Prepare enlargement drawings
When you digitize with a tablet, you use an enlargement drawing to trace the shapes and outlines of the design in the same way you use backdrops on-screen. Before you start, you need to prepare the enlargement drawing.
To prepare an enlargement drawing...
- Convert the artwork to a technical drawing.
Generally the drawing will be three times larger than the final embroidery.
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If the drawing is in hard copy, scale it using a transparency projector or photocopier. If you used a graphics application to create the artwork, scale it before you print it out.
- Modify the drawing to make it suitable for embroidery:
- Define shapes that can be easily filled with stitches.
- Overlap and distort shapes to compensate for push-pull.
- Draw digitizing guidelines – e.g. stitch angle lines.
- Draw origin and rotation reference points.
These points set the position and orientation of the enlargement drawing on the digitizing tablet.
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If the drawing is bigger than the digitizing tablet, enter additional points to help you shift the drawing as you digitize.
- Write the name and scale of the enlargement drawing for future reference.
