Brother Pe Design 6 Manual

Basic Operation
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Creating and Editing Embroidery Patterns
bMemo:
To quit the operation, click Cancel.
4.Click OK to close the message.
Step 14
Saving the file
Once the embroidery pattern is finished, you may 
want to save it in order to retrieve it later.
1.Click File on the menu bar, and then click 
Save. 
An alternate method is to click the Toolbar 
button indicated below. 
→If the pattern has already been saved at 
least once, the file is saved immediately.
bMemo:
To save the file with a different...

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Creating and Editing Embroidery Patterns
Using Programmable Stitch Creator
Programmable Stitch Creator allows you to design fill stitch and motif stitch patterns that can be applied as a 
programmable fill stitch or motif stitch both in Design Center and Layout & Editing, resulting in more decorative 
embroidery patterns. When applied to enclosed regions, the fill stitch or motif stitch pattern fills the region in a 
tile-like manner. When applied to lines, the motif stitch pattern is repeated along...

Basic Operation
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Creating and Editing Embroidery Patterns
Step 2
Opening a programmable stitch 
pattern
For this exercise, we will edit one of the 
programmable fill stitch patterns provided with the 
application.
1.Click File on the menu bar, and then click 
Open.
An alternate method is to click the Toolbar 
button indicated below.
→The Open dialog box appears.
2.Select the stitch pattern file wave1.pas in the 
Pattern folder.
bMemo:
If the Preview check box is selected, the 
contents of the selected...

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Creating and Editing Embroidery Patterns
bMemo:
 Double-clicking the file name also adds the 
pattern to the work area and closes the 
dialog box.
 To preview the available .pas files in the 
selected folder, click 
Browse. 
In the 
Browse dialog box that appeared, 
click a stitch pattern to select it, and then 
click 
Open (or double-click the pattern) to 
open the file and to close both the Open 
and 
Browse dialog boxes.
 Opening a .pas file (programmable fill 
stitch pattern) automatically...

Basic Operation
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Creating and Editing Embroidery Patterns
→The pattern should appear as shown be-
low.
bMemo:
To edit points in the pattern, click   on the 
Tool Box, and then edit the points. (For 
details on moving, inserting and delete 
points, refer to “Editing Points in Outlines” on 
page 81 or go back to Step 10, “Adjusting the 
rays”, on page 50).
Step 4
Applying embossing/engraving 
effects
A stamp can be made by sewing regions of a fill 
stitch pattern with the fill stitch, satin stitch or the...

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Creating and Editing Embroidery Patterns
Step 5
Saving the edited stitch pattern
In order to apply your edited stitch pattern as a 
programmable fill stitch or as a stamp to a region 
in Layout & Editing or Design Center, you must 
first save it as a .pas file.
1.Click File on the menu bar, and then click 
Save As.
→The Save As dialog box appears.
bMemo:
To overwrite the original file, use the menu 
command File – Save instead.
2.Select the drive and the folder, and then type 
in the file name....

Basic Operation
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Creating Large-Size Embroidery Patterns
A large-size embroidery pattern can be designed by specifying the size of the pattern, creating the embroidery 
pattern, then automatically dividing the pattern into a size that can be embroidered. By separately 
embroidering each section of the pattern side by side, large-size embroidery can be sewn. In addition, the 
joining edges can be embroidered slightly overlapping in order to blend beautifully.
Some large-size patterns may not be...

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Creating Large-Size Embroidery Patterns
Step 2
Specifying a Design Page size
First, we need to specify the desired size for the 
complete embroidery pattern.
1.Click Option, then Design Page Property.
→The Design Page Property dialog box 
appears.
2.Select Custom Size, and then type or select 
the desired width and height for the Design 
Page. Enter dimensions between 100 and 
1000 mm. For this example, set Width to 230 
mm and Height to 330 mm.
bMemo:
The width and height specified under 
Custom Size...

Basic Operation
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Creating Large-Size Embroidery Patterns
→The Import from File dialog box appears.
2.Select the embroidery pattern file 
Largelace.pes in the Data folder.
bMemo:
If the Preview check box is selected, the 
contents of the selected file will appear in the 
Preview box.
3.Click Import to import the embroidery pattern 
file and to close the dialog box.
bMemo:
Double-clicking the file name also imports 
the pattern into the Design Page and closes 
the dialog box.
→The embroidery pattern...

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Creating Large-Size Embroidery Patterns
An alternate method is to click the Toolbar 
button indicated below. 
→If the pattern has already been saved at 
least once, the file is saved immediately.
bMemo:
To save the file with a different name, use the 
menu command 
File – Save As instead.
→If no file name has been specified or if the 
file cannot be found, the Save As dialog 
box appears.
2.Select the drive and the folder, and then type 
in the file name.
3.Click Save to save the pattern.
bMemo:
 All...