Brother PE-DESIGN V7 Opening/Importing Embroidery Designs, Creating a new embroidery design

Arranging Embroidery Designs (Layout & Editing)

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 99.

Opening a Layout & Editing file

An embroidery design that has previously been saved as a Layout & Editing file (.pes file) can be opened.

Toolbar button:

1.Click , or click File, then Open.

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

b Memo:

This dialog box can be resized so that the folder contents can be viewed better. The size of the dialog box is retained until it is changed again.

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.

3.To view the contents of the .pes files in the currently selected folder, click Browse.

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

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