Brother BES-100E Workbook page 4

The Brother BE-100 embroidery software provides numerous functions for easily creating and manipulating
stitch and outline files, which can then be embroidered. In addition to creating your own original files, you can
open or import, then edit stitch and outline files in a large range of formats. Your custom-made designs can be
output or exported in a variety of formats for embroidering on almost any type of machine.
The BE-100 software is available in five levels, each providing increasingly advanced features:
Basic lettering level
Editing level
Digitizing level
The most basic of the five, the basic lettering level, allows even beginning embroidery designers to add
lettering of various shapes and styles to create an original pattern.
Some features of the Advanced lettering level let you do the following:
Automatically generate underlay
Automatically save work at predetermined intervals
Automatically re-center the design after text is added or designs are merged
Classify designs and search them according to keywords, customer name or other conditions
Save custom fabric, text effect and stitch settings, and recall them for later use
Select from 32 pre-programmed text shapes in addition to 12 text tools that allow for more flexible lettering
Break a string of text into its individual letters, each of which can be manipulated separately
Convert text shapes to another shape, or distort them freely
Align text at the left, in the center, at the right, or set it to fill the baseline by adjusting character shape or
spacing
Use multiple name-drops, either together with or without designs, by using templates
Easily access the more common functions with preprogrammed speed keys
Automatically correct stitches imported from either short or long stitch files
At the editing level of the software, more graphics and text settings can be specified, and individual punchpoints
can be entered. In addition to the functions available in the advanced lettering level, the editing level allows you
to do the following:
Convert text shapes into paths and regions in order to manipulate their individual punchpoints
Change the sewing order of the design by pasting selected sections before or after other sections
Edit individual stitches by deleting, moving or inserting punchpoints before or after specific points
Change graphic shape properties (such as density, pull compensation, and underlay)
Choose from 25 pre-programmed specialty stitch designs for each stitch type: run, satin and fill
Edit the pre-programmed run, satin and fill stitch patterns, or create new ones
Edit stitch designs as easily as outline designs
Manually add individual stitches to a design by using the Manual Stitch tool
View the sequence of color changes in the design
Group sections of stitching together or separate them
Automatically create borders of run or satin stitches around shapes
The most advanced of the three, the digitizing level, includes features that simplify complex digitizing opera-
tions. In addition to offering the functions available in the advanced lettering and editing levels of the software,
this level enables you to perform the following procedures.
Customize keyboard shortcuts by using the programmable speed keys
Import graphics in the most common file formats
Create complex polygons (i.e., fill stitch areas with holes of any shape)
Create run, satin and fill stitch patterns
Convert some stitch files back to outline files so certain properties, such as the density, can be changed
Convert stitch types (i.e., from satin to fill or from column to running, and vice versa)
Choose from a library of standard pre-programmed stitches, such as the 2-ply stitch and the bean stitch
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