Chapter 4: Reshape Tool; Selecting Punchpoints - Brother BES-100E Workbook

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This tool is used to highlight the punchpoints of design shapes, allowing you to select and move the points,

therefore changing the shape of the design. After selecting a punchpoint, it can be deleted, or the commands

on the

drop-down menu can be used to insert new punchpoints as well as set entry and exit points.

Punchpoints

For more information about the commands available on the

NOTE: The punchpoints of text shapes that have not been converted to deformed text can only be used to

move the shape or adjust its parameters (baseline width, height, etc.), but not deform it (i.e., change its

shape). For more information about deforming a text shape, see chapter 17.

To manipulate the individual punchpoints in the outline of each character of a text shape, it must ﬁrst be

converted to its various paths and regions. For more information about converting text shapes to paths

and regions, see chapter 18.

Selecting punchpoints

To select punchpoints:

Click the

Reshape

in blue.

NOTE: The magenta handles that appear in text shapes are for kerning. For more information, see

Changing the kerning between speciﬁc characters in chapter 11.

Click a punchpoint. The punchpoint changes to light blue when it is selected.

To select additional punchpoints, do any of the following:

To select punchpoints that are in sequence, hold down the Shift key and click the last punchpoint in the

sequence.

To select speciﬁc punchpoints that are not in sequence, hold down the Ctrl key and click each addi-

tional punchpoint.

To select all punchpoints in a speciﬁc area, drag the pointer over the area containing the desired

punchpoints, until the selection box encloses them.

NOTE: The buttons in the

see Navigating through the design in chapter 23.

To select all punchpoints in the design, click