PET Version 6.0 Essentials

  

Version 6 Essentials covers the new features added to ES in Version 6.0. These new features cover all areas of lettering, editing and digitizing. This PET CD is designed for all levels of ES systems. 

Explore the different sections of Version 6.0 Essentials and learn at your own pace. 

Introduction 

• Overview of V6.0 - general description of the main new features of V6.0 
• How to use Version 6.0 essentials 
• The other PET CDs - describes the other CDs in the PET series

V6 Lettering Essentials 

• New alphabets gallery - displays the new alphabets available in V6.0 
• New lettering capabilities - teaches how to use the new lettering features such as: reshaping individual letters, moving letters above or below baseline, vertical lettering and more.
• Creating Team Names - teaches how to save time by automatically creating designs for different team members.

V6 Editing Essentials 

• Using new editing tools for higher productivity - teaches how to use the new editing features such as: selecting and editing with the Object list, selecting by stitch type, Resequencing selected objects by color only and more.
• New editing features to improve quality - new underlay options, setting variable length for smoother curves, controlling settings for short stitches.

V6 Digitizing Essentials 

• New flexibility in stitching - new Florentine effect for Tatami, creating Tatami textures with Partition Lines, using Triple Satin for a different look in stitching.
• More productive digitizing - using Input C with variable offset from center line, Automatic Applique, Favourite styles and more. 
• Handling bitmap images and vector drawings - teaches how to paste bitmaps from other software, smoothing curves on bitmaps, viewing bitmaps & vectors

More features for all ES models 

• Managing your files and file formats - saving as previous version.EMB, reading files from other embroidery software. 
• Stitching and networking to multiple machines - setting up Machine Manager, stitching a design with Machine Manager, viewing statistics about your machines. 

PET Lettering Essentials

  

PET Lettering Essentials is designed for beginners through to experienced digitizers, and is designed to support the lettering functionality in ES-21L and higher ES products. 

The content is comprehensive, with several sections each covering a different aspect of embroidery lettering. 

To give you an idea of the depth of the content, here is an outline. 

Getting Started 

• Embroidery basics - From "What is a Stitch?" to different stitch types, pull compensation, underlay and embroidery machine functions. 
• Setting up your system - Installing a printer, embroidery machine or new software.

Features 

• Handling embroidery design files - Creating a new file, saving files, recovering files after a system crash, or using email to send your designs. 
• Lettering - All the features of Lettering, including reshaping and resizing, and special effects. 
• Handling stitches - Using different stitch types. 
• Viewing - Zooming, TrueView, Overview window. 
• Colors - Selecting colors, changing colors. 
• Traveling - How to move through a design you are editing. 
• Handling objects - Move, resize, rotate and skew, plus more. 
• Preparing for stitching - Everything from selecting a machine format, printing a production worksheet through to final stitch-out. 
• Handling embroidery disks - Open, format and save. 
• New features in ESV5.5 - Keep up on the latest innovations in embroidery software, including Floating Lettering toolbox, Letter Resequencing, Second underlay and
• Original Stitch Values for alphabets. 
• Align and Distribute Lettering Objects - Alignment, spacing and size of lettering objects.

Practice projects 

• 11 projects - covering all of the major activities involved in lettering, including monogramming, editing designs, and changing shape and color.

Embroidery Samples Gallery 

• Samples, Alphabets and Showcase galleries - How good embroidery should look, and inspiration to create your own designs. 
• Troubleshooting - How to handle difficult fabrics, small lettering and much more.
  Introduction to your Embroidery Software 

PET Digitizing Essentials

The most advanced of the three PET CDs, Digitizing Essentials will help you use the digitizing functionality in Sirius. 

Techniques from ES-21D and ES-45 are covered, with a taste of the fancy stitch effects and productivity tolls of ES-65. 

The content includes: 

Introduction 

• Getting started with object-based digitizing.

The basics 

• Using artwork - Sources, scanning, file types. 

• Stitch types overview - Satin, Tatami, Zigzag, E-Stitch, Contour. 

• Creating shapes with digitizing tools - Manual stitch, Run, Triple Run, Input A, B and C, and Complex Fill. 

• Changing colors - Objects and thread charts. 

• Using Auto-underlay - Selecting and adjusting underlay types. 

• Workshop 1. - Creating a simple design.

Planning 

• What’s in front and what’s behind - Layering objects in embroidery. 

• Stitch types and angles - Choosing the right stitch type, making stitch angles complement the design and minimizing segments in Complex Fills. 

• Minimizing color changes and trims. 

• Workshop 2. - Digitizing considering stitch angles and Connectors. 

• Fabric movement - Sequencing to prevent movement, underlay, Pull Compensation, overlaps and distortion. 

• Workshop 3. Digitizing considering fabric movement.

Getting it right 

• Setting stitch properties. - Setting properties for Run, Satin, Tatami and Contour stitches. 

• Using Auto Split. 

• Navigating tight corners and curves - Fractional spacing, stitching shortening and using Smart Corners.

Time savers 

• Using Copy, Paste and Duplicate - Making and using templates, Styles and more.

Special features 

• Motifs. 

• Jagged edge. 

• Trapunto. 

• Workshop 4. - Time saving tricks and special features.

Stitching 

• Preparing for stitching. 

• Stitching out. 

• Handling embroidery disks.

Gallery 

• Inspiration and ideas - using advanced digitizing features, including: 

  • Point & Stitch, Auto Trace, Integrated drawing tools, 

  • FlexiSplit, User Defined Split, Program Split, 

  • Making your own alphabets, 

  • Accordion Spacing, 

  • Motif Fill, 3-D Warp, 

  • PhotoFlash, and much more

PET Editing Essentials

PET Editing Essentials builds upon the basics explained in Lettering Essentials, and is designed to support complement ES-21E. 

Editing Essentials is divided into sections, each covering a different aspect of embroidery editing. Some topics covered briefly in Lettering Essentials are covered in more depth and complexity to enable you to handle complex designs as well as lettering. 

Embroidery basics 

• What is a stitch? How a stitch is made and different types of thread. 

• Stitches vs jumps. Limits on stitch length, using jumps, trims and automatic split.

• Stitch types. When and where to use different types of stitch. 

• Connectors. What is a connector, trimming, tie in and tie off. 

• Underlay. Types of underlay and when to use them. 

• Push and pull compensation. 

• Fabrics. Common fabric characteristics, and backing materials. 

• Machine functions. Color changes, trims, jumps, stops, needle in and out, plus more that are less well known. 

• Punching data sources. From traditional paper tape to today’s embroidery disks. 

• Machine formats. Tajima, Melco, Barudan, Toyota, ZSK, Zangs and Pfaff. 

• Expanded vs Condensed formats. Condensed data, stitch processor and the .EMB ‘all-in-one’ file. 

• Digitizing input methods. Input A, B and C, as well as Complex Fill. 

• Setting up your system. Setting up a printer, embroidery machine and other computer peripherals.

Features 

• Handling embroidery design files. Everything from creating a new file, back-ups to sending files via email. 

• Selecting objects. Selection tools and working with parts of a design. 

• Understanding stitch types and values. Autospacing, Autosplit, Satin and Tatami stitch values, Manual and jump stitches, even removing small stitches. 

• Stitch effects. Auto jump, pull compensation, fractional spacing and stitch shortening. 

• Using underlay. Auto underlay and smart corners. 

• Stitch density. 

• Stitch editing. 

• Stitch list. 

• Viewing. Zooming, TrueView, Overview window, display options. 

• Setting up thread charts. 

• Mix colors and tread types. 

• Handling and reshaping objects. Resize, reshape (Input A, B and C), rotate, skew, mirror, transform, resequence, align and distribute, delete, cut, copy, paste and split. 

• Preparing for stitching. Using embroidery disks, resquencing stitch order, stitch density problems, optimizing production efficiency and so on.
  

Workshops 

• Editing for production. Preventing thread breaks, small stitches, optimizing stitch count, fixing registration problems etc. 

• Editing for artistic reasons. Changing colors, size, fills and connectors. 

• Scaling designs for use at different sizes. 

• Adapting designs for different garments. Caps, different fabrics. 

• Changing machine types.