Brother PE-DESIGN 8 - Manual (Page 66)

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Arranging Embroidery Designs (Layout & Editing)
Splitting off parts of a stitch
pattern
1.
Click on the Tool Box.
2.
Click the stitch data.
→ All other stitch data disappear from the
display.
3.
Click in the Design Page at the point where
you want to start drawing the enclosing lines.
4.
Continue clicking in the Design Page to
specify each corner of the enclosure around
the area to be cut off.
→ The dotted line that is drawn when you
move the pointer changes to a solid line
when the next point is specified.
5.
Double-click in the Design Page to specify the
section to be split off.
6.
Edit the cutoff section as desired.
Dividing stitch data by
color
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Dividing stitch data by color
Stitch data can be divided according to the various
colors.
1.
Select the one or more stitch data.
2.
Click Sew, then Divide Stitches by Color.
→ Dotted lines appear around each part of
the stitch data.
b
Memo:
This tool is available only for stitch data.
a
Note:
Patterns created with the drawing or Text
tools of Layout & Editing need to be
converted into stitches before they can be
cut with the Split stitch tool.
c
“Converting objects to a stitch
pattern” on page 62.
b
Memo:
• To remove the last point that was entered,
click the right mouse button. Each
successive right-click removes points, one
by one, in the opposite order that they were
entered. Once all points are deleted, the
Tool Box buttons are available again,
however, the application remains in Split
stitch mode.
• An enclosure is valid only if it contains stitch
data. If it contains no stitch data, an error
message appears, and the enclosure is
erased, but the application remains in Split
stitch mode.
a
Note:
• Only one cutoff section can be specified
from the pattern at one time. Repeat the
procedure for each piece of the pattern
that you want to cut off.
• The cutoff piece moves to the end of the
sewing order and the thread color order
appears in the order selected for the
original pattern.
b
Memo:
This function is not available if data other than
stitch data is selected or if grouped
embroidery data containing data other than
stitch data is selected.
Before dividing
After dividing