Fill Closed Contours (advanced)

Embird Embroidery Software Tutorial

This tutorial explains how to create basting stitches around an existing design in Embird Editor. These stitches might be used together with Effect and Fill Closed Contours features to create various filled shapes around the design.

1 - Run the Embird program.

2 - Select the "Embird" menu to switch to Editor.

3 - Select the "File > Open" menu to open an existing design (Picture No. 1).

1. Open an existing design

4 - Select the "Insert > Basting Stitches" menu (Picture No. 2).

2. Insert Basting Stitches

5 - Choose the basting stitches shape in the dialog box that appears on the screen (Picture No. 3).

3. Choose Basting Stitches Shape

6 - Basting stitches of the chosen shape will be inserted into the work area (Picture No. 4).

4. Basting stitches of chosen shape

7 - Select the "Insert > Effect" menu to insert another shape into the work area - the design contour (Picture No. 5).

5. Choose Contour Effect

8 - Specify the stitch length for the contour (Picture No. 6).

6. Specify stitch length

9 - The new contour will appear around the design (Picture No. 7).

7. Contour Effect Applied

10 - Select both new contours and then click the "Edit > Split/Join > Join" menu to join them into a single object (Picture No. 8).

8. Join Both Contours

11 - Select the "Insert > Fill Closed Contours" menu to fill the new object with stitches (Picture No. 9).

9. Fill Closed Contours

12 - Choose the Motif fill type for this object (Picture No. 10).

10. Choose Motif

13 - The shape is filled with stitches (Picture No. 11).

11. Filled shape

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