Sorting Designs and Images in Embird

Embird Embroidery Software Tutorial

This tutorial explains how to sort designs and images (digital photos) in Embird. The design (or image) displayed on the screen in the Viewer window can be moved to a predefined folder by a single click of the mouse button.

1 - Run Embird; it will start in "Manager" mode.

2 - Create folders into which you will sort the designs (Picture No. 1). You can create folders using the "Right Panel > Folder Operations > Create New Folder" menu, or use a file manager - e.g., Windows Explorer. In this example, the designs will be sorted into three folders: "Animals", "Flowers", and "Portraits".

3 - Click the button as shown by arrow 2 in Picture No. 1 to set predefined folders for buttons "1 to 0" and "A to T".

1. Create sub-folders and click the "Set Predefined Folders" button

4 - A dialog box will appear on the screen, allowing you to choose predefined folders (Picture No. 2). Click the button with the folder icon to select the folder. Confirm new settings by clicking the "OK" button.

2. Assign new sub-folders to quick buttons 1, 2 and 3

5 - Select the first design (or image) in the list of files at the right side of the screen (arrow 1 in Picture No. 3). In this example, it is the "alphabet_test.dst" file.

6 - Select the "Right Panel > Open in Viewer" menu (arrow 2 in Picture No. 3).

3. Select "Right Panel > Open in Viewer" menu

7 -  The Viewer window will appear on the screen and the "alphabet_test.dst" design is displayed. Press the "Space" key (for displaying the next design) several times until the first animal design appears - in this example, it is the "elephant.dst" design (Picture No. 4). Because this design should be moved to the "Animals" folder, move the mouse pointer to the button with predefined folder 1 and click this button.

Note: The buttons in the red frame at the right side of the "predefined folders buttons" row allow you to choose which operation will be performed with the displayed file:

arrow 1 - Move (cut the file and paste it to the target folder),

arrow 2 - Copy the file to the target folder while leaving the original file in its current folder,

arrow 3 - Make shortcut to the file in the target folder while leaving the file in its current folder.

4. Move design to "Animals" folder

8 - The next file will be displayed on the screen. This one should be moved to the "Flowers" folder; therefore, click the button with predefined folder 2 (Picture No. 5).

9 - The next file will be displayed on the screen. If you do not want to move the file to any predefined folder, press the "Space" button on the keyboard to display the next file, or the "Backspace" button to display the previous file.

Note: The buttons at the right side of the "predefined folders buttons" row allow you to Undo the movement of a file (arrow 1), or Redo the last operation (arrow 2). If the checkbox Automatically change name if file exists is ON (arrow 3 in Picture No. 5), then the name of the file being moved to the chosen folder is automatically modified to avoid overwriting an existing file with the same name in the target folder.

5. Move design to "Flowers" folder

Tip: In the Viewer window, you can quickly rotate and mirror images (digital photos) by pressing these keys on the keyboard:

- Press key 1 to rotate the displayed image to the left

- Press key 2 to flip the displayed image

- Press key 3 to rotate the displayed image to the right

- Press key 4 to mirror the displayed image horizontally

- Press key 5 to mirror the displayed image vertically

Note 1: Another way of design sorting is explained in the tutorial Select Marked Files.

Note 2: Read also the tutorial Using Shortcut Files (.LNK) to Sort Designs; it explains a different approach to sorting designs, which is suitable if you want to have the same design in several categories (folders) but keep only one copy of the design file.

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