Brother PE-DESIGN V7 - Manual (Page 276)

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Creating Custom Stitch Patterns (Programmable Stitch Creator)
Editing a Motif Stitch Pattern (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
.
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.
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.
Scaling patterns
1.
Click on the Tool Box.
→ The motif stitch is selected.
2.
Move the pointer over one of the handles of
the pattern.
→ The shape of the pointer changes to
, , or , depending on
the handle that the pointer is over.
3.
Drag the handle to adjust the selected
pattern(s) to the desired size.
b
Memo:
The Point Edit tool is selected automatically
when Motif mode is entered.
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.
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.
b
Memo:
• is for scaling the width.
• is for scaling the height.
• and are for scaling both
dimensions at the same time. (The height-
to-width proportion is maintained.)
• If the key is held down while a handle
is dragged, the image is enlarged or
reduced from the center of the image.
Delete
Shift