Floriani Toatl Control U Users’ Guide

1 FlorianiTotal Control UUser s GuideCOPYRIGHT Copyright 2014 Pulse Microsystems, Inc. All rights User s Guide and the Total Control UItra software are copyrighted by the developer of the software, Pulse Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved. US Patent Nos. 5 270 939; 5 343 401; 5 430 658; 5 506 784; 5 510 994; 5 541 847; 5 668 730; 5 771 173; 5 809 921; 6 196 146; 6 216 618; 6 390 005; 6 968 255. European Patent Nos. 0545773. Other patents in this document is subject to change without notice. The software described in this document is furnished under a license agreement and/or nondisclosure agreement. The software may be used or copied only in accordance with the terms of those agreements. No part of this publication and the software may be copied, photocopied, reproduced, translated, or reduced to any electronic medium or machine-readable form without the manufacturer s written or industrial use of trademark and copyrighted works (For example, books, paintings, drawings, photos, fanciful characters, and so forth) owned by other compa-nies or persons, for creation of embroidery patterns without permission is illegal and may result in either criminal or civil and Windows XP, Windows 7, and Windows 8 are registered trade-marks of Microsoft Corporation.

2 All other product names are copyrighted and registered trademarks or trademarks of their respective holders. All computer and software names identified by TM or tm are trademarks of their respective of ContentsChapter 1 Getting StartedGetting Floriani Total Control U Total Control U System Requirements ..12 Installing Floriani Total Control U ..12 Activating Floriani Total Control via the Internet ..13 Activating without an Internet Connection ..14 Opening and Closing the 2 Learning the BasicsThe Floriani Total Control U Workspace ..18 Title Bar ..18 Menu on the Toolbars ..18 File Tools ..18 Edit Tools ..20 View Tools ..21 Slow Draw Bar ..22 Stitch Effects Tools ..23 Browser Panel ..24 Library Panel ..24 Designs Panel ..24 Color Palette ..25 Sequence View ..25 Status the Workspace.

3 262 Showing and hiding tool bars .. 26 Showing and Hiding the Slow Draw bar .. 27 Adjusting the Workspace 27 Using the Color Palette .. 27 Changing Thread Colors .. 27 Searching for a Specific Color .. 28 Correcting Mistakes .. 28 Setting up the Workspace 28 Creating New Designs .. 29 Opening and Closing Designs .. 30 Selecting Recipes .. 31 Preinstalled 31 Setting 33 Changing Machine Format 33 Changing Thread Colors Automatically with Color Match .. 33 Saving Designs .. 34 Using the Save and Save As commands .. 34 Restoring Autosaved Design Files .. 34 Saving a Selection as a Custom 34 Saving a Selection as a Symbol .. 35 Printing 36 Previewing a Design before Printing .. 36 Printing Design Worksheets .. 36 Changing a Design s Print Settings .. 36 Chapter 3 Viewing DesignsViewing Methods and Tools.

4 40 Magnifying and Reducing the View .. 40 Moving the Workspace View .. 40 The Magnifying Glass, Zoom and 40 The Magnifying 40 The Zoom Tool .. 41 The Pan Tool .. 41 Using Scrollbars .. 41 Viewing Buttons .. 41 Changing the Background of the Current Window .. 41 Showing and Hiding Machine Commands .. 42 Showing and Hiding the Stitch 42 Defining Grid Settings .. 43 Floriani Total Control U3 Showing and Hiding Grids .. 44 Showing and Hiding 3D Stitches .. 44 Viewing the Sewing Order of Designs .. 44 Displaying the 45 Viewing the Embroidery Hoop .. 45 Choosing a 45 Scaling Designs to Fill the Hoop .. 46 Chapter 4 Using Digitizing ToolsUsing the Digitizing 48 Creating Manual Stitch Segments .. 48 Creating Run 48 Creating Satin Stitch 48 Creating Classic Satin Stitch Segments.

5 49 Creating Steil Segments .. 49 Creating Stitches with the Complex Fill Tool .. 50 Creating an Appliqu Stitch 50 Creating an Appli-Stitch Segment .. 51 Drawing Modes .. 51 Bezier mode .. 51 Freehand mode .. 52 Chapter 5 Creating Stitch EffectsCommon Embroidery Stitch Effects .. 54 Converting segments to different stitch types .. 55 Run 55 Creating Run 55 Creating Single and Double Run Stitches .. 55 Creating Bean Stitches .. 55 Creating Run Motif stitches .. 56 Satin and Fill 56 Creating Steil stitches .. 56 Creating Satin segments with the Satin 56 Creating stitches with other Satin tools .. 57 Creating Stitches with the Standard Fill Tool .. 58 Creating Stitches with Various Fill Tools .. 58 Creating Satin or Fill Segments with Holes .. 58 Restoring Holes in Satin or Fill Segments.

6 59 Blending Thread Colors in one Segment .. 61 Wave Fill 624 Creating Stitches with Various Wave Fill Tools .. 62 Embossing 63 Creating an Embossed Shape .. 64 Saving the Embossed Shape as a Symbol .. 65 Using the Appliqu tool .. 65 Using the Appli-Stitch Tool .. 65 Auto Stipple Stitches .. 65 Using the Cross-stitch tool .. 66 Creating 66 Chapter 6 Creating Lettering and Merging DesignsCreating Normal Text .. 70 Adjusting the Size of Normal Text 70 Adjusting the Width of Normal Text 70 Adjusting the Corners of Normal Text Items .. 71 Adjusting the Shape With the Envelope Handles .. 71 Rotating Text .. 71 Adjusting the Kerning (spacing between letters) .. 71 Repositioning Individual Letters .. 72 Adjusting Individual Letter Sizes .. 72 Rotating Individual Letters.

7 72 Circle Text .. 73 Overview .. 73 Creating Circle Text .. 73 Adjusting Circle Text using the Handles .. 73 Adjusting the Size of Circle Text .. 74 Adjusting the Width of Text Around a Circle .. 74 Rotating Text Around the 75 Adjusting the Kerning (Space between letters) .. 75 Adjusting Individual Letter 75 Adjusting Individual Letter Size .. 76 Rotating Individual Letters .. 76 monogram Text .. 76 Overview .. 76 Creating Monograms .. 76 Adjusting monogram Text using the 77 Adjusting the Size of a monogram .. 77 Adjusting the Width of a monogram .. 77 Adjusting the Corners of the 77 Adjusting the Shape of a monogram with Envelopes .. 78 Floriani Total Control U5 Rotating the monogram .. 78 Repositioning Individual Letters in a monogram .. 78 Adjusting Individual Letter Size in a monogram .

8 79 Rotating Individual Letters in a monogram .. 79 Vertical 79 Overview .. 79 Creating Vertical Text .. 79 Adjusting the Size of Vertical Text Items .. 80 Adjusting the Width of Vertical Text Items .. 80 Rotating Vertical 81 Adjusting the Kerning (space between letters) .. 81 Repositioning Individual Letters .. 82 Adjusting Individual Letter Sizes .. 82 Rotating Individual Letters .. 83 Path Text .. 83 Overview .. 83 Creating a Path 83 Creating a Custom Path 84 Editing Text in the Properties Box .. 85 The Text tab and Special Characters .. 85 Viewing a Font s Available Characters .. 85 Letter Height .. 86 Selecting 86 Selecting TrueType Fonts (TTF) .. 87 Width Percentage .. 87 Slant Setting .. 87 Text Extra Settings .. 87 Normal Text Properties .. 88 Line Spacing.

9 88 Alignment .. 88 Circle Text 88 monogram Properties .. 90D cor Options Available .. 90 Vertical Text Properties .. 90 Text Fill Properties .. 91 Density Setting .. 91 Underlay Properties .. 92 Selecting the Underlay Type .. 92 Underlay Density .. 92 Underlay Stitch Length .. 926 Changing the Inset Distance .. 93 Pull-compensation for 93 Push-compensation .. 94 Merging Files .. 94 Chapter 7 Drawing Lines, Shapes and ArtworkDrawing Lines with the Pen 98 Creating Lines with the Pen Tool .. 98 Drawing Lines with the Bezier 98 Bezier Curves Introduction .. 98 Creating Bezier Curves .. 99 Drawing Curved Lines .. 100 Using the Line tool .. 101 Drawing Diagonal Lines .. 102 Drawing Various 102 Drawing Rectangles and Squares .. 102 Drawing Ovals and Circles .. 103 Drawing Triangles, Pentagons and Hexagons.

10 103 Adding Custom Shapes to 104 Anchor Point Editing .. 104 Adding and Deleting Anchor 104 Changing the Properties of an Anchor Point .. 104 Moving Anchor 105 Importing TrueType Fonts .. 105 Importing Vector Files .. 106 Modifying Artwork Segments .. 106 Combining Segments .. 106 Separating Segments .. 106 Splitting artwork Segments .. 107 Transform Artwork 108 Add Outlines tool ..110 Removing Overlapped Artwork Segments .. 111 Applying Stitch Types to 111 Chapter 8 Changing Segment SettingsChanging Segment Properties ..114 Changing Text Pre-Defined Total Control U7 Normal and Reverse Text the Frame ..115 Deleting Individual Letters ..115 Properties ..115 Run Properties ..115 Setting the Length for Run Stitches ..115 Choosing a Style for Run Stitches ..115 Adjusting the Spacing between Motif Stitches.