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1. Fill Stitch Pattern Editor x P 1 gt rE it rene The pattern which are stored in a file named Fill Pattern will be read into the RAM when you start the McStitch program see Par 5 4 fill stitch area Procedure Click to New A dialog box appears Fill in an new name and the expected size of the pattern 56 New Fill stitch pattern Name New pattern name Width 48 Height 32 Lines a The size can be changed later if you want Set or delete with the mouse arbitrarily many points in the edit field on the left part If you select a pattern from the list with the mouse and click to the button Show fast version double click on the pattern so you see the pattern in the edit field on the left If you want to change a pattern change the desired points in the edit field select the pattern in the list on the right side and click to the button Change If you select a pattern in the list and click on Delete it will be removed from the list If you want to give a certain pattern an other name or change the size of the edit field so select this and click on Rename A dialog box appears to change the name and the size The OK button stores the settings in a file named Fill Pattern This file must be in the same directory as the program McStitch More See paragraph 5 2 fill stitch area If you click to the Cancel butt
2. File Name contains C Date is before 30 11 1996 ET Left you find two check boxes to define the filter you may select one or both File name opens a list box containing the entries v File Name Name Info Customer Info Info info All entries which include the word Info in parenthesis refer to entries in the dialog File Info Infotext therefore we recommend to enter some words for each embroidery design into that dialog Select an entry and enter the search text into the contains box You may also search for embroidery designs which were created before or after a certain date All Click this button to display all embroidery files which are on your hard disk OOO OOO 000 Triple row This is the default type of display All embroidery files are displayed in three rows next to each other Besides the preview image the following informations are listed Date of creation number of stitches number of colours width and height Single row This function displays the files in one single row and additionally the following informations The internal design name customer informations and other informations from File Info Infotext in McStitch The display now looks as below 86 StitchBrowser US SENOS Allkampf Senden Filter All a 12 6 97 3734 Stitches 4 Colors Width 53 mm Height 59 mm All Alfdorf FOST or eas allgaier BST ooo TEN
3. 2 140 14100 mm material thickness Bobbin 80 of calculated It is compound of four inputs 1 of the ideal length corresponds to the line length on the screen 2 Number of the stitches 1 100 mm for the loop with the underthread 3 2 1 100 mm for the material thickness downward and again upward 4 Thread tension of the ideal length of the underthread again the loop with the upper thread is to include into the calculation The values calculated with this function serve just as a clue since the actual consumption strongly depends on the engaged machine the tension the extension of the thread the materials used and many further factors Therefore you will have to do some test runs and then fill in the values that fits to your equipment Clicking upon OK means to accept all changings and exit the dialog box Clicking upon Cancel means to exit the without unchanged values In the Embroidery Information box you find next the button Infotext This opens a small Database containing the name of the embroidery your customer and any other information you may want to add Clicking upon OK means to accept all entries and exit the dialog box clicking upon Cancel means to exit the box without having entries changed The informations in this database are stored together with the embroidery and are therefore available when you reload the design Try to store here s
4. Distance 1 1710 mm i Show Change Stitch spacing determines the max stitch length Randomise This function shifts in connection with Multiple running stitches the offset of the 57 stick in points up to 20 of the stitch spaces If this function is not activated the stick in points of parallel lines will lay exactly side by side and thus create scanning lines Rounds determines whether a single tour double tour threefold quadruple or fivefold running stitch stream will be created of the selected stitch stream Distance determines the distance between lines Shape Stitches If the button Shape Stitches was activated and you generate a running stitch stream with the function Multiple running stitch the shape which is selected in the pop up menu on the right beside that will be used The size of the shape is entered thereby in the field Stitch spacing 1 10mm In the Shape stitch pop up menu all user defined shapes are selectable which have received the type usable for shape stitches Nearer see New Shape in the Edit menu and Multiple running stitch 2 Style sheet Here may certain parameter sequences be saved which then appear in the Types pop up ce gt mal Procedure Make the desired satin stitch settings and click upon New to open a dialog box Enter a name for this style sheet or have it done automatically OK takes the settings over into the style pop up Show This function
5. The redraw may be interrupted with ESC ATTENTION Do not use this function if you want to recalculate an embroidery design The program don t remember this action 14 Change direction 4 Icon left keyboard operating d All selected stitch streams are immediately turned ATTENTION WITH UNDERLAY STITCHES The stitch stream now has the opposite direction Possibly existing underlay stitches now are at the surface of the embroidery If the recalculation mode is active the correct stitch flow can be restored if you activate the menu point recalculation in the Extras menu This means the underlayers are again below the satins The function also turns selected stitch streams which are probably not visible on the working area The redraw may be interrupted with ESC Move single stitch 4 Icon right keyboard operating D For better use of this function we recommend to select the entry Handles in the Options menu The icon inverts Place the mouse pointer precisely on a stick in point and then shift click the mouse The single stitch will follow the mouse movement until you relief the mouse key Connections to other stitches are kept If there is a blue guide line nearby closer than 0 8 mm and the entry Magnetic guides in Options menu selected the stitch stream will snap vertically or horizontally to this guide line If the function is performed on a non selected stitch stream the stitch stream will first become selected
6. Add Stitch Stream Selection 5 Icon right keyboard operating E The icon inverts A mouse click exactly upon one stick in point of a non selected stitch stream adds it to the already selected A mouse click upon a already selected stitch stream deselects it Shift key mouse click selects but one stitch stream and deselects all others equivalent to Select stitch stream J The redraw may be interrupted with ESC Real view mode 6 Icon left keyboard operating f The icon inverts and all stitch streams in the working area are selected If the entry True line width in the Options menu is selected all lines on the work sheet will appear in the original thread thickness depending on the parameters in the menu Settings General Thread wgt Is the entry Hollow lines in the menu Settings General selected at the same time the space covering and the stitch overlapping can be seen If the zoom step 1 1 is selected the program will attempt to construct a 3 dimensional display The redraw may be interrupted with the ESC key Group mode st 6 Icon right keyboard operating F The icon inverts and all selected stitch streams are framed with a dotted rectangle containing a circular cursor icon With this icon you select to oe scale turn skew or scale turn your stitch streams ce The modification of the stitch streams depends on the position of the cursor icon The cursor icon represents the angle point of the modifi
7. Last view Special menu keyboard operating 88 for minus back This function brings back the view in which you had been working before turning to the current one Example Magnify a part of your design with the Zoom glass edit it then jump back with this function for an overview 46 Crop Special menu This function selects all parts and places them upper left in the working area At the same time the size of the working area will be scaled down to the absolute size of the embroidery parts and the new width and height of the working area will be corrected in File Info After having used this function your design will no more match with a loaded template Therefore do not use it before you finished editing your embroidery design Set start Special menu This function turns the mouse pointer to a small reticle To set the starting point click into the working area Jump stitches will now connect the starting point with the first stitch stream to see them select Options Show jump stitches The redraw may be interrupted with ESC Set end Special menu This function turns the mouse pointer to a small reticle To set the final point click into the working area Jump stitches will now connect the final point with the last stitch stream to see them select Options Show jump stitches The redraw may be interrupted with ESC Start Centre Special menu This function sets the starting point to a centre
8. Next we want to scale down the character A to 50 of its size First select all stitch streams of the character A The easiest way to do this is to activate the function Select Stitch stream shift click the mouse and draw a rectangle which encloses completely all stitch streams that are to be selected of course you may also do it with Select Stitch stream and Add Stitch stream Then open the dialog Edit Scale and set the width and height to 50 75 Reduce Enlarge Selection width Height 100 When you leave the dialog with OK the design should be displayed scaled down to 50 of its size J Absolute 1214 1 10 mm 389 1710 mm Now it is your turn to practice the same procedure with the character B Have you finished this successfully That s fantastic Now we want to enlarge the characters A B but this time we will use the function Group mode a First select all parts of the characters A B and activate the icon Group mode 4 A dotted rectangle with 8 handles is now drawn around all selected parts In the middle of the rectangle you find the so called disc cursor perhaps you might refer to the description of the grouping icon Your design should now look like below TA TA TA T ee To change the size shift click upon a handle at a corner and draw the mouse When you release the mouse key the design will be redrawn in
9. 4 6 2 The Edit menu Undo Edit menu keyboard operating 88 Z default Apple shortcut Serves to restore the status before the latest redraw Each time you alternate the current design an invisible copy is made and stored in the memory The multiple cancel function of McStitch allows you to undo working steps as many as you have presetted in the menu Settings General max 8 steps The entry states which working step is next in the line for the undo function This entry is only responsive when the memory of your computer has enough free space to store the invisible copies Redo Edit menu Serves to restore a working step which has been deleted with the Undo function The entry states which working step is next in the line to be restored There may be restored as many working steps as has been deleted with the Undo function This entry is only responsive when the memory of your computer has enough free space to restore the next working step Cut Edit menu keyboard operating 88 X The functions Cut Copy and Paste work as usual on Apple computers Cut deletes all selected stitch streams from the working area and copies them into the clipboard see your computer user manual Paste brings the clipboard back into the working area ATTENTION Selected stitch streams outside the visible screen area will likewise be deleted Copy Edit menu keyboard operating 38 C for Copy All selected stitch streams are copied into the
10. Currently the direct control of machines from Toyota and Fortron and Barudan is possible To do this you have to connect your embroidery machine with the serial interface of your computer IMPORTANT Bevor starting your computer the machine must be turned on To send the data to your Toyota machine Typ 820 820 A 850 860 851 and ESP9000 are supported the DIP switch number 8 on the top block on the machines display panel must be turned on If you use Toyota Disk Mode the DIP switch number 8 on the buttom block must be turned on too Have your embroidery design ready for transfer Clicking upon this menu point opens the following dialog box Please start transmission at the machine Start now the transfer at the machine If you use Toyota disk mode a dialog to insert a name 8 characters and a number 8 numbers apears To activate the transfer to the machine you have to press the SET button on the machine twice The progress of the data transferation is shown by the filling of the blue bar After successful transmission you will hear a signal tone and the dialog disappears Pay attention that you use the correct port printer or modem You can activate the port in the Settings embroidery data Apple Talk must be deactivated Apple menu Cooser Open template File menu Open template Serves to load an image file into the background of your embroidery design and thus use it as a model 33 The following grap
11. Delete single stitch LR Be sure that the button Handles in the menu Options is selected The icon inverts A mouse click upon precisely one stick in point deletes it If you click upon a non selected stitch stream it will first be automatically selected and than the stitch You may also delete single stitches with the function Move single stitch and the key SPECIAL FUNCTION Deleting multiple stitches Activate the function than shift click your mouse beside any stitch and you get a lasso aa instead of the mouse arrow Draw a free form or a rectangle with simultaneously holded option key arround the stitches you want to delete When you release the mouse key all stitches within the form will be deleted Trash can 15 Icon left keyboard operating BACKSPACE Serves to delete all selected stitch streams ATTENTION Selected stitch streams outside the visible screen area will likewise be deleted Type generator 15 Icon right keyboard operating O Serves to create embroidery fonts or directly in an embroidery design italicised or straight multiple line text of any size single or multiple coloured vertical or horizontal curved extended 23 or compressed shifted or turned justified left right or centred A mouse click upon the icon inverts it Now there are three ways to activate the font generator First way Clicking into the working area where you want the text to begin opens the Type generator Second way
12. Display Hollow lines in connection with Options True line width enables the display of the thread course With that it becomes obvious whether the thread course runs on top or beneath another thread Template colour opens a dialog box where you may set the colour for templates Symbols opens a dialog box where you may set the colour for special functions STOP is shown as a small circle Cutter is shown as a small triangle lower frame is shown as a double arrow and with drill all stick in points are shown as small crosses Retain origins keeps invisibly the origins while you create an embroidery design Live Manipulation up to Stitches determine here up to how many stitches McStitch should keep the real time display when with the Group function parts of the embroidery design are scaled rotated or tilted When you make your choice here please be aware of the computer velocity of your equipment Unselected stitch streams opens a list box from which you may select how non selected stitch streams are to be displayed Brighter shows unselected stitch streams about 30 brighter then the assigned colour Dotted brings almost the same effect as Brighter does however the redraw may slow down Grey shows all non selected stitch streams in grey colour You might prefer this option when you work with light colours since selected stitch streams are then easier to detect Thread wgt 1 10 mm is needed for the display of True line width i
13. Stitch spacing 20 to 40 Offset makes no difference A random fill stitch area will be create with variable stitch spacing between minimum 20 10mm and maximum 40 10 mm E E E E E E T E E E E E E In this variant the settings makes no difference because this is created with user defined shap No 1 71 Stitch spacing 36 Offset 0 The stick in points lay exactly as in the first line directly parallel one below the other This version creates a hard pattern Stitch spacing 36 Offset 3 This generates a slanting shape Every 12th line the stick in points lay exactly like the first line a a a a a a a a a a a Stitch spacing 36 Offset 18 Every 2 line the stick in points lay like the first line The pattern is visible but not so hard I J Stitch spacing 36 Offset 9 Stick in points at the same place every 4 line The pattern is soft and the points are far enough apart 1 I LLI Q 1 The angle sets the inclination of the lines up to 360 Choose Angle lets you adjust the tilt in the working area To do so activate the Fill Stitch Fill Routine icon S then shift click the mouse and draw a line into the working area The inclination of this line represents the tilt of which the stitches are created when you release the mouse key Pressing the shift key while drawing lets you create the line in 45 steps Example Outline of th
14. running stitch lines If this button is not selected then the satin stitch routine will attempt autonomously to determine the stitch positions Broken Satin Stitches This function converts very wide satin stitch streams to broken satin stitches That means the satin stitch width is inter stitched once more Offset determines the distance between the inter stitches Underlay creates a running stitch line which lies exactly under the satin stitches In doing so the underlay stitches start at the end side of the satin stitch streams and the satin stitch stream runs back above the underlay stitches ZigZag Activates ZigZag looks like a wide satin for the underlay stitches 53 Hatta Frequency set the width of the ZigZag underlayers It is like the stitch spacing from satin stitches The smaller the value the further are set the stitches apart Double Distance determines that the underlay stitches run back and forth and have a percentage distance to the satin stitch width 100 would mean that the underlayers would lie exactly on the outer mosten stick in points of the satin stitch line M Use determines where the fixed density of roundnesses or corners is calculated Max means it is calculated on the longer side Average 50 means on a 3 4 of the satin stitch width Average means exactly on the half Min means on the inner side of the satin stitch width Lad Lad Lay in from 1 100 mm by This function
15. 28 10 97 15982 Stitches 2 Colors ooo See Width 189 mm Height 109 mm oop sarni aaa 28 10 97 12082 Stitches 3 Colors Width 100 mm Height 100 mm Double clicking an embroidery design opens a window which contains all informations about this design A basic requirement for this is of course that the informations were stored with the original embroidery design Many data s are stored automatically However some manual entries are still necessary see File Info More data s The overall view of a design may look as follows Close the windows by clicking the close window button top left Edit Oo Alfdorf A Alfdorf Date 12 6 1997 Stitches 3734 Colors 4 Path Stickerei 7500 Stickdateien A Stick Alfdorf Info Running time Remove 0 times Frarme change Quality Ass Cut interlining Remove interlining Applications Raw time Stops 0 times Thread cutter 0 times Color change 0 times Total time 0 00 min 0 00 min 0 00 min 0 00 min 0 00 min 0 00 min 0 00 min 0 00 min 0 00 min 0 00 min 0 00 min Thread usage 3 Schwarz 2 Rot 1800 1 Wei 4 Gelb 0702 Bobbin 7 165 m Miscellaneous Identifier Frame size 0 x 0 mm Frame number 0 Interlining size 0 x O mm With this button you open a selected embroidery file in McStitch to process it immediately Should McStitch not be started yet this is
16. A dialog box will ask you at which centre the starting point is to set There are three choices centre of frame Special Embroidery design centre of working area File Info centre of embroidery design The redraw may be interrupted with ESC First Stitch stream Special menu keyboard operating 5 1 for first This function shows and selects the physical first stitch stream All other stitch stream are deselected The keyboard operating is possible only with activated icon Select Stitch stream Last Stitch stream Special menu keyboard operating 0 for last This function shows and selects the physical last stitch stream All other stitch stream are deselected The keyboard operating is possible only with activated icon Select Stitch streamt 47 Select Stitch streams Special menu This function serves to select stitch streams by criterias In the dialog box select all colours and or special functions you are looking for You may combine the criterias with the and or or function When you leave the dialog with OK resp RETURN all stitch streams that match the attributes will be selected Select Stitch streams O Black O Yellow O Red C Rose l O Blue O White O Lightblue C Orange O Green O Green O Brown O Bluegrey J Lilac J Pink O Colors O stop O Trim Q AND aA Ca Example If oi like to see all red stitch streams which have set the functions STOP a
17. Menu This list box displays the names of all windows that are opened at present It may look like the following one Clean up Untitled 1 Eagle Motorcycle Snoopy Football w shoe Clean up allows the organised listing of the window in succession with a small shift from top left to bottom right Thus each window can easily be reached per mouse click Beneath this menu point you find a list containing the names of all opened windows Selecting one activates it and brings it into the foreground The name of a window is also stated cantered in the windows bar An asterisk before the name indicates alterations which has not yet been saved New windows File New and designs which has been loaded from an embroidery data disk receive the name Untitled and a serial numbering 63 Par 5 1 We create a new embroidery design To create a new embroidery design start McStitch Direct after a new start of McStitch the splash screen with the following possibilities appears to open an existing McStitch file to create a new file or to interrupt Yersion Pro 1 3b13 PPC Design amp Prograrmming M Dheus 1990 1997 Computerstickerei Gietl Tel 49 9433 201111 Ser No 393237 Registered for Ce If you click to the button New the following dialog appears New File Width mm Height mm M Recalculation If the program is still active and you want to create a new design click to the File menu
18. Shift click your mouse and draw a line into the working area where you want the text to be located Pressing the shift key additionally while drawing causes the line to be oriented strictly horizontal vertical or with a 45 angle Use this way to rubber band the text into a given length or to create it with a given slant orientation Releasing the mouse key opens the Type generator The length of the drawn line is inserted into the field Fixed Length and its check box is activated Third way Shift click your mouse and draw a rectangle while additionally pressing the Option key S The rectangle represents the size of the text and is handed over to the Type generator The height is inserted into the field size and the check boxes Fixed Length and Fixed High are activated Typesetting p Fonts Size 200 1710 mm Extend by 100 H i Character spacing 10 1410 mm i Formali Boki i Helvetica fett Line height 250 1710 mm Kaufmann bold e Z rich Calligraph O Connect characters O Fix ends I NewYork Alignment Justify center v J Rounded Block Li Fixed Length 403 110mm MFixedHeight Script i Serifenschrift i cnc Sey Lett i LisystemFont AmericanUncD z l CE O Fill stitches i Load _Detete_ Text e eee E Textbox O warp ram v re FT Enter your text here Choose the settings as described belo
19. Shift click your mouse and press the Shift key additionally to create a circle instead of an ellipse or to create a square instead of a rectangle Press the Option Key to relocate the start point of circles to the outermost corner of the shape and the start point 19 of rectangles and rounded rectangles to their centre Manipulate User defined Shapes by additionally pressing the following keys Shift Key prevents size alteration Option Key prevents rotation Shift Option creates an exact impression A shaded contour shows the form which you would like to produce This can be changed in the size and form by moving the mouse After leaving the mouse button a running satin or fill stitch form will be produced To create a rounded rectangle is different After you have recorded the outline and have released the mouse button you can influence the radius of the well rounded corners by moving the mouse A renewed mouse click produces the final form The presetting in the menu Settings Running Stitch Satin Stitch and Fill Stitch controls the stitch type stitch spacing etc The redraw may be interrupted with ESC Fill stitch routine 10 Icon right keyboard operating J Serves to fill a closed shape with fill stitches Define the outline of the shape with a running stitch stream Start Stitch stream land Lengthen stitch stream or Double stitch stream 1 Be sure that the button Choose angle in the menu Settings Fill Stitch i
20. There is still a further kind to produce a bent or distorted stroke This happens if you activate the button distorting before you leave the Type generator box In the pop up menu you can choose Freely Bows Bridge and Circle Text 2 g After leaving the dialog you see the writing as a contour in your working area Around the writing a blue square is drawn This contains small squares at the corners and in the middle above and below Depending on which kind of the distortion you have chosen you can pull now at the corners or in the middle of the blue square with the mouse If you release the mouse button the contour will be drawn newly During the distortion phase it is not possible to call up an other function or to activate the menu If you have distorted the writing so you would like to have you can finish the distortion by pressing the CTRL key to start the calculation of the stitches You can generate with it for instance following type styles 77 MAS Macsti Macsuck pacStiteg Since the letters do not have to be connected the letters can be selected successively individually moved bent skewed rotated coloured and scaled Results like these examples are feasible with a few mouse clicks M C a 1 Col Par 5 7 Generate your own embroidery font You want to issue your own font in all thinkable sizes shapes and colours and are already somewhat experienced in creating embroidery designs No pro
21. These are called satin stitches Thereby the thread is laid almost parallel side by side The stitch spacing should correspond approximately to the count of yarn With narrow lines the spacing may be a little greater McStitch provides different functions to create satin stitches Lay 1 satin stitch stream This is the easiest way to lay straight satin stitches with a constant width Here only the stitch spacing and the satin stitch width is given All parameters are to be entered into the dialog fields in Settings Satin stitches Procedure Activate the icon Lay 1 satin stitch 1 Shift click the mouse at the starting point of the satin stitch stream draw a line and release the mouse at the end of the stitch stream 1 running stitch gt satin stitches with this function you create a satin stitch stream with constant width but with bendings angles or curves For this you need first to create and select a la a stream as a centre line created with Start Stitch stream and Lengthen stitch stream When you then activate this function the satin stitch routine 2 climbs along the 68 running stitch stream and transforms it to a satin stitch stream This function needs likewise the stitch width and the stitch spacing as parameters Example With reference points Running Stitch stream gt to Without reference Satin stitch stream Through these reference points the satin stitch stream routine knows how
22. X and Add stitch stream M than click upon the icon If you now select one of running stitch lines Select Stitch stream L the assigned second stitch stream will be likewise selected By the dotted connection lines you can see the slant of the satin stitches With such assigned running stitch streams you also can create fill stitches Fill Stitch Fill Routine since assigned running stitch streams behave as one closed running stitch stream 22 Cancel satin stitch assignment 13 Icon right keyboard operating M Serves to separate two running stitch lines which have been assigned to each other with the the function Assign satin stitch i or which have been created with the function Double stitch stream Connection areas and Connection lines disappear Insert single stitch 14 Icon left keyboard operating n Be sure that the button Handles in the menu Options is selected The icon inverts A mouse click upon precisely one stick in point inserts a stick in point exactly between the selected and the following stick in point A mouse click upon a line inserts a stick in point exactly at this position of the line shift click your mouse to insert a great number of stitches at this position If you click upon a non selected stitch stream it will first be automatically selected and than the stitch stream inserted You may also insert single stitches with the function Move single stitch and the key
23. a satin stitch stream Example You want to make a connection from satin stitch stream 1 to satin stitch stream 2 and end the stitch stream at the bottom picture 1 starting situation Proceed as follows select stitch stream 1 Select Stitch stream R picture 2 select Lengthen stitch stream land activate the function by a mouse click anywhere into the working area A line will now follow your mouse movement This line lengthens the stitch stream outgoing from its end Each new mouse click into the working area sets an additional stick in point Now run along under the satin stitch stream to its starting point picture 3 activate the function Connect Stitch streams land click upon any stick in point of stitch stream 2 Thus stitch stream 1 and stitch stream 2 are connected and make now one single large stitch stream picture 4 Stitch stream 1 i selected Stitch stream 1 a ra connected with Stitch Bes stream 2 op Stitch stream 1 lengthened 67 This way single stitch streams are connected in order that the embroidery machine has to use the thread cutter as less as possible and to avoid unnecessary jump stitches which all have to be removed from the embroidery later on Another possible application for running stitches is to fix the ends of a stitch streams This is necessary to avoid that the end of the embroider material does not come loosen Though there is the menu point Edit Fix ends to attach six stitches to t
24. again Mirror vertically Edit menu Mirrors all selected parts upwards above the centre line Mirror horizontally Edit menu Mirrors all selected parts upwards above the centre line to the right Rotate Edit menu keyboard operating 88 D After selecting a dialog box appears to enter the angle of rotation The rotation occurs clockwise by degrees It is performed when you click upon OK resp press the RETURN key Scale Edit menu All selected stitch streams can scaled up and down percentually or by entering a constant Upon selection a dialog box appears to enter the height and the width 39 Reduce Enlarge Selection width O Height 100 O Absolute 323 1710 mm 307 1710 mm Saca With the tabulator key you can change from height to width To create an absolute size activate the button Absolute and enter the value in 1 10th mm If you can give a width resp a height value only then leave the field for the unknown value empty Then the design parts are proportionally scaled up or down OK performs alterations Cancel discards them Skew Edit menu Serves mainly to set fonts in italics The skew value is entered in 1 10th mm The tilt occurs to the right The higher the design part the lower the tilt Density Edit menu ATTENTION This function will be used in future versions Clean up Edit menu keyboard operating B Serves to remove small numbers of
25. and then the stitch may be moved Multiple point moving If you want to move more stitches at the same time click and hold the mouse button beside the stitches You get a lasso icon instead of the mouse arrow a Move the mouse arround the stitches you want to select and leave the mouse button All stitch in points inside the free form are marked If you shift click to one of these marked points you can move all these points The stitch in points follow the movement until you leave the mouse button Connections to the other stitches are kept To unmark the stitches click beside the marked stitches or move another non marked If you use the option key during the marking you get a square instead of a lasso Special function Delete stitch or insert stitch Place the mouse pointer precisely on a single stitch and press the key to delete it or press the key to insert the stitch exactly between this stitch and the next one When you place the mouse pointer on a line and press the key a stick in point will be inserted exactly at this position of the line To delete several consecutive stitches hold the key and the left mouse key and move the mouse upon the stitches you want to delete By a hunting effect the stitches will be deleted successively Special function Single stitch crossing Select a single stitch by a shift click with the mouse key when you keep the mouse key shifted you may cross through the design forward and backward
26. at the end of a design and the jump stitches at the end of the design to be passed over The jump stitches will then be carried out only at the restart of the embroidery machine If this is desired select this button Max Stitch Enter here the maximum stitch length of your embroidery machine The highest possible value is 127 for jump stitches Enter here the stitch length for jump stitches Use Cutter from 1 10 mm jump stitch length Select this button when you want McStitch automatically to send write thread cutter codes 1 10 mm jump stitch causes that a thread cutter code is written sent when a jump stitch would become longer than the value you entered here Some punching systems create machine code with very short segments and decomposes contiguous stitch streams into many small single stitch streams and single jump stitches The following three functions will read such embroidery data disks and automatically correct them Replace single Jump stitches This function connects jump stitch streams which consists of only one stick in point automatically with the next jump stitch stream with normal stitches This function converts jump stitch combinations into stick in points Ignore jump stitches This function comprises all jump stitches to one long stitch Jump stitches will only be accepted before or after a special function or when the beginning or the end of a design is recognised Port for direct connection Determine here to which
27. be done by pulling the small blue handles If Freely is active you can pull at the four corners At Arc in the middle at the lower line At bridge in the middle of the lower line and on the left side of the lower line After leaving the mouse button the outline of the letters will be redrawed To finish the function and to calculate the stitches press the Ctrl key At Circle text a dialog box appears to the entry of parameters Circle Text O Radius 1000 1410 mm Extends bo e Deg Middle 0 Deg O inside Co The Radius the Extends in degrees the Middle of the text in degrees and inside and or outside text can be set If the button Radius is activated so you can set the radius half diameter of the circle in 1 10 mm The Size the Extend and the Character spacing will be taken from the Type generator dialog The direction is clockwise right around The angle of the startpoint and the end point are automatically calculated by McStitch If the button Extend is activated the text will be expanded so far like the value in the field on the right beside that Example 360 degrees closed circle 180 degrees is exactly a semicircle The radius and or the diameter of the circle will be automatically calculated from McStitch Middle indicates the center of the text 0 degrees is exactly above 90 degrees on the right side 180 Degrees exactly below If the button Inside is activated the text will
28. better produced with a satin stitch line A satin stitch stream consists of a zigzag stitching course That means that the order of the stick in points jumps back and forth between the outline of the stitch line This happens with a Stitch spacing that matches with the thread thickness The thread so is laid parallel side by side so that the line appears completely filled in the embroidery To create a satin stitch stream several parameters are needed stitch density 7 Satinstitch width a A satin stitch stream can of course likewise have an alternating stitch width To create such a satin stitch stream the outline has to be determined If large areas have to be filled fill stitch areas are used This stitch type allows the thread to be laid out fully covering the area since intermediate stitches are set in regular or irregular spaces The intermediate steps usually are placed in a shifted way because side by side laying stick in points would create scanning lines This shifted arrangement of stitches is called Offset For this stitch type likewise an outline the stitch spacing the line spacing and the angle have to be determined Now we became acquainted with all main stitch types except for the jump stitches The term jump stitches is strictly speaking a little misleading for these stitches are used to join together the single stitch streams To this point we would like to give now some further explanation The embro
29. clicking upon individual colours controls whether the auto tracer fills this colour area with fill stitches captures just the outline or ignores it completely The order in which the colour buttons are activated represents the order they will be processed 35 Each colour may have assigned to its own settings before you activate it Settings fill stitches For further details see Par 5 10 Preparing a template Trace template Photo File menu This function creates an embroidery file from a scanned photo landscape animals humans etc The routine use horizontal satin stitch streams with alternating satin stitch width If the template is dark the satin stitch width become wider and if is lighter the satin become a smaller width Prepare the template 1 Use enough contrast Use Photoshop to change the lightness and the contrast 2 The template must be big enough The bigger the better detailed 3 The template must be greyscaled or black white A coloured one must be transformed first 4 The resolution of the template can be 72 dpi or higher The following dialog apears T_ Phototrace Line height 1 10 mm Stitch spacing 1 10 mm M Delete Zero stitches M Only on the edges Cancel OK Line hight this fixes the maximum satin stitch width in 1 10mm The wider the rougher Don t use width lower than 2 mm Stitch spacing the same feature than in Settings Satin Delete zero
30. clipboard see computer user manual and may be inserted as often as needed see menu Edit Insert The content of the clipboard is stored in the memory until the function is selected again The stitch streams in the clipboard may also be exported to other graphic programs e g Freehand Illustrator or Photoshop Paste Edit menu keyboard operating 38 V Serves to insert stitch streams from the clipboard into the top left part of the working area All parts are selected and are surrounded with the frame of the function Groups Therefore the parts can be shifted immediately to their final position 38 Delete Edit menu All selected stitch streams are deleted without having a copy stored in the clipboard ATTENTION Selected stitch streams outside the visible screen area will likewise be deleted Hide Edit menu All selected stitch streams become invisible However the parts remain at their place and retain all their special functions To be made visible again with Show resp Show all ATTENTION Storing the embroidery design upon fixed disk or upon a embroidery data disk always includes the invisible parts Show Edit menu With this function the stitch streams which have been made invisible last with the menu point Hide become visible again This occurs in reversed order of their having been made invisible see also Show All Show All Edit menu ALL design parts which were made invisible menu point Hide become visible
31. dialog boxes also contain Pop Up Fields where you choose from several entries You recognise a Pop Up Field by a shadow at the bottom and the right side of the field and a small arrow down at the right end in the field You select an entry in a Pop Up Field by shift clicking the mouse and drawing it Following a list of the Pop Up fields in the different dialog boxes The dialog box Font generator contains a Pop Up Field for the alignment of text The dialog box More Data a Pop contains Up Field to select machines The dialog box General contains a Pop Up Field to choose how to display non selected stitches The dialog box fill stitch Settings contains a Pop Up Field to select patterns The Filter box of the Embroidery browser contains two Pop Up Fields to select search criterias 11 Par 4 5 Description and Naming of the Icons On the left side of a window are 2 rows with icons 1 Start Stitch stream 2 Double lenghtening 3 Connect Stitch streams 4 Change direction 5 Select Stitch stream 6 Real view 7 Zoom 8 2 running gt satin 9 1 running gt satin PYM UPN ZH ASS Iz mone o p 0 m Lenghten Stitch stream Origins Cut Stitch stream Move single stitch Add Stitch stream selection Group mode Special functions Lay 1 satin stitch stream Multiple running stitch stream e o 10 Shapes Running Satin Fill m S Fill stitch routine 11 Ruler Afk Bezier curves Running Sat
32. done with this button automatically and then the embroidery design is opened ATTENTION If you have two versions of McStitch installed on your hard disk the latest version will be opened 87
33. interface Printer or Modem you connect your machine for direct control 52 Satin Stitches Settings menu keyboard operating 88 L This dialog box contains all satin stitch parameters Satin stitch Settings i pStylesheets a x H Use Length 4 i Density Stitches cm i i 25 B26 z f O Max i i Width 26 1 10 mm j 20 B15 i Average 50 i 187810 O Average i 254B30 UL50 cheek aca i Omin 254B40 UL70 p i i 257B607Br267UL70 M Semiautomatic i May in C Broken Satin stitches i from 20 17100mm Offset 20 1410mm i by 33 i z O Underlay i Show H O Satin i Mod Corners from New i Distance 30 ox DENSITY determines the number of stitches per cm 25 equals a stitch spacing of 0 4 mm Stitch spacing Satin stitch width WIDTH is necessary with the functions 1 running stitch gt satin stitch 2 Lay 1 satin stitch stream 1 Shapes Running Satin fill 99 land 2 running stitches gt satin stitches U Remove guides determines whether the running stitch lines not the origins should be erased Optimise should always remain switched on Semiautomatic should always remain on If two running stitch lines have the same number of stitches then the function 2 running stitches gt satin stitches U will orient itself at the stick in points of the
34. operated with the RETURN key Par 4 3 Pop Up Menus In order not to overuse the screen space some menu points or icons open sub menus They are called pop up menus because they appear with a pop when you touch the corresponding menu point with the mouse pointer Shift clicking and drawing the mouse through these menus lets single points appear inverted This functions are activated or selected by releasing the mouse key The following menus and icons contain Pop Up menus Zoom Pop Up in the window left top Types Pop Up next to it right in Running Satin Fill Bounds of the FontEdit menu Load embroidery data and Save embroidery data and possibly Import Pattern of the File menu Replace shapes and Delete shapes of the Edit menu Shapes Running Satin Fill icon Beee Dialog boxes may also contain Pop Up menus See Par 4 4 SiG Zoom Pop Up In the window upper left you find the Zoom Pop Up menu It displays the zooming rate of the current window setting The Zoom Pop Up is scaled down with the key 1 and scaled up with the key 2 When you click with the mouse on the zoom display the following Pop Up menu appears By clicking on an entry the design is immediately displayed in the corresponding zooming rate There are 8 steps available to scale the Design up to its 32 fold size or to scale it down to its 1 8 size A mouse click on the sign reduces the zooming rate by one step that is by one half a la
35. stitch stream you have to activate the menu entry Recalculate in the Special menu keyboard operating Option B If you set the Jump In point first and create a new stitch stream after that the new stitch stream owns this startpoint automatically This means that running stitches with the actual parameters Running Settings menu where generated in the shortest distance to the stitch stream Example Stitch stream Recalculation generated Jum pdn point set activated or Jumpin point Stite h str eam 3 generated When you have set the Jump In point and you want to reset this again simply click to an other position in the working area and activate recalculate again If you have set the Jump In point and you want to delete it from the working area simply click again to the Jump In point icon in the tools palette Jump Out point set 16 icon right Keyboard operating P With this function you place a new endpoint of a stitch stream running satin fill The icon inverts Place the mouse arrow in the working area where you want to set the startpoint and press the mouse button The Jump Out point icon will be shown Faster move the 26 mouse cursor to the place where you want to set the Jump Out point and press y on the keyboard Until now you have only announced the intention to change the endpoint position of an existing stitch stream To transmit the new endpoint to the stitch stream you have to a
36. stitch streams McStitch also performs single stitch operations like insert delete move etc Further description of the functions please find in the paragraph about the stitch types To work properly with McStitch your hardware should meet the following system requirements A 68030 processor with 25 MHz at least 8 MB RAM and at least 8 MB free disk space a 15 or better a 17 monitor and a scanner resp a digitiser After this preliminary discussion we are ready to start with a description of the functions of McStitch We suggest that you start the program and try out the functions while reading this manual By doing this you soon will become well acquainted with the procedure of creating and editing new designs Par 1 3 Installation Guide 1 Start your computer and insert the CD 2 Read the instructions of the READ ME file and follow the instructions 3 Launch your McStitch program How to use this guide We recommend that you carefully read through each paragraph In each paragraph you will find bold printed words or sentences This indicates that there are further explanations to this item Please refer also to these paragraphs if you have difficulties with a description Punching and Editing are complex subjects and it is not that easy to comprehend the set up of an embroidery design Par 1 4 General Settings Like all Macintosh programs McStitch works with windows tool boxes dialog boxes and menus Please make
37. the function and do not close the window The same effect has a click upon the Close Window button upper left in the window bar Save File menu Save keyboard operating 88 S for Save Serves to store the design in the internal format upon fixed disk or disk Attention An already existing design with the same name will be overwrited without warning If you did not yet assign a name to the design a the title bar displays Untitled a dialog box will open where you may input a new name Auto Backups Every 10 minutes McStitch saves automatically the current file using the suffix Backup Therefore if needed you always can resort to this backups Save as File menu Save as keyboard operating 88 A Serves to store the design in the internal format upon fixed disk or disk A dialog box opens where you may input a new name An already existing name for this design is ignored Thus you may store the same design with different names 31 Load machine data File menu Load machine data This menu point opens a pop up menu with the following entries Fortron File Barudan file Tajima File Melco File Pfaff File Toyota File Fortron Disk G Barudan FDR3 Disk ZSK Disk Tajima Disk Select the type of loading File opens the file selection box of the operating system and you may load an embroidery file from the internal fixed disk Disk requires an emb
38. their hard work they never had enough petty cash in their purse these called themselves embroiderer Still there was this small embroidery company whose owner wouldn t put up with this situation and he started to look out for an inexpensive computer program hoping this would settle the matter But unfortunately he had to learn that all the programs he came to know were of no use for his purposes Either he got just a few paltry editing functions or he was offered a punching studio with digitiser enlarger font computer and editing tool as an everything included system for which he had to pay several years sales volume This situation led to the idea of the McStitch program Now after twelve years of developing the McStitch program together with some skilled programmers it can proudly be introduced as a global system which contains everything an embroidery company needs Punching system editing system font editor Type generator and an integrated database system And best of all it can be offered so reasonably priced that it is within everybody s means Par 1 2 What Is An Embroidery Design An Embroidery design consists of four basic groups of stitch types 1 running stitches 2 satin stitches 3 fill stitches 4 jump stitches There are of course many more stitch stream models like underlay stitches parallel running stitches tacks cross stitches form stitches etc but actually these are just subvarieties of the fo
39. to bend As you see the stick in points of the running stitch stream serve here as reference points to the routine Thus the stitch slant at corners and angles is controlled Roundnesses require more stick in points Long straight lines followed by a 90 angle need stick in points close to the angle to control the beginning and end of the stitch slant 2 running stitches gt satin stitches This function is used to create satin stitch streams where the stitch width changes To do this the outline of the stitch stream has to be defined with two running stitch streams mostly this is done with the function Double lengthening I The alternate stick in points of the outline serve now as reference points for the satin stitch routine To analyse the stitch slant already while creating the outline activate Options Connection lines This function displays dotted lines between the reference points of the outline For this the outline stitch streams need to have the same number of stick in points This may look like below 69 Broken Satin stitches This function is needed as soon as the satin stitch width exceeds 7 mm With that a satin stitch is fixed with the grounding material by an additionally stick in point The function is activated by a button in the satin stitch dialog Settings Satin stitches Creating stitch streams with this function is the same procedure as with the foregoing ones but the result will look like below Th
40. which the running stitch stream represents the centre line If you apply the function Origins 4 on this satin stitch stream then 2 running stitch streams will appear at the outline of the satin stitch stream and the satin stitch stream will disappear If you do this twice you get back the center line of the satin 18 Multiple running stitch 9 Icon right keyboard operating I Serves to create running stitch streams or double resp threefold quadruple or five fold running stitch streams with regular stitch spaces create a new running stitch stream Start Stitch stream Lengthen stitch stream or select one Be careful not to select a already existing multiple running stitch stream Attention don t use an existing multiple running stitch stream A mouse click upon the icon creates stitch spaces resp multiple running stitch streams as presetted in the menu Settings running stitches Example Running stitch stream ON i Running with stitch i width 20 triple sa A Running with stitch a k width 10 single w Fi En If the button shape stitches in the running stitch dialog Settings menu is activated the shape which is selected in the pop up menu right side in this dialog will be produced as a chain put on to the length of the stitch stream You should pay attention absolutely to it that the shape is produced only as 1 fold running stitch Shapes Running F
41. works preparations and subsequent machinery The Pop Up field Machine opens a list box with machine types All presettings of the menu Settings Machines are available here Select your machine and then click upon Calculate to start the calculation 30 Note The informations of Infotext and More Data may also be used in connection with the Stitch Browser Par 3 6 side and are available there for quick researches Open File menu Open keyboard operating 88 O for Open The file selection box of the operating system opens GL a stick v Stickerei 7500 Bj Apple The Power to be the best E A R T H U R Estriche bersicht Auswerfen E ABENSTEI STK E ABESTEIN STK E ABI 1997 El Appel Dieter ffnen Erstellen Ay ABC stick A7 El ABC stick Backup S E ABCDEFG1 STK AMAA M bersicht anzeigen Here You may load a design in the internal McStitch format To see a preview of the selected design activate the button Show Preview The preview construction may take some time and depends on your computer configuration To avoid the preview construction just deselect the button Close File menu Close keyboard operating 88 W This function closes the active window If you did not yet save any modifications of the design you will have three choices Either save the modifications and close the window or do not save the modifications and close the window or cancel
42. yourself familiar with the User s Manual of your Macintosh computer and how to handle a mouse before you start McStitch When you install McStitch the first time it already will have so called default settings This includes colours needle assignments settings for satin fill and running stitches options data output and display This general settings are loaded from the file McStitch Prefs when you launch the program and are used when you create a new embroidery design File new or load stitch datas from an embroidery data disk in machine code Load machine When you install McStitch this file is copied into the directory System preferences and should always be kept there You can change the general settings and save them so that your own preferences are used for new embroidery designs See menu point Settings Save Settings In case you want to clear all of your individual settings just activate the Default Settings in the Settings menu McStitch overwrites the McStitch Prefs file in the systems preferences directory McStitch will use these default settings when you start it the next time In addition to the general settings each embroidery design has its own specific settings If you change settings in an embroidery design colours needle assignments etc these settings are saved together with the embroidery design in the internal McStitch format When you open the design later File Open also the specific settings for this d
43. 789 lt gt This function opens the Letter Selection dialog which contains all characters specia a nen cn tags eens See signs and figures of the computer If you Rees an he aera eae ree st select an already existing character it will AACENOUSAaATAC Eee TIT AGasesGaGH be displayed upper left in the working oe L Se MB OO eHOmssr narMnfssows area and all stitch streams which belongs epovFsdes ARGGe se9 47a nn to this character will be selected a ROR ITIO cd Uubaw eka eNe No character Stitch streams which do not belong to it become invisible Selecting a character which does not yet exit will close the dialog No character This button makes all stitch streams of the font visible Bounds FontEdit Menu The item is responsive only with activated Edit Mode and opens a list box with the following entries Baseline Halfline Ascent Descent Top Bottom Base line closes the pop up and displays a horizontal line which follows your mouse movement Clicking into the working area will draw the base line at this place 61 This line should be the set up point of the character With each new letter it is only the base line which must be set anew All other lines must be set only at the first character of a font Half line Is called just like the base line This line can be used to display the jump off point of the characters A reasonable approximate level would be at the level of t
44. S in 1mm steps with the arrow keys and additionally holded shift key The redraw may be interrupted with ESC Zoom glass 7 Icon left keyboard operating g The mouse pointer turns to a magnifying glass with a or a icon A mouse click into the working area scales up the details within the working area at one step The position of the mouse pointer will become the centre of the magnified details Pressed Shift key mouse click scales up two steps command key mouse click scales up three steps Option key mouse key scales down Special functions 7 Icon right keyboard operating G A dialog box opens with 15 different colours and special function buttons Farbe fiir gew hlte Stichziige i Schwarz CL Gelb Rot Rosa Blau Wein 2 3 4 Hellblau E 5 6 7 Orange Gr n E Braun Oo Flieder E 1 Grau e x fs m fe N Em y m Sonderfunk STOP Fadenschneider Bohrer Ausfahren To assign a new colour to a stitch stream click upon Select Stitch stream and or Add Stitch stream selection next click on the icon Special functions and then upon the corresponding colour box Clicking upon STOP Cutter or Eject frame assigns this functions to the ends of all selected 17 stitch streams and exits the dialog In the working area the STOP function is displayed by a s
45. TABLE OF CONTENTS Manual for the Program McStitch by MacStation These keywords you find 1 Introduction 1 2 What is an Embroidery design 1 3 Installation 1 4 General Settings 2 Program modules 2 1 Punching system 2 2 Editing system 2 3 Font editor 2 4 Database 2 5 Data Transfer with other programs 2 6 Browser 3 Peripherals 3 1 Scanner 3 2 Digitiser 3 3 Disk drive 3 4 Interface 4 Operating 4 1 Mouse 4 2 Keyboard 4 3 Pop Up Menus 4 4 dialog boxes 4 5 icons 4 6 Menus 4 6 1 File 4 6 2 Edit 4 6 3 Options 4 6 4 Special 4 6 5 Settings 4 6 6 FontEdit 4 6 7 Windows 5 How to create a sample of an embroidery design 5 1 We create a new embroidery design 5 2 Making of running stitch streams 5 3 Making of satin stitch streams 5 4 Making of fill stitch areas 5 5 Editing of designs 5 6 Creating Text 5 7 Generating your own stitch font 5 8 Connections with other programs 5 9 Making embroidery data disks 5 10 Preparing a template 6 The Stitch Browser 7 Index on the pages OOOO WMAWAONAWN Par 1 1 INTRODUCTION About McStitch How it came about Once upon a time there was a small Embroidery company being upset finding that there were two kinds of people One kind smiling all the time earning lots of money having plenty of leisure time and the best job in the world these fellows called themselves puncher Then there were the others stressed out run down always working and wondering why despite
46. a MWY lets you determine that in narrow a hy A hil e p v Maximum curves or sharp corners the inner a i EERE T ba gt Middle 50 stitches which would become closer She ee gt than 1 100 mm are to be shifted s pasa ees Middle back at This avoids of a too small z E stitch spacing at the inner part of the e A Minimum E curve or corner a ee ae B fi b E u Stitches shifted back 33 Modify corners from degrees This function causes a special treatment of sharpen angles with satin stitches Normally this function should be activated and should set between 91 and 110 degrees The results looks so 54 fp Not modified LE EPP Modified Style sheet Here may certain parameter sequences be saved which then appear in the Types pop up Lr EE Procedure Make the desired satin stitch settings and click upon New to open a dialog box Enter a name for this style sheet or have it done automatically OK takes the settings over into the style pop up Show This function sets and display all parameters of the selected entry Change to modify a style sheet adjust the desired parameters select the entry which you want to change and then click upon this button Deletes This function removes a selected entry Rename This function opens a dialog box into which you may enter a new name for the style sheet Fill stitches Settings menu keyboard operating 88 E This dialog box contains all fill stitch par
47. ameters Fill stitch Settings Stylesheet wry Line spacing k 1710 mm y i 2436 009 AWV90 0 AE Stitch spacing 36 to 36 1410mm 27364 009 WV90 0 AE Offset 9 1410 mm i 2 36 009 WO 2 AE m H Parallel 0 2 AE Angle 0 Deg i Parallel 90 2 AE Broaden by 0 1 10mm i Underlay 907 5 Underlay 0 5 I Remove guides I Anchor start 2740 01 0 Free 2 AE M Automatic M Fix end W Choose Angle i Ij Overl Border None v i noe Gees range J Pattern TEST1 v Edit mmo e Cace Co eg Line spacing determines the distance between lines in 1 10 mm With a 40er thread a distance of 2 10th mm is necessary to cover the area Stitch spacing determines the max stitch length from to If both values are equal an even rhythm will be produced If the values differ McStitch will produce so called random fill stitches These two values then determine how long the longest resp the shortest stitch may be Thus an uneven rhythm can be produced see also Par 5 4 fill stitch areas Offset determines the shift of the stitches in relation to the next line 55 Offset Line spacing Example Stitch space 36 offset 12 causes the stitches of the fourth line to lay as in the first line With this function the image of a fill stitch area may be alterated Stitch spacing Angle determines the clockwise tilt angle of the li
48. annel perforated tapes only on special request and for extra charge In case of need please get in touch with us Par 3 4 Machine Interface Embroidery machines of Fortron or Toyota can directly be connected to the computer with a special serial cable and data can be sent directly to these machines without using an embroidery data disk It is planned to control embroidery machines from Tajima and ZSK likewise at a later date Paragraph 4 Operating Par 4 1 Mouse The mouse is the main input device of the McStitch A mouse click activates a function or performs it immediately The key CTRL terminates the function resp an action Some functions require that you shift click the mouse and then draw it These functions are terminated or started when you release the mouse button Par 4 2 Keyboard You can operate menus icons dialog boxes as well as pop up menus with your keyboard Abbreviations CTRL Control Key A Shift Key 38 Command Key Option Key Construction of menus A greater part of the menu points can be operated with combinations of key strokes in 9 connection with the 8 key If a menu item contains a letter in brackets the menu point can operated with the Key Construction of icons Left column from top to bottom A O Right column from top to bottom A A AO Entries in dialog boxes have one letter underlined Select them with and the corresponding character Boldly bordered fields can be
49. atin and you can create this shape automatically in any design For Shape stitches running satin and fill stitches can be used It is been found very meaningfully that the jump in point lies on the opposite of the jump out point Thereby the form is guaranteed a seamless string together This can be placed then as a chain on an arbitrary running stitch stream see Settings Running stitches and Multiple Running stitches The user defined shapes are stored in a separate file named Shapes in McStitch s own format in the same level of which McStitch was started Delete Shape Edit Menu Shift clicking upon this menu point opens a list box containing your shapes Releasing your mouse upon one entry deletes this shape without warning Replace Shape 41 Edit Menu Shift clicking upon this menu point opens a dialog box in which you can change the name of a shape as well as the stitch types you had assigned to it With OK resp RETURN you confirm the changes with Cancel you discard them Select All Edit menu keyboard operating A for AII This function selects all visible stitch streams The redraw may be interrupted with ESC 42 Par 4 6 3 The Options menu Show jump stitches Options menu keyboard operating S for jump stitches Turns the display of jump stitches off or on These are shown as dotted connection lines between stitch streams Jump stitches cannot be created separately McSt
50. be placed on the inside of the circle The direction of the text changes then anticlockwise left around Fonts This list box with a scroll bar at its right side shows all loaded fonts with its system callings To create an embroidery text at least one entry must be selected displayed inverted In this list you can see all entries of embroidery fonts created by McStitch The fonts must be stored in a folder named Fonts which must be in the same directory than the McStitch program When you launch McStitch the program checks all entries in this folder and displays only the names of the fonts Only if you use one of these fonts to prepare satin 25 letters McStitch load the complete font into the RAM of the computer So you can use an embroidery font only if you have stored this font in the fonts folder before you launch McStitch For further description see Par 5 6 Create Text Jump In Point 16 Icon left keyboard operating p With this function you place a new startpoint of a stitch stream running satin fill The icon inverts Place the mouse arrow in the working area where you want to set the startpoint and press the mouse button The Jump in point icon will be shown Faster move the mouse cursor to the place where you want to set the Jump In point and press x on the keyboard Until now you have only announced the intention to change the startpoint position of an existing stitch stream To transmit the new startpoint to the
51. blem With the Font editor of McStitch you create your own fonts and integrate them into your embroidery design Let s start with an example e scan an appropriate font type or e start your image processing program Photoshop create a new file containing text in any font style of your operating system Set all characters next to each other as close as possible and use a height of about 2 5 cm Save this file as bitmap in the TIFF format For our example use the file Chicago which was sent along with the program e start McStitch prompt a new working area File New and set a different template colour which will make it easier for you to lay the stitch streams Settings General Template Colour e load the image file Chicago Open template Your working area should now look as below 78 a File Edit Options Special Settings FontEdit Windows e Now activate FontEdit Edit Mode e assign a name to the font FontEdit Name e select the first character you want to work with FontEdit Character For our example select A e set the parameters for base line half line ascender descender top and bottom lines see description to FontEdit Bounds Take care that the parameters fit all characters you may like to try it out first with characters like j or g etc If you change these settings later on the alteration will apply to all characters of the font e select Options Connec
52. cation At the grouping frame are handles which allow with shifted mouse key proportional or unproportionale modifications resp determine the graduation of turn and skew Example Perhaps you want to enlarge a stitch stream proportional without changing the position upper 16 left Therefore place the cursor at the upper left corner of the frame and draw your mouse with shifted mouse key at the right lower corner When you release the mouse key the stitch stream will be drawn new proportionally enlarged k In the menu Settings General you find the point Live Manipulation up to stitches Select this item when you want your embroidery designs being modified in real time mode otherwise you see a rectangle during modification Just try out to see how the functions work You move the stitch streams with shift clicking within the rectangle and drawing your mouse Press the SHIFT KEY additionally to move groups exclusively horizontally or vertically If you press the OPTION KEY while moving some stitch streams a copy of these stitch streams will apear when you leave the mouse button When you release the mouse button the stitch streams will be redrawn Is there a blue guide nearby and the function Magnetic guides in Options menu activated then the grouped stitch streams will snap vertically or horizontally on this guide The snap radius may be designed in the menu Settings General Groups may also be moved in 1 10 mm steps with the ARROW KEY
53. consecutive stitches from selected stitch streams In a dialog box you may enter the value in 1 10th mm from which on the clean up of minimal stitches is to be performed Loop until done deletes all stitches lower than the set value otherwise only one clean up run is performed It is possibly necessary to perform several clean ups with a step wise increase of the value McStitch attempts to alter the design with this function as less as possible In the menu File Info the current number of stitches may be compared with the before running clean up and the smallest stitch spacing may be ascertained The redraw may be interrupted with ESC Bound lines Edit menu With this menu point the outline of satin stitch streams can be picked up Then the stitch stream is deleted and the outline appears ATTENTION This functions may not work properly with multiple connected stitch streams or with stitch streams that contains underlay stitches Fix ends Edit menu Attaches resp deletes as selected in the dialog box at the end of selected stitch streams a locked cross is It consists of 6 single stitches with a side length of 4 10th mm X 40 The redraw may be interrupted with ESC Smoothie Edit menu Out of a selected cornered running stitch stream a smooth rounded running stitch stream can be created This is done by stringing together multiple stick in points This is discernible at the best in connection with the function Opti
54. ctivate the menu entry Recalculate in the Special menu keyboard operating Option B If you set the Jump Out point first and create a new stitch stream after that the new stitch stream owns this endpoint automatically For a better understanding of this function we explain it detailed in steps 1 The satin or running stitch stream breaks at the position of the Jump Out point into 2 symbol blocks 2 The program adds stitches to the first block with the actual parameters Running Settings menu until the end of the second block 3 The second block will turned 4 The first block with the added stitches connects to the second block Example Stitt h str eam Recalculation generated activated or Jum p Oul point Stitc h str eam set generated When you have set the Jump Out point and you want to reset this again simply click to an other position in the working area and activate recalculate again If you have set the Jump Out point and you want to delete it from the working area simply click again to the Jump Out point icon in the tools palette 27 MENUES Undo Move Redo Move Fortron File Cut 2X File Barudan file Copy C New 3N Tajima File Paste Vv Info sel Melco File Delete Open 30 Pfaff File Close sew Toyota File Hide X Show Cy Save xs Fortron Disk G Show all Save as Barudan FDR3 Disk Show jump stitches ZSK Disk Mi
55. ctly upon the starting point Equivalent thereto are the options Special Set start and Special Set end These points will be only visible when Options show jump stitches is selected No Undo Options menu With this the undo function of the Edit menu can be switched off This might be necessary only with insufficient memory less than 8 MB Show template Options menu keyboard operating V With this menu point a loaded TIFF or IMG imagefile may be shown resp hidden see menu File Open template Double extension Options menu This option serves to extend two selected stitch streams in succession which have the same number of stick in points see Lengthen stitch stream and Double stitch stream If the numbers of stick in points differ then an error message will appear and only the physically first selected stitch stream can be extended Connection lines Options menu When this option is activated then with the function Double stitch stream a dotted line is drawn from stick in point to the opposite one 45 This is especially useful if a satin stitch stream is to be created from the two running stitch streams since thus the stitch position is easily discernible see 2 running stitches gt satin stitches Besides you see whether two stitch streams are assigned to each other see Assign satin stitch PI and Cancel satin stitch assignment PI Connection area Options menu Like the Connection line
56. culation had to be activated In all McStitch files before version 2 0 and in files coming from embroidery data disks this feature is not present Example 1 Change the parameters in the Settings menu Satins Running or Fill You can also change activate or deactivate underlayers 2 Activate the stitch stream Select stitch stream Lk 3 Choose the menu point Actualise in the Specials menu The new parameters will immediately set to the selected stitch streams Attention All single stitch operations Move single stitch x Insert single stitch TI Delete single stitch LR and Cut stitch stream E3 you used before on these stitch streams are lost 49 Par 4 6 5 The Settings menu General Settings menu keyboard operating 88 K for Configuration This dialog box serves for several settings concerning screen display connections Browser etc General Settings Display M Hollow lines Deselected Stitches Brighter v Template Color Symbols Retain origins Thread wgt 4 1410 mm M Live Manipulation up to 1000 Stitches Connections M Connections up to eI 1710 mm no extra stitch M Smart connections Preview Browser Save preview M Save Info Miscellaneous Maximum overview size UNDO Steps 8 Width 300 Height 200 Snap Distance 8 O Mesure in inches The box consists of four parts Display Connections Preview Browser Miscellaneous
57. dialog with OK All defined colours will now be available when the icon Special functions is activated At the saving of the design the colour settings are automatically saved too If you want to use this setting as a general setting for all future designs you may save them with Settings Save Settings see General Settings of the Program in Par 1 4 58 Background Settings menu This function opens a dialog box in which you may choose the background colour Clicking upon a coloured icon sets immediately this background colour and exits the dialog Slow Motion Settings menu Select this function only when no embroidery design is opened The following dialog box appears Slow Motion Settings The slow motion redrawing mode is active if the Caps Lock key is locked You can force a redraw by pressing the space bar Slow Cmd 10000 psec Normal 5000 psec Fast ctrl 500 psec Into this box three values for the speed of the redraw of an embroidery design can be given As described above in the box these values are used to slow down for better recognition the run of an embroidery designs If you shift the Caps Lock key and then cause redraw by pressing the space bar you can watch in three different speeds how the embroidery design is created The values are given in 1 1000 u sec The higher the value the slower the redraw Value 1 shows the speed with additionally pressed Command K
58. e fill stitch area Free angel from bottom left to top right side 72 Free angel from bottom right to top left Angle 0 degrees A fill stitch area with irregular outline is created in several segments This is necessary to avoid interruptions in the fillstitch design The button Automatic tells McStitch to create the fillstitch area as one stitch stream and to create automatically the necessary connection stitches If you don t want McStitch to do this you will have to connect the individual segments of the fillstitch area manually Example n uil Lpi HHH al 4 LA I I I LLI th tt it il 3 z E Eo TE E 5 SE Outline Automatic Manually The manual connection of the segments is done with underlay stitches Procedure Select a segment Select Stitch stream RD and extend it Lengthen stitch stream I to the beginning of the next segment Thus created stick in points serve as underlay stitches Now activate the function Connect Stitch stream and click upon the 2 segment All other segments have to be connected with the same procedure see also Par 5 4 Creating of running stitch streams When you generate a fill stitch area it can be indicated also to produce a satin stitch or running stitch outline around the fill stitches automatically Settings fill stitch Border The contour is used thereby as centre line of the border The borders are managed as separate stitch streams and not connected di
59. e first guide from the zero point of the ruler Options Ruler Distance Designates the space between the following guides Number Select this button to create only a certain number of guides Enter the number into the dialog field Delete existing guides Select this button to delete all already existing guides and set only the new one Select this button and enter a zero into all dialog boxes to delete all existing guides Recalculate Special menu Keyboard operating b When you have scaled rotated or wrapped stitch streams you can reset the original stitch parameters without loosing the connections to other stitch streams The requirement for the work with this function are the origins When you created the file File menu New the button Recalculation had to be activated In all McStitch files before version 2 0 and in files coming from embroidery data disks this feature is not present The main purpose for this function is in combination with Jump In point L and Jump Out point 2 Attention All single stitch operations Move single stitch Insert single stitch T Delete single stitch LR and Cut stitch stream E3 you used before on these stitch streams are lost Actualise Special menu Keyboard operating lt You can use this function to set new parameters to existing stitch streams The requirement for the work with this function are the origins When you created the file File menu New the button Recal
60. e function erases your disk Cancel exits the dialog Further details see Par 5 8 Create embroidery data disks Save machine data File menu Save machine data This menu point opens a pop up menu with the following entries 32 Fortron File Barudan File Barudan file with Header Tajima File Melco File Pfaff File Toyota File Fortron Disk P Barudan FDR3 disk ZSK Disk Tajima Disk Select the type of saving File opens the file selection box of the operating system and you may save the embroidery design in original embroidery machine code upon the internal fixed disk of your computer Disk requires an embroidery data disk MARCO FORTRON BARUDAN FDR 3 ZSK TAJIMA MELCO PFAFF in the external disk drive If you inserted an unformatted disk a dialog box would ask you whether you would like to format this disk Clicking upon OK and then confirming your choice formats the disk in the preselected format Otherwise the embroider disk dialog opens Clicking upon New opens a dialog box where you may enter the name and the design number looks as below or similarly Name for new file Name Name Number 9999 Sancel Clicking upon OK saves the design at the next free disk space number Take care to use the correct characters and figures for the different formats see create embroidery data disk Par 5 8 Send to Machine
61. e last stick in point by pressing the Backspace key Now train a little with this functions and try to create an exact circle of at least 10 stitches eal found this a little difficult you will enjoy McStitch s function Shapes Running Fill Fill m which creates automatically running stitch circles However to do this McStitch needs some information Stitch spacing tell McStitch how great the distance between two stick in points may be 65 Small circles require a shorter stitch spacing than larger does Enter this parameter in the menu Settings Running stitches and additionally choose 1 Rounds Shapes Running Fill Satin tell McStitch which type of shape you want him to create Shift click upon the icon and select Oval from the list box Stitch type tell McStitch in which stitch type you want him to create the oval Activate the Run button in the types selection bar above the window Ln ENS Place and size Shift click into the working area at the approximate centre of the circle Now draw the mouse oval or draw the mouse with additionally pressed Shift key to define the size of an exact circle Quite the same way you may also create a triangle rectangle polygon or an user defined shape Now having created a running stitch stream you may with a simple mouse click transform it into a double or threefold stitch stream Select in Settings Running stitches the number of rounds you want to create e g 2 or 3 rounds then sel
62. e setting possibilities of the Offset and all other satin stitch parameters please find in the description of the menu point Settings Satin stitches Please refer also to the sample files which you have received with McStitch and which show some different ways to use satin stitches 70 Par 5 4 Creating a fill stitch area First create the outline with Start Stitch stream lt and Lengthen stitch stream You may start at any place in the working area but you must end at the starting point If you need enclaves areas which are not to be filled with stitches create its outlines likewise To create a fill stitch area with two running stitch streams Double lengthening h you have to assign them with the function Assign satin stitch l see Assign satin stitch page 24 Select all stitch streams Select Stitch stream R and Add Stitch stream Below an example for enclaves Next set the parameters for the fill stitch area in the dialog Settings fill stitches To a count of yarn of 0 4 mm fits a line spacing of 2 10 mm to achieve a grounding covering That means that you usually set this value to the half of the count of yarn Thus woollen yarn takes a line spacing of either 3 10 mm or 4 10 mm for yarn size of 12 resp 2 28 Fitting values for the Stitch spacing are between 30 10 mm and 50 10 mm and depend on your embroidery machine The Offset prescribes the regular or irregular fillstitch design Some examples
63. ect the stitch stream which you want to transform Now activate the icon Multiple running stitch stream 2 and your stitch stream will be transformed There is yet another way to have a running stitch stream created p E to Sl create curved lines you may use the function Bezier curves Running Satin The principle of a bezier curve is explained with the description of the functions Please refer to this paragraph and you will soon be able to create curves or wave lines Here are some examples for running stitch streams Running SS 1 fold Running SS 2 fold Running SS 3 fold The single running stitch stream was created with the functions Start Stitch stream land Lengthen stitch stream The double and threefold stitch stream was created from the 1 shape with the function Multiple running stitch stream 2 and the corresponding parameters in Settings Running stitches This threefold running stitch stream was created with the function Shapes Running Fill Satin woole 66 This single running stitch wave line was created with Bezier curves Running Satin Running stitch streams are also used to create outlines and guides for satin stitches or fill stitches That means that these stitch types require existing running stitch streams The function Lengthen stitch stream serves to create Underlay stitches and Connection lines That means that single stitches are added to a stitch stream in order to run along under
64. entation directly with McStitch provided your scanner is equipped with a Photo Shop Plug In Just copy the plug in file into the directory System preferences When you now select File Acquire template a pop up menu listing your plug in files will appear and after choosing one all functions of this plug in are available Par 3 2 Digitiser 8 If you use a digitiser DIN A4 or A3 you can activate Start Stitch stream either with the pen or by pressing key no 1 of the reticle cursor on the tray After that automatically Lengthen stitch stream is activated Pressing Return resp CTRL resp key no 2 of the reticle cursor terminates the function Par 3 3 Disk drive With McStitch you create or edit embroidery designs They can be loaded from a 3 5 disk in embroidery data format or are created with the program and saved on a embroidery data disk Since embroidery data disks sometimes have a rather unusual format the process of reading and writing embroidery data disks is performed with an external disk drive The following formats are supported ZSK Marco Fortron Melco Pfaff Tajima and Barudan FDR 3 disks The types of codes of the different embroidery machines are automatically created by McStitch and are converted into the corresponding machine code Since 3 5 disks at present are the standard in recording devices and have so far no alternative concerning price and data safety we decided to support systems like Yaquard and 8 ch
65. es Name v Z rich Calligraf Basics Menus are activated by clicking upon the title bar Shift clicking and drawing the mouse selects the menu entries and releasing the mouse key starts the function Descriptions of each menu entries please find below 3 periods at the end of a menu entry indicate that there is a dialog box to enter needed parameters resp to show more information about this entry Arrow right gt at the end of a menu entry indicates that there is a pop up menu behind this entry A hooklet before a menu entry indicates an activated function mode or presetting 28 Par 4 6 1 The File menu New Keyboard operating 88 N for New Serves to create a new empty working area A dialog box will ask for the width and height in mm of the new design New File Width mm Height mm M Recalculation Info Keyboard operating 8 I for Info Embroidery Information Name Greger pov oo a PATERNAL a Output Width bo mm Streams 21412 i i 7 Stitch 16278659 8722 Height 55 mm HE senes i Le Length 10 26 16 41m i i Stops 0 0 0 Thread usage i Trim 0 0 9 Max Stitch 2 074 2mm Min Stitch 0 170 1mm i Available memory 1307K 1307K This dialog box shows the high and width of the working area of the current design in mm The values may be changed here up to max 999 x 999 mm In the right half of the dialog b
66. es a satin stitch stream between the two running stitch lines The running stitch lines disappear and turn to Origin stitch streams These are invisible but may be called back with the function Origins l The presettings in the satin stitch dialog controls how the stitches are laid Lay 1 satin stitch stream 8 Icon right keyboard operating H Serves to create straight satin stitch lines with unchanging width The icon inverts shift click with your mouse into the working area A dotted line will follow your mouse movement until you release the mouse key Then the satin stitch stream will appear instead of the dotted line of which the dotted line represents the centre line If you apply the function Origins 4 on this satin stitch stream then 2 running stitch streams will appear at the outline of the satin stitch stream and the satin stitch stream will disappear If you do this twice you get back the center line of the satin The presetting in the menu Settings satin stitches controls the satin stitch width and the stitch spacing 1 running stitch gt satin stitch 9 Icon left keyboard operating i Serves to create straight satin stitch lines with unchanging width bend points corners or roundnesses create a new running stitch stream Start stitch stream Lengthen stitch stream l or select one Be careful not to select a double or threefold running stitch stream A mouse click upon the icon creates a satin stitch line of
67. esign are loaded see also Copy Settings and Paste Settings SUGGESTION Create an empty embroidery design File New set all the preferences you like and save the empty file somewhere on your hard disk File Save Once you want to restore your General Settings just open this file File Open and save the settings anew Settings Save Settings while this file is activated Par 2 1 Punching System The Punching system mainly has the following functions Start Stitch stream L4 Lengthen Stitch ane and Double Stitch stream 4 to create running stitches underlay stitches and outlines and to add single stitches at the beginning and at the end of a stitch stream 1 running stitch gt satin stitch L2 to lay a satin stitch line with fixed satin stitch width 1 satin stitch stream J to lay a straight satin stitch line with regular satin stitch width 2 running stitches gt satin stitches I to lay a satin stitch line with alternating satin stitch width Multiple running stitch L2 to lay Single Double Threefold running stitch streams Shapes Running Satin Fill moe to lay rectangles ellipses rounded rectangles Polygons and user defined shapes in running stitch satin stitch and fill stitch type Fill stitch routine to lay convex and concave fill stitch areas with enclaves Bezier curves Running Satin 4 to lay curved running and satin stitch streams You create these stitch types interactively on the screen usin
68. ess additionally the option key S and draw a rectangle for the length and the height of your text e now enter the parameters into the dialog box as described with the functions description e leaving the dialog with OK generates now the text with the corresponding settings in your embroidery design If the font does not meet exactly your requirements you still may skew or tilt it call back its origins change the settings and let it again be generated In later versions of the program it will be possible to recalculate the letters after a change with all combinations Momentarily when fetching back the origins these combinations will be lost Now we want to generate a path text First we create a running stitch stream as base line for the Z Example characters Start Stitch stream and Lengthen stitch stream To get this result you only have to care that the running stitch stream is selected before you call the Type generator you may activate the Type generator by clicking upon any place in the working area since a path text anyway takes the running stitch stream as base line Select Follow stitch stream in the dialog and leave it with OK The path text will be generated left justified That means that the starting point of the running stitch stream is also the starting point of the text However if you select fixed length and fixed height the font will be elongated over the entire base line Now its your turn to create a path text
69. essary to reprocess files like logos designs or graphics which were created on a computer With McStitch you can do this in two ways You can transport vector paths from programs like Illustrator Freehand Canvas Corell Draw a s o directly over the Macintosh clipboard see the manual of your computer into McStitch Or you can load pictures in the formats TIFF IMG PICT GIF JPEG SGI Photoshop 2 0 or 3 0 8BPS MacPaint and BMP as a template into McStitch Par 2 6 Stitch Browser The embroidery browser is an independent program which makes it easy to find and select embroidery designs by different criteria especially if you have a greater number of designs in stock A design may be localised by its size customer number of stitches colours date etc and immediately be worked at The data saved with each design can be exported into a text file and sent to any database or word processing program Par 3 1 Scanner All kinds of scanners can be used to create image files We recommend however to use flatbed scanners The image file must be saved a BMP format When the system enlargement QuickTime is installed also you can use images in the following additional formats TIF GIF JPEG SGI Photoshop MacPaint The image should be scanned with 300 DPI You may use however another resolution since the image will be converted automatically to 254 DPI Black white presentations are most suitable for a quick redraw You can scan a pres
70. ey Value 2 shows the normal slow down speed with shifted Caps Lock key Value 3 shows the speed with additionally pressed CTRL key The redraw may be interrupted with the Option key IMPORTANT In order for you to be able to use these values also in the future they have to be saved in the file McStitch Prefs Settings Save Settings Copy Settings Settings menu Please read Par 1 4 The settings of an embroidery design are copied into a buffer and may be transferred to another design with Settings Paste settings The following values are buffered from File Info the thread consumption and the Infotext from Options all entries from Settings all entries incl colours needles Fill Running Satin stitch settings embroidery datas Slow motion etc Paste Settings Settings menu When Settings Copy Settings has been selected before now by selecting this function all values which have been mentioned above are transferred into the current window ATTENTION The existing settings will be overwritten without warning Save Settings 59 Settings Menu Please read Par 1 4 This function saves the general settings of McStitch into the file McStitch Prefs The settings then are used each time when you create a new embroidery design or load datas from an embroidery data disk The following values are saved e File Info thread consumption and Infotext e Option all entries e Settings all entrie
71. f needles and cutting usually takes you Thus you can receive even with the use of these machine types a pretty accurate production runtime calculation New adds this machine to the list box Show displays the values of a selected machine Change to change values of a machine display first the old ones alternate them and than click upon this button Rename to change the name of a machine display first its data than click upon this button and enter the new name into the dialog field IMPORTANT Please don t forget to save the values if you want to use them in future sessions Settings Save settings The machine which is selected while saving the settings will be used as first machine in new embroidery designs 60 Par 4 6 6 FontEdit Menu Edit Mode FontEdit Menu This function activates the font editor It is exclusively used to edit an existing font or to create a new font The icon bar changes and a ieli aial are not OGEN sive elkels The window bar shows lo name l the Font followed by the Al path name and the menu items Character Bounds Assign and Name are now responsive A font is a normal embroidery design with additional internal qualities like kerning steps character assignments satin stitch assignments Character FontEdit Menu The item is responsive only with activated Edit Mode Letter Selection Font EE EPEE NE ANNAE ENNO E 1 amp 70123456
72. g the mouse or a digitiser All necessary parameters can be set within dialog boxes All basic functions to create professional embroidery designs are included Further you will find some additional functions which let you work in a more fluent way With the help of the integrated Quick Punch System you are able to create an embroidery design within a few minutes by some mouse clicks only in order to scan the template and to take and transform its outlines automatically to embroidery datas Par 2 2 Editing System Working at embroidery designs is one of the most important operations in the embroidery industry Every thinkable edit functions are integrated and optimised in McStitch Parts of embroidery designs can be cut copied deleted inserted hidden scaled mirrored turned skewed the density can be alterated stitch streams can be connected cut and groups can be moved you can clean up the design fix ends paste delete or move single stitches change directions of stitch streams and assign special functions All these points are included in McStitch Additionally McStitch has functions like zooming changing stitch stream orders measuring real view mode undo redo show embroidery frames quick style selection and many more Having been proved and improved in practical operations McStitch will meet all requirements Par 2 3 Fonteditor You want to create your own font styles in every thinkable sizes shapes and colours No pr
73. hat Serves to create an outline of an semi automatically satin stitch stream with alternating satin stitch width see 2 running stitches gt satin stitches 2 The Ctrl Key terminates the function provided both stream lines have the same number of stitches otherwise you hear an alert signal and the function continuous activated Having selected the functions Always handles Connection lines and Connection area from the Options menu makes it easier to detect the location of the satin stitches and the opposite stick in points 13 Origins 2 Icon right keyboard operating B The function restores the original guides of all selected stitch streams Bxampieyou create a running stitch line stream Start stitch stream and Lengthen stitch stream From this you create a satin stitch stream with the function 1 running stitch gt satin stitch L2 When you now want the outline of the satin stitch stream back as a tour stitch stream you select the Origins icon and the outline of the satin stitch stream will be restored This function is applicable to all Create stream functions If you have generated satin stitch streams with the functions 1 Running gt Satin and Lay 1 Satin Stitch Stream W and you click twice to the Origins icon you get back the center line of the satins Connect stitch streams 3 Icon left keyboard operating c There must be selected precisely ONE stitch stream Select Stitch stream L The ico
74. he ends of stitch streams but this function is not applicable with each grounding material and therefore it is sometimes required to fix the ends of stitch streams manually Besides creating running satin or fill stitch streams without using automatic underlay stitches requires to fix the starting point of a stitch stream as well Generally this is done by starting beneath a stitch stream and then running with a few stitches to its starting point In our example this would look like below Start point lenghtend and fixed below the satin stitches A GRU 2 g i C14 M AALA End of stitch stream fixed As you can see is the starting point now beneath satin stitch stream and runs with some few stick in points to its beginning Since the satin stitch stream runs above the starting fixing stitches are these invisible when the embroidery is finished Procedure Activate the icon Lengthen stitch stream shift the Option key and click into the working area Thus the stitch stream is lengthened not from the end but from its beginning Each new stick in point which you now set is inserted before each further stick in point The right picture shows how some stitches have been attached to the end of the stitch stream to fix it Par 5 3 Creating of satin stitch streams Satin stitch streams are necessary in embroideries which contain line width between 1 2 and 10 mm To achieve a grounding coverage with this lines zigzag stitches are used
75. he minus sign Ascent This is the upper edge of capital letters not AOU Descent This line is the reference point for that characters parts which go beneath the base line e g j and g Top This line serves as uppermost border of the character Even the highest parts of the character e g AOU must be finished beneath this line Bottom This line serves as lowermost border of the character Even the lowest parts of the character e g j and g must be above this line Example i E Ascent Half line Baseline Descent Bottom Assign FontEdit Menu The item is responsive only with activated Edit Mode and is used to assign selected parts of a design or a character to another character Select the stitch streams which should be assigned to an other character Select Stitch stream D Then activate the menu point The function opens the Character selection dialog where you just have to click upon the character to which the selected stitch streams are to be assigned Cancel terminates the function Name FontEdit Menu The item is responsive only with activated Edit Mode and is used to enter the internal font name which than appears in the list box of the Type Generator la Name enter here the internal font name Width of the space character enter the value in 1 10th mm at 10 mm of characters height Kerning enter the value in 1 10th mm at 10 mm of characters height 62 Par 4 6 7 The Windows
76. hic formats may be used as templates BMP Standard If you have installed QuickTime you may also use the formats SGI Photoshop TIF JPG PICT and MacPaint A file selection box opens Select a template and click upon O K At the first loading of an image a dialog box enables you to change the proposed resolution density of the image Template Settings Template resolution dpi Horizontal Vertical 300 Size of template in relation to the embroidery 100 Template Size 76x67 mm C Half resolution 127 dpi M 256 Colors You may also enter a relation of the image size to the embroidery design Note The smaller the number the larger the image will be displayed and vice versa At the loading of the image it will be converted to a resolution of 254 DPI That means on a zooming selection of 1 1 one screen pixel corresponds to 1 10 mm If the template is very big you can use half resolution to fasten the redraw If the template is coloured activate the button 256 colours The template will be shown or hidden as presetted in the menu Options Show template Acquire template File menu Acquire template This function requires a scanner with a Photoshop Plug In version 2 5 Serves to scan a model directly from McStitch Only black white that means 1 bit colour is possible Be sure that the plug in file is stored in the directory System Preferences For further details about scann
77. ialog box displays the resolution of the image and allows you to adjust the size in relation to the embroidery design 64 Template Settings Template resolution dpi Horizontal 300 Vertical 300 Size of template in relation to the embroidery 100 Template Size 36x31 mm C Half resolution 127 dpi M 256 Colors lt a When you reduce the percentage value the image is displayed greater when you increase the the value the image is displayed smaller After accepting the entries the image will be placed unmovable at upper left of the working area Now is the first time to save your new embroidery design To do this select Save in the file menu and thus open the file selection box of the operating system Enter a name for your new design The image file with the size relations will be linked to the the embroidery file and likewise be saved Thus when you open your embroidery design the next time the image file will also be opened automatically While saving do not use already existing file names unless to overwrite them Please get used to save your design after having made alterations you want to keep The easiest way to do this is the keyboard command Command S 88 S However should you ever experience an abnormal program termination when you forgot to save you don t need to panic All that you may have lost will be up to ten minutes of your work since McStitch automatically creates backup files e
78. idery machines are equipped with so called step motors which shift the embroidery frame position along the X and the Y axes Most of this motors presently can perform steps of 4 maximal 12 7 mm length This means that a line longer than the maximal step length has to be splitted into some shorter steps Therefore one gives the embroidery machine the information to perform several steps in succession without sticking in Hence the term jump stitches McStitch works stitch stream oriented That means each part of an embroidery design is internal invisibly numbered McStitch gives this numbers automatically out in the order the embroidery design parts were created Of cause the order of the performance of an embroidery design may be changed at any time The single stitch streams therefore are joined together with jump stitches that are automatically placed by McStitch McStitch takes the work to create the stitch type off the users shoulders The jump stitches are displayed by dotted lines between the stitch streams Stitch streams may also be permanently connected so that two small stitch streams forms one larger stitch stream McStitch is able to handle up to 32 000 different stitch streams in one single design and 65 000 stitches in one stitch stream This totals to a maximal quantity of 2 080 billions stitches per design which is most probably sufficient isn t it McStitch is able to handle up to 7 designs at the same time Beside the
79. ill Satin If you activate the function Shape Stitches of the Running Stitches dialog box one user defined shape may be selected from the appearing list box in order to create a chain of these shapes automatically just along the selected Running Stitch stream and as long as the Running stitch stream Attention Use the Shape Stitch function for single Running stitch streams only 10 Icon left keyboard operating j Serves to create satin stitch running stitch or fill stitch shapes First select the stitch type Run Satin Fill Then shift click upon the icon and select from the appearing list box the shape you want to create Depending on your selection the icon will change its appearance see above On selection of n sided Poly a dialog box will appear in which you can designate the number of the corners Underneath the entry n corner you will find user defined shapes which you probably already have created see menu Edit New Shape Place the mouse pointer upon the approximate centre of the Polygon resp Ellipse To create rectangles and rounded rectangles place the pointer upon the approximate upper left corner Shift click your mouse and draw it A dotted outline appears Control the size and shape by your mouse movement Releasing the mouse key creates the running fill or satin stitch shape At rounded rectangles move the mouse again to control the radius of the rounded corners than click again to create the shape
80. in 12 Stitch stream order reversed Bal Stitch stream order forward 13 Assign satin stitch baie Cancel satin stitch assignment 14 Insert single stitch PI bl Delete single stitch 15 Trash R Type generator 16 Jump In point aao Jump Out point Ol The descriptions you find at the corresponding keywords When the FontEdit mode is activated the following icons will not be responsive o ss 3 Me L412 1S A All functions may be selected or activated with the keyboard The left row may be selected with the keys a o and the right row with the keys Shift A 0 It shows from left to right the Zoom Pop Up the Types Pop Up see dialog boxes the mouse position the angle and the stitch stream colour The mouse position is continuously updated as long as the mouse pointer is located within the working area The angle is shown only in connection with the functions Lengthen stitch stream L Move single stitch E Lay one satin stitch stream and with the Type generator LA From a Pop Up menu to the very right of the palette the colour of a new stitch stream may be chosen You are able to select all colours which are presetted under the menu point Colours Settings menu 12 Following you find the explanation of all tools Start Stitch stream 1 Icon left keyboard operating a Select the icons with a digitiser or a mouse Start making a new stitch streams with a mouse click into the Working area or pre
81. ind the program in the McStitch directory Of course you can the move the program to another directory on your hard disk Only take care that it is in the same partition as your embroidery files are When your the files are on more than one hard disks copy the program and install in each partition resp hard disk one version A double click upon the program icon searches your hard disk for embroidery files depending on the number of files and the capability of your computer this may last a few seconds and displays them in a window together with a preview and short information s StitchBrowser US gt BB Filter All 20 7 95 15 3 96 15 3 96 a 5 6872 F 3249 11314 1 Colors Lin Remes 1 Colors 5 Colors All f W280 scuome W 90 Y 72 H 405 H 31 H 72 Alfa Romeo Alfa Romeo Schiibel Alfa Rund oss Lees 28 10 97 i 12 6 97 28 10 97 ooo 1843 r 9 3734 EN 15982 ooo alfadrom Colors 4 Colors pam ine 2 Colors D000 w 118 WSS a W189 H 28 H 59 H 109 Alfdorf ALLGAIER STK 2 10 96 2 10 96 540 5 6848 show 3 Colors ALNA 7 Colors show _ wie Os SEES H 22 H 49 e Allkampf Senden ALNA Kragen ALNA 15 cm If not all files are visible use the scroll bar to display the rest Above the window you find the menu bar with menus Store Edit and View Left in the window are the functions buttons Filter All Triple row Single row Show Edit Additionally it is shown how many embroidery files are
82. ing please refer to your scanner manual Save template File menu Save template This function is responsive as long as an image file is loaded Serves to save image files and particularly acquired templates The file selection box of the operating system opens where you may assign a name to the template The image will be saved as 1 Bit TIFF format with 254 DPI Remove template File menu Remove template Serves to remove a loaded image file from the memory To activate it again use the function Open template To hide the template momentary deselect Options Show template Trace template File menu Trace template This function calculates and provides the outlines of a template as running stitch streams Thus it 34 enables you to generate within seconds an embroidery design from an image file The function requires a black white template i 1 bit TIFF or IMG format or a 256 colour PICT file The following Tracer Settings dialog opens Tracer Settings Tolerance 1 1410mm Stitch streams 20 1 10mm ignore peripe O don t stitch itin Color apns Background White v M Black Black D36 L02 W000 009 B2K M Red Red D36 L02 W000 009 B2K L Blue Green D36 L02 W000 009 B2K OD Lightblue W Green O Brown O Lilac O Grey O Yelow O Rose C White O Orange O Green _ Blue green C Pink Select tolerance colours fill stitch parameters and background Tolerance refers t
83. itch uses this stitch type to connect the individual stitch streams Between the end of a stitch stream and the starting point of the next physical stitch stream McStitch generates automatically jump stitches At saving machine datas upon disk the max length of the jump stitches may be given 1 10th mm The setting is done in the menu Settings General True line width Options menu keyboard operating W If this option is selected and you activate the Real view mode the embroidery will be displayed with the stitch thickness preset in the menu Settings General Thread wgt Thus the coverage of an embroidery area is better discernible The redraw may slow down by this function If the option Settings General Hollow lines is additionally selected then you can see which lines run on the top of each other The redraw may be interrupted with ESC Show frame Options menu keyboard operating H If this option is selected a frame is shown which has the same size as preset in File Info or selected from the menu Special Embroidery frames Show stitch directions Options menu When this option is selected at all selected stitch streams will appear small triangles instead of the handles Options menu which show the direction of the stitch streams This is especially advantageous with sections of fill stitch areas The redraw may be interrupted with ESC Ruler Options menu With this option the ruler top and left in the
84. itches UE The satin stitch stream should now be recreated with the changed density Now it is your turn to practice the same procedure with the black satin stitch stream in the middle of the character A the triangle shape If you have a hard time to recognise some details you may magnify that part with the zooming function lor the Zoom Pop Up Have you finished this successfully That s great Now please select the red fill stitch part bring back its origins activate Origins eD set the line spacing to 4 1 10 mm Settings Fill stitches Line spacing and activate the icon Fill stitch fill routine S The fillstitch area should now be recreated with the changed value Now it is your turn to practice the same procedure with the satin stitch streams and the fill stitch streams of the character B Have you finished this successfully Then test the design by activating the icon Real view mode Most likely you will see that the order of the stitch streams is wrong the fillstitch area is embroidered last and covers the satin stitch streams To correct this select the stitch stream which has to be performed at the first in our case this is the red fillstitch area of the character A Then activate the icon Stitch stream order forward click upon the black satin stitch triangle of the character A and after that upon the outline of the A that is the black satin stitch stream Continue now with the character B
85. its new size oa Als ee Reichs bid ay gam ee et E Now it is your turn to practice the same procedure with the character C You may also try out the other functions of the disc curser skew scale turn Then bring back the origins of the all stitch streams of the character C Select the individual running stitch streams set the parameters you like and transform the running stitch streams back to satin stitch and fill stitch streams All edit functions of the Edit menu follow the same principle 1 select the stitch streams which you want to modify 2 set the new parameters 3 activate needed options 4 carry out the redrawing with the function key Par 5 6 Create text With McStitch you are able to integrate text of any shape and size directly into an embroidery You do this with the Type generator L For a explanation of the functions and settings please refer to the functions description of the Type generator Now proceed as follows e determine the height of the characters or measure it out with the ruler function activate the Type generator icon e determine where the text is to be created e click upon the centre the starting or the final point of the text The point should be on the base line of the font or e shift click the mouse and draw a straight line in any angle or e shift click the mouse press additionally the shift key and draw a horizontal or vertical line or 76 e shift click the mouse pr
86. ll thread cutter pajettes and eject frame The Macintosh Computer can generate the following machine disks with the internal floppy drive too TAJIMA MELCO PFAFF TOYOTA To use this drive store the files with the appropriated menu point in the file menu and copy the file to the prepared disk 83 Par 5 10 Prepare a template If you would like to draft a new embroidery design you need an image file This will read into MacStick to be used to generate the stitches Normally for the processing the image we use the program Photoshop Thus we describe the procedure using this program To prepare the image you should consider following FUNDAMENTAL things 1 Scan the image with at least 254 DPI if your scanner does not make possible this setting so take the next highest normally 300 DPI 2 Scan always in grey scale or in full colour If you want to rotate scale or change anyway the image the results are always better than scanning in black and white or as a bitmap 3 Pay attention to it that the background is as brightly as possible the best is even white There must be found in any case minimum 2 white pixels around the image At images which should suit for QuickPunch you must go ahead as follows Scan in the image with RGB mode colour with at least 254 DPI ATTENTION If colours lie very closely together so pay attention to it that the settings in Photoshop does not stand on Indicated colours This prevents
87. machine data you save your embroidery files to embroidery data disks in various formats Let s start with the Fortron Marco format Selecting the menu point Fortron Disk opens the following dialog Save embroidery on Fortron disk No Name Start End Stitches New 9 349 28984 Delete Free 2210 187850 2210 187850 Diskinit Click upon New to open the dialog for new names Name for new file AbCdEfGh 32000 lt With FORTRON disks you may give any name up to 7 characters containing uppercase and lowercase characters as well as figures The internal design numbering may go up to 32000 Click OK to save the file under the next free design number The numbering is done successively To start the design at the embroidery machine the consecutive numbers are relevant The Fortron format supports the following special functions needle numbers 1 7 stop drill thread cutter and a maximal stitch length of 12 7 mm IMPORTANT Don t use HD High density disks Only DD Double density disks work correct Storing on BARUDAN disks only the Barudan FDR3 format is supported at present opens almost the same dialog as above except the display of Start End and Number Saving a new file opens the names dialog New File Name 12345678 You may give any name up to 8 characters containing uppercase and lowercase characters as well as figure
88. mage If this should be the case so choose these lines magic wand lasso selection etc and broaden the selection with the function expand selection After that you fill the selection with the colour of the lines After finishing this cleaning work you should to reduce the colours of the image to maximum of 15 colours You should use the Mode Indicated colours in Photoshop The colour reduction may use no Dither Set the colour depth to 8 bit pixel and in the colour table the setting Flexibly If the colours change through the transformation too greatly so undo the transformation select the badly transformed colour parts and attribute these one clear colour which did not occur in the image before You can use the RGB colour mode of function Colour regulator or the Colour Picker of the MacOS ATTENTION If you have shifted already to indicated colours the colour can be different displayed If you want to display the right colours you must use the RGB mode It s the best to use clear colour values Example Red 255 G 0 B 0 84 Colorize SS When you apply the function indicated colours the colours must known right Save the file as a PICT file It s enough to use 16 Bit Par 6 The Stitch Browser Together with McStitch you received the Embroidery browser This is an independent program and serves mainly to manage embroidery files which have been created with McStitch After the initial installation you f
89. mall circle the Cutter function by a small triangle and Eject Frame by a double arrow When you click upon drill all stitches of the selected stitch streams receive a small cross at the stick in points instead of handles see Options Handles Selected stitch streams receive the colour for special functions Click upon Assign needles when only the needle numbers are to be reassigned Click upon Cancel when you want to exit the dialog without changings The colour of the special function symbols are assigned in the menu Settings General Already existing special functions at the ends of stitch streams will be deleted when you select them again The needle numbers of the colours may be alterated with the tabulator key or directly with the mouse Backspace key deletes the needle number and the colour receives the needle number 0 The colours are taken from the menu Settings Colours 2 running stitches gt satin stitches M 8 Icon left keyboard operating h Function for satin stitch lines with alterating width Lay the two running stitch lines between the satin stitches are to be created see Double Lengthening Start Stitch stream and Lengthen stitch stream e Select both running stitch lines Both lines must have the same direction Semi automatic satin stitches are oriented on the stick in points of the running stitch lines Both lines must have the same number of stick in points A mouse click upon the icon creat
90. n connection with the Real view mode Connections Connections up to 1 10th mm no extra While joining 2 stitch streams this function prevents that at a distance of less than 1 10th mm an extra stick in point is set Thus the end of the first stitch streams will automatically be connected to the start of the second stitch stream Example 50 Connected Button nat act vated AS RNY So WS Z Connected Button not connected l activated R Smart connections This function will change the direction of the second stitch stream when its end is closer to the last stick in point of the first stitch stream than its starting point is see Connect Stitch stream l Preview Browser Save preview determines whether with the saving of an embroidery design in McStitch s internal format a midget image of the designs should be saved too or not We recommend that you keep this option selected unless your fixed disk space is very limited or you have to put up with a slow computer velocity Save Info determines whether with the saving of an embroidery design in McStitch s internal format the datas of the menu point File Info More data should be saved too or not The datas will take about 2 000 bytes disk space for each file Miscellaneous Undo Steps Entering a value between 1 and 8 you determine how many steps you can undo with Edit Undo The higher the value the more memory you should assign to McStitch see u
91. n inverts A mouse click on any stick in point of a non selected stitch stream connects the selected stitch stream directly with the non selected stitch stream at the shortest distance The connection may be done either to the starting point or to the final point of the non selected stitch stream ATTENTION If you connect to the end of the non selected stitch stream the non selected stitch stream will be turned Possibly existing underlay stitches then are at the surface of the embroidery By this function the selected and the non selected stitch stream become one new stitch stream and can only be separated again by the function Cut stitch stream If the non selected stitch stream contains origins the first stitch stream will get all origins Cut Stitch Stream 3 Icon right keyboard operating C The icon inverts A mouse click on precisely one stick in point cuts the stitch stream into two parts The first part continuous selected the second part becomes non selected When holding the Shift key while activating the function Cut stitch stream the second part will be selected and the first part will become non selected If this function is performed on a non selected stitch stream the stitch stream will first become selected and then cutted If the non selected stitch stream contains Origins the origins will not be cutted but the first part of the stitch stream will get all origins and the second part will have no origins left
92. nd Cutter then select the colour red the functions STOP and Cutter and additionally the button AND When you leave the dialog then all stitch stream that match with all of these criterias and only these will be selected If you would like to see all stitch streams that are either red or have the functions STOP or Cutter set select the button OR The colours will be ignored when the button Colours is non selected Remove Origins Special menu This function serves to delete finally existing invisible original stitch streams The number of still existing origins you may take from Edit Info If you want to see them first activate Edit Select all or press 38 A and then activate the icon Origins l 2 Icon right column Select Edit Undo to jump back to your current design Make Guides Special menu This function serves to create vertical and horizontal guide lines in fixed spaces grid They are used to place several parts of an embroidery design in predefined spaces e g several tucks in a embroidery frame The settings for the guides are made in the following dialog Automatic Guides start E 110mm l Star 0 1710 mm Distance 100 1710 mm i Distance 100 1710 mm i J Number 0 C Number 0 M Delete existing guides 48 Left are the settings for horizontal guides right are the settings for vertical guides Start Designates the space of th
93. ne courses 0 means horizontal Remove guides determines whether the running stitch lines not the origins should be deleted Broaden by Set here the worth in 1 10th mm The function will be used for the pull compensation Automatic We recommend that this function always remain selected McStitch creates complex fill stitch areas of several single fill stitch segments This function serves to automatically connect the segments with the necessary connection stitches If it were not selected you would have to connect them manually see Par 5 4 fill stitch areas Choose Angle When this button is selected the angle of the line courses can be determined directly in the working area while creating a fill stitch area see Fill Stitch Fill routine S The degree setting of the function Angle is ignored Overlap This makes possible the add a Fill line as a overlap at two reciprocally running fill blocks Especially at larger fill stitch areas on flexible material Border Around a fill stitch area a border can be produced automatically as a running or satin stitch stream Select the border type from the pop up menu on the right beside the word Border There are used the parameters of the Running and or satin stitch dialog Settings Running or Satin Pattern In this list box you may select a predefined fill stitch rhythm resp effect The entries can be created and edited if you use the Edit function on the right beside that
94. o the fineness of the tracer The higher the value the rougher the result will be Ignore stitch streams lower 1 10mm designates the smallest block to be captured in 1 10 mm This may be used to filter out any defilements from the template Colours opens the colour palette same as Settings Colours The system extension Color Picker if stored in System extensions enables to pick a colour directly from the template into the colour palette To do this click upon Colours in the auto tracer dialog The colour setting dialog opens Now click upon any colour to open the Color Picker Palette of the system Farbe Rot definieren ni Original Blue q d 0 0 25 S 0 75 100 canca Press the Option key and use the mouse pointer which appears now as a pipette to transfer the colours from the template directly into the colour palette Pick out that way all existing colours including the background colour of the template Or you can use the button from Template at the bottom of the colour settings dialog use this function only if there are not more then 15 colours in the template In this colour palette you may also assign the name of the colours and the needle numbers Click upon OK to exit back to the auto tracer Now select in the pop up field belonging to the button Background the colour of the background Shifting the buttons Fill stitches and Do not fill and
95. oblem With the integrated font editor you create your own fonts and paste them wherever you like into your embroidery design The procedure to do this is very simple You choose a suitable font style and load it with a scanner or you export the font into a layout program as a TIFF File Then you load this file into McStitch and record the outline of the font characters you can do this the same way you create a new embroidery design Then you assign the outline to a character or sign and are ready to create fonts in any size directly within your embroidery design You will learn more about this subject in Par 5 7 Generate fonts In addition McStitch is able to make use of all computers True Type fonts directly for embroidery fonts This way thousands of embroidery fonts are available at ease Par 2 4 Database Each embroidery firm has to manage its embroidery designs Therefore McStitch offers a database system in connection with each embroidery design Each record may include information about the customer the order processing the price calculation and the design itself as well as exact calculations about thread consumptions and production times The record contains a strongly scaled down image of the embroidery designs for quick localisation of the design and many further details Despite these extensive data an embroidery design averages only 30 60 KB on your hard disk Par 2 5 Data transfer with other programs Today it s nec
96. on all changes will be rejected Anchor start When generating a fill stitch area a fixation is placed in form by 3 stabs followed by some running stitches This serves that the beginning is found under the fill stitch area and the thread of this area can t disintegrated Fix end This is likewise a fixation It serves to it that the end of the fill stitch area can t disintegrated Similarly like function Fix ends in the Edit menu Style sheet Here may certain parameter sequences be saved which then appear in the Types pop up a Mel Procedure Make the desired satin stitch settings and click upon New to open a dialog box Enter a name for this style sheet or have it done automatically OK takes the settings over into the style pop up Show This function sets and display all parameters of the selected entry Change to modify a style sheet adjust the desired parameters select the entry which you want to change and then click upon this button Deletes This function removes a selected entry Rename This function opens a dialog box into which you may enter a new name for the style sheet Running stitches Settings menu keyboard operating 86 T This dialog box contains all running stitch parameters Running stitch Settings Stitch spacing 20 1710 mm E 207271 i 207371 1 Q2 Q3 G4 O5 Rounds 207471 207571 167171 167271 Shape stitches 20000 16 371 26727372 O Randomize
97. ons Handles Broaden Stitches Edit Menu All chosen stitch streams can be broadened with this function by an adjustable value When you activate this function in the menu a dialog appears to entry a 1 10 mm values Meaningful values lie between 1 and 5 For fill stitches use the function broaden stitches in the fill stitch dialog Settings Fill stitches New Shape Edit menu This function serves to generate new user defined shapes out of an arbitrary number of already existing stitch streams Use these shapes when you want to create a multiple number of a certain design which vary just in size and angle To do this we recommend that you generate a running stitch stream since this stitch type allows you the greatest number of modifications However you may use a combination of all stitch types as well Example Mickey head filled First select the stitch streams Select Stitch stream R and Add Stitch stream RD Then open the dialog box by selecting the menu point Edit New Shape and enter the name of the shape New Shape Name New Name I Running Stitches J Satin Stitches M Fill Stitches C usable for Shape stitches Next activate the buttons in which stitch type the shape may be created Do not select stitch types which does not fit the shape Otherwise undesired effects may occur Click upon OK to leave the dialog Now you find your shape when you shift click upon the icon Shapes Running Fill S
98. ox you find the the number of the stitch streams stitches the total length of the stitch streams the number of supper functions thread cutters the existing original stitch streams and the maximal and minimal stitch length The first value relates to all selected stitch streams the second value totals all stitch streams of the current embroidery The column output shows the datas that will be converted into embroidery data code when you create an embroidery data disk The button Thread usage opens a second dialog box in which the consumption quantities of each single colour is shown Thread usage Top thread i H 02 Blue 4 Black 5 91m 03 Yelow 1 Red 0 67m ME 94 Black i i 05 Grey 2 Blue 0 59m i 0 Gree 0 00m O Lightblue i Brown 5 Grey gt WwW Yellow O Dk Green 3 83 m i i All colours displayed black within this dialog are used in the active design Bottom displays the assumed consumption of underthread Underneath you find the order of the needles which is Bobbin O Only selected stitches 29 put out when you create an embroidery data disk When the button Only selected stitches is activated you will see the thread consumption of all selected stitch streams The button formula opens a dialog box in which the calculation formula may be changed Formula for Thread usage Top thread 100 of calc length stitches 40 1 100mm loop
99. pecific datas of the individual embroidery as the Embroidery browser can search for special criterias in these fields In the Embroidery Information box you find next the button More data This opens the following dialog Embroidery Data i Applications i Material Inlet Times i Name Length Width Length width Length width Lay on Fix Cut Embr name Greger J o o Jle fo o o o Je Jo Hoop size o x fo i o flo o Jo o lo o e fo Hoop Mo b o lo o Jo Jo Je o Je Jo Intertining fo x fo o 0 o o o o 0 o J o fo Jo I Je fo Je foe le o e Je fo Jle Ib le e le Machine Toyota Expert 850 v J Removal 0 sec o times Stops O times Trim time 000 00 min 9 times Hoop change 0 sec Col change time OOO 00 min 4 times Quality 0 sec Stitches 000 00 min Cut interlining o aii Total time 00 00 min Remove interlining 0 sec Calculate Cancel ox When all datas to a specific design are stored here you will be able to perform production time calculations for this embroidery design The datas which you enter here may also be used with other databases for further analyses or evaluations Here also may be entered administrative datas like internal name of the design frame size frame no size of the interlining six types of applications machine types times for
100. possibly the correct registration of the colours Don t use 256 colours in the scanning dialog but use RGB or photo mode If you intend the image to increase so scan in the image after following formula Resolution 254 DPI x scale factor That means if your image is large e g 5 x 4 cm and the embroidery image should become then 10 x 8 cm so you have to scan in the image with at least 508 DPI 254 DPI x 2 After scanning you can change the size in your image processing program and reduce the solution to 254 DPI This procedure prevents the hard edges which the tracer of MacStick would interpret as corners The image may not have dither no colour or grey course The colours should be clearly separate Go ahead thereby as follows Select the respective colour parts with the magic wand with the lasso function or with the function Select similar Expand the selection around the form 1 or 2 pixels with function Change selection Expand Fill the selected plains with a clearest possible colour It doesn t matter which colours the image has since the stitch streams must be attributed in MacStick anyhow colours Clean the image with the etcher or paint over impurities with colour white Set the colours as clearly as possible You can use the functions brightness contrast gradations picture variations colour balance a s o Pay attention to it that there are no lines smaller than 4 pixels in the i
101. presently displayed of how many files which are altogether on your hard disk Description of the menu points Store menu Update Suppose you have opened the embroidery browser edited an embroidery design with McStitch and saved it anew Now when you switch to the embroidery browser this file is not displayed in the latest version But this function causes the embroidery browser to search the 85 hard disk again and then display the latest versions of the designs Export This function serves to store the informations of all selected embroidery files as text file in the ASCII format The function the file selection box of the operating system and you ma save the file under any name in any directory The default name of the file is DESIGN EXP The informations are written one beneath the other in the following order The text file may then be processed with other programs e g database programs The single entries are separated by CR Edit menu This menu is not yet available and therefore displayed in grey colour View menu This menu sets the order in which the files are to be displayed You may choose between name order or date order The presently active status is shown by a tick before the selected entry The default setting is name order Description of the function buttons Filter This function serves to find embroidery files which match certain criterias When you click the button the following dialog box opens Filter
102. rect TAJIMA machines support the following special functions Stop drill thread cutter pajettes Eject frame The needle assignment is done at the machine and the colour change is realised only by stops That means that loading a design of from an embroidery disk is done only single coloured and instead of the colour changes you see only stops Important is the maximal stitch length of 12 1 mm since the machine cannot read files with stitch lengths longer than this value With Tajima disks it is likewise impossible to delete a single design from the disk Therefore this entry is displayed grey and not responsive To delete a single design you have to delete the entire disk MELCO and PFAFF disks are written with the internal disk drive of the computer You need to format the disk first with the operating system using the DOS format Then save the file directly with the file selection box of the operating system MELCO disks must have the name MELCO in uppercase letters and the file name must be DOS compatible 8 characters letters figures and the uppercase and lowercase letters are not distinguished in DOS and have the extension EXP Melco supports the special functions colour change thread cutter stop and drill PFAFF disks must have the name PFAFF in uppercase letters and must likewise be DOS formatted The file names must also be DOS compatible and need the extension KSM Pfaff supports the special functions colour change stop dri
103. rectly to the fill stitch area Thus the border can be attributed immediately an other colour When generating the borders the parameters of the the satin stitches or running stitches must be preset already Settings Satin and or Running Par 5 5 Edit Designs The paragraphs 5 1 to 5 4 showed you how to start a new embroidery design and how to create all kinds of stitch streams Now let s edit an existing embroidery design To do this open an embroidery file File Open For our example please use the file ABC stick You see now the following image File Edit Options Special Settings FontEdit Windows 10 11 2 13 14 AWS 16 te 18 19 20 21 8 E E 2 S P I R A Eaz Mme Please take each step which we describe here and perform no further functions that are not described First we want to change the density of a satin stitch line To do this select the outer black satin stitch stream of the character A Select Stitch stream Lk and then activate the icon Origins lod Now you should see the following picture 74 The origins that means the outlines of the satin stitch stream are visible as two assigned running stitch lines assignment is indicated by the grey area with thin dotted lines between the alternating stick in points Now set the density to 10 stitches cm Settings Satin stitches Density and activate the icon 2 running stitches gt satin st
104. rger part becomes visible A mouse click on the sign increases the zooming rate by one step that is doubles the size a smaller part becomes visible By step 1 1 one screen point pixel corresponds to about 1 10 mm 10 Types Pop Up Run BES Fin The types Pop Up is needed in connection with the Shapes Running Satin fill 1 9 9 jicon and the bezier curves icon Depending on which button is selected the corresponding form can be created You activate the Types Pop Up from left to right with the number keys 3 4 5 When you press the keys twice the style pattern menu opens It contains style patterns from the satinstitch dialog the runningstitch dialog and the fillstitch dialog provided there have been saved some See Satin stitches Fill stitches Running stitches in the Settings menu A mouse click on an entry takes over the parameters and a corresponding form may be created immediately Par 4 4 Dialog Boxes Operating dialog boxes should cause no problems All dialog boxes appear centred in the midst of the screen however you may move them with the window bar Within the dialog boxes you can move with the tabulator key or directly jump to fields with a mouse click Boldly bordered fields can be activated with the RETURN key While a dialog box keeps open you style can work with Cut Copy Paste For instance you may cut words in a text processing program and paste it with Command V into the font generator box Some
105. rint File menu Print Every first time when you try to print out an image of an embroider design the paper settings dialog will be opened see Page Setup After having made your selections leave it with the RETURN key or click upon OK The printer dialog of the currently selected printer will appear The functions diversity in this dialog depends on the abilities of your printer Example Ea 3 z py frinvariet v3 6 Page Range All From To O Disposition Print to TIFF v amp Preview B Raoult Aug 95 The printout may look like below Name ABC stick Gedruckt am 25 12 1995 The printout of an embroidery file includes the following informations Name of the embroidery file date of the printout an image of the embroidery file the image size number of stitches number of colours datas of the info dialog name of the embroidery design and of the customer as well as the thread consumption of each colour and the needle order Quit File menu Quit keyboard operating 38 Q for Quit Terminates McStitch and closes all open windows as far as all modifications have been saved see Save and Save as If McStitch finds files with alterations that has not been saved yet backup files are ignored here it will give you three choices Save saves the file and terminates McStitch Discard terminates McStitch and does not save the file Cancel does not terminate McStitch 37 Par
106. roidery data disk MARCO FORTRON BARUDAN FDR 3 ZSK TAJIMA MELCO PFAFF in the external disk drive If you forgot to insert it an error message will appear and then you have the possibility to format a disk Otherwise the embroider disk dialog opens which may look similar or as below depending on your embroidery data disk format Save embroidery on Fortron disk No Name Start End Stitches New Delete Free 2475 210375 2475 210375 Diskinit The window for Fortron Marco disks contains program number name of design start sector ending sector and number of stitches Below you find the number of free sectors stitches The window for Barudan disks contains only the name of design and the number of stitches Higher values behind the slash than before it indicate that there are free spaces upon the disk between the designs This may happen when a design has been deleted from the disk before Select a design by clicking upon the entry Then click upon OK to load it or double click upon the design cee Disk rereads the directory of an embroidery data disk Format serves to format the diskette in the Fortron Pfaff Marco Barudan ZSK Melco Tajima format depends on your selection of the embroidery code type in the pop up menu Diskcopy serves to copy an entire disk Diskinit deletes the entire directory of the diskette Serves for a quick purging of a disk ATTENTION There will be no warning before th
107. rror vertically 0 v True line width Load machine data gt Tajima Disk Mirror horizontally M Show hoop Save machine data gt Fortron File Rotate 3D Show stitch directions Send to Machine gt Barudan File Scale K v Ruler Barudan file with Header Skew v Overview Open Template Tajima File Density Acquire template gt Melco File Clean Up 32B v Handles 3G Save Template Pfaff File Bound lines Always handles 36H Remove template ToyotafFile Fixends F Trace Template Smoothie v Start End Trace Template Photo Fortron Disk P Broaden Stitches No Undo Barudan FDR3 disk v SHow Template Y Printing Options EE d ZSK Disk New Shape v Double extension Page Setup Tajima Disk Delete Shape gt v Connection lines Print P Toyota Replace Shape gt v Connection area Fortron Quit Q Select all HA Magnetic Guides Special i Embroidery hoop 3R Boe a s mbroidery Data EAEN Le Satin Stitches cnap Fill stitches Set start Running stitches Set end Colors Start Center 38M Background First Stitch stream Slow Motion Last Stitch stream FontEdit v Edit Mode Baseline Halfline Ascent Descent 0 Select Stitch streams Remove Origins Copy Settings Paste Settings Clean up Formula 7 Character Make Guides Save Settings Bounds gt Top Rounded Block Recalculate Assign Bottom Script Actualice Machin
108. s To start the design at the embroidery machine the design name is relevant The Barudan format supports the following special functions needle numbers 1 7 stop thread cutter ZSK disks takes almost the same values as Fortron Marco but additionally the special function Eject frame is supported Besides a 8 digit design number is given to the embroidery designs instead of names When saving the file it is done under the next free consecutive design number To start the design at the embroidery machine the consecutive numbers are relevant For security reasons it is not possible to delete a single design from a ZSK disk Therefore this entry is displayed grey and not responsive To delete a single design you have to delete the entire disk 82 The TAJIMA format is stored on a DOS disk with the name TAJIMA Each embroidery design gets two names The first dialog determines the internal name which may have up to 8 characters In the second dialog you can also enter a name of 8 characters followed by the extension DST Only uppercase letters and figures are accepted The extension DST is important since the machine accepts only files with this extension This name is also inquired at the machine New File 87654321 come internal name Name for Tajima file G7654321 DST Design name with extension DST IMPORTANT Don t use HD High density disks Only DD Double density disks work cor
109. s incl colours needles stitch settings machine datas slow motion etc Attention Existing settings get lost by this function Machines Settings Menu Please take care that there is no open embroidery design while you call this function When you select this item a dialog box will show your current machine datas and allow you to add new embroidery machines Embroidery Machines Name Toyota Expert 850 Toyota Expert 850 rA i Needles 6 i i Speeds PERE Up to length Stitches min _ 20 1 10 850 35 700 55 600 70 500 j H anver 400 i show _ l Trim 1500 ms i e i i Color change 5000 ms J i Cx The datas you enter here are used for the runtime calculation of the embroidery productions File Info More datas If you are not sure about the corresponding datas of your embroidery machine please ask your supplier or the manufacturer of your machine We decided to support only 5 steps of machine speed since more gradation hardly bring better results The value for the machine speed is given in stitches per minute The speed of the thread cutter and the colour changing is given in milliseconds 1000 ms 1 sec Please input approximate values if you use an one needle machine without thread cutter Enter the time which the manually changing o
110. s deselected A mouse click upon the icon fills the shape with fill stitches To choose the angle freely select the button Choose angle in the menu Settings Fill Stitch If you prefer this function and you click to the fill stitch routine icon the mouse arrow change into a lt Now you have to set the angle of the fill stitches Shift click into the working area and draw a line The line represents the angle of the fill stitches To set the angle its not necessary to draw the line inside the fillstitch outlines You can set the angle everywhere in the working area To create a shape with inlays enclave define the outlines with running stitch streams Start Stitch stream and Lenghten Stitch stream select all outlines Select Stitch stream A and or Add Stitch stream selection R then fill with fill stitches The presetting in the menu Settings Running Stitch Satin Stitch and Fill Stitch controls the stitch spacing line spacing offset pattern etc The redraw may be interrupted with ESC for further explanation see par 5 4 fill stitch areas Ruler 11 Icon left keyboard operating k The icon inverts shift click your mouse into the working area and draw it along the area you want to measure out A thin dotted line will follow the mouse movement Releasing the mouse key opens a box which shows the length of the line of the horizontal line and the vertical line in 10 mm Exit the box with OK or hand over the length of
111. s dialog as well If not the entire design is visible in the working area then a dotted rectangle is shown in the overview This rectangle shows which part of the embroidery design is visible in the working area By shift clicking and drawing the mouse in the dotted rectangle you may select another part of the designs to be displayed in the working area If the shift key is pressed additionally while shifting the rectangle then the next scale up degree is selected simultaneously Closing of the overview window is done either by deactivating of the menu point or by clicking upon the window button overview windows left upper 44 Handles Options menu keyboard operating 88 G When this option is activated a small rectangle is drawn around each stick in point Thus it is easier to find a certain stick in point resp to process it The handles are displayed on all selected stitch streams if the functions Move single stitch Insert single stitch LT Delete single stitch R and Cut Stitch stream lare selected The redraw may slow down by this function Always handles Options menu When this option is selected small rectangles are drawn around the stick in points of all selected stitch streams This mode will not be overruled by any other function except for the Real view mode The redraw may slow down by this function Start End Options menu When this option is selected the final point of the design is put exa
112. s this option serves to show whether two stitch streams were assigned to each other A grey displayed area indicates where the stitch stream will be located Magnetic guides Options menu If this option is activated together with the ruler Options Ruler selected parts of embroidery design will snap exactly at the position of the guides see icon Groups H The snap spaces are predefined in Settings General The grouped design parts will snap into all directions Should your design therefore snap into the wrong direction just drag it a little beyond the guide to which it is to snap Shift the Option key to let the design snap only to horizontal guides or shift the CTRL key to let the design snap only to vertical guides Par 4 6 4 The Special menu Embroidery frame Special menu keyboard operating 38 R This function opens a list box containing the frames which you have predefined in the text file FRAME DAT and stored in the same directory from which you start McStitch When you leave the dialog an oval frame of the selected size will appear provided that Options Show frame is selected and all stitch streams will be displayed automatically centred in this frame if possible with the size Create the file FRAME DAT with a common text processing program There is an example file showing how the entries should be made width comma height To hide the frame temporarily press H or deselect Options Show frame
113. ser manual of your Macintosh computer Maximum overview size determines the maximum width and height of the overview window Options Overview Snap Distance Entering a value between 1 and 99 you determine at which distance parts of embroidery assigns should snap to the guides Options Magnetic guides 51 Embroidery data IMPORTANT Before you create or read from an embroidery data disk please take care that the settings in the following dialog are correct Red Write Machine code Write i Read M Color change M Replace single Jump stitches M not at start i 1 with normal stitches J atend C Ignore jump stitches C Stop at end of embroidery l C Read Stops as Color changes Max Stitch 127 1710 mm for jump stitch UE 1 10 mm M Trim from 22 1410 mm jump stitch H Port for direct connection Modem Colour change determines whether the colour changing code should be saved too If your embroidery machine format does not include colour changing codes see Tajima McStitch will write a stop function instead of them not at start determines whether at the start of a design a colour changing code should be written or not at end causes that that at the end an embroidery design a colour changing code is written which would let the machine go back to the start needle Stop at end of embroidery Some machines allow for the stitching process to be interrupted
114. sets and display all parameters of the selected entry Change to modify a style sheet adjust the desired parameters select the entry which you want to change and then click upon this button Deletes This function removes a selected entry Rename This function opens a dialog box into which you may enter a new name for the style sheet Nearer see Par 5 2 Making of running stitch streams Colours Settings menu keyboard operating 88 F This dialog box contains the colour assignment and the general settings of the colours and the needle assignment Edit Colors Yellow Red Rose Blue White Lightblue Green Brown Lilac Orange Green Bluegrey Pink COMn0aa8 GH Black 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Grey from Template The Box contains 15 icons with the pertinent needle numbers and names Except for the 1st colour which is always black any colours can be selected and set according to your desires To do this click upon one of the icons to open the colour selection dialog of the operating system Select a colour and leave the dialog see your computer user manual The chosen colour setting is now displayed in the respective square The small fields to the right of the colours are used to assign the needle numbers The prolate fields are use to assign a name to this colour Leave the
115. shift click the mouse button and pull to the menu point New When you leave the mouse button the same dialog appears Fill in the approximate size of your new embroidery designs into the dialog box if you are not pleased with the size during work you may alter it at any time File menu Info With the Tab key you jump from a field to the next You can also change the field with the mouse click into the field Now leave the dialog with OK or press the RETURN key An empty window opens and you see left to the window the icon bar and above the window the Zoom Pop Up the Types Pop Up and the coordinates display with the X value the Y value and the angle degree These values change while moving the mouse pointer across the working area To create a new design with a template you need to load an image file which you already may have created with your scanner and your image processing software Now to load this image file select File Open template and find your image file with the opening file selection box of your operating system Take care that you use exclusively uncompressed TIFF or IMG files in 1 Bit colour means a black white bitmap or for coloured images PICT files File types like GIF JPEG SGI Photoshop 2 0 or 3 0 8BPS MacPaint can be opened if you use the operating system extension QuickDraw All other types of image files are inapplicable for McStitch Selected your image file by clicking upon OK Now a d
116. ss the pin on the tablet or press Crosshairs curserkey 1 After this the first right icon is automatically activated and you can add further stitches Lengthen Stitch stream Ctrl Key resp Crosshairs curserkey 2 terminates the function Lengthen Stitch stream 1 Icon right keyboard operating A Operating with digitiser or mouse The icon inverts IMPORTANT This function only is responsive when ONE stitch stream is selected resp TWO stitch streams are selected and have the same number of stitches and the menu point Double extension in the Options menu is activated Is no stitch stream selected or more than one you will hear an alert signal and the icon Select stitch stream L lis automatically selected With a mouse click somewhere into the working area you start to extend the stitch stream A line follows your mouse movement which has its origin at the end of the selected stitch stream When you keep the Option key shifted during your mouse click the extension will have its origin at the starting point of the stitch stream that means you place stitches before the starting point of a stitch stream Each mouse click sets a new stick in point Now you can now add any arbitrary number of stitches The Ctrl Key terminates the function Double Lengthening 2 Icon left keyboard operating b This is the same function as start stitch stream however two stitch streams are started at the same time and are extended after t
117. stitches when the template has very light or white pieces inside the satin stitch width become lower than 1 10mm This option replaces these very small satin stitches with running stitches parameters used from Settings Running Only on the edges the routine generates a rectange form normally If you activate this button McStitch deletes all zero stitches arround the silhouette of the picture until the edges of the rectange Printing options File menu Printing options Serves to activate one of the following printing options 1 Original size Serves to print the embroidery design in a 1 1 relation Of course this is possible only when the design size fits to your paper formalt 2 No informations Serves to avoid the printing of the design informations when you need more space for the image Page Setup File menu Page Setup This menu point opens the dialog of your printer interface Depending on the printer you have selected you may enter settings like paper size number of pages and printing resolution and choose between portrait or landscape orientation further details on how selecting printers please find in your Macintosh user manual Below an example of a printer dialog box 36 Print2Pict oni R US Letter A4 Letter Paper US Legal International Fanfold Computer Paper Custom Options Orientation B Disposition Print to TIFF v Help B Raoult Aug 95 P
118. the lines to satin stitch dialog The value will be entered into the stitch width field Lange der Linie Horizontal Vertikal Hae 4 20 Bezier curves Running Fill 11 Icon right keyboard operating K First select Running or Fill from the Types Pop Up The icon inverts The bezier curve is made of 2 anchor and 2 reference points Order of anchor points starting point end point order of reference points Second point behind starting point and second point before end point Click into the working area sets the points All four points can be relocated by shift clicking and drawing the mouse Ctrl Key creates the running or satin stitch stream Example Referenzpoint 1 B ai 2 Anchorpoint 1 Anchorpoint 2 The presetting in the menu Settings Running Stitch Fill Stitch controls the stitch spacing stitch type etc Stitch stream order reversed a 12 Icon left keyboard operating 1 The menu point Options jump stitches should be activated Select exactly one stitch stream Select Stitch stream L The icon inverts A mouse click upon a non selected stitch stream changes the processing order of the embroidery design The non selected stitch stream will now be performed before the selected one appears now selected Each further mouse click upon a non selected stitch stream causes this one come before all other selected stitch streams of the processing line The redraw may be interrupted with ESC Example you ha
119. the satin stitch stream that comes from top review reference points save the file Sis cence Semana Ae Everything s OK Well done Each new character is created the same way When you select the next character you only have to assign the base line all other lines are set automatically Some hints Take your time with the font editor The more exact you work the more beautiful the results with the Type generator will be Open a complete font file with File Open and have a look upon the construction of one of its characters FontEdit Edit Mode and FontEdit Character This will help you while creating your own font 80 Par 5 8 Connection with other programs The easiest way to do a data transfer is the way with Illustrator EPS The data format can be Illustrator 88 Illustrator 1 1 Illustrator 3 Illustrator 5 or from a PC as AI file The vectors can directly be converted into running stitch streams when you use the menu point Illustrator EPS Import from the file menu With McStitch you can also use paths which you have created in programs like Freehand of Macromedia Illustrator of Adobe Claris Works Claris MS Works Microsoft or Canvas Deneba Just use the clipboard to exchange the data s Command C and Command V With that it is possible to process text as running stitch streams which you may have created in Freehand with a TrueType Font You only have to observe the following points 1 Only pa
120. ths are exchangeable That means that you have to convert a font created in Freehand into paths first This is done like this you write a sentence in Freehand with the font Times Now you mark the text and convert the sentence into vector paths Fonts Convert to vector paths 2 There must not be any fillings or text effects in the paths Thereto set in Freehand in the central palette the filling mode to none and select in the lines palette the entry postscript or basic version 3 The size of the parts will be scaled down while pasting into McStitch by the factor 3 52 Therefore create the fonts in the other programs already scaled up by the factor 3 52 Thus you will get a better resolution in McStitch 4 All data s you want to exchange with the clipboard must be copied into it in the PICT format 5 Before pasting the data s Control V take care that the stitch spacing Settings Running stitches does not have too high a value otherwise the roundnesses will be too cornered Of course you can also create drawings or shapes in other programs and then process the paths of your creations in McStitch These parts are applicable primarily for fillstitch areas since other programs don t heed the stitch orientation which should be known when you create a satin stitch font However to perform a Quick and Dirty Punching such path exchangings are useful any time 81 Par 5 9 Create embroidery disks With the menu point File Save
121. tion area and Options Connection lines e lay the first underlay stitches Start stitch stream from the entry point of the character to the starting point of the satin stitch line in our case from the desired entry height to bottom left of the character A End the function with the CTRL key e at the starting point of the satin stitch line start two running stitch streams Double stitch stream and extend the lines to the lower intersection of the horizontal bar of the character A e review the positions of the reference points and relocate them if necessary with Move single stitch Now fade out the template Options Show template and your working area should look like below ZDE Font Bootpartition 500 06 Now start an underlay stitch stream from right to the left following the middle of the traverse bar Use as less underlay stitches as possible On generating the font a stitch length is used in accordance with the parameters in Settings Running stitches This makes that small characters wont get to many short stitches and large characters wont get a too long stitch length 79 e Start again Double stitch stream and lay the outline of the traverse from left to the right review again the reference points your working area should look like below nearer nt TTTrTTTT TT NEN Now only the last part of the character bottom right is missing start Double stitch stream from the ending points of
122. ulated by McStitch with the given values for the extension and the character width whereas the value in the field Size is ignored Fixed height Activating this check box together with the check box Fixed length creates text of exactly this high and the given fixed length The extension of the characters is calculated 24 by McStitch with the given values for the horizontal spacing whereas the value in the field extension is ignored Satin stitches A mouse click to this button calls on the satin stitch settings see also Settings Satin Changes will be used if you create a sentence with an embroidery font listed right side System font To use a system font click upon this button and choose one from the list box beside the button All system fonts are available which have been in the directory System folder Fonts before starting McStitch provided they are true type fonts Clicking upon OK or pressing RETURN creates the outline of the text Fill stitches Activating this function creates your text with a system font as predefined in the menu Settings Fill stitches Text Fill in here the text you want to embroider To start a new line press RETURN when the cursor is in the text box Distortion If this button is activated you can can select Freely Arc Bridge or Circle text from the Distorting Pop Up menu L oa Lal S After activating the OK Button the manipulation can be done live in the working area This can
123. ur basic groups If one compares an embroidery design with its program on the screen he will find some differences For instance one can see lines on the Screen which do not appear on the embroidery This is so because the lines are displayed thinner on the screen than the thread is in reality That means that on the screen there can be seen also an underlay stitch that is covered on the embroidery by another stitching area In addition jump stitches may be seen on the screen that are cut out from the embroidery An embroidery on the screen therefore may be a little confusing at first sight To obtain a general view let us now examine the four basic groups of the stitch types First the running stitches On the screen they appear as a series of straight pieces of lines that are connected on bend points Such a series is called a stitch stream Exactly in the bend points are the stick in points for the stitch machine The line itself displays the thread course While creating an embroidery data disk only the positions of the stick in points are converted into machine code The computer hereby determines the horizontal and vertical value from one stick in point to the next and whether this point is a stitch in a jump stitch or a special function A running stitch stream can have a course in one direction or can go there and back double tour triple tour fourfold tour etc If the stitch line is to become broader then 1 2 mm it would be
124. ve four stitch streams as displayed below To change the processing order select one stitch stream in our case stitch stream no 2 All other stitch streams are non selected Now click upon the icon and then upon the stitch stream no 3 After that no 3 will now be processed before no 2 and the course of the jump stitches changes The result must now look like below 21 The program automatically numbers the stitch streams Stitch stream order forward 12 Icon right keyboard operating L This function is exactly the opposite as described under Stitch stream order reversed The non selected stitch stream is now performed after the selected stitch stream We recommend that you make some experiments with these functions to understand a little better how they works Satin stitch assignment 13 Icon left keyboard operating m Two running stitch lines with identical number of stick in points are mutually assigned and receive satin stitch status that means out of this two running stitch lines one semiautomatically satin stitch stream can be created This assignment is required for the function 2 running stitches gt satin stitches See satin stitch streams par 5 1 Activating the entries Options Connection area and Connection lines makes it easier to recognise the stitch orientation of the satin stitch streams Usage Select two running stitch streams with identical number of stitches Select Stitch stream
125. very ten minutes These files have the name of the embroidery designs with the extension Backup If you once open this file File Open please be sure to resave it immediately using a new name File Save as Now to go on with our new embroidery design please perform the following steps 1 Open a new file size 100 x 100 mm 2 Load the template ABC TIFF into the new embroidery design 3 Save the file as ABC stitch We want to use this file now for our further explanations Par 5 2 Creating of running stitch streams The easiest way to get a line up of stitches is the creation of a running stitch stream For this McStitch makes different routines available To arrange few stick in points one starts with the function Start Stitch stream L For instance to create 3 stick in points which look like a Z activate the icon Start Stitch stream J and click into the working area at the place where the 3 stitches are to start After your mouse click automatically the icon Lengthen stitch stream is activated From now on a line follows your mouse movement Each further mouse click creates another stick in point This string of stitches is called Stitch stream You could continue this type of stich placing as long as you wish up to a maximum of 32 000 stitches in one stitch stream Now back to our Z When you have set the 3 remaining stick in points you have to end the stitch stream This is done by pressing the CTRL Key You may undo th
126. w Clicking upon the OK button creates the text exactly at that place of the working area where you clicked to activate the Type generator resp the line has been drawn Size assigns the height of the characters in 10th mm Extend by assigns the width of the characters 100 corresponds to the original width of the characters Character spacing Assigns the space between the characters Script fonts should have the space 0 assigned to as the characters are to be exactly joined together Line height Assigns the lines space calculated from the base line Connect Characters Combines the characters of a word to one single stitch stream The connection does not skip blanks Fix ends Adds a small cross at the end of each character to avoid the embroidery to come open when the thread is cutted equal with menu point Edit Fix ends Follow stitch stream Creates the text along a selected stitch stream preferably a simple running stitch stream Serves to create curved turned spiral or wavy text To rubber bend the text to the fully length of the selected stitch stream activate additionally the check box Fixed length see also Fixed height Alignment Select from the belonging list box the alignment of the text left justified centred right justified Fixed length Activating this check box and entering into the belonging dialog field a value between 10 and 5000 1 10th mm creates text of exactly this length The high of the characters is calc
127. with the keys lt arrow left and gt arrow right Thus you can see how the stitches run through the design Select Stitch stream X 5 Icon left keyboard operating e The icon inverts A mouse click exactly on a stick in point of a non selected stitch stream selects this one To select more stitch streams press shift key and click upon the individual stitch streams When you shift click and draw the mouse outside of a stitch stream a rectangle will follow your mouse movement All stitch streams that are completely within the rectangle will be selected 15 when you release the mouse key Reverse to deselect a stitch stream press the Shift key and click on the stitch stream you want to deselect see also Add Stitch stream A When several stitch streams are selected and you click on one of them all the others will become non selected Is this function activated and you then select the entry First Stitch stream in the Specials menu the first physical stitch stream is selected The entry Select Last Stitch stream selects the last physical stitch stream Special function Display of the program internal stitch stream order To see the physical order of the stitch streams exactly one stitch stream must be selected When you now press the gt key arrow right the next physical stitch stream is selected The lt key arrow left selects the preceding physical stitch stream The redraw may be interrupted with the ESC key
128. working area may be faded in resp faded out Fading out the rulers makes guides likewise invisible However the guides will appear at the the same place if you fade the ruler in again If the rulers are faded in a light grey position line follows the mouse movement in the rulers which shows the vertical and horizontal position of the mouse pointer The zero point is in the top left corner If you shift click with the mouse upon the top left corner and then draw it the zero point can be shifted to set it back click upon corner Guides can be positioned vertically or horizontally by shift clicking upon the ruler and then drawing the mouse into the working area 43 To remove the guides select the icon Select Stitch stream X shift click precisely upon the guide to be removed and draw the mouse back into the ruler Pay attention that there is no stitch stream at this position If all guides are to be erased at the same time activate the dialog Special Make guides make sure that the button Delete existing guides is selected and click upon OK If guides have been saved together with an embroidery design then they will appear again at the same positions when opening the design Overview Options menu If this option is activated a scaled down display of the entire embroidery design appears at the position which you have set in Settings General default is bottom left The max size of the overview window is done in the setting

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