Layout & Editing window for cutwork patterns
The settings and window areas specifically for cutwork functions are described below.
- Sewing Order
The cutting lines appear in one frame in the [Sewing Order] pane, and the icon for the cutwork needle appears beside the frame.
- Design Page
The cutting lines appear as gray dotted lines in the Design Page, regardless of whether the [Solid View], [Stitch View] or [Realistic View] is selected.
- Sewing Attributes
In the [Sewing Attributes] pane, detailed cutting settings can be specified for the cutwork functions.
- Previewing cutting lines
In the [Stitch Simulator] pane, the cutwork needles are displayed in four different shades of gray.
In a stitch simulation, the cutting lines appear as short gray lines, indicating the needle drop points for making the cuts.
While being edited
In a stitch simulation
- Checking Design Property
When [Cutting] has been assigned to a line from the [Line sew type] selector, [Design Property] screen appears as shown below.
[Color order] can be also viewed in the [Design Property] screen in the Design Database.
- In patterns with [Cutting] selected in the [Line sew type] selector, the line color and region sewing settings are not available.
- Designs containing the line sew type [Cutting] are saved as cutwork patterns.
- Created cutwork patterns can be used only with embroidery machines upgraded for cutwork.
- With Palette Ver.11, the line sew type [Cutting] changes to [Running Stitch] in the following situations.
- When the [Machine Type] setting (on the [Design Page] tab of the [Design Settings] dialog box) is changed from a multineedle embroidery machine to a singleneedle embroidery machine
- When a cutwork pattern is imported while [Machine Type] (on the [Design Page] tab) is set to a singleneedle embroidery machine
- Cutwork pattern cannot be transferred to a machine by using an original card or the Link function.
- Cutwork pattern cannot be created in Design Center. To set the line sew type to [Cutting], use Layout & Editing.