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Advanced Design Creation with VBE, Drawing tools and Vector Import
Illustrator provides several digitizing approaches, from traditional to more advanced techniques, for creating premium embroidery. Special stitch effects and advanced features give you the tools you need to create beautiful embroidery.
Vector and TTF import
Import artwork or copy vectors from Adobe® Illustrator® and CorelDRAW® and paste them directly into version 2009 while preserving the vector points and original colors. Quickly assign stitch types to segments. Import TrueType® fonts as artwork and convert to any stitch type.
Vector Import
Easily import vector files directly into the software while preserving both vector points and colors of the original file. There is no need to draw, trace or digitize the segments individually—just select the segments and apply the desired stitch types.That’s all it takes to create embroidery from vector artwork. Once you’ve worked with Vector Import you’ll wonder how you ever managed without it!
Import Truetype® fonts
The Import TrueType® feature helps you create new lettering with amazing ease. Just import any TrueType® font and convert it into embroidery by using the slice tool to breakup the segments and then assign stitch types and angle lines. With a few clicks of the mouse, you have new ready-to-sew lettering. The end result is high quality embroidery that is sure to impress your customers.
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Image Vectorizer
Transform bitmap images into vector artwork almost effortlessly. Generate vectorized images from bitmaps, and then choose stitch types that best suit your design needs.
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Branching
Digitize complex shapes without worrying about sequencing. Multiple satin, steil, or run segments are sequenced optimally to reduce travel runs, jumps, and trims. Branched segments behave as one large segment with one start and stop point and continuous underlay throughout.
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Steil Tool
Creates uniform width satin stitches. Great for creating outlines and borders. |
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Programmed Runs & Fills
Create beautiful linear and fill effects that add originality to your designs. includes over 185 programmed patterns, or create your own, for beautiful results.
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Symbol Tool
Save time and avoid repetitive tasks. Save commonly used shapes as symbols for use in all future designs. Includes 200 ready-to-use symbols.
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Contour Stitch
Special decorative effect highlights curves using fewer stitches than a traditional fill.
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Circular Copy
Copy any vector and reproduce it in a circular fashion. Save time and avoid copying and pasting each shape manually. Easily create shapes with repetitive components such as flower petals or create a completely new composition.
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Remove Overlap Stitches
Remove overlapping stitches to avoid layering and costly production issues.
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Settings Painter
Copy settings from one segment to another to avoid repetitive time consuming tasks.
Automatic Text Borders
Instantly and easily add a continuous border around embroidery lettering in your design. Choose to display the border only for a quick way to create outline text.
Drawing Tools
A variety of drawing modes to create artwork with ease- freehand, circle, rectangle, pen- with Bezier and Quickdraw input modes suitable for beginners and advanced users alike.
Breakup, Offset, Combine
This combination of features is very important and rarely found in any other software. It is so easy to create embroidery using these features- break up and manipulate segments, offset them if you need a border or to create a special effect, and then recombine them after to assign stitch effects.
In order to get control of individual segments, we will use the “Breakup” feature in version 2009.
We can now select the segments that represent the letter “A” and select the “Offset” feature.
We have now produced additional borders around the outer shape and inner shape of letter.
The result is that we have produced 2 independent segments that have combined inner and outer shapes, and now we just need to assign stitches
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