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Year: 2019

Digitizing for bling with Wilcom’s EmbroideryStudio

Bling refers to decorative objects placed on garments or templates, either on their own or in combination with other design elements. Bling is supplied in varying sizes, shapes, colors and materials. Wilcom EmbroideryStudio provides a dedicated Bling toolset to add bling to multi-decoration designs. This allows you to create and visualize bling embellishments in combination…

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Creating freehand embroidery with Wilcom’s EmbroideryStudio

The Freehand feature provides functionality similar to CorelDRAW® Graphics Suite Freehand and Polyline tools. Freehand has many benefits. It lets you create designs with a hand-drawn appearance, something which is difficult to achieve through conventional digitizing methods. The aim is to mimic the fluid and free-flowing effects formed by means of freehand stitching techniques. Watch…

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Create Large Lettering for Garment Backs

  All lettering has maximum and minimum recommended sizes, to find these recommendations go to the HELP MENU  and ONLINE MANUAL. In the Navigation Bar  Look for Appendices and Embroidery Fonts.   CTRL F will open the Find dialogue to locate the particular font you are looking for.Notice Adelle font has a recommended minimum of 10…

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Tatami Stitch – What is it and some basic features

Tatami stitch is generally used for larger areas of fill in an embroidery design, which often will be the background for lettering or other objects in the design.Normally this would require an even stitch pattern, with a regular arrangement of stitch penetrations between to rows.However tatami can be so much more than a backing by…

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Lettering improvements in EmbroideryStudio e4.2

In our most recent major release, EmbroideryStudio e4.2, we introduced a number of improvements to the way you select and use fonts. Solid font previews The font previews in e4.2 are now solid, meaning you can quickly and easily see how the fonts will sew in embroidery. Font preview size You can now control the…

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EmbroideryStudio e4.2 Update 1 is Released!

Summary of update:  New or improved: Customer feedback suggested that users prefer the previous method to change thread colors by double clicking the thread color. Therefore, this behaviour has been returned to ES e4.2 Update 1. Fixes: Problems have been reported when exporting designs to ZSK 1 machine file format. When edited in e4.2, design…

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The Versatile Baseline

The Baseline is a property of a lettering object and may be changed at any time, even after the object has been created. The Baseline is one of the great benefits of the Embroidery Studio lettering system and should be preserved.There is no need to break the lettering object apart to manipulate a single letter,…

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Creating a Predefined Baseline

Actually the process of creating a Predefined Baseline creates 3 separate baselines that can be treated individually once they have been created.The feature is particularly useful for circular and elliptical designs that have lettering around the logo and possibly through the middle. The procedure is exactly the same as for a circular baseline but involves…

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How to reshape objects in your embroidery design

Keyboard Shortcut “H” is one of my top 10 shortcut keys. Objects need to be reshaped for all sorts of reasons, perhaps to make a slight adjustment to correct a registration issue or improve the shape of a design element. The Reshape icon is found under the Object Select icon in the Toolbox. When the…

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How to customize the Tool Properties in your Templates

Templates are designed to save time and give a consistent result for all of your design work.Embroidery Studio 4.2 allows you to save specific property values to 6 of your main digitizing tools. For example you may, in one template prefer the turning satin tool to default to tatami stitch with a specific stitch spacing…

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