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To load a design, open the selection menu (32). 
Select designs (A) from the selection bar, then 
choose one of the following four tabs:
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Designs that you have created, adjusted and/or 
combined and saved.
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Designs that are stored in the permanent sewing 
machine memory.
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Designs created especially for use with Shape 
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Designs created especially for quilting. Stored in the 
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Available designs from the selected tab will be 
shown on screen. Touch the desired design to load 
it into Embroidery edit.  
Load a font
Text can be created both with embroidery fonts and 
stitch fonts. Load a font by selecting fonts (F) from 
the selection bar and touch your desired font on the 
screen. 
Embroidery fonts are indicated by a light 
grey background. The font will be loaded into 
embroidery text editor. 
Stitch fonts are indicated by a darker grey 
background. The font will be loaded to sequencing. 
The text created will then be loaded into 
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Load a stitch
To load a stitch, select stitches (A) from the selection 
bar. Select a category and then a subcategory. 
Touch your desired stitch on the screen to load to 
Embroidery edit.
It is possible to load previously stored patchwork, 
single stitch and tapering programs into 
Embroidery edit to stitch-out in the hoop. 
If the stitch contains tapering, the stitch combination 
will be converted to an embroidery design.
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Use the + and - icons to zoom in or out in the 

list of zoom options. 
Zoom to box (B) lets you decide how much and 
where to zoom in the embroidery area. First, select 
zoom to box in the pop-up. The zoom icon starts 

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be deactivated. 
Note: While zoom to box is active the touch functions are 
disabled. To deactive zoom to box without making any 
selection, touch any of the touch function icons. 
How much you can zoom in depends on the selected hoop. 
Zoom to all (C) will show all the designs in the 
embroidery combination in the largest view 
possible. 
Zoom to hoop (D) will adjust the view to show the 
selected hoop.  
						

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When loading designs into Embroidery edit, the last 
loaded design is selected by default.
There are two ways to select another design. 
Either touch it on the screen or step through the 
designs using the arrows (5). The selected design is 
surrounded by a green frame.
Note: A selected embroidery font text is surrounded by a 
blue frame.
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If you have loaded several designs and want to 
make adjustments to some of them, you can use 
multi-select. The multi-select function allows you to 
easily select some or all of your loaded designs. 
Start by touching the multi-select icon (3). A black 
marking frame appears that is used as a cursor 
to highlight, i.e. mark, current design (A). Touch 
a design with the stylus once to mark it or step 
through the designs using the arrows (5) to change 
currently marked design. Touch the design once 
again or touch the select/deselect icon (4) to select 
it.
To add a design to the group of selected designs to 
work with, mark another design and then touch it 
with the stylus or touch the select/deselect design 
icon (4) to select. 
A long touch on the multi-select icon will select all 

from the group of selected designs, mark the design 
according to above and touch it with the stylus or 
press the select/deselect design icon (4) to deselect 
currently marked design.
Note: Currently marked design is shown by a black 
frame (A). A selected design is shown by a green frame 
(B). If currently marked design is selected, it is shown 
by a combination of a green and black frame around the 
design (C). Only selected designs will be affected by 
adjustments. The currently marked design will remain 
unchanged unless it is selected.
When several designs are loaded at the same time, 
the multi-select function is automatically activated 
and all of the loaded designs will be selected. 
						

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Stitch-out order
Designs are by default stitched out in the order 
they are loaded to Embroidery edit. The numbers 
between the arrows (A) show the position in the 
stitch-out order for the selected design as compared 
to the total number of designs in the embroidery 
area. 
The stitch-out order can be changed by using the 
Move design forward/backward icons.
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To change the design stitch-out order without 
having to start over and load the designs again in 
the desired order, you can use the Move design 
forward/backward icons. Select the design you 
wish to move and touch the Move design forward/
backward icons to move it in the stitch-out order.
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When the group icon is touched, any designs that 
are selected on the screen will be grouped together.  
Adjustments made will affect all designs in the 
group. The stitch-out order of the designs might 
change after they have been grouped.
To ungroup, just deselect the icon.
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When touching the delete icon, the selected 
design(s) will be deleted from the embroidery 

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Touch the duplicate icon to make a copy of the 
selected design(s).
If you want more than one copy, long touch the icon 
and a pop-up will open where you can enter the 
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To mirror a design side to side, touch icon (12) 
and for mirroring end to end, touch icon (13).
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This is used to move any design that is outside 
the hoop area into the hoop area. The design will 
be placed as close to the previous position as 
possible.
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Touch the arrow pointing left to undo your latest 
design adjustment. Touch repeatedly to step back 
through your adjustments. 
Note: Not all adjustments can be undone. The arrows 
will be greyed out if undo is not possible.
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Redo is activated when Undo is touched, so 
you can step forward again through your 
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Touch functions
You can use your stylus to make adjustments 
directly on screen, by touching and dragging in the 
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