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Pacesetter BES Monogramming Suite Instruction Manual

Pacesetter BES
Monogramming Suite
Instruction Manual
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Table of Contents
Learning about the Workspace..............................................5
Parts of the Workspace ...................................................................... 6
Title Bar.......................................................................................6
Pacesetter Button................................ ... ... .................................. 6
Quick Access Toolbar.................................................................. 7
Toolbar and Ribbon Buttons ............................................................... 8
Pacesetter Menu Tools................................................................ 8
Ribbon Tools................................................................................ 9
The View Tab..............................................................................11
Simulator ................................................................................... 12
Status Line................................................................................. 13
Color Palette.............................................................................. 14
Using Scrollbars ................................................... ... .. ................ 14
Correcting Mistakes............................................................ ... .. ..15
Opening and Closing Designs.......................................................... 16
Creating New Designs...................................................................... 17
Saving Designs...................................................... ... ........................ 18
Setting up your Workspace Environment ......................................... 19
Changing Machine Format Properties....................................... 20
Adjusting the View of the Workspace............................................... 21
Magnifying and Reducing the View........................................... 21
Hiding Panels Automatically...................................................... 22
Adjusting the Position of the Panels.......................................... 23
Viewing Different Parts of the Workspace (Panning)................. 25
Taking Measurements ................................. .............................. 26
Displaying the Hoop ....................................................................... ..27
Viewing and Hiding the Hoop.................................................... 27
Selecting a Hoop....................................................................... 27
Scaling a design to fill the hoop ................................................. 28
Available Hoops............................................................... ... ....... 29
Getting Help......................................................................................30
Opening the Help ...................................................................... 30
Using the Contents....................................................................30
Using the Index ........................................ ................................30
Using Search...................................................................... ....... 31
Saving Favorite Help Topics...................................................... 31
Printing Help topics ................................................................... 32
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Creating & Decorating Monograms......................................33
Using the Monogram Designer Dialog ..............................................34
Layout of the Monogram Designer Dialog .................................34
Creating a Monogram................................................................35
Viewing the Design Actual Size .................................................37
Changing the thread color in a Monogram.................................37
Changing the Font .....................................................................39
Displaying a Font’s Available Characters............................... ... .40
Applying “Right-side” characters................................................41
Adding Decors to a Monogram ..................................................43
Adding a Frame to the Monogram.............................................46
Monogram Templates....................... ... ... .................................... ... ... .47
Saving a Monogram Template ...................................................47
Applying a Monogram Template ................................................47
Merging Files.....................................................................................48
Editing Designs......................................................................51
Editing Monogram Designs...............................................................52
Selecting Design Object.............................................................52
Copying Segments.....................................................................53
Deleting Segments.....................................................................54
Grouping and Ungrouping Objects in a Design .........................54
Reflecting a Design Object ........................................................55
Aligning parts of the Design.......................................................55
Resizing Design Objects............................................................56
Rotating Segments.................... ... ... .................................... ... ....57
Moving Parts of the Design........................................................58
The Properties Panel ........................................................................59
Adjusting Text Properties ..................................................................59
Changing the Height of Lettering ...............................................59
Width Percentage........... ... .................................... .....................60
Slant...........................................................................................60
Trim Settings..................... .................................... .....................61
Lock Stitches..............................................................................62
Fill Density Setting.....................................................................62
Underlay Settings..............................................................................63
Selecting the Underlay Type ......................................................63
Specifying the Underlay Density................................................64
Specifying the Underlay Stitch Length.......................................64
Inset Distance for Underlay........................................................65
Pull Compensation Settings..............................................................66
Working with the Color Palette ......................................................... 67
Selecting a Thread Chart .......................................................... 67
Searching for a Specific Color.............................. ... .................. 67
Changing a Thread Color.......................................................... 68
Working with Sequence View........................................................... 69
Changing Thread Colors in Sequence View.............................. 70
Sequencing Color Groups.........................................................70
Show/Hide and Lock Color Groups........................................... 71
Using Color Sort .................................................... ........................... 72
Printing Designs ...................................... ..................................... .. ..73
Changing a Design’s Print Settings........................................... 73
Previewing a Design before Printing ......................................... 74
Printing Design Worksheets...................................................... 76
Index.......................................................................................77
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CHAPTER 1:
Learning about the
Workspace
Before you start using the software, we recommend that you understand the Pacesetter BES Monogramming Suite design workspace and learn a few of the basic components outlined in this section.
Topics covered in this chapter:
• Setting up the design workspace environment.
• Showing a hoop in the workspace, and choosing the size of
hoop to be displayed.
• Using the Pacesetter BES Monogramming Suite help.
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Parts of the Workspace
The Pacesetter BES Monogramming Suite workspace contains a number of different areas which have distinct functions. The sections that follow give an overview of what each of these areas does, and the kinds of information about the design that they contain.
Title Bar
The Title Bar appears at the top of the Pacesetter BES Monogramming Suite design window. The Title bar displays information about the design that is open in the workspace: its name, the number of stitches and colors in the design, and the overall width and height.
Pacesetter Button
At the top left-hand corner of the window is the Pacesetter button . Clicking this button gives you access to a menu of
useful tools, such as New, Save, Print, and several others. For
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a complete list of the tools available on this menu, and a summary of their functions, see “Pacesetter Menu Tools” in the next section.
When you open the Pacesetter Menu, you will also see displayed a list of recent files that you have been using. Just double-click on the file name to open it.
Tools available on the Pacesetter Menu.
Quick Access Toolbar
The Quick Access Toolbar is located right along the top of your workspace, to the left of the Title Bar. This toolbar contains tool buttons that you will commonly use, such as Open, Save As, and Print.
The following default tools are included on the Quick Access toolbar: New, New/Recipe, Open, Merge, Save As, Direct Print, Print Preview, Undo, and Redo.
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Toolbar and Ribbon Buttons
You can access the tools available in Pacesetter BES Monogramming Suite through the Pacesetter Button and
the various toolbars. The tables below show the buttons, grouped by location (i.e. whether they are on the Quick Access Bar, or on one of the tabs on the ribbon). A brief description of what the button does is also included. Note that within each tab, some buttons are grouped together by function.
Pacesetter Menu Tools
Tool What it means
New: Creates a new untitled design.
New/Recipe: Opens a new page and allows you to choose a
new recipe and machine format.
Open: Opens an existing design file.
Merge: Opens the Merge Design dialog, which you can use to
import existing stitch or outline files into the current design
Save: Saves the current design.
Save As: Opens the Save As dialog, allowing you to choose
the destination and file type to save it as. Print: Opens the printer dialog on your computer, allowing you
to choose your printer and adjust the printer’s properties. Print Preview: Opens the print preview window, which in turn
will let you print the current design. Print Setup: Opens the print preview window, which in turn
will let you print the current design. Close: Closes the file that you are currently working on.
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Tool What it means
Exit: Closes all open files and shuts down Pacesetter BES
Monogramming Suite; you will be prompted to save any open files.
Undo: Reverses your last action.
Redo: Reverses the action of the Undo command.
Ribbon Tools
The Ribbon appears below the Title Bar. The Ribbon has three tabs: the Home tab, the Arrange tab, and the View tab. Clicking on the tabs displays all the buttons for the functions that are under that tab.
Tools on the Home Tab
Tool What it means
Select: Selects objects in the design window.
Cut : Cuts the selection and copies it to the clipboard.
Copy: Copies the selection to the clipboard.
Paste: Pastes the clipboard contents into the design, at
the end of the design sequence. Insert: Pastes a copy of the clipboard selection into the
sewing sequence immediately following the selected segment.
Delete: Removes the selected segment.
Monogram Designer: Opens the Monogram Designer
dialog. Color Sort: Automatically reduces the number of thread
changes required within the selected objects by resequencing like colors together.
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Tool What it means
3D: Realistically renders your design onscreen.
Grid: Displays a background grid, which helps with
alignment. This grid can be used for the alignment of items on the display.
Hoop: Displays the hoop as it fits relative to the embroidery. Clicking this button a second time will turn the view of the hoop off.
Select Hoop: Accessed via the drop-down menu from the Hoop tool. Opens up the Hoops window, in which you can choose a new hoop.
Fit to Hoop: Scales the design up (or down) to the maximum size of the current hoop on the design window.
Background: Two options are available from this button, Select Color or Select Fabric. Depending on which one you choose, a dialog box will open in which you select either the color, or the fabric pattern, that appears in the background of the active design window.
Ruler: Measures the distance between any two points in a design.
Zoom: Magnifies the design to fit a rectangle drawn by the user with the mouse pointer.
Zoom in: Magnifies the view of the design by a fixed amount.
Zoom out: Shrinks the view of the design by a fixed amount.
Fit to Window: Displays the entire design and loaded images in the window.
Back to 1:1: Returns design to original size.
Slider: Drag the slider to choose a specific level of
magnification; displays percentage of original size. Pan: Allows you to move the design around in the
workspace window by clicking and dragging.
Tools on the Arrange Tab
Tool What it means
Select: Selects objects in the design window.
Horizontal Center: Takes all selected objects and centers
them in the selection box. The objects are moved so that they are centered left-to-right with each other, but they are not moved up or down.
Vertical Center: Takes all selected objects and centers them in the selection box. The objects are moved so that they are centered top-to-bottom with each other, but they are not moved left or right.
Center: Centers one or more selected objects proportionally within the current hoop. If more than one object is selected, the entire group is moved together to the center of the hoop; the objects selected remain in the same position relative to each othe being centered.
Flip Horizontal: Flips one or more selected objects horizontally.
Flip Vertical: Flips one or more selected objects vertically.
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r as they had before
The View Tab
The controls on the View tab allow you to change what appears on your workspace; which panels are displayed, and so on. The areas found on this tab are Windows and Program Preferences.
Windows
In the windows area, check the box to show the corresponding window or panel, and uncheck it to hide that window or panel.
• Sequence View. Shows/hides the Sequence View panel.
• Palette. Shows/hides the thread palette.
• Properties. Shows/hides the properties panel.
• Simulator. Shows/hides the sewing simulator.
• Status. Shows/hides the status bar.
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Program Preferences
Click on the Program Preferences button to open a dialog in which you can set the default machine settings, change the
units of measure, and choose settings for the workspace grid. For more information on this dialog, see “Setting up your Workspace Environment”
Simulator
The Simulator makes it easy to see on-screen how your design will sew out. You can use the Simulator to eliminate potential sewing problems.
When you select Simulator from the View tab of the Ribbon, the Simulator (scrollbar slider and the sewing simulator) will appear at the bottom of the design space. The Simulator controls which parts of the design are drawn in the design window.
You can also open and close the Simulator by pressing Ctrl + R.
Scrollbar Slider
The length of the Scrollbar Slider represents all of the stitches in the opened design. You can move the scrollbar slider by dragging it to see a design as it will look sewn to a particular point. The color display within the scrollbar indicates the thread color that will be sewn when the scrollbar slider is positioned over it. Clicking on the arrows at the ends of the scrollbar will advance or retrace the design position by one stitch.
Sewing Simulator
The sewing simulator allows you to watch your design draw on a stitch-by-stitch basis, simulating the sewing action of your
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machine. The Simulator controls include pause, stop, sew forward and sew backwards. You can push various control buttons and slide the speed control to vary the rate of sewing.
Using the Simulator
The following table explains how to use the Simulator in more detail:
Tools What is does
Previous Stitch: Move backward in the design by
one stitch. Scrollbar slider: Drag the scrollbar slider to
advance the design to a specific position. When the scrollbar slider is positioned over a color, you will see the specified thread color being sewn in the design. The entire length of the scrollbar slider represents the entire design.
Next Stitch: Move forward in the design by one stitch.
Simulate Sewing (backward): Move backward through the design.
Pause/Stop: Pause or stop the design while drawing. When you play or resume sewing your design, stitching will continue from the location of the last stitch.
Simulate Sewing: Move forward through the design.
Speed: Slide the speed control to vary the rate of sewing.
Status Line
The Status Line appears at the bottom of the BES Monogramming Suite window. To show or hide the Status Line, go to the Windows area of the View Tab and check or uncheck Status.
As you move the mouse over different sections of the workspace, this indicator will tell you what that area or button does. You will also find specific design information in other
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areas of the status bar; it shows the total number of segments in the design, the number of segments currently selected, the machine format, the recipe used by the current design, the number of stitches in the selected design components and the hoop being used.
Color Palette
The thread colors for the design are shown in the Color Palette located along the top edge of the workspace. To show the Color Palette (if it is not already displayed), go to the Windows area of the View tab and check the Palette box.
The color palette in Pacesetter BES Monogramming Suite
For more information on the color palette, see “Changing Thread Colors” in the “Editing Designs” section of this manual.
Using Scrollbars
The scrollbars enable you to move easily around the displayed design. There are two scrollbars, one for moving the view vertically, and one for moving it horizontally.
How to use the scrollbars:
• To pan left/right, or up/down, click and drag the track button
.
• Click on the small arrows at each end of the scrollbar to
move the design view incr ementally.
• Click in the track of the scr ollbar, to move the workspace
view by one whole screen.
You can also right-click the scrollbar to display a pop-up menu of scroll actions. The pop-up menu gives you the following options:
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Correcting Mistakes
Undo and Redo are two significant features that allow you to correct mistakes. If you make a mistake and change your mind about an action you just made, Undo reverses the action. Redo puts back the change. If Undo or Redo are grayed out, you cannot Undo or Redo.
To use Undo:
• Do one of the following:
On the Quick Access toolbar click the Undo tool. Press Ctrl+Z on your keyboard.
To use Redo:
• Do one of the following:
From the Quick Access toolbar, click the Redo tool.Press Ctrl+Y on your keyboard.
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Opening and Closing Designs
When you open a *.BRF file in Pacesetter BES Monogramming Suite, this file will contain both outline and stitch information. Note however, that when you open other file types, they will open as stitch segments only.
To open an existing design:
1 To open an existing design, do one of the following:
Click the Accelerator button, and select Open from
the menu that appears.
On the Quick Access toolbar, click on the Open Design
tool.
You see the Open Design dialog box.
2 In the Look in list, browse to the location of the file you want
to open.
3 In the Files of type list, select a design file type for the
design you want to open.
4 In the File name box, enter the file name, or select the file
you want to open by clicking the file.
5 Select Preview to view a thumbnail (a small representation)
of the design.
6 Click Open.
To close a design:
• Click the Accelerator Button, and select Close
from the menu.
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Creating New Designs
When you open Pacesetter BES Monogramming Suite, you can immediately begin creating a new, untitled design in the design window. The design window automatically opens using the default recipe and machine format settings specified in the Preferences dialog. For more information on default settings, see “Setting up your Workspace Environment”.
If you want to start a new design and apply a different recipe to it (that is, not
To create a new design using the recipe dialog:
1 Click the Accelerator , and select New/Recipe .
You see the New Page dialog.
the default recipe), use the New/Recipe tool.
If you select the New tool from the Quick Access toolbar, you will bypass the recipe selection dialog. A new design window will open using the default recipe and machine format settings.
2 In the Recipe list, select the recipe you want to use for your
design.
The Recipe description box in the dialog gives you a brief description of each recipe as you scroll through the list in the Recipe drop-down list.
3 In the Machine format list, select the machine format that
you want applied to the design when created.
4 Click OK.
You see a new design window.
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Saving Designs
Use the Save As command to save designs. The Save As command lets you save an alternative version of the design with a different name, location, or file format. Embroidery designs can be saved in a number of different formats. The default format is the in the Pacesetter outline format (*BRF), but you can also choose from a large number of machine (stitch) formats, such as *.PES, *.SEW, *.JEF, etc.
Regarding outline vs. stitch formats:
Files saved as the outline format (*.BRF). will contain both outline (vector graphic) information and stitch information. Designs saved in this format can be edited without compromising the quality of the stitches, because the stitch information is regenerated when segments are resized.
If the file is saved in machine format, on the other hand, it will contain only stitches, without any outline information. When resizing these types of files, the lack of vector outlines means that the regeneration of stitches cannot be done as well as it is for segments that do mended that you save all newly-created designs as *.BRF at first. Then, do any editing that is necessary, and only save your design in machine format when it is all ready to be sewn out.
Important: It is possible to have stitch (i.e. non-outline) segments in an outline (*.BRF) file. For example, those that are imported into your *.BRF using the Merge command.
If the file you merge into your outline fi le is in stitch file format, it will still be a stitch-only segment, even thought it is part of an outline file; therefore, the same cautions about re-sizing apply.
have outlines. Therefore, it is recom-
To save a design:
1 Do one of the following.
Click the Accelerator button, and select Save As from
the menu that appears.
On the Quick Access toolbar, click on the Save as
tool.
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You see the Save As dialog box.
2 In the Save in list, browse to the location you want to save
your file.
3 In the File Name box, enter the file name for the design you
want to be saved.
4 In the Save As type list, select the file type you want the
design to be saved as.
5 Click Save.
To simply save the changes you make to the current design, use the Save tool.
Setting up your Workspace Environment
You can set up your design workspace environment for all opened design files. You can predetermine the units of measurement you want to use for your designs.
The following sections describe the units of measurement that can be used for designs opened in Pacesetter BES Monogramming Suite.
Metric
The dimensions in Pacesetter BES Monogramming Suite can be displayed in metric values. This is the default setting, which will appear each time you run the software. It is generally preferable for embroiderers to use the metric values because many of the manufacturers of embroidery machines and designs use metric values.
English vs. Metric
Pacesetter BES Monogramming Suite displays inch measurements in tenths of inches. If you think in inches, then you can set the software to use the inch system.
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To set up your workspace environment:
1 On the View tab of the Ribbon, select the Preferences
button.
You see the Preferences dialog box.
2 Click the Environment tab. 3 From the Units list, select the units of measurement you
want used for your designs: Metric or English.
4 Click OK.
Changing Machine Format Properties
All designs in Pacesetter BES Monogramming Suite have a machine format. Machine formats have their own profile settings that determine how embroidery information will be interpreted when you save design files.
When you create a new design file, you can select the machine format for the specific design. The selected machine format can change how the design file is read. When you set machine format properties in the Preferences dialog, all new designs will use these machine format properties as the default settings.
If you open a design with the New/Recipe command, you can select the recipe for the new design in the New Page dialog. This will override whichever recipe is set as the default in the Preferences dialog.
Changing machine format properties after a design file has been opened will not change the machine format of the embroidery designs in that design.
To change machine format properties:
1 On the View tab of the Ribbon, select the Preferences
button.
2 Click the Formats tab. 3 From the Machine format list, select the machine format that
you want applied to new design files.
4 Click OK.
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Adjusting the View of the Workspace
Magnifying and Reducing the View
Use Zoom to magnify or reduce parts of your design. With Zoom
you can either left-click to enlarge your design or right-click to make your design smaller.
When you select Zoom, the cursor changes to a small magnifying glass . To use the Zoom tool, do one of the
following:
• To zoom in on the spot where the mouse is currently
pointing, left-click.
• To zoom out a4gain, right-click.
• To zoom in on a particular area, left-click and drag; the
display will expand to show only the area that you have dragged over.
To use the Zoom Tool:
1 On the Ribbon, select the Home tab. 2 In the Zoom toolbar, click on the Zoom tool.
The pointer becomes a magnifying glass.
3 Do either of the following:
Left-click to make your design larger. Right-click that area to make your design smaller.
To zoom-in on a specific area:
1 On the Ribbon, select the Home tab. 2 In the Zoom toolbar, click on the Zoom tool.
The pointer becomes a magnifying glass.
3 Click and hold your mouse button and drag it to form a
flexible box around the area you want to see in detail.
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4 Do one of the following:
T o increase the zoo m, continue clicking and dragging the
flexible box.
From the Zoom toolbar, click on the down arrow under
the Zoom icon, and use the Zoom tool settings to zoom back out.
Additional options on the Zoom Toolbar:
When you click on the down arrow underneath the Zoom Tool, you will see an option menu. You can choose from any of the following options on this menu:
• Zoom In to make your design larger.
• Zoom Out to make your design smaller.
• To F it to make the whole design the size of the design
window.
• To Selection to zoom to the size of the currently selected
embroidery segment, or set of embroidery segments if more than one is selected.
• 1:1 to see the design at the actual size.
Hiding Panels Automatically
To increase the amount of space for your design window, you can set the Properties and Sequence View panels to the Auto hide mode. When Auto hide is on, the panel will only be visible while the mouse is over it; as soon as you remove the mouse, the panel will collapse to a narrow sidebar.
To turn on Auto hide for these panels, click on the small push­pin icon at the top-right of the panel. When the panel is in
Auto hide mode, the small push-pin will be on its side, like this:
. Now, whenever you move the mouse to another part of the
screen, the panel will be hidden. To turn Auto hide off, click on the icon again.
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Adjusting the Position of the Panels
By default, when you first open the software, the Properties and Sequence View panels appear “docked” in your workspace.
However, there are ways to move any of the panels around into different positions; you can “float” them above the workspace, in which case they can be moved anywhere on your desktop; or you can undock them from their current positions and dock them elsewhere.
You can also combine panels together by “tabbing” them; you do this by floating a panel in front of another panel and then
docking it to that panel with the tab button.
To float a docked panel:
1 Right-click on the panel’s title bar (the grey area at the top of
the panel, which shows the panel’s name, e.g. “Properties”).
You will see a menu of options.
2 Select Floating from this menu.
The panel now floats above the workspace; you can drag and place it anywhere on your screen.
If you wish to re-dock the panel to the same location it was originally, you can just right-click the title bar again and select “Docking” from the menu; the panel will immediately go back to the former location. To dock it elsewhere, follow the steps under “To dock a floating panel”.
To hide a panel:
1 Right-click on the panel’s title bar.
You will see a menu of options.
2 Select Hide from this menu.
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