User manual SINGER PROFESSIONAL SEW-WARE 2.00A

[. . . ] PROFESSIONAL TM SEW-WARE 2. 00a BASIC TRAINING GUIDEBOOK Singer and Professional Sew-Ware are registered trademarks of the Singer Company limited. Part # 640--505255ODD ® TM Revised 06-24-04 CONVERTER BOX CONVERTER AS STAND-ALONE DEVICE The Converter can be used as a stand-alone device (no connection to PC), with the ability to transfer data between cards. The Converter can copy from / to the following types of SINGER® cards: CARD NAME SmartMedia Card Flash Card RAM Card ROM Card PSW Original Design Card Pictall / SJ-1 Scanner Card Singer Embroidery Card ALSO KNOWN AS QUANTUM® MACHINE XL-5000, XL-6000 XL-150, 1000 XL-100, 150, 1000 #1, 2 ----- 20 XL-100, 150, 1000 #I, II ----- X XL-150, 1000 MEMORY 8 to 128 MB 512KB 512KB 512KB LIGHT INDICATORS ON CONVERTER BOX 1. Press to copy data from SJ-1, Flash or Embroidery cards to SmartMedia Card. PSW 2. 00a SOFTWARE WITH CONVERTER To operate the PSW 2. 00a program the Converter must be connected to the PC. [. . . ] Double click on the SmartMedia card icon, and a list of Pages appears. Double click on a Page; a list of Tags appears (there are 5 Tags in a Page). The Tags will each display up to 8 designs; double-click on the design. Design is now open and ready for editing. 16 COLOR REDUCTION Due to the amazing number of colors that are scanned into a bitmap image the Autotrace function may not be able to read all the colors and fill the area with stitches. Use Color Reduction (found under Utilities) to define all the colors in the image and select the ones to remove from the image. This makes the image become "simpler" and makes it possible to use Autotrace. To practice using the Color Reduction feature, an image file of a dolphin will be imported and then digitized using Autotrace. Click on Suggest to display the respective colors of the image ­ outline color (black) selected. Click on Remove to eliminate the Dolphin outline color; Click OK ­ Image no longer has the black outline. From Horizontal toolbar click the drop down arrow; select Step Satin; Click OK. Digitize the Dolphin body; click on Next Color to insert a color stop. Digitize the Dolphin nose; click on Next Color to insert a color stop. Digitize the Dolphin belly; click on Next Color to insert a color stop. NOTE: Pull Compensation Once Autotrace is complete, it is possible there may be "gaps" between the fill stitch areas. Stretch will "pull" a design in the direction of the angle of inclination in a stitch block. Outline Shift will increase or decrease the size of the block an equal amount throughout. Use the Outline Shift to adjust the Dolphin nose and belly. 17 · · · · · · · · · · From Main Menu, click on Edit: Edit Outline. From the Main Menu, Click on Utilities: Undo Color Reduction, and the "reduced" color (black) from the Dolphin image file resurface. Digitize the eye of the Dolphin as follows: · · · · Using the left mouse, click reference points around the eye area. Prompt-line reads "Input direction"; click left mouse anywhere on screen, to anchor a point. As mouse pointer is moved, an elastic line is pulled from the anchor point. Prompt-line reads "Input the entry point"; click the left mouse where stitching is to begin for this block of stitches. Prompt-line reads "Input the exit point"; click the left mouse where stitching is to finish for this block of stitches. [. . . ] X: and Y: represent the height and width in 1/10 mm and can be changed by pressing the arrows or typing the number in the box. Click on inches and the X: and Y: numbers will change from metric to inches automatically. Clicking the Lock icon allows working with X: and Y: independently. 27 6. · · · 100% is the default setting 150% will increase size by 50% 80% will decrease size by 20% 7. [. . . ]