Deleting Segments; Moving Through Outline Designs - ELNA XPRESSIVE 2 User Manual

segments. You cannot perform any outline
editing on stitch segments except to resize,
reflect, rotate, and change the color of these
stitch segments; however, major editing is not
advisable. With the exception of the
previously mentioned outline edits, the
stitches which are part of a stitch segment
can only be modified by direct stitch editing.
If you want to perform more advanced outline
edits on stitch segments, then you must
selectively perform a Stitch to Outline
conversion (STO) to the segments and
convert them to our more advanced segment
types. However, this will not guarantee the
preservation of your stitches.
To convert segments into stitch
segments:
1 Select the segment you want converted
into a stitch segment.
2 Do one of the following:
Click Convert
choose Stitch Segment from the
shortcut menu.
Press = on your keyboard and choose
Stitch Segment from the shortcut
menu.
Press Ctrl+E on your keyboard and
choose Convert Segment to—Stitch
Segment from the shortcut menu.

Deleting segments

Deleting a segment removes it from the
design. The only way to retrieve a segment
you delete is to choose Edit—Undo
immediately after you delete it.
on the ribbon and
To delete a segment:
1 In the Edit toolbar, click the Select
tool or the Lasso Select
2 Select the segment.
For more information, see "Selecting
Segments".
3 There are four ways to delete a segment:
Press Ctrl+E on your keyboard and
select Delete from the shortcut menu.
Press Delete on your keyboard.
Choose Edit—Clear.
From the File toolbar, click the Delete
tool.
Moving through Outline
designs
You can move through an Outline design by
using the buttons on the Navigation bar.
You can use the navigation buttons to
enhance your ability to navigate through
outline segments in your designs. To use the
navigation buttons, you can left-click to move
backwards or right-click to move forwards
from selected segments. You can move
through a design by increments of 1, 10,
100 and 1000 segments or by changing the
selection of segments based on color
changes.
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tool.