Brother Pe Design 7 Manual

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Save the font character pattern.
Click File, then Save.
Select the drive and folder, and then type in 
the file name. For this example, type in the 
name “My font1”.
Click Save.
Step 5Creating an embroidery pattern 
using the created font characters
The created font characters can be used in Layout 
& Editing.
Start up Layout & Editing.
Click  , then select All Programs, 
then PE-DESIGN Ver7, then Layout & 
Editing.
Use the created font and type in text.
Click  , and then click...

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Click in the Design Page.
Type your text, and then click OK.
→The text is displayed in the Design Page.
bMemo:
You can also enter a character by selecting it 
in the character table, then clicking Insert, or 
simply by double-clicking it. This is particularly 
useful if you have to enter accented 
characters that are not available on your 
keyboard.
bMemo:
The font created in Font Creator can be used 
in Layout & Editing. In addition, it can be 
edited in the same way as other...

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Creating Custom Stitch Patterns 
(Programmable Stitch Creator)
Programmable Stitch Creator allows you to create and edit programmable fill stitch and motif stitch patterns, 
which can be used in both Layout & Editing and Design Center. More decorative stitch patterns can be 
designed by using these patterns.
This procedure will go through each step of the basic operation.
Step 1Opening a programmable 
stitch pattern
First, we will open the fill stitch pattern to be 
edited. In...

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Step 2[Case 1] Drawing lines to 
edit the stitch pattern
Now, we are going to draw lines between the 
displayed ones using the Line tool of the Tool Box.
Draw the straight lines.
Click .
→The pointer change to look like  .
Move the pointer to the second vertical grid 
line to the right of the leftmost wave, and then 
click the top edge of the work area.Move the pointer parallel to the wave, and 
then click the second vertical grid line to the 
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Repeat the previous operations to add 
another wave between the first and second 
waves on the right side.
Step 2[Case 2] Creating patterns (embossing/
engraving) for region sewing (Fill/Stamp mode)
A stamp can be made by sewing regions of a fill 
stitch pattern with the fill stitch, satin stitch or the 
base stitch set for the embroidery pattern in order 
to create embossing and engraving effects.
In order to do this, the lines of the stitch pattern 
must form closed regions. In...

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Move the pointer along the bottom edge of the 
work area, and then double-click the lower-
right corner to draw a line along the bottom 
edge of the work area.
Apply the embossing/engraving effects.
Click (Region (engrave)) .
Click the first and fourth wave regions.→These regions appear in red and will be 
sewn with short stitches to give the effect 
of engraving.
Click (Region (emboss)).
Click the second and fifth wave regions.
→This region appears in blue and will be 
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Step 2[Case 3] Reshaping a single line to create 
custom stitch patterns (Motif mode)
In Motif mode, you can create original stitch patterns 
by changing the shape of a single line. These stitch 
patterns can be applied in line sewing and region 
sewing in Layout & Editing, and region sewing in 
Design Center.
Switch to Motif mode.
Click Mode, then Motif.
Create the pattern.
Click . 
Click the base line between the start point 
(blue square) and end point (red square).→A block...

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Step 3Saving 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. (In Motif mode, the file is 
saved as a .pmf file.)
For this example, the file is saved as a .pas file.
Save the created pattern.
Click File, then Save.
Select the drive and the folder, and then type 
in the file name.
Click Save.
Quit Programmable Stitch...

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Creating Large-Size Embroidery Designs
Large-size embroidery designs can be created in Layout & Editing.
This procedure will go through each step of the basic operation.
Step 1Specifying the Design Page 
size in Layout & Editing
First, we will specify the size of the Design Page 
to match the size of the embroidery design.
Start up Layout & Editing.
Click  , then select All Programs, 
then PE-DESIGN Ver7, then Layout & 
Editing.
Specify the Design Page size.
Click Option, then...

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Click OK.
Step 2Creating the embroidery 
design
For this example, we will use one of the lace 
embroidery patterns provided with the application.
Import the embroidery pattern.
Click File on the menu bar, point to Import, 
and then click from File on the submenu.Select the embroidery pattern file 
Largelace.pes in the Sample\Design folder.
Click Import to import the embroidery pattern 
file.
Step 3Checking the embroidering 
order
Before the embroidery pattern is sewn, check the...