Brother PE-DESIGN Ver.6 - Manual (Page 227)

Advanced Opreation
Programmable Stitch Creator
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Programmable Stitch Creator
b
Memo:
• To move the point horizontally or vertically,
hold down the key while dragging
it.
• Pressing the arrow keys moves the
selected point one grid mark in the
direction of the arrow on the key. If the grid
is not displayed, the pattern moves a
distance smaller than the smallest grid
interval in the direction of the arrow on the
key.
• To delete a selected point, press the
key.
4.
Repeat steps
2.
and
3.
until the motif stitch
pattern is completed.
b
Memo:
• If you move the start point (blue square) or
the end point (red square), the other point
will automatically move in the same
direction.
• The start and end points cannot be moved
closer together than a certain fixed
distance.
Editing a Stitch Pattern in Motif Mode
After creating a stitch pattern, or after opening an existing motif file, you may want to change its shape or
position. To do so, you can proceed in the same way as described above, but in addition, you can select and
move or delete several points at the same time.
Moving and deleting
several points at a time
1.
Click on the Tool Box.
→ The shape of the pointer changes to
.
b
Memo:
The Point Edit tool is selected automatically
when Motif mode is entered.
2.
Click the base line between the start point
(blue square) and end point (red square).
→ The selected point appears as a small
black square.
b
Memo:
• To select additional points, hold down the
key and click each point, or drag
the pointer over the points that you want to
select.
• To select the previous (or next) point in the
line, hold down the key and press
the
→ (
or
←
) key.
3.
To move the point(s), drag them to the desired
location.
→ All of the selected points move in the
same direction.
4. To delete the selected points, press the
key.
→ All of the selected points are deleted.
Shift
Delete
a
Note:
If you click the line of the pattern instead of a
point, a new point is inserted.
Ctrl
Ctrl
a
Note:
The start point (blue square) and end point
(red square) can not be deleted.
Delete
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