Checking The Needle Drop Point With The Embroidery Foot "W+" With Led Pointer; Adjusting The Led Pointer - Brother VM5200 Operation Manual

■ Checking the Needle Drop Point
With the Embroidery Foot "W+"
with LED Pointer
Before beginning to embroider when using the
embroidery foot "W+" with LED pointer, carefully
read the procedures described in the "Embroidery"
and "Embroidery Edit" chapters.
a
After the embroidery frame is attached,
press in the embroidery screen.
 The LED pointer indicates the needle drop point.
Memo
• When the LED pointer is turned on, the
presser foot height is automatically adjusted
according to the fabric thickness.
• If is pressed again, the fabric thickness
is remeasured and the presser foot is set to
the optimum height.
* The LED pointer turns off automatically by lowering
the presser foot or returning to the previous page.
Note
• With thick elastic fabric, the position will be
misaligned only at raised parts in the fabric.
In this case, manually adjust the position
according to the thickness of the fabric.
• With fabric that has a very uneven surface
such as quilting, the position is not correctly
aligned. In this case, the pointer indication
should be used only as a reference.

■ Adjusting the LED Pointer

Adjust the LED pointer if it indicates a point different
than the actual needle drop point.
Before adjusting the LED pointer, mark the actual
needle drop point on the fabric to be embroidered,
and then hoop the fabric and attach the embroidery
frame.
Note
• As a default, some keys mentioned in the
following procedures appear in light gray
and are not available. To enable the keys for
specifying the settings, attach embroidery
foot "W+" with LED pointer to the machine.
The keys are enabled after the embroidery
foot is detected.
a
Press .
 The settings screen appears.
b
Press .
 The Embroidery settings screen appears.
Memo
• When using the "Embroidery" or
"Embroidery Edit", touch
directly access the Embroidery settings
screen.
c
Display page 10 of the Embroidery settings
screen.
BEFORE EMBROIDERING
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Basic operations B-61
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