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Showing and hiding outline segments ................................. 50
Showing and hiding machine commands ............................ 51
Showing and hiding the stitch placements in designs ......... 51
Showing and hiding beads .................................................. 52
Showing and hiding stitches in design files ......................... 52
Defining grid settings........................................................... 53
Showing and hiding grids .................................................... 54
Showing and hiding 3D stitches ......................................... 54
Viewing the sewing order of designs ................................... 54
Viewing Commands ................................................................... 55
Displaying a hoop while designing ...................................... 55
Finding potential stitch problems ......................................... 56
Hiding outlines in design files .............................................. 56
Setting the 3D View options ............................................... 56
Viewing a design by thread color order ............................... 57
Aligning and Measuring Designs ............................................... 57
Adding guidelines ................................................................ 57
Moving guidelines................................................................ 58
Changing the ruler origin ..................................................... 58
Defining ruler units............................................................... 58
Measuring designs .............................................................. 59
Creating Lettering and Merging Designs
Creating Embroidery and TrueType® Lettering ......................... 62
Creating lettering using the Text tool ................................... 62
Creating horizontal lettering................................................. 62
Creating circle lettering........................................................ 63
Converting TrueType® lettering to Satin stitches ................ 64
Inserting color changes ....................................................... 65
Kerning the space between letters ...................................... 65
Modifying Text segments ..................................................... 67
Drawing mode for lettering .................................................. 68
Merging Designs ........................................................................ 69
Merging designs with lettering ............................................. 71
Changing your Segment Settings
Changing the settings of a segment .......................................... 75
Changing Text properties ........................................................... 75
Choosing an embroidery font .............................................. 75
Choosing a TrueType® font................................................. 76
Choosing the Fill type for TrueType® lettering .................... 76
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