TruEmbroidery™ 3 Software Newsletter July 2015

Welcome to the TruEmbroidery™ 3 newsletter. This month we will take a look at the View Modes feature in all applications and Resize settings in TruE™ 3 Modify.

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Different View Modes are very useful in TruEmbroidery™ software. In the TruE™ 3 Studio and TruE™ Studio applications the modes consist of 3D View, 2D View, and Realistic 3D. In TruE™ 3 Modify and TruE™ Modify the modes are 3D View, 2D View with Stitch Points, and 2D View without Stitch Points. Finally, TruE™ 3 Create and TruE™ Create have 3D View, 2D View, and Outline View.

In TruE™ 3 and TruE™ Studio you can use 3D View to see embroideries, background and grid in standard 3D mode. The stitches of the embroideries have three-dimensional shading. All editing functions are available, and the selection box is shown. To view embroideries in standard 3D, click the 3D View button on the toolbar or choose View > View Mode > 3D View Mode from the Menu bar.

You can see the individual stitches in your embroideries as lines with no shading in TruE™ 3 and TruE™ Studio, by selecting 2D View mode. To view embroideries in 2D click the 2D View button on the toolbar or choose View > View Mode > 2D View Mode on the Menu bar. Stitches are automatically displayed in 2D when you select the Modify window.

In TruE™ 3 and TruE™ Studio you can view embroideries and background in 3D without selection boxes, grid or hoop by clicking Realistic 3D on the toolbar or choose View > View Mode > Realistic View Mode from the Menu bar. You can use the zoom commands, but editing functions are not available.

In the TruE™ 3 and TruE™ Modify applications you can use 3D View Mode to see embroideries and grid in standard 3D mode. The stitches of the embroideries have three-dimensional shading. To view embroideries in 3D View Mode, click the 3D View Mode button on the toolbar or choose View > View Mode > 3D View Mode on the Menu bar. The design looks the same as in Studio in 3D View Mode.

In TruE™ 3 and TruE™ Modify, use 2D View without Stitch Points to see the individual stitches in your embroideries as lines with no shading or stitch points. To view embroideries in 2D View without Stitch Points, click the 2D View without Stitch Points button on the toolbar or choose View > View Mode > 2D View without Stitch Points on the Menu bar. The design looks the same as in Studio in 2D View Mode.

An added feature in TruE™ 3 and TruE™ Modify is to see the individual stitches in your embroideries as lines with no shading, and to display the black dots that show the stitch points (needle insertions) into the fabric. To do this you can select 2D View with Stitch Points. To view embroideries in 2D View with Stitch Points click the 2D View with Stitch Points button on the toolbar or choose View > View Mode > 2D View with Stitch Points on the Menu bar. When you zoom in, the stitch points are displayed as small squares. Showing the stitch points may be helpful for inserting new stitches, moving stitches and pasting stitch blocks.

In the TruE™ 3 and TruE™ Create Applications, to see the outline of an object with no stitches click the Outline button on the toolbar or choose View > View Mode > Object View Mode on the Menu bar.

Tips and Techniques

You can resize in the TruE™ 3 Studio and TruE™ Studio applications, but for more control it is recommended to use TruE™ 3 Modify and TruE™ Modify. You can adjust the settings that allow you to influence the way the design is resized by changing the settings in Preferences. This helpful feature is available both in TruEmbroidery™ 3 ELITE and the original TruEmbroidery™ software.

To change the Density from Standard Calculation (%) will force the density to vary from the original density. It can be useful to set this to a negative value when making an embroidery much smaller than the original. If you want to change the type of fabric you stitch on, the Density setting is also terrific to get more coverage on a towel or less dense on a light-weight fabric with a purchased design.

For Fill Areas you can change the Pattern Sensitivity. Increasing the Pattern Sensitivity value will improve the recognition of patterns that are hard to identify. If a fill area contains an unrecognized pattern, a flat fill pattern is used.

Set Maximum Stitch Length limits the maximum stitch length in fill areas in the resized selection. This is mainly used when making a selection larger. Set Maximum Satin Stitch Length before Conversion to Fill compares the average length of stitches to this setting. If the stitches would be larger than this value after resizing, the satin block is converted to a fill area.

Single Stitch Length sets the stitch length for running stitch and single stitches. The stitch curve is recalculated, which can improve the appearance of outlines. When enlarging designs, this prevents long untidy stitches. When making designs smaller, this helps curves and shapes stay accurate, although small details may be partially lost to prevent stitches from becoming too small and dense.

Run Stitch Optimizer after Resize to automatically optimize the embroidery after it has been Resized. This will improve the quality of the resized embroidery when it is stitched out.

In TruE™ 3 and TruE™ Studio the resizing will tend to add more stitches, to ensure that you get good coverage when increasing design size without fine control. The settings in TruE™ 3 and TruE™ Modify Preferences allow you to have more control over the density and pattern sensitivity when resizing. The top design is at the original size and is from Samples/Studio/Stitch2/Flowers.

The middle design has been resized in TruE™ 3 Studio to 110% of original size. Notice the stitch length on the outline and highlighting stitches is a bit longer. If you want to make those stitches a bit shorter, resize the design in TruE™ 3 Modify.

Measure the stitch length of the original design with Get Length on the Design Control Panel. Open Preferences and change the Single Stitch length to the length you measured, 1.3mm. The change can be seen in the bottom design.

Best wishes from TruEmbroidery™ 3 Software

P.S. Watch for the TruEmbroidery™ 3 newsletter next month when we will look at the Motif Underline feature in TruE™ 3 Studio and the new TruE™ 3 Thread Cache Application.