Brother Pe Design 7 Manual

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Manually Creating Professional-Level 
Embroidery Patterns (Manual Punching)
The Manual Punch tools are used to create patterns that look like manual embroidery. With manual punching, 
you can create patterns with any sewing order, direction and orientation that you want.
Letters that you design yourself constitute a typical example of patterns that look better using manual punching 
patterns. The illustrations below show two previews of the letter “O”....

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Another possibility is to load a template image and 
redraw it using manual punching patterns. The 
advantage of this method is that you have a better 
control on the thread orientation.
1.Open a template or prepare an image that you 
will use as a guide. (For more details, refer to 
“Importing Image Data” on page 76.)
2.Click   on the Tool Box.
→Five buttons appear: 
 is for creating straight block-type 
punching patterns. (Shortcut key:  )
 is for...

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6.After clicking point 8 (the last point of the 
block-type pattern), click   (feed-type 
pattern button), and then in the Design Page 
to specify point 9 (the start point of the 
running-type pattern).
7.Click   (running-type pattern button), and 
then click in the Design Page to specify points 
10, 11, and 12, as shown in the above 
illustration.
8.To complete the pattern, double-click point 13 
(the last point of the entire pattern).
Adding Text...

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→The Edit Text Letters dialog box 
appears, containing a chart with all 
characters available with the selected 
font.
5.Type the text.
6.Click OK.
→The text is displayed in the Design Page.
Selecting text attributes

Font 
Use this selector to select a font for the text.
1.Click in the Font selector.
→A list of fonts appears when clicking on 
the menu arrow at the right.
2.Click the desired font.
→The setting is applied to all text patterns 
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→If text patterns or characters in a text 
pattern were selected, the setting is also 
applied to the selected text.The available fonts and the types of 
characters available with each font are listed 
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Built-in Fonts
User defined Fonts
True Type Fonts
The names and samples of installed TrueType 
fonts appear after the User defined Fonts.
c“Entering Text” on page 127, “Reshaping 
Embroidery Patterns” on page 106 and 
“Specifying TrueType text attributes” on 
page 137

Text Size 
Use this selector to select the size of the text.
1.Click in the Text Size selector.
2.Type the desired height (5 to 100 mm (0.20 to 
3.93 inches)) and press the   key, or...

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2.Click Text, then Edit Letters.
→The Edit Text Letters dialog box 
appears.
3.The selected text is displayed in the text field.
4.Edit the text as needed.
5.Click OK.
→The edited text is displayed in the Design 
Page.
c“Entering Text” on page 127
Selecting characters
1.Click   on the Tool Box.
→Two buttons appear: 
2.Click .
→The shape of the pointer changes to  .
3.Click the text that you want to edit.
→The points in the text appear as small 
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5.Change the font, size, color, sew type and 
other attributes.
Specifying text attributes
Various character attributes for text can be set in the 
Text Attribute Setting dialog box.
Toolbar button: 
1.Select the text that you want to edit.
2.Click  , or click Text, then Text Attribute 
Setting.
→The Text Attribute Setting dialog box 
appears.
3.If necessary, change the text attributes.
4.Click Apply to apply the effect of the setting.
bMemo:
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c“Specifying text arrangement” below and 
“Transforming text” on page 137
Easy changes to the character 
size and attributes
You can easily use drag operations to change the 
size and text attributes (character spacing, vertical 
offset, rotation) for text, small text, and monogram 
characters.
1.Click  →  .
2.Click the point for the character that you want 
to select.
→The       handles appear on the 
character to show that it is selected.

Changing...

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3.When you release the mouse button, the 
character size is changed.
→The new size is displayed on the Sewing 
Attributes bar.

Changing the character spacing
1.
Place the pointer onto the character body 
other than the       handles and drag 
the character horizontally.
→The character outline displayed with 
dotted lines moves.
2.When you release the mouse button, the 
character spacing is changed.
→When the Text Attribute Setting dialog 
box is...