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Creating and editing embroidery patterns – Brother PE-DESIGN Ver.6 User Manual

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Creating and Editing Embroidery Patterns

1.

In Design Center, click File on the menu bar,
and then click Open.

→ An Open dialog box similar to the one

shown below appears.

2.

Select Design Center PEM File (*.PEM) in
the Files of type box, the sample file
Flower.pem in the Data folder, and then click
Open.

b

Memo:

If the Preview check box is selected, the
contents of the selected file will appear in the
Preview box.

→ The embroidery pattern is displayed in the

Design Page of Design Center.

3.

Click Option on the menu bar, and then click
Layout & Editing to display the Layout &
Editing window.

4.

In Layout & Editing, click File on the menu bar,
point to Import, and then click from Design
Center
on the submenu.

An alternate method is to click the Toolbar
button indicated below.

→ The Import size dialog box appears.

5.

In the Magnification box, type or select 70%,

and then c

lick

Import

.

→ The embroidery pattern is imported into

the Design Page of Layout & Editing.

b

Memo:

• The dotted line and the handles that

appear around the embroidery pattern
show that the pattern is selected.

• The status bar shows the dimensions

(width and height) of the selected pattern.

Step 2

Adjusting the size and position
of the embroidery pattern

When you import a pattern from Design Center,
Layout & Editing puts the pattern at the center of
the Design Page. We are now going to change the
size of the imported pattern and move it to a
different location.

1.

Click

on the Tool Box.

→ The shape of the pointer changes to

.

a

Note:

Be sure to select a .pem file saved in stage
4 (Sew Setting stage).
You cannot import another file type from
Design Center.

from Design Center

Handles

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