Correcting Mistakes; Creating New Designs; Entering Measurements; Opening And Closing Designs - ELNA XPRESSIVE 2 User Manual

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Correcting mistakes

Undo and Redo are two significant features
that allow you to correct mistakes. If you
make a mistake and change your mind about
an action you just made, Undo reverses the
action. Redo puts back the change. If Undo
or Redo are grayed out in the Edit menu, you
cannot Undo or Redo.
To use Undo:
• Do one of the following:
Choose Edit—Undo.
Press Ctrl+Z on your keyboard.
From the File toolbar, click the Undo
tool.
To use Redo:
• Do one of the following:
Choose Edit—Redo.
Press Ctrl+Y on your keyboard.
From the File toolbar, click the Redo
tool.

Creating new designs

When you open Xpressive, you can
immediately begin creating a new, untitled,
design in the unified design window that
holds both outlines and stitches.
To create a new design:
1 To create a new design, do one of the
following:
Choose File—New.
In the File toolbar, click the New
tool.
You see a new design window.
Entering
measurements
Xpressive converts measurements that you
enter in text boxes to the type of units
selected on the User Preferences property
page. For example, if you have set the units
of measurement to metric and then enter 1
inch in a text box, Xpressive converts the
measurement to 25.40 mm.
You can use the following units and
abbreviations in text boxes:
Unit
Imperial
Metric
Opening and closing
designs
Xpressive allows you to open designs in a
wide variety of file formats such as the
Xpressive Unified File (*.ESX), Xpressive
Outline File (*.ESE), Xpressive Stitch File
(*.EMD), etc.
When you open a Xpressive Unified File
(*.ESX), the default file type, into the unified
design window, your single design file
contains both outlines and stitches. The icon
and imported bitmaps are also stored in this
design file. When you open an Outline file
Abbreviations
• inch, inches, in
• stitches per inch, spi
• millimeter,
millimeters, mm
• centimeter,
centimeters, cm
• points, pts