Sierra Stitch Era Install Design Era#

Sierra Stitch Era Install Design Era

Uninstall Design Era (Stitch Era / HotFix Era) from the Windows Control Panel. DigitalHeat FX 8432 20201. Digital Heat Transfers DigitalHeat FX i550. Sierra Stitch Era Liberty v20. Concurrent readingSierra Stitch Era Liberty v17.

Stitch Era - interface features for working with a designStitchEra Liberty Training. You will find two additional files inside. Locate the ZIP file you just saved to your Desktop, then double-click on it to open it.

A stitch section defines an object in terms of how it should translate to stitches. Let's recall that stitch sections are stitch paths (lines) or areas (shapes) that are almost directly stitchable. Bezier drawing) for manipulating stitch sections as well as in other multi-media programs.This tutorial will demonstrate how to adjust so-called stitch sections. However, you will be able to speed up your work and you also could reuse principles (e.g. You don't necessarily need to learn how to draw vector graphics that you then can convert to embroidery (stitch sections). Stitch Era - vector graphics.

Small and/or narrow areas (up to 4mm) are also treated as columns and stitched as above Larger paths (1-2mm) are embroidered as columns using some kind of ZigZag or satin stitch. Paths with a small width (less than 1mm) are usually embroidered with running stitches, i.e. Depending on the kind and the size of stitch sections, different sorts of stitches are recommended: Paths are dots connected by straight lines and curves (polylines), areas are surfaces defined by lines (borders) and fills (what is inside).

In addition, we will talk about stitch density, length of running stitches and width of zigzag stitches, and pull/push compensation.We shall discuss problems like the following: You also can define a default pattern. Stitch Era, when using an auto-digitizing procedure, by default creates certain kinds of fill patterns that you may want to change for some stitch sections. Anything that is neither a line nor a so-called column. Have it on all the time and read more about it in Stitch Era - interface features for working with a designIn this tutorial we shall primairly focus on fills, i.e.

You will have to take into account that tissue can stretch and distort a design. Some areas may need pull compensation, i.e. In many cases, you may want to go with a lower density in order to avoid 'stiff' bullet-proof embroidery. Stitch Era, by default, uses a very high stitch density, i.e. Some areas shouldn't be filled with patterns since they are too big

Use the object inspector to make a change. Select a stitch object either by clicking on it in the workspace or by selecting it in the object manager. We show an example of how to do this when we discuss pull/push compensation.Changing properties of a stitch section is really easy and we shall often do it in other tutorials. Stitch Era allows to add borders to stitch areas with two simple mouse clicksNote: Professional digitizers seem to prefer converting manually each vector to a stitch section or even individual stitches. You may decide to use borders since borders give a professional touch to freestanding sections.

For the radial fills, we changed both offset (distance between radials) and stitch length For the texture (programmable stitches), we changed vertical and horizontal density We also used the ZigZag auto-split feature, else we'd have a single stitch going from one end of the square to the other. For the Zigzag and the patterns (four first lines), density changes from 5 lines/mm (bullet proof) to 2 lines/mm (transparent). The following screen capture shows four fill types (there are more):In each line we modified stitch parameters a bit

Once you decided to use a fill type, you then also can change its parameters, e.g. For each fill type, there are between a few and several dozens of subtypes. A fill pattern or a radial fill). Basically you will have to select a type of fill (e.g. With running stitchesDifferent types of area fills - stitched as shown in the workspaceSummary: Areas can be filled in many ways. For the low density fills, one should create borders in most cases, e.g.

As we shall explain below in some detail, grab the yellow controls of the so-called direction lines and turn. Through Art to Stitch (Intelligent) or Art to Stitch (Area only) you often would like to change direction of stitches, in particular if you use a fancy area fill pattern. You can either decide fill types and their parameters before digitizing ('to embroidery') or change the results for each stitch area later, as you will learn.After auto-digitizing some vector graphics art, e.g.

The first figure isn't good, i.e. Each of the four figures uses different pull compensations.Results (see the 'Pull compensation and border tests' picture above): Stitch Era default is 5 lines/mm, but we found that 4 is usually enough and produces softer results. Stitch density was 4 lines/mm. Some some kind of displaced horizontal Zigzag pattern. We used a built-in area pattern named PTM-0044, i.e.

The circle became an horizontal ellipse.What these results mean in practical terms is that the Stitch Era default compensation (figure 2) adding 3mm just does fine, at least for that kind of tissue and thread.As you can see in the figure below, the object inspector displays all necessary information and also will allow you to change parameters. The forth figure is over compensated (10% of the width), i.e. The second (3mm) and the third (5% of the width) are fine. No surprise since we didn't use any pull compensation.

Pull compensation worked here.Anyhow, in a real design, we probably would add a double running stitch in between the columns. Also it seems that some bobbin thread shows in all of them and we don't know why.However the rectangles of figure 3 and 4 look in line 2 are fine. You can see that the fabric shines through in the first two figures. Make sure to hide vectors and to display the stitch sections (little buttons on top right).2) Line two - testing pull compensation for ZigZag columnsUsing several ZigZag columns to fill an larger is probably not the smartest thing to. Then select a stitch object either on the workspace or the object manager.

A better alternative solution is to create slightly overlapping columns, but then the visual 'column effect' would be diminished.A note on its creation: As you can see in the figure to the right, we used a simple Zig-zag stitch.