Positioning A Design On The Hooped Fabric - Pfaff 2144 Instruction Manual

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Positioning a design on the hooped fabric

To precisely position a design, check the position of the
design on the hooped fabric before embroidering.
Note: If several designs are selected the following instruc-
tions apply to all the selected designs.
For that purpose, touch the
marks off the dimensions of the design. The center of the
design is indicated by a cross-hair cursor.
Orbiting a design
• If you press the icon, the embroidery hoop drives
to the farthest left upper position of the design. Check
that the needle enters the hooped fabric at that place.
If you press the following icons
hoop will orbit the whole design in successive steps.
• By touching the design itself on the multi-color touch
screen, the cross-hair cursor moves to that place and
the hoop drives to the corresponding position.
The cross-hair cursor can be repositioned with your
finger to several successive places. Each time you
touch the screen the hoop will move to the selected
position.
Check that the needle enters that position on the
hooped material.
Positioning with the aid of the cross-hair cursor
You can also accurately include one or more designs in a
large embroidery combination by rehooping.
For that purpose, touch also the
Note: If the design is to be added with precision to an alrea-
dy embroidered design, the design position to which the
current design is to be joined must be located in the embro-
idery field of the attached hoop.
icon. A boundary frame
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icon.
4. Operate the multi-color touch screen
Touch the multi-color screen at the place of the embroidery
hoop where your design is to join the already embroidered
design, and the cross-hair cursor and the hoop will move to
that position. Check the position on the hooped design by
entering the needle into it.
You can move the cross-hair successively to other places
with your finger. After each touch the embroidery hoop
moves to the corresponding position.
With the arrows, ,
move the cross-hair cursor in steps in the respective direc-
tions, for fine adjustment, until you have found the exact
starting position of the design to be embroidered.
With you close the window, and the cursor, the
embroidery hoop and thus also the needle remain in the last
selected position.
The current design can now be accurately positioned in the
multi-color touch screen at the cross-hair cursor. For that
purpose, touch the icon.
Note : For positoning an embroidery combination, all
designs have to be selected. See page 4-32 "Adjust an
embroidery combination".
Tip: For rehooping and a practical example of how to use
the positioning template, see page 6-22ff.
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