General Options

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The “General Options” function allows you to set the options for your software before

using it. This is found under the drop down menu Tools, by clicking on General

Options.

Looking at Figure Ref-G-01 - Tab..... “Environments”

a. You can set the language you want to see the software in English, Deutsch, Greek, French, Portuguese, or Spanish.

b. Units:  Metric or Imperial.

c. Default style: The style settings are preset stitch lengths, density, pull compensation, etc;  set to sew best on a specific material.

There are 44 options to choose from:

d. Default thread chart: The default thread chart is used when you are digitizing

a new design. When loading a design that doesn't’t have color information,

there are 22 different thread manufacturers to choose from:

Sulky Rayon

f. Auto match thread colors on loading: When this is selected, the software will

auto-match any design to the “Default thread chart” when you load a design.

Looking at Figure Ref-G-02 Tab.....“Machine”.

A. Activate trim if stitch is longer than (pt) 300 or

30mm. The software will automatically add a

trim command to your design whenever there

is a stitch longer that than 30mm(default).

This is a user defined function, so you can

change it anytime you wish. If you do not

have machine with trimmers, there is no

reason to change or use this function.

Looking at Figure Ref-G-02 Tab.....“Machine”.

B. Split up jumps longer than (pt): 120 or 12mm. The software automatically

splits the distance between jumps to normal stitches of 12mm increments

and inserts them. 120 pt or 12mm is normally the maximum movement a

sewing machine can move before a jump is needed.

C. Remove stitches shorter than (pt) This is used to clean up designs that are

stitched too close. By turning on this function, the software will automatically

clean out any stitches at 2(pt) default from your design.

D. Combine Jumps when reading: When you first load a design, the software

will combine all jumps together adding jumps only if needed.

E. Frame Out location: This tells the frame out function what direction to move

the pantograph, ( Top, Bottom, Left or Right).

Looking at Figure Ref-G-03 Tab.....“Grid”.

A. Spacing: You can set the horizontal and

vertical spacing on the grid, (10mm default).

B. Maintain aspect ratio helps the user to keep

the numbers proportion when changing

horizontal and vertical spacing on the grid.

C. Snap to grid with snap your edit point to the

closes grid point when selected.

D. Style: You can set the style of grid you wish to

see, lines or dots, (lines are the default).

Looking at Figure Ref-G-04 Tab.....“Digitizing”.

A. Input mode: This is how you want to digitize.

There are three options:

1. Simple Draw

2. Bezeir

3. Free Hand

B. Complex Fill is set at a default to Standard

with an angle of 90. You can also set complex

fill to advanced mode and it will give you

the option to set hole and angle during digitizing.

C. Satin is set at a default to Standard . You can

also set Satin l to advanced mode and it will

give you the option to set inclination lines

during digitizing.

Looking at Figure Ref-G-05 Tab.....“Drawing”

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This option will allow the user to turn “off” or

“on” the highlight selected object.

(default is on)

The user can also change the desired color

of highlight object for easier editing.