Brother PE-Design 8, Instruction Manual

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Tutorial (Advanced)
Creating Design for Multi-Position Hoops
This program enables you to create multi-position design that you can stitch in any multi-position hoop
attached to your embroidery machine.
Although the size of the design that can be embroidered using an multi-position hoop is 130
×
180 mm (or 100
×
100 mm, depending on the sewing area of the embroidery machine), first determine which of the three
installation positions (indicated as a, b, and c in the illustration above) the multi-position hoop will be installed
at and determine the orientation of the design.
When creating the design, each design section can only be as large as the sewing area of the embroidery
machine.
The sample file for this tutorial can be found at the following location.
Documents(My Documents)\PE-DESIGN 8\Tutorial\Tutorial_10
Step 1 Selecting the Design Page
size
In Layout & Editing, click Option , then Design
Page Property .
→
The Design Page Property dialog box
appears.
Select Hoop Size , and then choose a Design
Page size of 130
×
300 mm, or 100
×
172 mm,
from the selector.
a
b
c
a
b
c
ABC
Example of multi-position hoop: 100
×
172 mm hoop
Step 1 Selecting the Design Page size
Step 2 Creating the design
Step 3 Optimizing hoop changes
Step 4 Checking the pattern
1
b
Memo:
• Settings for multi-position hoops are
indicated by “ ”.
• Choose the appropriate setting after
checking the size of the hoop available for
your machine.
a
Note:
Multi-position hoop settings are not available
in the
Design Page Property dialog box of
Design Center.
2