Editing Stitches And Stitch Groups; Selecting Stitches In Various Ways - ELNA XPRESSIVE 2 User Manual

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Editing Stitches and
Stitch Groups
In Xpressive's unified window, you can edit a
design's stitches and stitch groups while in
stitch mode. When you use the Stitch Select
tool from the Stitch Edit toolbar,
Xpressive automatically changes to Stitch
Mode.
As a general rule, you should perform all
outline edits to a design first (in outline mode)
and save the design file. Next, you should
perform all stitch edits to the same design (in
stitch mode) and save the design file with a
different file name. If you follow this general
rule, you can avoid possibly losing your stitch
edits while doing significant design editing.
A segment's stitch edits may be lost if you
perform an outline editing action that forces
Xpressive to regenerate stitches for the
segment. The following are design editing
actions that can force stitch regeneration in
your design:
• Resizing a segment.
• Modifying the settings for a segment.
• Moving a segment.
Typically, when you add or modify segments
in a design, Xpressive will not regenerate
stitches for the entire design. The software
will, however, generate stitches for the
segment being modified unless region
carving or line carving requires regeneration.
If region carving segments require
regeneration, segments affected by region
carving will be regenerated. If line carving
segments require regeneration, segments
affected by line carving will be regenerated.
Selecting stitches in
various ways
You can select stitches in a variety of ways.
The Stitch Select tool allows you to select
and modify individual or groups of stitches in
your designs. You select stitches by clicking
on a single stitch or by clicking and dragging
to draw a box around parts of the design.
With the Lasso Stitch Select
can draw a polygon to fit around parts of the
design instead of a box.
The spacebar is a hotkey that toggles
between stitch editing using the Stitch
Select tool and outline editing using
the Select tool. One of these tools
must be selected.
Remember to use caution while editing
stitches and segments. For more
information, see "Editing Stitches and
Stitches Groups".
To select stitches using the Stitch Select
tool:
1 In the Stitch Edit toolbar, click the Stitch
Select tool.
2 To select a single stitch, click the stitch
you want.
3 To select multiple stitches, do one of the
following:
Click and drag to form a rectangle box
around the stitches you want to select.
tool, you