidery Pattern (Layout & Editing/ Image to Stitch Wizard) ............................ 76 Importing Image Data ..................................... 76 Importing image/photo data ......................... 76 Importing image data from a scanner or digital camera .......................................... 76 Creating a portrait image ............................. 77 Importing image data from the Clipboard .... 78 Changing the Image Settings.......................... 79 Changing the display of the background image ........................................................... 79 Changing the size and position of the image ................................................. 79 Automatically Converting an Image to an Embroidery Pattern (Image to Stitch Wizard) ................................. 80 Automatically converting an image to an embroidery pattern (Auto Punch) ................ 81 Automatically converting a photo to an embroidery pattern (Photo Stitch 1/Photo Stitch 2) .................... 82 Automatically converting an image to a cross stitch pattern (Cross Stitch)......... 91 Arranging Embroidery Designs (Layout & Editing) ..................................... 94 Opening/Importing Embroidery Designs ......... 94 Creating a new embroidery design .............. 94 Opening a Layout & Editing file ................... 94 Importing embroidery design files................ 95 Importing embroidery designs from an embroidery card........................................... 97Importing embroidery designs from Design Center .......................................................... 98 Specifying the Design Page Size and Color ... 99 Saving the Image Data.................................. 100 Editing Embroidery Designs .......................... 101 Selecting patterns ...................................... 101 Moving patterns ......................................... 101 Scaling patterns ......................................... 103 Flipping patterns horizontally or vertically .. 104 Rotating patterns ....................................... 104 Grouping embroidery patterns ................... 105 Reshaping Embroidery Patterns ................... 106 Selecting points ......................................... 106 Moving points............................................. 106 Inserting points .......................................... 107 Deleting points ........................................... 108 Transforming straight lines into curves or curves into straight lines ........................ 108 Smoothing out the path at a point .............. 109 Symmetrically adjusting the control handles of a point ...................................... 109 Transforming to a pointed path .................. 110 Moving entry/exit points and the center point ........................................................... 110 Editing a Stitch Pattern.................................. 113 Converting objects to a stitch pattern ........ 113 Editing stitch points of stitch pattern .......... 113 Changing colors of a stitch pattern ............ 115 Converting a stitch pattern to blocks.......... 115 Splitting off parts of a stitch pattern ........... 116 Drawing Shapes ............................................ 118 About circles and arcs ............................... 118 Drawing a circle or an oval ........................ 118 Drawing an arc........................................... 118 Drawing a fan shape .................................. 119 Drawing an arc & string ............................. 120 Selecting the circle/arc type ....................... 120 Drawing a rectangle ................................... 121 Specifying the radius of the rectangle corners ....................................................... 121 Drawing various shapes ............................ 121 About straight lines and curves.................. 122 Drawing straight lines and curves .............. 123 Selecting the attributes of line ends ........... 124 Manually Creating Professional-Level Embroidery Patterns (Manual Punching) ...... 125 Adding Text ................................................... 127 Entering Text ............................................. 127 Selecting text attributes ............................. 128 Editing entered text .................................... 130 Selecting characters .................................. 131 Specifying text attributes............................ 132 Easy changes to the character size and attributes ............................................. 133 Specifying text arrangement ...................... 135 Transforming text ....................................... 137 Specifying TrueType text attributes ........... 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iii Table of Contents Converting text to outline pattern............... 138 Entering Small Text ................................... 139 Entering Monograms..................................... 140 Editing monograms.................................... 141 Applying and Editing Stamps ........................ 144 Applying a stamp ....................................... 144 Editing a stamp .......................................... 145 Applying Sewing Attributes to Lines and Regions ......................................................... 147 Setting the thread color and sew type ....... 148 Specifying sewing attributes ...................... 151 Creating a gradation .................................. 162 Editing User Thread Color Lists................. 162 Saving frequently used sewing attributes .. 165 Preventing overlapping stitching (hole sewing) ............................................. 166 Creating appliqués (Applique Wizard) ....... 167 Zooming ........................................................ 168 Zooming in ................................................. 168 Zooming out............................................... 168 Displaying at actual size ............................ 168 Displaying selected patterns to fill the window................................................. 168 Zooming Design Page to window .............. 168 Checking Embroidery Patterns ..................... 169 Measuring the distance between two points .................................................. 169 Specifying the sewing area........................ 169 Checking and editing the sewing order/color ................................................. 170 Displaying a preview of the embroidery..... 172 Checking the stitching ............................... 173 Checking embroidery design information .. 174 Viewing design in the reference window ... 175 Saving and Printing ....................................... 177 Saving........................................................ 177 Printing ...................................................... 180 Changing Software Settings ......................... 183 Changing the grid settings ......................... 183 Changing the measurement units.............. 183 Information for Optional Large-Size Hoop Users............................................................. 184 Creating design for multi-position hoops ... 184 Embroidering large-size embroidery design (custom size).................................. 189 Manually Creating Embroidery Patterns From Images (Design Center) ................ 193 Basic Operation Flow - Design Center.......... 193 Original Image Stage .................................... 194 Importing an image using the wizard ......... 194 Importing image data from a TWAIN device ........................................................ 195 Line Image Stage .......................................... 196 Extracting the outlines of an image ........... 196 Drawing a New line image freehand.......... 197 Drawing and erasing outlines .................... 198Figure Handle Stage ..................................... 199 Changing settings for converting to outlines .................................................. 199 Changing the display of the background image ......................................................... 200 Changing the size and position of the background image ..................................... 200 Specifying the Design Page size ............... 201 Drawing a New figure handle image freehand..................................................... 202 Editing outlines .......................................... 202 Reshaping outlines .................................... 205 Drawing a broken line ................................ 206 Viewing outlines in the Reference Window ...................................................... 207 Sew Setting Stage......................................... 209 Specifying the fabric color.......................... 209 Applying sewing attributes to lines and regions ................................................ 209 Using the Sewing Attributes bar ................ 213 Saving frequently used sewing attributes .. 226 Applying and editing stamps ...................... 228 Checking and editing the sewing order...... 230 Checking the stitching................................ 231 Displaying a preview of the embroidery ..... 231 Viewing embroidery patterns in the Reference Window .............................. 233 Saving embroidery patterns ....................... 234 Importing the embroidery pattern into Layout & Editing......................................... 235 Changing Software Settings ...................... 236 Creating Custom Fonts (Font Creator)........................................... 237 Starting up Font Creator................................ 237 Opening a File ............................................... 237 Creating a new font.................................... 237 Opening a font file...................................... 237 Opening an image in the background ........ 238 The Design Page guidelines ...................... 239 Selecting the Character To Be Created ........ 241 Creating a Font Character Pattern ................ 242 Editing Font Character Patterns .................... 244 Selecting patterns ...................................... 244 Moving patterns ......................................... 244 Scaling patterns ......................................... 245 Deleting patterns........................................ 245 Cutting out patterns ................................... 245 Copying patterns........................................ 245 Duplicating patterns ................................... 245 Pasting a cut or copied pattern .................. 245 Flipping patterns horizontally ..................... 246 Flipping patterns vertically ..................................................... 246 Rotating patterns ....................................... 246
iv Table of Contents Editing the Points of a Font Character Pattern .......................................................... 248 Moving points ............................................ 248 Inserting points .......................................... 248 Deleting points ........................................... 249 Editing points ............................................. 249 Checking the Created Font Patterns............. 250 Checking and editing the sewing order ..... 250 Previewing the embroidery pattern ............ 250 Checking the list of created characters ..... 251 Zooming ........................................................ 252 Zooming in ................................................. 252 Zooming out............................................... 252 Displaying selected patterns to fill the window................................................. 252 Zooming Design Page to window .............. 252 Saving Font Character Patterns.................... 253 Overwriting ................................................ 253 Saving with a new name............................ 253 Changing the Settings................................... 254 Changing the drawing mode...................... 254 Changing the display of the background image ......................................................... 254 Changing the grid settings ......................... 255 Creating Custom Stitch Patterns (Programmable Stitch Creator) .............. 256 Opening a Pattern File .................................. 256 Opening an image in the background........ 257 Creating a New Pattern................................. 258 Selecting the Type of Stitch Pattern To Be Created ........................................... 258 Viewing the Stitch Pattern While Creating It ..................................................... 260 Creating a Stitch Pattern for Region Sewing (Fill/Stamp Mode).......................................... 261 Editing a Stitch Pattern for Region Sewing (Fill/Stamp Mode).......................................... 262 Selecting patterns ...................................... 262 Moving patterns ......................................... 262 Scaling patterns ......................................... 262 Deleting patterns ....................................... 263 Cutting out patterns ................................... 263 Copying patterns ....................................... 263 Duplicating patterns ................................... 263 Pasting a cut or copied pattern .................. 263 Flipping patterns vertically ......................... 264 Flipping patterns horizontally ..................... 264 Rotating patterns ....................................... 264 Reshaping a Stitch Pattern for Region Sewing (Editing Points) ................................. 266 Moving points ............................................ 266 Inserting points .......................................... 266 Deleting points ........................................... 266 Specifying Region Sewing ............................ 268 Creating a Motif Stitch Pattern (Motif Mode) .................................................. 269Editing a Motif Stitch Pattern (Motif Mode).... 270 Moving and deleting several points at a time ..................................................... 270 Scaling patterns ......................................... 270 Flipping a pattern horizontally or vertically................................................. 271 Saving Stitch Patterns ................................... 272 Overwriting................................................. 272 Saving with a new name ............................ 272 Changing the Settings ................................... 273 Changing the display of the background image ......................................................... 273 Changing the grid settings ......................... 273 Managing Embroidery Design Files (Design Database) ................................... 274 Starting Up Design Database........................ 274 Organizing Embroidery Designs ................... 274 Creating new folders .................................. 274 Moving/copying files to a different folder ... 275 Changing file names .................................. 275 Deleting files .............................................. 275 Changing how files are displayed .............. 276 Opening Embroidery Designs ....................... 277 Opening files with Layout & Editing ........... 277 Importing files into Layout & Editing .......... 277 Checking Embroidery Designs ...................... 278 Previewing files .......................................... 278 Checking file information ........................... 278 Searching for an Embroidery Design ............ 280 Converting Embroidery Design Files to Different Formats ...................................... 282 Writing Embroidery Design Files to an Original Card ........................................ 284 Outputting a Catalog of Embroidery Designs ......................................................... 287 Printing....................................................... 287 Outputting as an HTML file ........................ 287 Outputting as a CSV file ............................ 288 Tutorial (Advanced) ................................. 289 Automatically Converting a Photo to an Embroidery Pattern (Photo Stitch Function).. 289 Step1 Importing photo data into Layout & Editing ............................ 289 Step2 Automatically converting the image to an embroidery pattern ................ 290 Step3 Setting up the Color Option ............ 292 Step4 Displaying a preview of the embroidery ........................... 293 Step5 Saving the embroidery design ........ 294 Step6 Transferring the design to an original card ........................... 294
v Table of Contents Manually Creating Custom Font (Font Creator) ............................................... 296 Step1 Preparing a background image ..... 296 Step2 Opening a background image ........ 296 Step3 Creating a font character pattern ... 298 Step4 Creating other font character patterns .......................................... 301 Step5 Creating an embroidery pattern using the created font characters ... 305 Creating Custom Stitch Patterns (Programmable Stitch Creator) ..................... 307 Step1 Opening a programmable stitch pattern ........................................... 307 Step2 [Case 1] Drawing lines to edit the stitch pattern............................. 308 Step2 [Case 2] Creating patterns (embossing/engraving) for region sewing (Fill/Stamp mode)............... 309 Step2 [Case 3] Reshaping a single line to create custom stitch patterns (Motif mode) ................................... 311 Step3 Saving the edited stitch pattern ...... 312 Creating Large-Size Embroidery Designs..... 313 Step1 Specifying the Design Page size in Layout & Editing ........................ 313 Step2 Creating the embroidery design ..... 314 Step3 Checking the embroidering order ... 314 Step4 Saving the design........................... 315 Step5 Transferring the design to an original card........................... 316 Tips and Techniques .............................. 317 Sew Types .................................................... 317 Enlarging/Reducing Embroidery Patterns ..... 319 Sewing Direction ........................................... 319 Sewing Order ................................................ 319 Sewing Wide Areas....................................... 319 Tips for Importing Images for Design Center .......................................... 320 Removing Sections of Stitch Pattern (by Using the Split Stitch tool) ....................... 321 Creating Beautiful Photo Embroidery............ 321 Fonts Suitable for Embroidering ................... 322 Creating Outlined Characters (Using Text Converted to Outline Object) ..... 323 Converting Characters (Japanese, Chinese, Korean, etc) to Embroidery Patterns............. 324 Menus/Tools ............................................ 325 Layout & Editing ............................................ 325 List of Tool Box Buttons............................. 325 List of Menus ............................................. 326 Design Center ............................................... 335 List of Tool Box Buttons............................. 335 List of Menus ............................................. 338 Font Creator .................................................. 343List of Tool Box Buttons ............................. 343 List of Menus ............................................. 343 Programmable Stitch Creator........................ 347 List of Tool Box Buttons ............................. 347 List of Menus ............................................. 348 Design Database........................................... 351 List of Menus ............................................. 351 Troubleshooting ...................................... 354
1 How to Use This Manual Screen configuration This manual consists of four elements, A (Operation buttons), B (Support menus), C (Menu area), and D (Main text area). To change the size of the text, click Text Size on the View menu. Operation buttons You can switch the screen, print text, etc. by clicking the appropriate button. Displays the Instruction Manual top screen. Returns the display to the screen displayed immediately before. After you have gone back to a previous page, this displays again the page you came back from. Prints the text page being displayed. (For details, see page 3.) You can search the terms and parts of terms (text strings) in the Instruction Manual text. (For details, see page 3.) How to use Support menus You can check information about this instruction manual and applications by clicking the appropriate button. You can view explanations of the screen display for this manual and the operation methods. You can view an introduction to the features of the software. You can view information on the new functions available in version 7 and the changes to functions from version 6. You can view diagrams of the relationships among the software applications and the flow of operations. A B C D
2 How to Use This Manual You can check the software support service information and support pages on the Web. Displays a site map for this manual. How to use Menu areas/ Main text areas Menu area operations Here, select the item you want to read. You can open a title in the menu area that has to its left side by clicking that title. The mark to the left of the title changes to . To close an opened title, click it again. A title with no levels under it has no triangular mark. If you click such a title, the page for that text area is displayed. To scroll to titles not currently on the screen, click and . How to view Text areas 1. Shows applications related to the explanatory text being displayed. 2.Clicking displays the previous page; clicking displays the next page. 3.If you click 3, the display jumps to that page. 4.If you click 4, the page is displayed from its start. To scroll to text not currently on the screen, click and on the right edge. bMemo: Accessing support pages requires an environment in which you can connect to the Internet. You can not access these pages offline. 1 2 3 2 4
3 How to Use This Manual Printing Printing this manual requires a printer. Some printers can not print illustrations and screen samples completely. Printing the contents of explanation screens 1. Display the page to print. 2.Click . 3.Check the printer etc., then click Print. How to use the Search function 1.Input the character string you want to search for in the text box. You cannot search for multiple lines of text at one time. 2.Click . The title of the page in which the search string is found and part of the text are displayed in the main text area. 3.Click the title of the page you want to view. The corresponding explanation screen is displayed. To return to the search results screen, click . Displaying related Web pages 1.Displays the Brother global homepage. bMemo: To print as displayed on the screen, set up printing to include background pictures. Use the procedure below for your operating system to set up printing. For Windows XP Click Start-Control Panel-Internet Options. Click Advanced. Click Print background colors and images to put a check mark in the box, then click Apply, then click OK. For Windows 2000 Click Start-Settings-Control Panel-Internet Options. Click Advanced. Click Print background colors and images to put a check mark in the box. Click Apply, then, click OK. bMemo: To print part of the page being displayed, select the part you want to print (display it inverted), then click and in the Print dialog box, select Selection. bMemo: Accessing Web pages requires an environment in which you can connect to the Internet. You can not access these pages offline. 1
4 Features What You Can Do With This Software This software provides digitizing and editing capabilities, allowing you the creative freedom to design original embroidery. Easily turn illustrations, photos and lettering into custom embroidery designs. Automatically Create an Embroidery Pattern From an Image cFor more details, refer to “Automatically Converting an Image to an Embroidery Design (Auto Punch Function)” on page 18. Automatically Create an Embroidery Pattern From a Photo cFor more details, refer to “Automatically Converting a Photo to an Embroidery Pattern (Photo Stitch Function)” on page 27 and page 289 (Advanced).