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Tajima DGML Software 2009 Basic Lettering Lessons 1 ©JoyceJagger, The Embroidery Coach Basic Lettering Lessons You will have 3 lessons in this series of Basic Lettering Lessons. You will be using the Line Angle tool, to create basic lettering, change the font size, style and color of the text. 1. One line design 2. Two line design –all of the lettering the same size, color and font style. 3. Two line design- each line different size, color and font style. One Line Design Step 1: Set up the screen or workspace with the Recipe/Style (the type of fabric or garment that you are going to be applying to the design.) Go to File-Click on New -This brings up the Recipe Dialog. Click on Sweatshirt for the type of garment fabric that you will be using to embroider your design.

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Basic Lettering Lessons

You will have 3 lessons in this series of Basic Lettering Lessons. You will be using the Line Angle tool, to create basic lettering, change the font size, style and color of the text.

1. One line design 2. Two line design –all of the lettering the same size, color and font style. 3. Two line design- each line different size, color and font style.

One Line Design

Step 1: Set up the screen or workspace

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with the Recipe/Style (the type of fabric or garment that you are going to be applying to the design.) Go to File-Click on New -This brings up the Recipe Dialog. Click on Sweatshirt for the type of garment fabric that you will be using to embroider your design.

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Click OK and the Screen will be ready for you to set up the design. Step 2: Go up to the top of the screen in the Properties Ribbon and choose Font Style-Block New (This is the default type.) In the Height box type in .50 in. Left Click, Right Click-The Text box will come up on the screen, type in Binghamton.

Click OK and the lettering will appear on the screen.

You will notice at the top left corner is the Text box with the word Binghamton in it. If you want to change your wording or correct your spelling, this is where you go to mwhere you want workspace with th At the top of theformat that you hsaved it to a file f

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ake the changes. You just simply click with the cursor inside the box to make the change, highlight, make your change, go back to the e mouse, left click and the change will occur.

Design window is the Title Bar. This will have the Recipe/Style ave selected. It will also have the name of the design (after you have ormat), the size of the design and the Stitch count.

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Tajima DGML Software 2009 Basic Lettering Lessons  Step 3: Changing color in basic design. Go to the lower left corner of the screen in the Status Bar and left click on the Red square. This will change the color to red. (The sequence of colors that are shown on the left side of the color bar is the normal color sequence that the computer uses as a default when you start the design).

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that the color red has a black square around it. The color that you are currently on is always highlighted with this black square. This same method

f changing color also applies to changing the color of a segment in a custom design. You have the option of

being able to adjust and manipulate the lettering on an individual letter basis. Located within each letter is an adjustment bead. If you click on the center bead it will open up a

handled box around the letter.

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It now has a series of dots around the box. Each one of these dots has a different purpose.

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Click and drag on the top right corner square and it will increase or decrease the size of the

letter in proportion. The square at the top controls the height of the letter. Click and drag on the top square and this

will allow you to increase or decrease the height of that letter. The circle at the top controls the rotation. Click and drag to either the left or the right and rotate to whatever position you want it to be.

The top left square controls the slant. Click and drag the square to either the left or the right in which

ever direction you want the letter to slant. The center right square controls the width of the letter. Click and drag to increase or decrease the width of the letter.

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The center box allows you to move the letter up or down from the baseline. This is especially helpful if you have a lower case letter such as a “c” in McLean that

needs to be placed at the top of the lettering instead of at the bottom. See below. I reduced the size of the “c” by clicking and dragging on the top right square and then I moved it up with the center circle to be in line with the top letters of the name. Being able to increase the

size of a letter also works great when you want to have all of your lettering in capitals but you still want the first letter in the word to be larger. Previous to this you had to enter them in separately and combine the letters to give you the effect that you were looking for. There are endless possibilities that you can create using these adjustment beads.

Once the design is the way you want it, it is now ready to be saved with the name that you assign to it in the design file. Please refer to the section on “How To Save Your Designs” if you need help with this step. After the design is saved and given a name it ready to Output to a disk to go to the machine. When you Output the design to the disk, it will automatically be in the .dst format. It does not save it design file in the .dst format only onto the disk. Do not save it as a dst format in the design file, save the design only in the pxf format.

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Two Line Design – One Text Segment

Set up your screen or workspace with your Recipe/Style Go up to File on the Menu Bar-Click on New-This brings up your Recipe Dialog box. Scroll down and select Sweatshirt.

Click OK and your Screen will be ready for you to set up your design. Go to your Lettering Tool Drawer and click on Line Angle Go up to the top of the screen in the Properties Ribbon and choose the Font style – Block. In the Height box type in .50 in. It will convert it to Millimeters. Left Click, Right Click-Your Text box will appear on the screen. Click on the tab at the bottom of your Text Box that says Multiline.

Type in the word

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Binghamton, hit your Enter key on the keyboard and type in Tennis Club. (Do not put a check in the box that says split line into segments) Both of your lines are going to be the same size, font style and

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Tajima DGML Software 2009 Basic Lettering Lessons  color. They will be treated as one text segment. You cannot make any changes to just one line, it will make the same change for both lines at one.

Click OK and the lettering will appear on the screen.

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You must go into your Segment Settings and check the box that says Uniform Sequence for multiline text. If this box is not checked, the first line of lettering will embroider from left to right and the second line will embroider from right to left. This is not good, as it will embroider over the threads. It still sews the letter

rom left to right, but it starts with the b in club. It will sew the b, finish on the right ide of the b, and jumps to the left side of the U and sews that letter from the left to ight. The thread that is on the end of the b will stay connected to the left side of the u nd you will sew over top of it.

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Some of the fonts will run from right to left, but you must experiment to find out which ones will work in that manner. The New Block font is one of them.

To eliminate this problem, you can go into your Segment Settings and tell your machine to always trim, but this will slow down your work. Every time the machine stops to trim, it is the same amount of sewing time as sewing 50-80 stitches depending on the speed of your machine. Go up to the Properties Ribbon and click on the black arrow in your Font box and

choose Brantford. Change your size in the Height box to .75 inch. Click OK and you will see the change in your lettering. Notice how it all changed as one segment. You can

change the color, size or font and it will all change at the same time. It is now ready to be saved into the Design file and ready for Outputting to a disk to go to the machine.

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Two Line Design – Separate Text Segments Set up the screen or workspace with your Recipe/Style Go up to File on the Menu Bar-Click on New-This brings up your Recipe Dialog box. Scroll down and select Sweatshirt Click OK and the Screen will be ready for you to set up a design. Go to the Lettering Tool Drawer and click on Line Angle Go up to the top of the screen in the Properties Ribbon and choose Font style – Block In the Height box type in .50 in. It will convert to Millimeters. Left Click, Right Click - The Text box will appear on the screen. Click on the tab at the bottom of the Text Box “Multiline”. Check the box “Split line into segments”. Type in Binghamton, hit the Enter key on the keyboard and type in Tennis Club.

Each line is a different segment and you will be able to make changes to each line separately. You can change the font style, color size, placement or even convert it to segments. You will learn about segments later in the program.

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Click OK and your lettering will appear on the screen.

Notice there is a box around the word Tennis Club only. This line is the only portion that is selected. You can make changes to this line only. Go up to the Font box on the Properties Ribbon and change the font style to Goudy Bold New. Change the color to red by left clicking on the red square located on the left

side of the Color Bar. Once the color red is selected, you will see a black square around it. As you are going through any of your designs, the color that you are currently on will have a black square around it. You must be in the select

mode in order

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to make a color change. If you have zoomed in on your design and you see the magnifying glass on the screen, you will not be able to change the color until you press S on the keyboard or the Select tool in the Edit tool drawer. The portion of the design that you want to make any changes to must be selected or have a box around it. To make changes to Binghamton, you will have to select it. Left click outside of the current box and select Binghamton. You can left click on any part of the lettering to select it. The box will appear around this line only. Left click on Binghamton and change that font to Gould Bold New, but change the size in the Height box to .60 inches and change the color to black.

As you can see, each line has been treated totally separate. This is extremely handy when you want to type in several lines at one time and make changes. It is a huge time saver. You can even insert a stock design between the two lines. It is now ready for saving into the Design file and output to a disk to go to the machine.

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Kerning or Spacing Letters Using the Kerning Beads

Kerning Beads gives you the flexibility of spacing individual letters when using the Embroidery or True Type fonts. Sometimes a slight move will make it look more evenly. This is especially evident when you are using Script works or names where you have a Script capital and then the lower case letters. Sometimes the capital needs to be moved slightly to the right to be closer to the first lower case letter.

The small yellow beads at the bottom of a letter allow you to move the letter either to the right or the left on an individual basis. You can also move a group of letters either to the right or the left.

Left click on the bead. Keep moving the cursor on the bead until it turns into a white triangle. It is actually located at the end of the index finger when the cursor is a hand. If the triangle shows up, you have the perfect spot. You can then drag the letter to the left or to the right.

The e is moved closer to the L. Of course this does not look good, but I wanted you to see what it looked like when I moved it over.

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You can move a group of letters at one time. Press the Control key and left click on the bead and all of the letters from the left of the bead will move. You can move them either to the left or the right. Press the Shift key and left click on the bead and all of the letters from the right of the bead will move. You can move them either to the left or the right.

I moved the letters to the left from the first T. I moved the letters from the second T over to the right. You are limited as to how far you can move them. Your limitation is the original box. The bead will not go past that box on either side. This tool comes in handy on many occasions when you are trying to center lettering. This works great if you are trying to get the lettering to center correctly in an arc or circle when some of the letters take up different amounts of space especially if you have created spaces between words.

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Basic Lettering using Envelopes

In this lesson we are going to do some basic lettering setups using the Envelopes. We will start with one line of lettering and add an Envelope to it changing the shape of it. Next we will add another line and change the shape of that also. While we are doing this we will go into the Segment Settings and talk about some of the Text Effects. We will not use a Recipe for this exercise. We will add that later.

We will be looking at our Bridge Rise that we talked about when we set up the screen originally. You may want to refer back to the segment on “User Settings” so that you can see how you want to set the Bridge Rise setting. (This is how far up the lettering will rise in the center of the line.) I have mine set on 40%. I prefer this over any of the others. The

maximum setting is 50%. I find that anything under the 40% really does not look arched enough. If you decide that you want to change the settings when you are in the process of doing your design, you must save what you have done, go in and make the change in the configurations area of the tools. After you make your change you must then restart the program before it will take effect.

Click on the Line Angle tool in the Lettering Tool Drawer. Go up to the font box in the Properties Ribbon and click on the drop down arrow and choose Brantford. In the Height box type in 10.00mm or .40 inches. The actual is .39 inches but .40 is close enough. You can type in a number in inches and it will convert it to millimeters. Go to the screen, left click, right click. The Text box will appear.

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Type in EAST BUFFALO- Add the 9th Envelope down from the top. It is a vertical arch.

Go back to the Line Angle tool. Repeat the process and type in RAIDERS- Add the 8th Envelope and make it a reverse vertical arch.

Draw a box around both words. We are going to make the lines narrower. Go to the

drop down arrow in the top right hand corner to bring up the Segment Settings.

Click on the Text Effects tab and go to Width Compression box. In this box type in 85%. This will narrow up the entire word. It now measures a little over 4inches.

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Draw a box around both words and right click. This will bring up a long menu. Choose Align. This will bring up the Align Segments box. Click on the lower right box Center in the Horizontal Alignment box. This will move the lines into alignment with each other. With your box still on, right click again and bring up the long menu. Go down to the bottom and choose, Apply Style. This is the same as choosing a Recipe at the beginning of the segment. Choose Woven Fabrics.

Here is the finished file with the Recipe/Style applied (Woven Fabric). It has the correct Underlay, Pull Comp and Density applied.

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The Commands button on the Tool Ribbon is clicked on so that you can see the center Start/Stop position and the Trims.

You want to make sure that you check the Underlay, Pull Comp and Density settings in the Segment Settings. Some times they need to be adjusted depending on the size of lettering or the type of fabric that they are being sewn on. This design was put together to run on a denim shirt. It looked good when I sewed it out. This design on a woven fabric should be hooped with 2 layers of medium weight tear away backing. If you use 2 layers you will have better registration and an overall better quality looking finished product. Do not use cut away backing on a woven fabric. It has a tendency to pull up after it has been washed. The backing is made of polyester fibers and will shrink when dried. Go through each of your Envelope settings and experiment with them. You can achieve some dramatic effects using these settings. I have even created monograms using the envelopes. These Envelopes allow you to be very creative and unique in putting

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Basic Lettering Using Merge Design Go to File on the Menu Bar and bring up a new page. Choose the Recipe/Style for the

type of fabric that you will be using for the embroidery. Go to the File Tools - Click on Merge Design. This will bring up the

Merge Design File window. It is beneficial to turn on your Grid for this exercise. Scroll through the Design file until you find the design Football. For this exercise we

are using a PXF file on the accompanying CD or in the Design file that goes with this lesson. You may be using a different stock design in your file and you would choose the correct file type in the Files of type box. Double click on it and it will bring up a box with a cross in the center. This box

is the same size as your design. Lay this box down on a cross hair in the center of the grid.

This is the Football design from the Design folder. It is directly centered so that the center of the football has a grid line running through it horizontally and vertically. This makes lining up the remainder of the design simple.

Click on Merge Design File again in the Edit tool Drawer. Select the Design East Buffalo Raiders

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Lay down this Design on top of the football. We have to make some changes to this file. First we have to spread apart the words to uncover the football and then resize the football. It is too large for this design in proportion.

Click on East Buffalo to select this line. With the hand inside of the box, move the line up and off of the Football. Next Select the bottom line, Raiders and move that line down and off of the Football as in the picture below. Now we are going to resize the football. Draw a box around the football. To make sure that we have selected the whole football you must bring up the Segment List (Sequence View) under Window on the Menu Bar .The short cut key for the Segment List (Sequence View) is Shift T on your keyboard.

If the Segment List box, Multiple is highlighted, then you are OK. (This means that all of the sequences in the design are Grouped together. (Refer to Grouping and Ungrouping a Design. With a box around the Football and the hand showing inside the box, right click and bring up the Transform menu. Choose Resize. When you click on Resize it brings up the Enter

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Resize Parameters box. Make sure that the Proportional box is checked. Type in 1.25 in or 31.70 mm. Click OK. This will resize the football proportionately. You can resize a file without having it grouped together, but you must make sure that you have selected all of the pieces of the design before doing so.

To make sure the football is centered, it is necessary to reposition the lines around the football. Draw a box around the whole design, right click and bring up the long menu. Choose Align. This will bring up the Align Segments box. See this picture on the following page. Click on the lower right box Center in the Horizontal aligment box. This will line up the design perfectly. Remember the center design must be Grouped before you can align it.

(Refer to Grouping and Ungrouping a Design).

This is the opened Align Segments box. You can see that the lower center box is checked. Click OK

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The finished design is ready to be embroidered onto our garment.

You can also choose a DST file or a POF file when you are merging files, but you must remember that if you choose a DST file, this is a finished stitch file and you cannot resize it. It is best to choose a PXF or a POF file if you want to make any changes in it. It is a good idea to lay down the stock design first before adding lettering. It will sew out first and will help to eliminate puckering or bunching up of your fabric within the center of the design. It is usually preferable to sew center out on most designs.

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Embroidering a Group of Names (Name Stacking)

Bring up a new page and select the Recipe/Style. Go to the Lettering Tool Drawer-Choose Line Angle Select the Font and Size. (Custom Script at .85 inches or 21.59 mm works great for most items. Don’t give then too many choices.) Left click, right click to bring up your Text Box. Choose Multiple Lines (Check the box “Split line into segments”) Type in the first name-Press Enter Type in the next name and continue in this manner until you have typed in all of your names. Make sure that each name is on a separate line.

Click OK and all of your names will appear on you workspace. I do not recommend having any more than 20 names in one file. It takes too long for it to generate. You are better off splitting up your list. You can split them by size, length of name and etc.

Once they are on the workspace, change the color of each name. You want each and every name to be a different color. What I mean by that is, you are adding a color change in front of each name. This will allow you to program the machine so that it will stop as soon as the name is finished. This is a must!! When you are typing in your names, type them in your file in the order that you received then from your customer. Most of the time when I am doing a name stack, I will fax over a copy of my printout after I have them all set and have the customer, who is usually a Coach, check them for any misspellings. Very often they will misspell a name especially if it is an unfamiliar name, and you can solve this problem from the beginning instead of getting the job done and discover that you have a name to replace.

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If you leave them in the same order that he gave them to you, it will make it easier for him to go thru the list.

If he has to search thru a list that is not in the same order he will get very frustrated and sometimes not even bother. We the embroiderers have to do much of the work for our customers. Remember that in everything that you are doing for these people. The more that you can make their life easier, the better your life will be, trust me on this one! Make adjustments as in spacing (moving lowercase letters closer to capital) (Refer to the section “Kerning or Spacing Letters Using the Kerning Beads”). Each name is an individual segment so they can be

resized at this point. Select the name and increase or reduce the size or change the font, but do not change the color. The color stops for each name must remain. Draw a box around the entire list, right click to bring up the Transform Menu, scroll down and select Align.

When the Align Sements Menu opens, check the Vertical Alignment Center. This will stack all of the names on top of each other. Go to File on the Menu Bar and scroll down to Save your file with a name. I usually just call it names and I keep saving all of my name files on top of each other. There is no need to save each one of these. It is rare that you would have a repeat on a list of names.

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You are now ready to output your file to a Disk or save it on a Flash drive. Hoop your garments or at least two of them. Sometimes you can use different size hoops as long as you use the larger size hoops for a the longer names. Make sure that your garments are stacked in the same order that you have typed in your names. The first name that you typed in will be the first name that will be embroidered and the last name that you typed will be the last name embroidered.

You must set the machine to turn off the automatic color change and automatic start. If you cannot turn off the auto color change and auto start, you must program in a stop after each color. This will force the machine to stop after each color. How you program your machine depends on how your machine is set up. Put the first garment into the machine, line it up and do a trace to see if you are in the right spot. Press Start. When the name is finished, the machine will stop. You will remove that hooped garment and place in the next garment and press start. The machine will stop at the end of the name. Do not attempt to move the machine frame. It will move to the correct position when you hit Start. On the Tajima Neo embroidery machine, you will program the same color for each name in the stack with a stop command programmed after each color change. If you have 10 names in the stack, you will have the same color and stop command programmed 10 times. If you are using a multi-head machine- You will put a hooped garment under each head. After the first name is done, turn off that head and turn on the next head for the next name. Take off that garment and replace it with another. Repeat this process until finished.

To Correct a Misspelling in your Stack of Names Go to Window on your Menu Bar, scroll down and select Segment List (press Shift +T) to bring up your Segment List on your screen. Scroll down the Segment List menu and select the name that is misspelled. Once it is selected, that name will appear in the top left corner of your screen in the Text box. Go up to the Text box and correct the spelling. Press Enter to see your change. You may have to press G on your keyboard to totally generate the change.

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You can modify the order that you have your names in, take out a name, change any misspellings; but you cannot add any additional names to this stack. When you are making these changes make sure that each name is still a different color. You cannot stack two line names or names and numbers using this method. You will have to set these up using your templates. Refer to your lesson on “Templates” for this procedure.

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Setting Up a Cap with Lettering on the Front and Side Creating a Permanent Grid

In this lesson I will show you how to set up a design to embroider on the front of a cap and also on the side. I will also be creating a gird that you can use for any cap setup in the future. I have a design already set up that I will merge onto a new page for the front center design. I will add a number to one side and Champions 2004 to the other side.

Go to File on the Menu Bar. Scroll down to New. Select the Recipe/Style that will work for the caps. For most caps, I choose Woven Fabrics. Go to the File Tools, select Merge Design, the Design file will open. Scroll through the Design file and choose the design that is set up for the cap. In this lesson our design is East Buffalo Cap front. Left click on Open. Go to the workspace and place the cross hair down in the desired location, left click to complete. Turn on the Show Commands button on the Tool Ribbon. The scissors and the Start/Stop sign will show up. I am going to set the Start/Stop location that will remain permanent when I add

designs onto the sides.

Go to the Segment Edit Tools and left click on the Set Start/Stop button. This will bring up the Start/Stop settings box. Choose One location and click on User Defined and click OK. The box will close and you will be back on the workspace. Click on the center

of the Stop light. This will mark it permanently. I am now going to show you how to mark it for your Cap Grid.

With Show Commands button turned on, move the mouse pointer to the exact center of design. Press the Control Key +J on the keyboard. This will give you guidelines that are vertical and horizontal crossing at that spot. This will be your permanent center spot for the Cap Grid.

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The picture on the left shows the guidelines crossing in the center. The guideline under FREE ACADEMY is marking where the bottom line is and where the bottom line should be for the side designs.

Measure for Side Design Locations

In order to find the measurement for the placement of the designs for the side, you must measure with the measuring tool. Left click on the measuring tool in the View Tools.

Measure over from the center guideline to the left or right. Drag the measuring tool until you see the maximum distance that you can place the outside point of the design. This measurement is 6 ½” or 165 mm. You will see this measurement at the lower left corner of the

Status Bar as you are dragging the measuring tool. When you have reached that point, press the left arrow key then the right arrow key. This will leave you a long rectangle marking that spot. From the Side ruler, drag over a guideline to the end of the rectangle. You will now have the outside point for any of your cap side designs. Repeat this same process for the other side of the cap measuring again from the center point line on the front. If you are going to be creating a design for one side only, this is OK. The line will be there for both sides for any future applications. After you have all of these lines in place, save your design as a Cap Grid template in the design folder. You will be able to go in at any time and change the lettering, add more lettering or merge in a new design in the center. This template will work for all of it and you won’t have to re-measure every time you create a new cap design.

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This is the finished Cap Grid. The outside lines are the ones that will mark the outside boundaries of the side lettering or design. The bottom guideline under the bottom line of lettering will mark the bottom of your side lettering or design.

To use the Cap Grid, open it up from the Design folder. If you want to change the lettering on the front, left click on and lettering, (as long as it is still a text segment), go up to left top corner of the Properties Ribbon and type the new lettering in the Text box. Press Enter and the new lettering will appear in the same spot. All of the segment settings will remain as they are now. When you make any adjustments, save it under a new name so that the Cap Grid will stay as it is. Once you are finished with the front, create the lettering for the sides. If you do not have any lettering for the sides, that’s OK. You still have saved yourself time using this template instead of starting from the beginning every time. To create the lettering for the sides, go to the Lettering Tools and go thru the same process as you have done previously to create basic lettering. Once you have the lettering created, move it to the side position on the Cap Grid. If you are using an existing design, merge it onto the new design and place it in the correct spot on the guideline.

You can save your Cap Grid with lettering on both sides and then change it or delete it as needed when you are creating your new designs. This is what I have done. It makes it faster if you use a lot of

standard basic lettering. A huge a timesaver. This is my standard setup for all caps. I may take out all of the lettering for the front of the cap and merge in a custom logo. It does not matter, this template works for all situations.

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Move and Copy

Move and copy is used to make patches or can be used on name patches or name tapes for the military. For this exercise I am going to use a design that I previously put together, East Buffalo Football, add a border and turn it into a patch. The border is in the Symbols font file. To find the keystrokes for the symbols or the right keystroke for the border that I wanted, go to Help on the Menu bar. Click on Fonts > Using Available Fonts > Image Fonts and then Symbols. For this I will use the keystoke L for the rounded edge oblong border.

Bring up the design that you want to use. Add the border. Click on

the Line Angle tool in the Lettering Tools. Choose the Symbols font, Height 3.00 and type in the letter L. Click Ok and the border will appear.

You will have to move the border into the correct position over the design. If you want to make the border wider or thicker, you can add Pull Comp by clicking on the Pull Comp tab in the Segment Settings. You will need to apply Style/Recipe to the

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border only. Give the design a new name. I will save it as East Buffalo Football Patch. Make sure that you write down the finished width and height of your design. You will need these figures for the Move and Copy function. Close the design file.

Bring up a new page or workspace. You can use Normal in your Recipes for this. Your design already has all of the settings programmed into it. Go to Tools on the Menu Bar. Scroll down to and select Move and Copy.

Browse through and select the design that you are using for the template in the Move and Copy function. Type in the number of patches that you are going to be creating. You have more choices here to use. I usually do not click on any of those boxes. Click Next.

This will bring up your Setup Patch Frame box. This is where you will use the finished size of your design. You must determine how much space that you need to leave between each patch and add this amount to the finished width and height. I am going to use .75 inch for the space. I will add .75 to 4.90 for the width and .75 to 3.02 for the height.

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The Vertical space which is up and down is the height of the patch plus the space between each. 3.02 plus .75 = 3.77. Horizontal space which is left to right is the width of the patch plus the space between each. 4.90 plus .75 = 5.65. Click Next.

Click Finish and the Move Copy Patches box will appear. You can scroll thru and do any editing or adjusting that needs to be done.

Make sure that your information is correct in each file and then click OK. This will generate your whole page of patches. If you have a lot of patches to do you will need to determine how many to will fit in whatever your largest size hoop is and determine your Vertical and Horizontal repeats along

with how many heads on your machine.

This same function can be used if you are using blank patches or Name tape fabric. You will need to determine how far apart you are going to lay down your patches or Name tape. If you do this you will be making adjustments in the boxes that you check on your Template Design page and the Move out measurements on your Set up Patch Frame page. This will take some experimenting and experience.

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This is the finished page of patches. Move and Copy is another time saving function that has multiple uses.

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Templates This lesson will show you how to create a template using a left chest design previously created with a name and number added to the file. Bring up the basic design that you want to create a template from. For our example I will be using a file called East Buffalo Football. I have a list of 8 names and the player’s number to be placed inside of the football.

Click on the Line Angle tool in the Lettering Tools. Click on Multi-line and add the name and number of the first person on the list. Make sure that you check the box for “Split lines into segments.” Your number and name will be 2 different fonts and colors.

Click OK and the name and number will appear on the workspace.

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Change the color of your number to White and the size to .35 inch. Move the number to the center of the football. Change the font for Michael to Custom Script and the size to .75 inches. Move the name to line up under the word Raiders. Save your new file with a new name. This will be the file that you will be using for your template. I saved this file as

East Buffalo Fb. Close your file. Click on Tools on the Menu Bar. Scroll down and choose Template. This will open up the Load Template menu. Click on the desired design. Double click on this file.

This will open up the Template Settings file. Type in the number of templates that you will be creating. The picture for this is in the next page.

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Type in the Name that you want for the template names. For this I used EBF. Yes, you want to check Open all files. It is a good idea to check each one of the files to make sure that it is correct. Click OK.

This brings up the Template Files. You can see all of the files as they are laid out. At this point you can change the size or font style of any one of the templates.

Move the slider over to the right until you see the list for the names. When it first appears each file says Michael. Scroll down and change the name on each file to match the names on your list.

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Continue to move the slider over until you find the number’s. Change the number 10’s to match the list of names and numbers. Make sure that your numbers do in fact match names. Click OK and all of your files will be generated.

The files will all appear on the workspace. The last file generated is the first one that you will see on the screen. Go to Window on your Menu Bar and you will see the list of all of the files. Click on each one to check and make sure that it is spelled correctly and that the number matches the name. If there are any errors you can correct them at this time. Each file must be output to the disk or to the machine separately. Our files will be named EFB1, EFB2, EFB3 and etc.

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Working with Multiple Hoopings for One Design When you have a large design that requires two hoopings, you would divide your design into two sections and put your Stop point on the First section where you want the Start point to be on your Second section. The Second section or part of your design will Start at the Stop point of your First section but it will Stop in the actual center of your hoop so that you are ready for the First design on your next garment. Your position should be perfect so that you do not have to move the machine to find your starting position as you continue for another run.

The first step is to find the center of the total design before splitting it into 2 sections. This center point on your total design will determine your Stop point on Section or Design 1 and your Start point on Section or Design 2. To keep it simple I divided our example Lobbybar between the b and the y. When creating my First section or design I named that design 1lobbybar. After splitting it, I named the Second section 2lobbybar.

I brought in 3 guidelines so that I would know exactly where my Start/Stop position should be and then I measured from the bottom of the b to the center of the Stop light. This measurement was 12.4 mm. I then measured from the top of the y to the center of the Stop light and this measurement was 6.8mm. These two measurements are very important. You must write them down when you do this. After you split your design into 2 sections, your Stop light moves to the center of each section automatically.

You can see from the picture at the left that the Stop light is indeed in the center of the top part of the y. You can also see the 3 guide lines, one at the bottom of the b, the next one at the top of the y and that 3rd one going

thru the center of the Stop light. Make sure that you understand what I mean by taking those measurements. Hopefully the picture makes it a little more clear. Read that section over again if you have any doubt. Use your Measuring tool in the View Drawer.

The next step is to split your design into the two sections. Put a box around the Lobb and copy it to another page. Immediately name it, for this example we have 1lobbybar. Put a box around ybar and copy that section to another page and name it 2lobbybar.

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1lobbybar 2lobbybar

When you copy them to the other page, your Stop light automatically moves to the center of the design. This is OK, this will be the Start point of your first design, but we will have to change the Stop point. The picture on the left on the previous page shows you how to set the Start and Stop points for 1lobbybar. In the Offset From Stop Y: box type in 12.4 mm and click on the down arrow. In the picture on the right on the previous page you can see the Start point in the center of the design at the bottom of the o. The Stop point is 12.4 mm down from the bottom of the b. This is the actual Stop point of this first design, 1lobbybar.

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Our Second section or design, 2lobbybar is set up in the following manner. The picture on the left on this page shows how to set up 2lobbybar. Click on the top part of the Start box and in the Offset From Start Y: box you will type in 6.8 mm and click on the down arrow. The Start position is 6.8 mm down from the top of the y and the Stop position is at the center of the b. You can see the guidelines that I brought in to make sure that the Start position was where I wanted the design to Start.

Setting your Start/Stop positions for multiple hoopings can seem overwhelming, but try to keep it simple.