Introduction; Applications Of The Software - Brother PE-Design 6.0 Instruction Manual

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Introduction

Applications of the software

This package consists of four applications.
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Design Center
Design Center is used to manually create embroidery patterns from images. The images may come from
scanning a printed image or can be created with an application like Paint
must be .bmp, .tif, .jpg, .j2k, .pcx, .wmf, .png, .eps, .pcd, or .fpx. Design Center automatically detects outlines
in the image and replaces them with broken lines that can be edited and assigned sewing attributes.
The procedure is divided into four stages:
❏ Stage 1 (Original Image stage): Open an image file and select one or more colors that the application
will use to trace the outlines.
❏ Stage 2 (Line Image stage): The original color image is replaced with a black-and-white image (the
colors selected in stage 1 (Original Image stage) become black, and all other colors become white).
This image can be edited using pens and erasers of different thicknesses. (You can also start with this
step to draw a black-and-white image by hand.)
When the image is ready, start the automatic tracing process.
❏ Stage 3 (Figure Handle stage): The black-and-white image is replaced with a set of outlines made of
editable broken lines. You can edit the broken lines by moving, inserting or deleting editing points.
❏ Stage 4 (Sew Setting stage): In this final step, apply sewing attributes (thread color and sew type) to
the outlines and the inside regions.
At any stage, you can save your work to retrieve it later. In stage 1 (Original Image stage) and stage 2 (Line
Image stage), the file will be saved with the .pel extension. In stage 3 (Figure Handle stage) and stage 4 (Sew
Setting stage), the file will be saved with the .pem extension. In addition, if the imported image has not yet
been saved, it can be saved with the .bmp extension.
Saving your work as you move through the stages will be helpful if you make changes, then later decide to use
the original pattern.
When your image has reached stage 4 (Sew Setting stage), you can import it into Layout & Editing, where the
image can be moved and scaled as a single object.
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Layout & Editing
Layout & Editing is used to automatically create embroidery patterns from images, and to combine images and text to
create embroidery patterns that can be written to an original card. The images may come from scanning a printed image
or can be created with an application like Paint
.png, .eps, .pcd, or .fpx. In addition, the following types of embroidery patterns can be incorporated into the embroidery
pattern.
❏ Embroidery patterns created with Design Center
❏ Embroidery patterns on embroidery cards purchased from your dealer (Some patterns cannot be read.)
❏ Embroidery patterns in the Tajima (.dst), Melco (.exp), Pfaff (.pcs), Husqvarna (.hus) and embroidery
sewing machine (.phc) formats
❏ Embroidery patterns created within Layout & Editing itself (These patterns include text, circular shapes,
boxes, polygons, curves and manual punching patterns.)
After gathering the different parts of your embroidery pattern, you can use the layout functions to adjust their
relative position, orientation and scale.
When an embroidery pattern is complete, you can save it (with the .pes file extension) and write it to an original card.
The original card can then be inserted into your sewing machine for the embroidery pattern to be sewn.
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Before Use
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. The extension of the image files must be .bmp, .tif, .jpg, .j2k, .pcx, .wmf,
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. The extension of the image files