Brother PE-DESIGN V7 Drawing Shapes, About circles and arcs, Drawing a circle or an oval

Arranging Embroidery Designs (Layout & Editing)

Drawing Shapes

The Circle or Arc tool allows you to create several curved patterns: regular circles (or ovals), arcs, fan shapes and arc & strings.

About circles and arcs

Circle Oval Arc

Fan shape Arc & string

All of these patterns, except arcs have an outline and a inside region, and can independently be assigned different sewing attributes. Arcs are simple outlines.

a Note:

When drawing a shape with this tool, select the shape before drawing. You cannot, for example, draw a circle, then change it to an arc afterward.

The setting is applied to all patterns that you will create with the Circle or Arc tool, until the setting is changed.

Drawing a circle or an oval

1.Click on the Tool Box.

→The shape of the pointer changes to

, and the Sewing Attributes bar appears similar to the one shown below.

b Memo:

•You can change the color and sew type either before or after drawing the shape. For more details on changing these settings, refer to “Color” on page 149 and “Sew type” on page 150.

•You can also use the settings in the Sewing Attribute Setting dialog box to define other attributes of the shape. (For more details, refer to “Specifying sewing attributes” on page 151.) If you do not change these settings at this time, the current settings will be applied, however you can modify them later.

2.Click in the Arc shape selector, and then select Circle.

3.Drag the pointer in the Design Page.

→The point where you start dragging is considered a corner of an imaginary rectangle around the oval. The point where you release the mouse button is the diagonally opposite point of the rectangle. The oval will fit inside this imaginary rectangle (its greater axis is along the longer edge of the rectangle, and its smaller axis is along the smaller edge).

b Memo:

To draw a circle, hold down the Shift key while dragging the pointer.

Drawing an arc

1.Click on the Tool Box.

→The shape of the pointer changes to

, and the Sewing Attributes bar appears similar to the one shown below.

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