Singer Quantum XL-5000 Computerized Sewing Machine
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1. Convers A ES ee ELH mr i a na b ON z tn Dt m 1 4 The complete USER S MANUAL Trademarks Compucon has made all possible efforts to supply trademark information about company names products and services mentioned in this manual Trademarks indicated below were derived from various sources Compucon is a registered trademark of COMPUCON Computer Applications S A MS Windows is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation Windows Windows 95 Windows NT are trademarks of Microsoft Corporation MS DOS is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation IBM is a registered trademark of International Business Machines Corporation Hewlett Packard is a trademark of Hewlett Packard Company Microsoft Visual C V4 1 is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation PC is a trademark of International Business Machines Corporation Intel is a trademark of Intel Corporation 80486 is a trademark of Intel Corporation Pentium is a trademark of Intel Corporation ZSK is a trademark of ZSK Stickmaschinen Gesellschaft mbH Tajima is a trademark of Tajima Industries Ltd Barudan is a trademark of Barudan Co Ltd FMC is a trademark of Barudan Co Ltd FDR is a trademark of Barudan Co Ltd Pfaff is a trademark of its respective owner Melco is a trademark of Melco Industries Inc Marco is a trademark of its respective owner Contents 1 Getting Started Setting up the System 1 1 Contents of package Accessories 12. grants you the non exclusive non transferable right Do vou accept all the terms of the preceding License Agreement If you choose No the setup will close To install Sew Ware Conversion Tool you must accept this agreement lt Back Yes Ho After reading and agreeing with terms given in the License Agreement please click on Yes Now define your User Name and Company Name InstallShield Wizard Customer Information Please enter your information Please enter your name and the name of the company for whom you work User Name ohn Smith Company Name E mbrodey Shop etal Shela Back Cancel and again click on Next and then select the directory where the software should be installed It would be recommended to use the default selected directory InstallShield Wizard Choose Destination Location Select folder where Setup will install files Setup will install Sew are Conversion Tool in the following folder Ta install to this folder click Nest To install to a different folder click Browse and select another folder Destination Folder CS ew ware CT Back Cancel Click on Next to continue Sew Ware Covnersion Tool software comes in 4 different languages English Spanish German and French This goes also for the Sew Ware Covnersion Tool Help files section In order to use as less disk space as possible and install only the necessary to you
3. 2 Additional reguired Accessories not provided 1 3 Minimum System Reguirements 1 4 Installation of the Sew Ware Conversion Tool Software 1 5 Handling CD ROMS 1 6 Using Sew Ware Conversion Tool User s Manual 1 7 Sew Ware Conversion Tool Help Features 2 Working with Files 2 1 Load Design 2 2 Catalog 2 3 Close Design 2 4 Save 2 5 Save As 2 6 Read from machine Disk 2 7 Reading procedure 2 8 Types of machine Disk 2 9 Printing Designs 2 10 Customize Print Properties 2 11 Design Options 2 12 Mask 2 13 Design s Mask 2 14 Company Logo 2 15 Company Logo Properties 2 16 Designs Settings 2 17 Size Properties 3 Transmit to Sewing Machine 3 1 Transmit a design to the Singer XL 5000 XL 6000 sewing machine 3 2 Transmission of big embroidery designs to XL 5000 XL 6000 Sewing machine 3 3 Procedure of downloading designs to the XL 5000 XL 6000 sewing machine 3 4 How to adjust thread tension manually 4 Modifying designs 4 1 Center Design 4 2 Clean Up 4 3 Stitch Colors 4 4 Changing the background color 5 Redraw process 5 1 Controlled Redraw 5 2 Redrawing tools NN own NGU 15 16 17 18 19 19 19 19 20 21 21 21 II 6 Working on screen 6 1 Zoom 6 2 Stitch Ends 6 3 Ruler 6 4 Grid 7 System Parameters 7 1 System Parameters 8 Toolbar 8 1 Using Toolbar Index 22 22 22 22 23 24 24 25 25 26 1 Getting Started Setting up the Sys
4. language please select the desired language on the following screen InstallShield Wizard Select Components Choose the components Setup will install Please select the Help Files to install You can install one or more language edition of these or none The Space Required value displays the required amount of hard disk space CHEF INNNNNNNNNNNNNNNCCHIU Descinion French Help 1539 K This component includes the fv Deutch Help 5906 F Spanish Help Files Space Required on L OK Space Available on C 17089928 K Back Cancel Now you are prompted to select the Program Folder where the shortcut for the software will be stored InstallShield Wizard Select Program Folder Please select a program folder Setup will add program icons to the Program Folder listed below you may type a new folder name or zelect one from the existing folders list Click Hest to continue Program Folders E sisting Folders hp olficejet d series corporate driwer Jasc Software Madeira Color Definition Package Microsoft Office Tools Palo Alto Software PES2Card Professional Zem Ware 2 0 Quick Time Sew are Conversion Tool Simply click on Next to continue Finally you are requested to confirm all the selections made during the installation set up InstallShield Wizard Start Copying Files Review settings before copying files Setup has enough information to start copying the program files IF you want
5. letter s that represents the code 2 14 Company Logo Enable this checkbox and a frame with the sign of Company Logo printed on it will appear Click anywhere inside the frame and drag it to the desired location on the page Press the right mouse button and the logo can also be relocated 2 15 Company Logo Properties Press the Logo Company button and in case you wish to insert another image bmp file from your storage device diskette hard disk CD ROM etc select the Change Logo button Click on OK and the desired logo will appear in the Printing Design frame If you wish to Maintain the aspect ratio when resizing the company logo frame you can enable the respective checkbox 2 16 Design Settings Frame Checking this option will draw a box around the design When you have enabled the Mask checkbox the Frame option is disabled because the program sets a frame around the whole page of your printing area and not only around your design Color Checking this option will display the design on single color on the screen Note If you have a monochrome printer you must switch off the colors option by removing the check mark 13 Origin and End Point Displays and prints the origin point with and the ending point with X of the design Points Displays and prints the stitch penetration points in the design 2 17 Size Properties Size Natural Displays the original dimensions of your design Size Cur
6. list of minimum hardware requirements for Sew Ware Covnersion Tool PC fully 100 compatible computer with a PENTIUM II processor A minimum of 64 MB RAM Standard CD ROM drives A hard disk with a minimum of 500MB of free space The more space that is available the more stitches that can be stored on the hard disk However the program itself requires at least 70MB of free hard disk space to run plus an additional amount of space for the Windows operating system e Color standard 640X480 pixels l colors VGA adapter connected with a color VGA monitor 1024x768 pixels 65 000 colors recommended e A Microsoft compatible mouse attached to an available port of the PC usually COM1 The mouse is a pointing device necessary for proper navigation within the program e Standard IBM serial card COM for connection to XL 5000 XL 6000 sewing machine e Sew Ware Conversion Tool software is compatible with Windows 95 Windows 98 Windows NT operating system Windows 20001 Windows ME Windows XP operating systems 1 4 Installation of the Sew Ware Covnersion Tool software The Sew Ware Covnersion Tool software comes on a CD ROM disc In most personal computers the default drive setting for a CD ROM drive is D Please insert the Sew Ware Covnersion Tool CD ROM into the CD ROM disc receiver in your PC After some seconds the Installation procedure of the software will start automati
7. 27 License Agreement To the user This is a license agreement between you and Compucon S A established in 14th Klm Thessaloniki Moudania Road P O Box 445 P C 57001 THERMI THESSALONIKI GREECE which grants vou the right to use this software sold under registered trademark Compucon Buying this software package you irrevocably accept the terms described underneath 1 Compucon S A grants you the non exclusive non transferable right to use one copy of the Compucon Software product Software acquired with this License on a single computer only In case that you wish to install the Software on a network server you should either acquire a number of Software Licenses equal to the number of computers on which the Software will be distributed and used or a group license In this case the number of persons using simultaneously the Software should not exceed the number of Licenses you have been granted The software is in use on a computer when it is resident in memory RAM installed on a hard disk or other storage device Software installed on a server for the only and exclusive purpose to be transferred to the workstations or terminals is not considered in use according to this license 2 The Software is owned by Compucon S A and is protected by International Copyright Laws International Treaties and Greek Law on Copyright Law 2121 1994 You acknowledge the copyright ability of the software 3 You are not allowed to copy
8. You can always abort the installation procedure by clicking on Cancel Note If for any reason you would like to uninstall the software select from Start gt Settings gt Control Panel gt Add Remove Programs icon From the appearing window scroll down until you find the Sew Ware Covnersion Tool option and click on the Add Remove button 1 5 Handling CD ROMS CD ROMs are an excellent media for holding information A typical CD can hold up to 650 MB of storage space and access time is relatively fast In the uncommon event that you experience any difficulty installing the program from your CD please make sure that the CD Drive itself is in proper working order In addition please check that the backside of the CD where the data is stored and no information 1s printed on 1s perfectly clean and free from dirt dust and greasy marks including fingerprints 1 6 Using Sew Ware Covnersion Tool User s Manual In the following pages you will receive detailed explanations on the functionality and use of all the incredible functions and features included in the Sew Ware software Please make sure to study through all the pages provided in this manual 1 7 Sew Ware Covnersion Tool Help Features While working with the software it is also possible to receive valuable information and support from the software itself with use of the Sew Ware Covnersion Tool Online Help T
9. cally In case this will not occur after a short while you can run the installation procedure manually by going to the Start option of Windows select Run type D setup exe and click on OK The Setup windows appear next InstallShield Wizard Sew Ware Conversion Tool Setup ts preparing the InstallShield Wizard which will guide you through the rest of the setup process Please walt LITT TT TTT LY zad Cancel Immediately after the Setup window the step by step installation of the software begins with the Welcome window You can always abort the installation procedure by clicking on the Cancel button InstallShield Wizard Welcome to the InstallShield Wizard for Sew Ware Conversion Tool The InstallShield Wizard will install Sew Ware Conversion Tool on Your computer To continue click Next Cancel Click on Next to move on the next screen InstallShield Wizard License Agreement Please read the following license agreement carefully Press the PAGE DOWN key to see the rest of the agreement This iz a licence agreement between you and Compucon 5 4 established in the 14th Elm Thessaloniki Moudania Road P O Box 445 F L 58001 Therm Thessaloniki Greece which grants you the right to use this software sold under registered trademark ormpucon Buying this software package you imevocably accept the terme described underneath 1 Compucon 5 4
10. chosen design into memory If vou select the wrong disk type the program will display an error message informing you about the wrong disk type If you are not sure about the disk type select Identify and the program will attempt to identify the disk 10 Select a design of a particular machine format and choose Delete to erase the design If you select more than one designs the Delete button is disable meaning that you can not continue to a mass deleting procedure If you have a disk that includes one or more designs you can select one press Ctrl and use the left mouse button to select the desired design or select all of them by selecting All Choose Copy to copy the selected designs Select Exit to return to the Read Design dialog box 2 8 Types of machine disks Machine code Type of diskette required MELCO DOS 2HD MELCO 2DD TAJIMA_DOS 2DD or 2HD ZSK 2DD ZSK_DOS 2DD or 2HD Melco Formats There are two formats available for Melco MELCO Superstar must use 2DD diskettes Due to the nature of the MELCO Superstar format your computer must be equipped with a disk controller card that allows reading in single sided single density format in order for the procedure to work successfully MELCO DOS must use 1 44 KB 2HD diskettes 11 2 9 Printing Design The Print dialog box contains all the necessary controls vou 1l need to choose the exact set up of the final printout It also acts as a prev
11. djustment for printing your image Displays the current number of stitches in the active design Displays the current mouse position in relation to the left top corner of the screen 25 Index 26 A Adjust thread tension manually B Background color C Catalogue Center Design Clean Up Close Design Contents of package Accessories Controlled Redraw D Design Options Design Settings Downloading designs to the XL 5000 XL 6000 sewing machine G Getting Started Grid I Index Installation of the Sew Ware Covnersion Tool Software L Load Design M Mask Modifying designs P Printing Design Company Logo Properties Company Logo Customize Print Properties Origin and End Point Points S1ze Current S1ze Natural S1ze Properties R Read from machine disk 18 20 19 19 10 21 12 13 17 13 19 12 13 13 12 14 14 14 14 14 10 Reading procedure Redraw process Ruler S Save As Save Stitch Colors Stitch Ends System Parameters System Reguirements T Thread Color Toolbar Transmit a design to the Singer XL 5000 XL 6000 Transmission of big embroidery designs to XL 5000 XL 6000 Sewing machine Types of machine disks Melco Formats U Using Sew Ware Covnersion Tool User s Manual Using Toolbars W Working on screen Working with Files Z Zoom 10 21 22 10 10 19 22 24 19 25 15 16 11 11 22
12. eed at which the Sew Ware Covnersion Tool software will transmit the design to the sewing machine and the speed at which the machine will accept it The Bits per second value at the software side has to have the same value as the Baudrate value at the sewing machine side in order to be able to transmit a design to the sewing machine for details on how to set up the Baudrate of the sewing machine please refer to your XL 5000 XL 6000 sewing machine instructions book 3 When ready click on the Wait to send button and at the same time go to your sewing machine and request to receive it please study related section in XL 5000 XL 6000 sewing machine instructions book 4 After requesting the design from the sewing machine side Sew Ware Covnersion Tool software will start sending the design data to the XL 5000 XL 6000 machine A progress bar both at the machine and also the software side will indicate the action in progress When all of the transmitted data is received the progress bar will stop indicating the transmission and you will be able to use your design on the sewing machine side in the same way as any other design read into the machine 15 3 2 Transmission of big embroidery designs to XL 5000 XL 6000 sewing machine When transferring enormous volume of embroidery data to sewing machine very big designs there might be the case of that the sewing machine will not be capable to correctly edit the
13. es only rather than the entire design you can define the parameters values from the Block properties gt Parameters gt Clean up 4 3 Stitch Colors Select Parameters gt Stitch Colors or the related tool on the main toolbar This option allows you to change the thread and screen colors used by the program Changing the thread colors i On the window which appears select the color which you would like to change and then change it by select a different value from the RGB color bar and also adjusting the colors light intensity You can also select the desired color directly by clicking on the desired color on the image that you are digitizing on 19 a Bal ms a m fe m E j cw The colors can also be selected with the use of the thread catalogue Select the thread palette and click on the Thread palette button to view and select from the range of colors provided 1159 3 1025 3 1022 4 1071 5 1086 4 1001 5 1066 1 O D a 1067 1 1238 2 1126 3 1082 4 121 ate 1135 1 1168 2 1056 3 1127 4 l 1 me 1167 1 1078 2 1057 3 1223 4 1236 5 1070 1 1184 2 1058 3 1017 4 1011 5 ier 4 After having set the colors for the various parts of your design click on OK to confirm the changes 4 4 Changing the Background color In order to change the background color of the working environment of Sew Ware Covnersion Tool simply click on the related button on the Colors windo
14. he Zoom function you can press the right mouse button and from the right pop up menu you can zoom in zoom out or fit on screen 6 2 Stitch Ends Select Choices gt Stitch ends or press P This function highlights each stitch point on the screen with a white black dot making it easy to see the position of the stitch on screen Note The color of the stitch ends depends on the selected screen color Click once on P to highlight the stitch points Click again on P to display the stitch points with bold dots Press the same key for the third time to disable the dots 6 3 Ruler Select Choices gt Ruler or press O Selecting Ruler will prompt you with a display in the status bar at the bottom of the screen Press the left mouse button once to define the point from which you want to start measuring or click and drag from one point to another Move the mouse pointer to the point at which you want to stop measuring The message at the bottom of the screen will constantly monitor and display your movements where 22 D displays the distance between the two selected points X displays the horizontal distance traveled Y displays the vertical distance traveled Press Esc to terminate the operation 6 4 Grid Select Choices gt Grid or press W Select this function to display grid points on the screen as a visual aid Choose the type of the grid points and adjust the point s distance vertically and horizontally in tenths of a m
15. iew window for the final printed design You can manipulate and customize every aspect of the page or pages that will be printed oe Choose font for information layout Customize the Print dialog design BN Printer page size t Printing design may to Xerox DP N4025 Win 9x PS3 7 SS Displays Alg i a common Windows printer set up dialog Design m 1 1 p Show 7 Mask E Change Logo Design Properties Exits the printing procedure Frame IV Origin and End point Colour 7 Points ononovnoonnoo Size Natural 12 00 x 7 66 cm Current 12 00 x 7 66 cm Maximize your design on screen for better view Designs Name may Humber d Sichs 11705 Dimensians 120047 a cm Taal Thread 47 m Sak 100 akum 24 r6G6 3 Legena Black Design Origin Point Black Domea X Design Ena Poin 2 10 Customize Print properties Customize the printer page size in case you have an unknown non standard printer and set the page margins and the number of copies you want to print From the same dialog box one of three drawing modes can be chosen for the design relative to the line width and the colors that will be displayed on the printed page By clicking on Set Default the default value for each property will be displayed At the bottom of the dialog box you can either enable or disable the warning that appears if the printer has limited capab
16. ility for rendering printing the exact color shading of your design 2 11 Design Options mE n ae A E Tiles If a design is too large to fit on one sheet of paper you can tile the printout so the printer will use more than one sheet to print out the design at original scale Simply click on the tile option to choose the desired print layout 12 2 141 Sets the scaling factor to 100 In this case the actual printed size 1s egual to the physical size of design if the paper size is large enough 3 P Zoom maximizes the design to cover the maximum printing area available for the selected paper size in the print Setup 2 12 Mask When the Mask checkbox is disabled the design information will not appear and cannot be printed 2 13 Design s Mask When you click on the checkbox for the second time middle gray state a small text box will appear containing basic design information The box can be moved anywhere in the printing area of the paper Just click on it with the left mouse button and drag it to another location The information in this option gives you Design name The number of stitches in the design The dimensions of the design The total length of thread in meters used in this design The scale of the printed design to the original artwork Then number of applique blocks The needle color sequence Note If a thread color changing becomes from a Stop Code you can view beside the color number and a small
17. illimeter i Press this button to maintain the aspect ratio x y of the grid Points distance lt 1 4 o 4 a ancel 23 7 System Parameters In this chapter you will learn how to define the system parameters 7 1 System Parameters From this option you can define basic settings of your system as described below Select Parameters gt System Parameters or press F2 System parameters Language English a Language Selects the working language for Sew Ware Covnersion Tool Unit systems Sew Ware Covnersion Tool gives you the option to work either in inches or in millimeters by setting this option refers to rulers measuring distances etc 24 8 Using Toolbar Learn how to use the screen toolbar for guick access to program function 8 1 Using Toolbars Sew Ware Covnersion Tool has a toolbar to provide easy access to the most commonly used functions All of the functions performed by the toolbar icons are also performed by pull down menu options You may find that it 1s easier to use the menus when starting out As you gain proficiency the tool bar icons can save many steps in performing repetitive tasks Sew Ware Covnersion Tool starts off with the toolbar displayed below Transmit a Press to save design to The current Undo Zoom machine image to disk 541 812 s U 8 2 O 3 8 21317 N Select the desired printer make all the necessary a
18. n 2 3 Close Design Select Files gt Close to close the current working design If you haven t already saved the changes you made the program prompts you with a window message to save them 2 4 Save Select Files gt Save to save your current design onto hard disk under its current file name as it appears at the top of your screen 2 5 Save As Select Files gt Save As to save your current design under another name 2 6 Read from machine disk Choose Files gt Read from machine disk Delete a design Select this button to Free Space bar displays the Ps reading number of the free space left for extra stitches on the selected disk type Read design from machire disk x a Oh i Exit Free b d Name Channel Stitches Read Delete Barudan FDA 1 44 Barudan FMC Barudan M7000 Beat 900 Forfron Ju gt Identify Loy gx Copy the selected Select the n designs Seler all he machine disk a machine type Select this button and the program attempts to identify the disk type if you are not sure about it 2 7 Reading procedure Some disks types provide also information about the channels in which the specific design is being kept Displays the name of the designs that are being included on the selected disk type and also the number of stitches Select the machine disk type and choose the design you wish to read Select Read and the program will load the
19. o display the table of contents choose Help gt Contents Clicking on the Contests option prompts the program to activate the Windows Help feature and displays a menu window with the available help topics To access help for the current content on screen place the mouse pointer on the menu or toolbar and then press F1 on the keyboard s Select Help gt Search and type a subject name The available subjects are displayed in a table 2 Working with Files This chapter introduces the basic functions of how to read designs from the hard disk or from machine disk write designs onto the hard disk and print the on screen design 2 1 Load Design Select an existing design from your hard or floppy disk Select the specific Drive in which designs are being stored Open design E3 Designs Preview the design icons next to their names If you already know the name of your design you can type it in the File text box File May psw File type PSW Design PSW Cancel Information Width 12 00 cm Select the type of file you want Height 7 66 cm to load Stitches 11704 Size 165 Kb Catalog Press the Catalog button to display a page of the design s icons on screen 2 2 Catalog Press the Catalog button to view the design icons Catalog 1 View your designs in large icons View your designs 1n small icons Double click on a design s icon to load the desired desig
20. or in any way reproduce the Product s manual or other written materials supporting the software 4 Your right of use the program allows you only loading and running of the program according to its intended purpose You are not allowed to adapt translate or otherwise alter the program to distribute it by any means or electronically or rent lease or licence it No other rights are assigned to you than the herein explicitly mentioned 5 You are not allowed to bypass circumvent or remove any copy protection mean 6 You may not reverse engineer or decompile the software since it contains secret valuable know how of the right holder This does not affect your rights under any legislation implementing the EEC Directive on the Legal Protection of Computer programs 7 The violation of articles 1 2 and 4 entitles the licensor without any further notice to terminate this agreement as well as any accessory maintenance agreement with the licensee concerning the maintenance of this software In case of termination the licensee has to erase or destroy the original diskettes or return them to the licensor return the protection key to the licensor erase any other copy of the program and return the whole documentation of software 8 The user of the program cannot reproduce or distribute the program or part of it for private or commercial purposes The licensee is not entitled to remove or alter any proprietary rights of the program like the copyright notice
21. or the logo of COMPUCON 9 Under no circumstances will COMPUCON be liable for direct indirect or consequential or any other damage or loss of data arising out of the use or inability to use the Software or the user documentation even if advised of the possibility of such damages To the extend that national applicable law does not allow the exclusion of liability for any kind of damages Compucon s liability in no case shall exceed the amount paid by you for the Software license upon the condition that the user returns all the original diskettes hardware equipment and devices including the protection key returns all documents provided by Compucon and erases all existing copies of the program in every possible storage mean Compucon warrants that the software will perform substantially in accordance with the accompanying User s manual Any Compucon s supplied hardware and electronic devises accompaning the Software will be free of defects in materials under normal use and service Compucon however makes no other warranty of any kind either express or implied that the program product is free of errors No Compucon dealer distributor agent or employee is authorized to make any modification or alteration to the warranty or liability provisions S A All rights reserved
22. related data and display a Memory full message icon In this case and in order to avoid this situation please follow the below mentioned procedure Put the embroidery data of the big design in the temporary saving memory of the machine first then turn off and turn on power of the machine or go to the editing screen then turn off and turn on power to machine and then use power fail function Then you may continue to download data and you will be able to edit this data on the machine screen without any problem 16 3 3 Procedure of downloading designs to the XL 5000 XL 6000 sewing machine Transfer regular pattern data Set BPM transfer speed 1 Pattern selector screen One save the setting it is not necessary to make re setting On Sew Ware Covnersion Tool side Click on File gt Send to machine Adjust the machine side BPM transfer speed XXX Bits Per Second pend to machine Port Card Wik ter Cancel Bits Per Second 1 On Sew Ware Covnersion Tool side Click on ese Lap Se Wait to send m oo At the time transferred data 1s selected It will return to the screen 1 or 2 With this icon on pattern selector screen it will go to EDIT step 17 3 4 How to adjust thread tension manually The sewing machine has an automatic computer controlled thread metering system As for the design transferred to the sewing machine with Sew Ware Conversion Tool a set
23. rent Displays the current printing dimensions of your design The box shows you the scaling of the print preview to the original size of the design You can type an arbitrary scaling factor in the Edit field and press Enter to display and print the design at the desired scaling 14 3 Transmit to Sewing Machine This chapter you will teach you how to transmit a design directly from the Sew Ware Covnersion Tool to the XL 5000 XL 6000 Sewing Machine 3 1 Transmit a design to the Singer XL 5000 XL 6000 sewing machine Sew Ware Covnersion Tool Software provides you with the unique ability to directly transmit a design to the XL 5000 XL 6000 sewing machine There are two different ways of direct transmission of a design to the XL 5000 XL 6000 sewing machine Before doing this however please be noted to connect the Serial Cable not provided to be purchased separately with the Serial Port on your PC COM and also the Serial Port of the sewing machine In order to transmit a design to the sewing machine the design has to be opened in the Sew Ware Covnersion Tool software From the menu option File select the option Send to machine and the following window will appear Send to Machine Eom 2 Cancel Bits Per Second 1 Select the Port the sewing machine is connected to 2 Define the Bits per second parameter also referred to as Baudrate This value defines the sp
24. tem Thank you for using the Sew Ware Covnersion Tool software This software has been especially designed to allow easy and direct transfer of your embroidery design from your PC to the XL 5000 XL 6000 Sewing machine All you have to do is simply open the desired design from the Sew Ware Covnersion Tool software and transmit it to the XL 5000 XL 6000 machine All popular embroidery formats are available to allow you to import almost any design obtained What is more Sew Ware Covnersion Tool includes a number of very useful editing functions allowing to clean it up center it or even change it s colors Please study through the pages following in this manual in order to get familiar with all the features and functions of this software 1 1 Contents of package Accessories One 1 CD containing the Sew Ware Conversion Tool software gt Sew Ware Conversion Tool Software 1 plece 1 2 Additional reguired Accessories not provided In order to connect your personal computer to the XL 5000 XL 6000 sewing machine and be able to send designs via the Sew Ware Covnersion Tool you will need to purchase separately one Serial Cable Serial Cable 1 piece This can be purchased at any shop selling computer or electronic accessories Please ask for a serial cable with the following description Null Modem RS 232 DB9 Male DB9 Female max 5m 1 3 Minimum System Requirements The following is a
25. to review or change any settings click Back If you are satished with the settings click Next to begin copying files Current Settings User Information John Smith My company Setup Type Destination Directory CS eweware CT Back Next gt Cancel Pressing the Next button will finally start the copy and installation of the Sew Ware Covnersion Tool software files to the given directory on the hard disk A progress bar will indicate the stage at which the installation procedure is It will finish when it has reached to 100 Installing Copying Program Files CNS ew ware CT CComPart dll E Z Cancel Updating configuration files When finished you will be prompted that the procedure has finished installing the software It would be advisable to reboot your computer at this stage by selecting Yes I want to restart my computer now InstallShield Wizard Ni amp InstallShield Wizard Complete The InstallShield Wizard has successtully installed Sew Ware Conversion Tool Before you can use the program you must restart pour computer f Yes want to restart my computer now f No will restart my computer later Remove any disks from ther drives and then click Finish to complete setup If the installation utility identifies a lack of available space on your hard disk an error message will prompt you to free some hard disk space before proceeding with the installation
26. up of a thread condition is set up in the strong stitch to show stitch beautifully If when thread tension is too severe or a trouble such as thread breakage occurs while sewing Set up thread tension in the favourite strength with the following process Tension is shown on a pop up screen accessed by pressing key Press al decrease 2 m needle thread tension Thread tension decreases ales in eight steps To return the thread tension to the automatic setting press the center of the tension pictogram For example touching the 8 will d return the machine to automatic tension setting 18 4 Modifying Designs This chapter will teach you how to center a design and clean up the small stitches The specific chapter also provides you with the necessary information about adjusting the color parameters 4 1 Center Design Clicking on this option will center the design according to the frame center 4 2 Clean Up The Clean Up function deletes small stitches in your design the length of which can be defined If you type in a minimum value of 0 and a maximum value of 3 in tenths of millimeters then all the stitches that fall Min value between these two values will be deleted ay o This 1s a useful function to delete those stitches that are superfluous to requirements and more likely to cause thread breaks Max value Cancel If you wish to clean up the small stitches 1n a block of stitch
27. w m Then select the desired color for the background from the RGB color bar and click on OK to confirm the change made 20 9 9 1 Redraw This chapter describes how to redraw one design on screen and control the redrawing process Controlled Redraw Select Choices gt Controlled Redraw or press Shift R This function will hide your design and the redrawing tools will appear 5 2 Ii Ilib Redrawing tools Press to remove the design from the screen and redraw it from the beginning or press Home Press to remove the design color by color from the screen or press C Press repeatedly to remove the design block by block from the screen or press Page Up Press repeatedly to remove the design stitch by stitch from the screen or press lt Press once to start redrawing the design or press Enter Press once to stop redrawing the design or press 57 Press repeatedly to draw the design stitch by stitch on your screen or press Press repeatedly to draw the design block by block on your screen or press Page Down Press repeatedly to draw the design color by color on your screen or press the space bar Press to redraw the design until the end or press End Press to delay the redrawing speed of your design or press There are up to five speed stages so whenever this particular tool is selected a ne
28. w dot will be added on its right Press to terminate the redrawing operation 21 6 Working on screen This chapter tells you how to manipulate your designs on screen Learn how to enlarge any part of the design highlight stitch points measure your designs and many other useful functions 6 1 Zoom Select Choices gt Zoom or press Z Enlarge any part of the design on screen with the Zoom function It works by dragging a constant shaped rectangle using the mouse across the area you wish to zoom The zoom rectangle appears with a click of the left mouse button at which point the mouse pointer will change to a magnifying glass with a plus sign To zoom in press the left mouse button once move the pointer diagonally across the area to be enlarged and press the left mouse button again to confirm the area Or click the left mouse button and drag it across the area To zoom out click the icon on the toolbar for zoom out magnifying glass with a minus sign and click the left mouse button and move the pointer across the desired area same as for zoom in Press Z twice or select the Fit in screen icon to maximize the design or image to full screen Press the Ctrl Page Up keys to magnify your design or image bring the image or design closer Press Ctrl Page Down to reduce the design or image zoom out Press the Actual zoom 1 1 tool to display your design in the original created size Note When you select t
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