Brother PE-DESIGN V7 instruction manual Drawing straight lines and curves

Arranging Embroidery Designs (Layout & Editing)

Drawing straight lines and curves

1.Click on the Tool Box.

→Three buttons appear: is for drawing straight lines. (Shortcut

key: Z )

is for drawing curves. (Shortcut key:

X)

is for semi-automatically drawing lines.

(Shortcut key: C )

2.Click the button for the type of line that you want to draw.

→The shape of the pointer changes to

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

b Memo:

•You can change the path shape, color and sew type either before or after creating the shape. For more details on changing these settings, refer to “Path shape” on page 124, “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.

3.Click in the Design Page to specify the start point.

4.Click in the Design Page to specify the next point.

b Memo:

To remove the last point that was entered, click the right mouse button.

5.Continue clicking to specify every point, and then double-click the last end point.

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