Editing Embroidery Patterns; Selecting Patterns - Brother PE-Design 6.0 Instruction Manual

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Editing Embroidery Patterns

Selecting patterns

To apply settings to an existing pattern, you must
first select it. The Select Object tool is used to select
one or more patterns. Once a pattern is selected,
you can move it, scale it, and change its direction by
rotating it or inverting it.
1.
Click on the Tool Box.
→ The shape of the pointer changes to
.
2.
Click the pattern that you want to select.
→ Handles appear around the pattern.
b
Memo:
• The status bar shows the dimensions
(width and height) of the pattern.
• To deselect the pattern, select a different
pattern, click a blank area of the Design
Page, or click any other button in the Tool
Box.
3.
To select an additional pattern, hold down the
Ctrl
key and click the other pattern.
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Layout & Editing
Editing Embroidery Patterns
■
With
Handles
the next object that was created. Hold down the
previous object that was created.
If the
are pressed:
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All patterns in the Design Page can easily be
selected.
1.
2.
b
Memo:
• You can also select patterns by dragging
the pointer across the pattern that you
want to select. As you drag the pointer, a
selection frame is drawn. All patterns that
are contained in that selection frame are
selected when the mouse button is
released.
• If you selected patterns that you did not
want, click a blank area of the Design
Page to deselect all patterns, and start
again.
Selecting patterns in the created
order
selected, press the
Shift Tab
key and press the
Tab Shift
key (or the
• and no object is selected, the first object (or
the last object) that was created is selected.
• and multiple objects are selected, all objects
are deselected except the soonest (or latest)
object that was created.
• and the last (or first) object that was created
is selected, the first (or last) object is
selected.
Selecting all embroidery patterns
Make sure that on the Tool Box is
selected.
Click Edit, then Select All.
Tab
key to select
key to select the
Tab
and keys)