Save Brother Jumbo Hoop Design

Embird Embroidery Software Tutorial

Save Viking Plus Hoop Design

Embird Embroidery Software Tutorial

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

2 - Open the design that you want to save for the Jumbo Hoop or for the Viking Plus Hoop. To open a design, click the "File" menu and choose the "Open" command. Please note that you will probably have to split this design into two or three parts.

3 - Click the "Hoop Size" button, or select the "Options > Hoop Size" menu (Picture No. 1).

1. Select the "Options > Hoop Size" menu

4 - Select the proper hoop size, for example "Brother Jumbo Small" (Picture No. 2) or "Viking Plus" (Picture No. 3). Confirm the hoop selection by clicking the "OK" button.

2. Choose the right hoop - Brother Jumbo Small

3. Choose the right hoop - Viking Plus

5 - You can see now that the design exceeds the size of one of the three overlapping hoops (red, green, blue). Notice the red rectangle drawn around the design icon at the right side of the screen - it indicates that the object is out of section. Therefore, the design must be split at least into two parts. The optimal solution is to split the design somewhere between the red and blue hoops in their common area (Picture No. 4). Use the "Freehand Select Mode" to select the stitches you want to cut out (separate). More information regarding splitting is available in the Interactive Freehand Splitting tutorial.

Note: It is possible to skip the following steps and continue at step 8. Embird can automatically split the design in such a way that each object fits a section. However, sometimes it is better to split the design manually to obtain an optimal result.

4. Notice hoop sections

6 - Once you have selected the area you want to separate, it will be displayed in red. Click the "Split" button to split the design; this will separate the red selection (Picture No. 5).

5. Split design

7 - You can see the parts of the split design (part1 and part2) in the "Object Order Bar" at the right side of the screen (Picture No. 6). Each part now lies completely in one of the three overlapping sections of the hoop; therefore, there is no red rectangle around any object.

6. Design parts fit hoop sections

8 - Use the "File > Save As" command to save the whole design to a file on your disk. In the "Choose Format" dialog box, choose the "Babylock, Bernina, Brother .PES" format in the case of the Brother Jumbo hoop, or the "Viking Husqvarna .HUS" format in the case of the Viking Plus hoop. In the second dialog box that appears on the screen, you can choose the file name of the design being saved.

Note: In the case of the Brother Jumbo hoop, all the design parts will be automatically combined and saved into a single .PES file on the hard disk. If you want to save each part into a separate file, choose the "Babylock, Bernina, Brother .PEC" format in the "Choose Format" dialog box in step 8.

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