Finding Potential Stitch Problems; Hiding Outlines In Design Files; Setting The 3D View Options - ELNA XPRESSIVE 2 User Manual

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To hide a hoop:
• Choose View—Display Hoop—Hide.
The hoop is temporarily hidden from view.
To bring the hoop back in view:
• Choose View—Display Hoop—Hide
again.
To rotate the hoop 90°:
• Choose View—Display Hoop—Rotate
90°.
Xpressive rotates the hoop at a 90° angle
for you.
Finding potential stitch
problems
You can see possible problems in your
design before you sew it out. You can set
various lengths for stitches. Any stitches
outside the set ranges are highlighted to warn
you of potential problems that could cause
thread breaks, needle breaks, and undesired
machine stops.
To view stitch problems:
• Choose View—Display Markers—
Highlight Stitch Exception.
Hiding outlines in design
files
Xpressive allows you to hide the outlines in
your design window and focus on the stitches
in your design file. You can use the Hide
Outlines option to temporarily remove
outlines from your view.
To hide outlines:
• Do one of the following:
Choose View—Stitches in Outline
Window—Hide Outlines.
Press Shift+X on your keyboard.
Setting the 3D View
options
Images need a certain amount of light to
display properly in 3D View. You can adjust
the light source settings and display options.
In most cases, you can use the default
settings for 3D View.
To set Display options:
1 Open a design.
2 Select View—3D View.
You see the 3D View's Option dialog box.
3 Adjust the following Display and Light
Source options.
4 In the Thread Width box, enter the
thread's width.
5 In the Bitmap box, click Browse to select a
background.
In the Fabrics folder, you see a list of the
background files installed with Xpressive.
6 Select Show actual size to show the
design in 3D View at its actual size rather
than at the default size.
To set the Light source options:
1 In the Horizontal Angle box, enter an
angle for the horizontal light source.
To visualize how the light source works,