Adding a Stop Point

Embird Embroidery Software Tutorial

1 - Run Embird and click the "Editor" menu to switch to the Editor window.

2 - Select the "File > Open" menu to open a file into which the stop (color change) point is to be inserted.

3 - Click the "Freehand Select Mode" button (Picture No. 1).

1. Select "Freehand Select Mode"

4 -  In Freehand Select Mode, select an area (see also Interactive Free-Hand Splitting) that will follow the stop point in the new design. In this example, it is the "b" character. Once you have selected the area, click the "Split" button to separate the selected red stitches into a new object (Picture No. 2).

2. Select an area, click the "Split" button

5 - Now you can see that there are two objects in the "Object Order Bar" on the right side of the screen. Near each object, there is a small box containing the color of the object. Double-click the left mouse button on the box containing the color that you want to change (Picture No. 3).

3. Double-click to change color

6 - Choose the new color in the dialog box that appears on the screen (Picture No. 4). Click the "OK" button to confirm the new color.

4. Choose a new color

7 - Now you can see in the "Object Order Bar" on the right side of the screen that the objects have different colors. This means that the stop (color change) point will be inserted into the final design.

8 - Use the "File > Save As" command to save the whole design to a file on your disk (Picture No. 5).  Specify the format and the file name of the new design in the dialog boxes that appear on the screen.

5. Select "File > Save As" to save the design

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