Brother Pe Design 7 Manual

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Arranging Embroidery Designs (Layout & Editing)

Creating the design
1.
The Design Page appears on the screen as 
shown below.
2.Create the design, making sure that it meets 
the following conditions.
The size of one pattern must be no larger 
than 100 × 100 mm (or 130 × 180 mm).Each pattern must completely fit within a 
single area (a, b, or c).
1: The position of this pattern is correct since 
it fits completely within area a.
2: The position of this pattern is correct since 
it fits completely...

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Arranging Embroidery Designs (Layout & Editing)

Checking the pattern
1.
Click Option, then Design Property.
→At the same time that the Design 
Property dialog box appears, the Design 
Page is automatically zoomed in or out to 
fit in the entire window.
bMemo:
 A check mark appears when this function is 
turned on; no check mark is displayed when 
this function is turned off.
 When the Optimize hoop change function is 
turned on, the sewing order that you have 
set is optimized to reduce the number...

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Arranging Embroidery Designs (Layout & Editing)

Saving the design
1.
Click File, then Save or Save As, and then 
save the design.
→The entire design is saved as a single file 
(.pes).

Writing the design to an original 
card
1.
If your design is displayed in the Design Page, 
click File, then Write to Card, or click   on 
the Toolbar, and then write the design to an 
original card.
A design for a multi-position hoop is created 
by considering the pattern in each hoop 
installation position as one...

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Arranging Embroidery Designs (Layout & Editing)
Notes on embroidering using the multi-
position hoop
Before embroidering your design, sew a trial 
sample of the design on a scrap piece of 
fabric from your design, making sure to use 
the same needle and thread.
Be sure to affix stabilizer material to the back 
of the fabric and tightly stretch the fabric 
within the hoop. When embroidering on thin 
or stretch fabrics, use two layers of stabilizer 
material. If no stabilizer material is used, the...

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Arranging Embroidery Designs (Layout & Editing)
Embroidering large-size 
embroidery design (custom size)

Attaching stabilizer to the fabric
Stabilizer must always be used when embroidering 
to stabilize the fabric. There are many types of 
stabilizer; the type that you will use depends on the 
type of fabric that you are embroidering on. For 
large-size designs that are split into sections, the 
stabilizer must be adhered to the fabric, for 
example, by using iron-on stabilizer, sticky stabilizer...

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Arranging Embroidery Designs (Layout & Editing)
To mark an area below the previously marked 
area, align points A and B on the template with 
marks C and D on the fabric.
Hooping the fabric
Using the hoop’s plastic embroidery sheet, align the 
reference lines on the embroidery sheet with the marks on 
the fabric. Then, hoop the fabric while making sure that 
the fabric remains correctly aligned.
1.Insert the embroidery sheet into the inner ring 
of the embroidery hoop, and then place them 
on top of...

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Arranging Embroidery Designs (Layout & Editing)

Embroidering
Now, we are ready to embroider the design.
1.When large-size embroidery design are 
transferred to the embroidery machine, the 
patterns appear on the embroidery machine 
display as shown below. For this example, 
select the first embroidery pattern section (Aa).
2.Attach the embroidery hoop to the embroidery 
machine, and then using the machine’s layout 
adjusting functions, align the needle position 
with the intersection of the lines...

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Arranging Embroidery Designs (Layout & Editing)
6.Continue hooping the fabric and embroidering 
until the entire embroidery design is sewn.3) Hoop the fabric for the lower-left design 
section with the top of the hoop aligned 
on the alignment stitching at the bottom 
of the design section sewn in step 1, and 
then embroider the design.
→Before the design section is 
embroidered, alignment stitching is 
sewn at the top. Make sure that this 
alignment stitching aligns with the 
alignment stitching...

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Manually Creating Embroidery Patterns From Images (Design Center)
Basic Operation Flow - Design Center
Design Center is used to manually create embroidery patterns from images created in other applications. With 
Design Center, you can also apply stitch patterns created with Programmable Stitch Creator to regions of the 
embroidery pattern. The resulting embroidery pattern can then be imported into the Layout & Editing Design 
Page and combined with other patterns.
The embroidery pattern is created...

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Manually Creating Embroidery Patterns From Images (Design Center)
Original Image Stage
Importing an image using 
the wizard
This wizard provides a step-by-step guide for 
creating embroidery patterns.
1.Click File, then Wizard.
→The How do you want to produce 
embroidery? dialog box appears.
Position the pointer over any button, and the 
name of the function appears.
The functions for each button are described 
below.
1From Image
Click this button when creating embroidery 
pattern from an image....