Creating Steil Stitches; Adjusting Satin And Fill Stitches; Changing The Angle Lines In Complex Fill Segments - ELNA XPRESSIVE 2 User Manual

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When the pointer becomes a small
arrow with a bead, click and drag from
the left of the segment to the right of
the segment to place an angle line in
your segment.
You cannot add additional angle lines
to a Complex Fill segment. When you
create a Complex Fill segment, you
must add only one angle line.

Creating Steil stitches

Use the Steil tool to create Steil stitches. A
Steil stitch is a constant width Satin stitch that
generates a stitch at an equal distance from
the anchor points placed. This small Satin
stitch is commonly used for borders or detail.
To create Steil stitches:
1 In the Punching toolbar, click the Steil
tool.
The pointer becomes a cross hair.
To change the properties of your
segment, the Segment Settings
on the ribbon or double-click the
segment. You see the Segment Settings
property pages. Click the appropriate
property page and make the setting
changes.
2 Do one of the following to punch a Steil
segment:
To create an open segment, click the
design workspace to place the anchor
points in your design.
To create a closed segment, click the
design workspace to place the anchor
points in your design. Click the Auto
Close
H
on your keyboard to close the
segment.
3 To complete the segment, press ENTER
on your keyboard.
Adjusting Satin and
Fill Stitches
Changing the angle lines
in Complex Fill segments
You can change the angle setting to alter the
stitch direction of a Complex Fill segment.
Instead of dragging the angle line beads to
adjust the angle lines, you can right-click a
bead and select an angle setting from the
shortcut menu.
To change the angle setting:
1 Select the Complex Fill segment.
2 Move the mouse pointer over one of the
angle line beads in the angle line you
want to change.
tool
3 When the pointer becomes a small
triangle, right-click.
You see a shortcut menu.
4 Choose the angle setting you want from
the menu.
The different angle settings range from
Set Angle to 0 to Set Angle to 315
degrees.
Once selected, the angle line of the fill
snaps to the angle that you selected.
tool on the ribbon or press