Brother PE-DESIGN Ver.432 - Manual (Page 7)

Bef
ore Using
Design Center
La
y
out & Editing
File Utility
Programmable
Stich Creator
Contents
Quik Ref
erence
Alphabetic Inde
x
Getting Star
ted
Line Drawing Mode ................................................... 63
• Drawing a broken line ......................................... 63
Zoom-in Mode ........................................................... 63
Fit Design Page to Window ...................................... 64
Zoom-out Mode......................................................... 64
Enlarging Selected Outlines to the Screen Size ...... 64
■
Using the Stage 4 Tool Box ................................... 65
Region Setting Mode ................................................ 65
• Applying the sewing attributes to a region ......... 65
• Checking the sewing attributes of a region ........ 66
Line (all) Setting Mode .............................................. 66
• Applying the sewing attributes to an outline....... 66
• Checking the sewing attributes of an outline ..... 67
Line (part) Setting Mode ........................................... 68
• Applying the sewing attributes to a portion of the outline . 68
• Checking the sewing attributes of a portion of an outline 68
Hole Sewing Mode.................................................... 69
Zoom-in Mode ........................................................... 70
Fit Design Page to Window ...................................... 70
Zoom-out Mode......................................................... 70
■ Using the Sewing Attributes Bar........................... 71
Setting the Thread Color and Stitch ......................... 71
• Region sew.......................................................... 71
• Line sew ............................................................. 72
• Color ................................................................... 73
• Stitch ................................................................... 73
■ Using the Menu Bar and the Toolbar ................... 74
File Menu................................................................... 74
• New...................................................................... 75
• Open.................................................................... 75
• Save..................................................................... 76
• Save As ............................................................... 76
• Import Figure ....................................................... 77
• Exit....................................................................... 78
Edit Menu .................................................................. 79
• Undo .................................................................... 79
• Redo .................................................................... 79
• Cut ....................................................................... 79
• Copy .................................................................... 80
• Duplicate.............................................................. 80
• Paste.................................................................... 80
• Delete .................................................................. 80
• Mirror – Horizontal............................................... 81
• Mirror – Vertical ................................................... 81
• Rotate .................................................................. 82
• Numerical Setting-Size ....................................... 82
• Numerical Setting-Rotate.................................... 83
• Select All.............................................................. 84
Sew Menu ................................................................. 85
• Sewing Attributes ................................................ 85
• Sewing Order ...................................................... 88
Display Menu............................................................. 90
• Grid Setup ........................................................... 90
• Preview................................................................ 91
• Refresh Window ................................................. 91
• Realistic Preview ................................................ 91
• Realistic Preview Attribute Setting ..................... 91
• Toolbar................................................................ 92
• Status Bar ........................................................... 92
Option Menu ............................................................. 93
• Layout & Editing ................................................. 93
• Programmable Stitch Creator ............................ 93
• File Utility............................................................. 93
• Design Page Property ........................................ 93
• Select System Unit ............................................. 94
Stage Menu .............................................................. 95
• To Original Image ............................................... 95
• To Line Image..................................................... 95
• To Figure Handle................................................ 97
• To Sew Setting ................................................... 98
Help Menu................................................................. 99
• Contents.............................................................. 99
• Using................................................................. 100
• About Design Center........................................ 100
Layout & Editing
■
The Screen.............................................................. 101
■
Using the Tool Box................................................ 102
Selection Mode....................................................... 103
• Selecting patterns............................................. 103
• Selecting patterns 2.......................................... 103
• Moving patterns ................................................ 103
• Scaling patterns................................................ 104
• Flipping a pattern horizontally or vertically....... 104
• Rotating a pattern ............................................. 105
Point Edit Mode ...................................................... 106
• Moving points.................................................... 106
• Reorienting a tangent to a point....................... 107
• Inserting points ................................................. 107
• Deleting points .................................................. 108
• Realigning......................................................... 108
• Selecting characters on a text pattern ............. 109
Zoom Mode............................................................. 109
• Zooming in ........................................................ 110
• Zooming out...................................................... 110
• Zooming to the real size................................... 110
• Enlarging selected objects to the screen size.... 110
• Return to the standard scale............................ 110
Text Input Mode...................................................... 111
• Entering text...................................................... 111
Circle and Arc Drawing Mode ................................ 112
• Drawing a circle or an ellipse ........................... 113
• Drawing an arc ................................................. 113
• Drawing a fan shape ........................................ 114
• Drawing an arc & string.................................... 114
Rectangle Drawing Mode....................................... 115