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Contents
Introduction 1 Security device 2 Installing the software 2 Resources & support 3 Software upgrades 5 Getting Started 6 First things first 7 Sew a ready-made design 9 Modify an entire design 10 Create a simple lettering design 12 Create an embroidery monogram 12 Create auto embroidery 13 Next steps 14 Happy embroidery! 16 BERNINA Embroidery Software Quick Reference 17 Embroidery Canvas toolbars 17 Embroidery Canvas toolbox 23 Multi-Hooping toolbar 29
BERNINA® Embroidery Software : Quick Start Guide i Introduction
IntroductionChapter 1
Welcome to BERNINA® Embroidery Software, the leading embroidery design application for home users. This is an MS Windows®-based product incorporating many of the conventions with which most PC users are already familiar. BERNINA Embroidery Software is unique in providing seamless integration with CorelDRAW® Essentials X6 by the Corel Corporation, the most popular vector-based drawing package for home users. This combination offers a more efficient, user-friendly approach to embroidery design by combining the embroidery capabilities of BERNINA Embroidery Software with graphical capabilities of CorelDRAW®. It also allows users to create not just embroidery, but true, multi-medium designs.
Note CorelDRAW® Essentials X6 and its sister product, Corel PHOTO-PAINT® Essentials X6 can also be run as standalone applications. For a full description of the tools, refer to the electronic User Guide available via the Windows Start > Programs group. Alternatively, use the onscreen help available from the Graphics mode Help menu.
BERNINA® Embroidery Software : Quick Start Guide 1 First-time users system can be uniquely recognized. If you are new to BERNINA Embroidery Software, you’ll The dongle is the most valuable part of your system and be pleased with its flexible digitizing capabilities, the ease should be treated with care. Always store it in a safe with which you can create and edit designs, and how place when not in use. The dongle is guaranteed against simple it is to add or create your own lettering. However, defects in material and workmanship, under normal use before you begin working with the product, please read and service when properly installed, for a period of 12 Getting Started. months from the date of delivery. However, in case of loss Update users or theft, you will need to purchase an entire BERNINA BERNINA Embroidery Software is an enhanced version of Embroidery Software replacement system. For this our earlier products. It has many new and expanded reason, you should consider insuring your dongle. features. Please read the Release Notes available from the Help menu to quickly familiarize yourself with the scope Installing the software of these improvements. The installation procedure lets you choose: Security device where the software and sample designs will be installed on your PC or network BERNINA Embroidery which components will be installed – e.g. additional Software is protected by a languages, BERNINA Portfolio, etc. dongle security device. If which documentation files will be installed. this is not detected when If you are updating your software, do not uninstall the you attempt to launch the current version. Let the installation procedure do this for application, the system you. will not run. Each dongle has a serial number and To install the software identity code so your USB Dongle Close any other applications open on your computer.
BERNINA® Embroidery Software : Quick Start Guide 2 Disable the Firewall and anti-virus software to ensure MS Windows® desktop and in the Start > Programs software and drivers install correctly. group. Insert the installation disk into your DVD drive and Open BERNINA Embroidery Software. follow the prompts. Any changes that you may have made to your old You will be prompted to attach your dongle. BERNINA Quilter fabric library will now be merged If you have an update kit, you will be prompted to with the latest installation. The installation also attach your old dongle as well. merges any user-defined patterns or motifs.
Resources & support
BERNINA Embroidery Software provides various ways to access information about the software and how to use it. It also provides links to sources of ready-made embroidery designs.
If your PC already contains one or more older versions of BERNINA Embroidery Software: Access onscreen documentation You are prompted to choose a version to merge with. The older version will be merged with the new when the PC reboots. Access BERNINA and ® OESD embroidery CorelDRAW Essentials X6 is installed as part of the design studios normal installation. You are given the option to restart with the new installation. Shortcut icons are placed on the Order and install upgrades
BERNINA® Embroidery Software : Quick Start Guide 3 Onscreen documentation and step-by-step instructions. An
BERNINA® Embroidery Software : Quick Start Guide 4 Software upgrades dongle is at BERNINA EditorPlus level, the website will offer an upgrade to BERNINA DesignerPlus. You may upgrade your BERNINA Embroidery Software directly via the Help menu as shown above. When Caution If browser security is set too ‘high’, you may be referring to your system in correspondence or by unable to download software updates. If you experience telephone, you need to quote your Dongle Number. this problem, try setting browser security to ‘medium’. You may also need to quote the Serial Number and Identity Code. This information is found on the dongle itself.
The information can also be found on Security Device Options dialog accessed via the Settings menu. Online upgrades are accessed via the Purchase Upgrades on the Internet command in the Help menu. The website offers you a choice of upgrade relevant to the current level of your dongle. If your
BERNINA® Embroidery Software : Quick Start Guide 5 Getting Started
GettingChapter 2 Started
If you are new to BERNINA Embroidery Software or machine embroidery, you are probably asking yourself ‘where do I start?!’. It’s safe to say that you will spend many hours, both rewarding and at times frustrating, learning how to get the most out of your BERNINA machine and the design software which supports it. The two work together hand-in-hand and it takes practice and patience to master both the creation and production of fine embroidery. The results, however, will speak for themselves, making the time you invest all the more valuable. With each project you complete, you will gain in experience and confidence and be ready to tackle the next challenge.
BERNINA® Embroidery Software : Quick Start Guide 6 First things first exploring these designs and getting to know what’s available. You don’t need any experience to start with BERNINA Embroidery Software. You can simply open a design and send it to your machine to ‘stitch out’. And this is the best place to start. As you gain experience, you will be able to ‘read’ designs and identify which are good and which may cause problems. Sample designs & artwork BERNINA Embroidery Software contains hundreds of ready-to-stitch designs, including many attractive ornaments, samples and digitizing backdrops. Design files (ART files) and images (BMP, JPG, and WMF files) can be found in your My Designs - Embroidery Software 7 folder. The most valuable thing you can do when starting out as a new user, is to spend some time
Note BERNINA Embroidery Software includes its own BERNINA Portfolio design management application to view and manage your embroidery designs. Alternatively, explore design folders using MS Windows® Explorer. Other sources There are many other sources of ready-made embroidery designs which you can purchase and adapt as you wish.
BERNINA® Embroidery Software : Quick Start Guide 7 Your BERNINA Embroidery Software directs you to two Make sure you get familiar with the many clipart rich sources – BERNINA and OESD embroidery design samples. Many can be adapted for use with embroidery studios. design, either as digitizing backdrops or direct conversion.
Access BERNINA and OESD embroidery design studios
Clipart CorelDRAW® Essentials X6 is packaged with a selection of clipart which can be accessed via the program group. It may be more convenient to take a copy of the entire CorelDRAW® Essentials X6 Clipart folder and copy it to Access CorelDRAW® My Designs - Embroidery Software 7 folder for easy clipart folders reference.
BERNINA® Embroidery Software : Quick Start Guide 8 your machine manual for advice and get as much advice from other embroiderers as you can. Caution Included artwork (clipart) and embroidery designs are only available for personal use – i.e. they cannot be commercially sold in any form. Sew a ready-made design
Rules of good embroidery For many embroiderers, it is enough to take an existing Keep the following points in mind when looking at design and stitch it out. This is certainly where most will embroidery designs, both your own and others: start. Once you have found a design you like, you will Stitches are neat, smooth and even want to preview it and see how it sews out. A number of Design looks good – shapes, colors, balance steps are involved. We outline the main ones here. Shapes are filled with correct fill and outline stitches Stitches are angled to match shapes To sew out a design Open the design in BERNINA Embroidery Software. Shapes are stitched correctly – no unwanted gaps Details are clearly defined Send design to machine Lettering is clear and easy to read. Open design directly or via data media The stitchout should also have the following characteristics:
The design sews efficiently on the machine Preview design The fabric does not pucker around stitched areas before stitching The design is free of loose ends. Good embroidery quality starts with good design. You then need a good quality machine to stitch it out. But even that is not enough if you do not use the correct fabric, threads, backings, tension, and so on. Consult
BERNINA® Embroidery Software : Quick Start Guide 9 Adjust viewing settings as desired. Send the design to machine directly or via data media (usually memory stick). Adjust design Check your BERNINA machine documentation for view settings steps involved after transferring the design to machine. Adjust zoom factor Check the fabric type and change as necessary via the Modify an entire design Design > Fabric Settings menu command. Once you are used to the steps involved in sewing out Stitch count File type designs – either clipart or ones you have purchased – you will soon want to make global design modifications such as resizing, or changing thread colors and fabric types. Current fabric These are all relatively simple operations.
Press Shift+R to preview the stitchout so you To modify an entire design understand how the design will sew on the machine. Open the design you want to use and click to select.
Set stitch range to redraw section of design Check dimensions and resize
Adjust display options Run simulation
BERNINA® Embroidery Software : Quick Start Guide 10 Check design dimensions and resize as necessary. Turn on the hoop. Right-click to select the required For example, if you are stitching a left chest design, size. maximum size will be approximately 4.25" or 108 Use the Design > Background menu command to mm square. visualize the design on a garment or article. Adjust design thread colors as desired. Select and apply Cycle through color current color combinations
Change threads
Send the design to machine directly or via data media (usually memory stick). Check the fabric type and change as necessary via the Design > Fabric Settings menu command. Create a simple lettering design
Once you are used to sewing out designs and resizing, changing colors and fabric types, you will definitely want Turn on hoop to create your own lettering designs. While it takes
BERNINA® Embroidery Software : Quick Start Guide 11 practice to obtain a good quality lettering stitchout, it is Right-click the tool to change current settings. It’s a as simple as typing letters on-screen to create an simple matter to adjust baselines, formatting, attractive design in BERNINA Embroidery Software. spacing settings, and colors.
To create a simple lettering design Open a design. Typically you’ll want to add lettering to an existing design. Add embroidery lettering to designs directly on-screen.
Adjust lettering baseline, formatting, etc
Try stitching out your lettering design. Study the Add embroidery stitch quality. Be aware that different alphabets sew lettering out better at different sizes.
Create an embroidery monogram
BERNINA Embroidery Software makes the creation of monogramming designs quite simple with the ‘all-in-one’ Monogramming tool located under the
BERNINA® Embroidery Software : Quick Start Guide 12 Lettering tool. Optionally include lettering, ornaments, Create auto embroidery and/or up to four concentric borders in your monograms. If you have graduated this far in your exploration of your Borders stitched BERNINA machine and BERNINA Embroidery Software, first – 1, 2, 3, etc you are doing well. You can already achieve a great deal without having to actually do your own design or Ornaments stitched next digitizing work. However, if you have graduated this far, that is probably exactly what you want to do! One of the quickest ways to get started is to use the automated techniques BERNINA Embroidery Software provides. While there are limitations to what can be done this way, it nevertheless allows you to prototype design Lettering ideas relatively simply and may be sufficient for your stitched last purposes. At least for now! Vector artwork conversion Use tabs of Special conversion tools in BERNINA Embroidery Monogramming dialog to Software automatically convert vector objects and text to specify settings for lettering, ornaments, and borders
BERNINA® Embroidery Software : Quick Start Guide 13 embroidery or lettering objects. These can be modified as shapes in artwork and makes decisions about the most required. suitable stitch types to use.
Use this function to convert between artwork and embroidery
Use Magic Wand and Auto Digitizer to recognize shapes in artwork and convert to embroidery
Tip A good starting point is to use some of the many clipart samples packaged with CorelDRAW®. Many of Tip Remember to study the sample designs included these can be adapted for use in embroidery design. with your BERNINA Embroidery Software installation. Try sewing out in order to understand better the techniques Bitmap artwork conversion involved as well as the limitations. The Magic Wand tool provides everything necessary to digitize shapes in bitmap images automatically. An Next steps extension of this technology, Auto Digitizer recognizes If you have reached this point, you have already mastered 90% of the techniques that most embroiderers need.
BERNINA® Embroidery Software : Quick Start Guide 14 However, coming to grips with the ‘black art’ of manual offers. Many of them you will be familiar with, having digitizing is the next step in becoming an embroidery already adapted existing designs for different purposes. master. But you don’t have to dive off the deep end. You can start with quite simple projects and work your way up to more complicated designs with more complicated stitch effects. Refer to the Reference Manual or the many online resources.
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3 Some of the many techniques supported by BERNINA Embroidery Software include: Freehand embroidery Patterned stamps, runs & fills Special embroidery features Craft stitch borders & fills Once you have mastered manual digitizing, you are in a Appliqué position to take advantage of the full range of stitch Cross stitching types and effects that BERNINA Embroidery Software Buttonholing Multi-decoration
BERNINA® Embroidery Software : Quick Start Guide 15 Quilting Raised embroidery Refer to the Reference Manual or the many online resources.
Happy embroidery!
Do good work with your BERNINA machine and BERNINA Embroidery Software. With this equipment you have everything you need to create top quality, fully professional embroidery. The only thing you lack is the capacity to mass produce! Remember to make good use of the packaged designs and clipart. When in doubt, go back to first principles. And when you find you want to expand and extend your repertoire, study the sample designs carefully to see how it’s done. All the best. And have fun!
BERNINA® Embroidery Software : Quick Start Guide 16 BERNINA Embroidery Software Quick Reference
BERNINA Embroidery Software Quick Reference
BERNINA Embroidery Software integrates with Digitize and edit embroidery designs. CorelDRAW® Essentials X6 into a single application. This Embroidery Display embroidery as well as Quick Reference details commands and tools available in Canvas artwork. View designs realistically in the Embroidery Canvas and Hoop Canvas. Not all 3D simulation. options described here are relevant to all product levels. View and edit multi-hoopings. If See also Product Feature List in the Reference Manual. Hoop embroidery is too large or contains Canvas multiple designs spaced around an article, split into multiple hoopings. Embroidery Canvas toolbars Show Show or hide any embroidery Embroidery components. The Embroidery Canvas workspace contains the toolbars described below. Not all tools are relevant to all Convert Embroidery to Artwork: levels of product. Convert selected embroidery objects to vector artwork. Canvas toolbar Convert Artwork to Embroidery: There are three operating modes in BERNINA Embroidery Convert selected vector or bitmap Software accessible via the Canvas toolbar. artwork to fill or outline stitches.
Import, edit or create vector artwork Artwork as a backdrop for embroidery Canvas digitizing, manual or automatic. Note For a full description of the CorelDRAW® Essentials X6 tools, refer to the electronic User Guide available via the Windows Start > Programs
BERNINA® Embroidery Software : Quick Start Guide 17 group. Alternatively, use the onscreen help available from the Graphics mode Help menu. Copy Same as Edit > Copy. General toolbar This toolbar includes tools for opening and outputting Paste Same as Edit > Paste. designs, accessing design properties, and opening and closing docker windows. Undo Same as Edit > Undo.
New Open new blank design. Redo Same as Edit > Redo.
Open Open an existing design. Insert Same as File > Insert Embroidery. Embroidery
Save Save current design. Insert Same as File > Insert Artwork. Artwork Print active design using current Print settings. Application Access ancillary applications – Launcher Portfolio, Cross Stitch, and Quilter.
View design worksheet. Print Access properties of selected Print Preview Object worksheet from this window. embroidery objects or preset with Properties nothing selected. Write (save) design to BERNINA Write to Card design card or BERNINA embroidery Apply stitch effects to selected / Machine machine. Effects embroidery objects or preset with nothing selected. Cut Same as Edit > Cut. Access workspace options such as Options grid, hoop, and scroll settings.
BERNINA® Embroidery Software : Quick Start Guide 18 View toolbar Change measurement units within This toolbar brings together tools for design visualization. software without changing operating system settings. See also Viewing Designs in the Reference Manual.
Show or hide Overview Window Overview Show Artistic Show or hide simulation of stitched docker. Use to zoom and pan Window View embroidery. thumbnail of current design. Show or hide Color Film docker. Use it Dim backdrops to show stitches more Dim Artwork Color Film to resequence objects and color blocks clearly when digitizing. in the design. Show Show or hide Carving Stamp docker. Show or hide embroidery stitching. Carving Use preset or custom patterns to Stitches Stamp create a pattern of needle penetrations. Show Needle Show or hide the needle points in Points embroidery stitching. Show or hide Morphing Effect docker. Morphing Create transformed object outlines and Effect Show Show or hide connecting stitches stitches. Connectors between embroidery objects. Show or hide StumpWork Border StumpWork docker. Use in conjunction with Show Bitmap Show or hide any bitmap artwork Border StumpWork toolbox. Artwork included in the design.
Show or hide any vector artwork Show Vector included in the design such as Artwork CorelDRAW® clipart.
Show Show or hide any stumpwork StumpWork sub-designs included in the design.
BERNINA® Embroidery Software : Quick Start Guide 19 Show Show or hide background fabric / color Current Shows the currently selected palette Appliqué of any appliqué objects in the design. Color color. Fabric Cycle Used Cycle through combinations of used Show or hide hoop. Right-click for Show Hoop Colors colors. Right- or left-click. settings. Access Color Wheel to test Show or hide workspace grid. Color Wheel Show Grid combinations of related colors. Right-click for settings. Thread Search for and match threads from Show Rulers Show or hide workspace rulers and Colors different charts, and assign for use. & Guides guides. Right-click for settings.
Simulate embroidery design stitchout Stitch toolbar Slow Redraw onscreen in either stitch or artistic view. This toolbar provides a range of basic outline and fill stitch types as well as those of a more artistic or decorative kind. It also includes stitch effects which can Color palette be additionally applied. Left-click icons to select stitch This toolbar displays a palette of thread colors together type. Right-click to access properties. See also Outline & with tools for selecting, applying, and cycling through Fill Stitches in the Reference Manual. colors. See also Thread Colors & Charts in the Reference Manual. Outlines
Pick up a color from an existing object Create a single row of stitches along Color Picker and make it current. Single Outline a digitized outline – used for borders or details. Apply Apply the currently selected palette Current Create a thicker outline by repeating color to embroidery objects. Color Triple Outline each stitch three times – use for heavier borders or details.
BERNINA® Embroidery Software : Quick Start Guide 20 Create traditional backstitch borders Backstitch – old, adaptable stitch type used for Satin Fill Create stitch fills for narrow shapes. Outline delicate outlines. Create raised surfaces – can be Raised Satin Stemstitch Create traditional stemstitch borders applied to lettering or used with Fill Outline or details such as stems and vines. trapunto for quilting effects.
Create thicker borders or columns of Create artistic fills while keeping the Satin Outline Fancy Fill even thickness. appearance of solid stitching.
Create raised satin borders – can be Raised Satin Sculptured Create 3D pattern effects with used with trapunto for quilting Outline Fancy Fill turning fills. effects.
Create long, narrow borders with a Create spiral stitching from the Blanket Outline Ripple Fill ‘comb’ effect. center of any filled object.
Create ornamental craftstitch Create stitching which follows object Blackwork borders. Name derives from black Contour Fill contours, creating a curved, Outline silk thread traditionally used in this light-and-shade effect. form of embroidery. Create fill for blackwork designs. Create ornamental craftstitch Name derives from black silk thread Candlewicking Blackwork Fill borders. Specify exact pattern size traditionally used in this form of Outline and spacing. embroidery. Create candlewicking fills – Pattern Run Create ornamental craftstitch Candlewicking traditional white-on-white Outline borders. Choose from pattern library. Fill embroidery usually done with heavy cotton thread on white linen. Fills Create a lacey look with open Lacework Fill Create stitch fills for larger, irregular trellis-like patterns. Step Fill shapes.
BERNINA® Embroidery Software : Quick Start Guide 21 Transform toolbar Create decorative fill stitching. Pattern Fill Choose from pattern library. This toolbar contains all the tools you need to select, reshape, scale, and mirror embroidery designs in Create open patterned fills with Embroidery Canvas mode. See also Arranging & Cross Stitch Fill crosses generated to suit standard Transforming Objects in the Reference Manual. grid for entire design.
Create fills made up of run stitches Stipple Run Fill Select Click to select objects or drag a which meander within a border. Object selection marquee to enclose.
Stipple Create heavier stipple run fills with Polygon Select irregular areas or shapes – click Stemstitch Fill stemstitch outlines. Select reference points to demarcate.
Stipple Create heavier stipple run fills with Reshape Reshape selected embroidery and Backstitch Fill backstitch outlines. Object lettering objects. Effects Scale Up Increase/reduce size of selected Strengthen and stabilize objects with Auto Underlay object/s in 20% increments. Stitches underlay stitching. are automatically recalculated. Scale Down Create rough edges and shading Textured Edge effects, or imitate fluffy textures. Mirror Horizontal Create radial turning stitching with Flip selected object/s in horizontal or available stitch types. Stitches are Star Fill vertical planes. generated from outside to geometric Mirror center. Center can be shifted. Vertical Create contoured stitches along a Wave Fill digitized guideline – stitching maintains uniform density.
BERNINA® Embroidery Software : Quick Start Guide 22 menu. See also Zooming & panning in the Reference Rotate Left Manual. Rotate selected objects in 45° increments to right or left. Left-click to zoom in, right-click to Rotate Right Zoom zoom out, or drag a ‘zoom box’. Shortcut also available. Rotate selected objects by specified amount – positive or negative – in degrees.
Skew selected objects by specified amount – positive or negative – in Zoom Factor: select a preset zoom degrees. scale from the droplist or key in your own zoom scale and press Enter. Enter specific settings for precise positioning of selected objects. Use in conjunction with Rulers & Guides.
Drag to pan across the design at Pan high zoom factors. Shortcut
also available. Scale objects or whole designs by a precise width or height, or a percentage factor. Use Aspect Ratio Embroidery Canvas toolbox lock to maintain proportions. The Embroidery Canvas workspace contains a Zoom toolbar Toolbox permanently docked on the left of the This toolbar includes tools for zooming and panning workspace. The Toolbox contains a series of droplists designs. Other zoom presets are available via the View containing ‘toolsets’ organized as follows.
BERNINA® Embroidery Software : Quick Start Guide 23 Edit toolset Create Use in conjunction with raised satin to This toolset contains all tools you need to edit Trapunto create stitching for a raised ‘quilted’ embroidery designs in Embroidery Canvas mode. Outlines look. Split monograms, appliqué, lettering, Break Apart and blackwork runs into component Add Holes Cut holes in filled objects. objects for editing.
Remove Remove unwanted stitching underlying Remove Remove holes from selected objects. Overlaps objects or lettering. Holes Remove Add stitch angles to closed objects with Remove unwanted stitching from Add Stitch Appliqué or without holes. Right-click for underlaying appliqué objects. Angles Overlaps settings. Remove Place the stitch cursor at a selected Remove stitch angles from closed Stitch Edit Stitch insertion point. objects with turning stitches. Angles
Reinforce outlines, stitching it in the Auto-Digitize toolset Double Run opposite direction. This toolset contains all tools required for auto-digitizing artwork in Embroidery Canvas mode. See also Blackwork Automatically sequence selected Automatic Digitizing in the Reference Manual. Run outlines for efficient stitchout.
Color Create blended stitching in selected Auto Automatically digitize prepared bitmap Blending objects. Digitizer artwork.
Fill holes in selected objects with Automatically digitize filled areas in Fill Holes Magic Wand current stitch type. vector or bitmap artwork.
Outline Automatically outline selected objects Turn grayscale or color photographs PhotoSnap Design with Single, Triple or Satin Line. into embroidery.
BERNINA® Embroidery Software : Quick Start Guide 24 Digitize toolset Create personalized monograms using Monogram- This toolset contains all tools required for manually a selection of pre-defined styles, ming digitizing embroidery designs in Embroidery Canvas border shapes and ornaments. mode. Right-click to access properties. See also Digitizing Digitize closed-object appliqué with all Appliqué Methods in the Reference Manual. necessary stitching.
Advanced Generate open-object appliqué from Open Object Digitize open embroidery objects. Appliqué one or more source objects.
Digitize a single buttonhole with all Closed Buttonhole Digitize closed embroidery objects. necessary stitching. Object Digitize a line of buttonholes with all Open Draw embroidery outlines onscreen in Buttonholes necessary stitching. Freehand the current stitch type. Digitize PunchWork designs for use Draw closed embroidery objects Closed PunchWork with the BERNINA Rotary Hook Punch onscreen in the current stitch type – Freehand tool. outline or fill. Pattern Place individual patterns in the design. Block Digitize columns with turning stitches. Stamp Choose from pattern library.
Digitize ellipse or circle embroidery Ellipse objects.
Digitize rectangle or square Rectangle embroidery objects. Press
Create embroidery lettering directly on Lettering screen.
BERNINA® Embroidery Software : Quick Start Guide 25 Freehand Setting toolbar See also Stumpwork embroidery in the Reference When Freehand tools are activated, the Freehand Manual. Settings toolbar appears. Create Generate stumpwork border from StumpWork Use the Smoothing control to specify, as selected objects. a percentage, how closely the Border smoothed outline follows the original. Digitize Open Digitize an open stumpwork border Use Show Guide to toggle freehand StumpWork using digitized outline and current digitizing guide cursor – provides more Border settings. control over ‘freehand’ drawing than the Digitize Closed Digitize a closed stumpwork border default pointer. StumpWork using digitized outline and current Use the Guide Inner Circle Radius control to Border settings. define size of center circle of freehand Cut Closed Cut a closed stumpwork border to digitizing guide. StumpWork leave an opening – e.g. for wire Use the Number of Guide Circles control to Border ends. set number of circles in the freehand cursor – if the inner circle radius is 2mm, each Digitize Create a wireline using a digitized additional guide circle is offset by 2mm. Wireline outline and current settings. Create stumpwork sub-design from Create StumpWork toolset selected objects which include Stumpwork embroidery within a stumpwork The StumpWork toolset is available from the Toolbox. Sub-design It contains all the tools necessary to digitize stumpwork border. from scratch or create stumpwork from existing objects. Open View and edit selected stumpwork StumpWork sub-design. Sub-design Save Save stumpwork sub-design as a Stumpwork separate design file. Sub-design As
BERNINA® Embroidery Software : Quick Start Guide 26 Mirror-Merge toolset Arrange toolset This toolset contains all tools required to duplicate and This toolset contains all tools you need to precisely align, transform selected embroidery objects in vertical and distribute and mirror objects in Embroidery Canvas horizontal planes. See also Mirroring objects in the mode. See also Arranging & Transforming Objects in the Reference Manual. Reference Manual.
Duplicate & mirror horizontally and Mirror-Merge Combine multiple objects into one merge overlapping objects Group Horizontal selectable object grouping. (optional). Duplicate & mirror vertically and Split object grouping into component Mirror-Merge Ungroup merge overlapping objects objects. Vertical (optional). Lock selected object/s into position for Mirror-Merge Lock Duplicate & mirror selected objects protection. Horizontal / around a center point. Vertical Unlock all locked object/s to remove Unlock All Duplicate selected objects around protection. Wreath a central axis. Specify duplicates in Mirror-Merge Settings toolbar. Align Left Left-align selected objects. Duplicate & mirror objects around a central axis. Specify duplicates in Align Vertical Vertically align centers of selected Kaleidoscope Mirror-Merge Settings toolbar. Centers objects. This tool only appears when the Wreath tool is activated. Align Right Right-align selected objects. Enter number of wreath points. Enter even number to activate Kaleidoscope. Align Top Align tops of selected objects.
BERNINA® Embroidery Software : Quick Start Guide 27 Align Horizontally align centers of selected Horizontal Back / objects. Move selection back / forward one Centers Forward 1 color in the stitching sequence. Color Align Bottom Align bottoms of selected objects.
Align Align centers of selected objects. Move to Move selection to start / end of Centers Start / End stitching sequence. Space Evenly distribute three or more Evenly selected objects horizontally. Across Sequence Resequence objects in order of by Selects selection. Space Evenly distribute three or more Resequence all blocks of like color. (To Evenly Down selected objects vertically. Sequence maintain separate color blocks, use by Color Color Film.) Color Film toolbar This toolbar is available in Embroidery Canvas mode.
View individual objects in order of Show stitching sequence. Drag and drop Objects object icons to resequence.
Back / Move selection back / forward one Forward 1 object in the stitching sequence. Object
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This toolbar is available in Hoop Canvas mode. See Hooping Designs in the Reference Manual.
Add a new hooping to a multi-hooping Add Hoop layout.
Place a new hooping to right of Add Hoop selected hoop. Allows a 10mm overlap Right between sewing fields. Place a new hooping above selected Add Hoop hoop. Allows a 10mm overlap between Up sewing fields.
Add 4 Hoops Around Generate 4/8 hoopings around a selected hoop’s perimeter. Allow a Add 8 Hoops 10mm overlap between sewing field. Around
Digitize one or more guides in a Splitting multi-hoop layout to split objects Guide between hoopings.
Remove selected hoop from hooping Delete Hoop layout.
Calculate Calculate hoopings resulting from Hoopings current layout.
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