Brother PE-DESIGN V7 - Manual (Page 131)

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Arranging Embroidery Designs (Layout & Editing)
Manually Creating Professional-Level
Embroidery Patterns (Manual Punching)
The Manual Punch tools are used to create patterns that look like manual embroidery. With manual punching,
you can create patterns with any sewing order, direction and orientation that you want.
Letters that you design yourself constitute a typical example of patterns that look better using manual punching
patterns. The illustrations below show two previews of the letter “O”.
The one shown below has been designed using two concentric ovals without a line sewing attribute, filling the
larger oval with the fill stitch, and turning off the region sewing attribute inside the small oval. The pair was then
set for hole sewing.
The letter shown below has been drawn using the Manual Punch tools. To do this, we duplicated the letter
shown above, removed the inside region, and created a manual punching pattern using the outlines of the
ovals as guides. The ovals were then deleted.
The stitch density for both letters was set to low in order to make it easier to see the difference between the
two patterns on the preview display.
When creating a manual punching pattern, it is easier to use an image in the background as a guide. In the
above example, we used two ovals that we removed after completing the manual punching pattern.
Fill stitch
(The stitching has a constant direction.)
Manual punching
(The direction of the stitching follows the curve.)