Save Designs for Giant-L Hoop-It-All™

Embird Embroidery Software Tutorial

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

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

1. Select the "Options > Hoop Size" menu

3 - Click the "Giant Hoop-It-All™" tab and choose the right hoop type for your sewing machine (Picture No. 2). Confirm the hoop selection by clicking the "OK" button.

Note: If you have not previously done so, verify the markings on your hoop to determine sections A, B, C, D, and E. See also the Section Definition in Hoop-It-All™ tutorial.

2. Choose the right hoop

4 - The empty hoop will be drawn in the work area (Picture No. 3).

Some areas around the hoop sides and the corners might be grayed out. This area is reserved for the needle mechanism and/or is non-reachable by the machine's needle.

You will see fuchsia and white bars at the left and right sides of the hoop. These colors will be explained below. Also, there are all "child" hoops (sections) drawn, so that the working area looks very complicated. Child hoops represent the maximum design size that your sewing machine can sew out in one section within the Giant-L Hoop-It-All™. You can switch on/off each side of the hoop by pressing the "Alt + Left" or "Alt + Right" key combination (also accessible via the "View > Hoops In Giant Hoop-It-All™" menu). You can turn them both on/off at once using the "Alt + Ins" key combination.

Both sides of the hoop work like a magnet. If you turn off a side, it stops "attracting" designs unless you turn it on again. This way you can prepare designs side-by-side, starting, for example, with the right side and ending with the left side. All designs belonging to a side will be drawn in that side's color (i.e., fuchsia or white), but only when the side is off. This way you can check to which side the particular object belongs - turn both sides off (by pressing the "Alt + Ins" keys simultaneously) and you will see.

3. Notice hoop sections

5 - Let's start with the right side of the hoop. Turn the left side off using commands in the "View > Hoops In Giant Hoop-It-All™ -> Left" menu. You can see in the work area that only the right side of the hoop is ON now (Picture No. 4).

4. Turn ON only the RIGHT side of the hoop

6 - Merge the designs into the work area. Use the "File > Merge" menu to merge a file (Picture No. 5). For more information on merging files, please read the Open Designs for Giant-L Hoop-It-All™ tutorial.

5. Notice sections on the RIGHT side of the hoop

7 - Move the design to the right side of the hoop (Picture No. 6).

6. Merge files

8 - As you can see in Picture No. 6 above, the design exceeds the size of the child hoop (section, which represents the maximum design size that the embroidery machine is capable of sewing out). Notice the red rectangle drawn around the design icon at the right side of the screen - it indicates that the object is out of the section. The design must be manually split in such a way that each part of the design fits into one of the five overlapping child hoops (Picture No. 7). More information regarding the splitting is available in the Interactive Free-Hand Splitting tutorial.

Note: It is possible to skip the following steps and continue to step 12. 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.

7. Move the design to the RIGHT side of the hoop

9 - Repeat the splitting process until every object fits into one of the five child hoops (Picture No. 8). Sometimes it might be necessary to change the order of objects. Drag and drop objects in the Objects Order Bar so that their order is correct (Picture No. 8).

8. Split design

10 - When you are finished with the splitting, turn off the right side of the hoop (by pressing the "Alt + Right" keys simultaneously). All objects belonging to the right side should be drawn in fuchsia color now (Picture No. 9). In case some objects are not drawn in this color yet, it means that they do not fit into the child hoop and you must split them again (press the "Alt + Right" keys simultaneously to turn on the right side of the hoop and then repeat step 8).

9. All design parts fit to sections on the RIGHT hoop side

11 - Turn on the left side of the hoop and repeat steps 6 to 10.

12 - When you are finished with both sides of the Giant-L Hoop-It-All™ hoop, click the "File > Save As" menu to save all design parts to files on your disk. Specify the format and the file name in the dialog boxes which appear on the screen. Each design part will be saved into a separate file on the disk.

Note: Embird will automatically append two characters to the file name of each part (Picture No. 11). These characters indicate the hoop section which belongs to the part, e.g., www_RE.hus means that the part should be sewn out at the "Right" side in the "E" section. This is very helpful during sewing, or if you want to re-open these files in the Editor - see also the Open Designs for Giant-L Hoop-It-All™ tutorial.

10. List of saved files

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