Brother Brother USB Writer Arranging Embroidery Designs, Opening/Importing Embroidery Designs

Arranging Embroidery Designs

Opening/Importing Embroidery Designs

Creating a new embroidery design

Toolbar button:

1.Click , or click File, then New.

→If the current Design Page has already been saved or has not been edited, a new Design Page immediately appears.

→If the current Design Page has not been saved, you will be asked whether you want to save the changes.

b Memo:

•To save the Design Page, click Yes.

•To abandon the Design Page, click No.

•To return to the Design Page, for example, to modify it or save it with another file name, click Cancel.

2.Specify the Design Page settings.

b Memo:

For more details, refer to “Specifying the Design Page Size and Color” on page 29.

Opening a PE-DESIGN Lite file

An embroidery design that has previously been saved as a PE-DESIGN Lite file (.pes file) can be opened.

a Note:

If a .pes file created with PE-DESIGN version 7 or earlier is opened with this software, the message “This file will be imported onto a new Design Page.” appears before the embroidery design is displayed on the new Design Page.

Toolbar button:

1.Click , or click File, then Open.

→A File Open dialog box similar to the one shown below appears.

2.Select the drive and the folder.

b Memo:

•If the Preview check box is selected, the contents of the selected file will appear in the Preview box.

•To quit the operation and close the dialog box, click Cancel.

a Note:

•Be sure to select a folder that contains

.pes files.

•If a .pes file is saved with Pattern extending off the Design Page or with the number of stitches or number of colors for the design exceeding the Design Page limitations, a preview of the image cannot be displayed.

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