PREMIER+™ Software Newsletter - March 2017

Module Mystique

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Module Mystique

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Life View is a valuable tool for assessing how customizations change your design before you commit time and resources to stitching them out. Use Life View to visualize how threads such as metallic, variagated, solar reactive, or glow in the dark will appear, and use Zoom, Position and Rotation to view the design in detail.

Life View tools include a Zoom slider to adjust how close or far away you view the stitches, a Position tool for panning the design area, and a Rotation tool to simulate holding and turning fabric embroidered with the selected threads or special thread techniques.

Life View helps you visualize how threads such as metallic, variagated, solar reactive, or glow in the dark can make areas of a design pop. You can also preview special thread effects such as Twin Needle or Dual Threads when they are selected via the thread Color Selection window in the PREMIER+™ Embroidery or PREMIER+™ Modify modules.

The embroidery in the illustrations above is from SuperDesigns, Shapes 1 Appliqué, Design 4 - Star. The thread shown on right is in Glow in the Dark mode using Superior Night Light 40 thread, color 2 Yellow ExtraGlow.

To view a three dimensional live thread preview of your current embroidery design, click the Life View icon to open the Life View window. Adjust the level of Zoom by dragging the zoom slider to your left to zoom farther away, or to your right to zoom closer in. The small vertical line on the Zoom Slider bar indicates a 100% life size view. The maximum and minimum percentage of zoom, shown below the Zoom slider, will vary according the the size of the visible designs.

The view you see in Life View is based on the default settings for Export, adjusted in PREMIER+™ Configure .
Once you are zoomed in close enough so you only see part of the design, you can click and drag the Position icon to pan to different parts of the design area. When zoomed to a high percentage, you can inspect stitches very closely to ensure they are all exactly as you prefer!

Stitch texture changes visually as you hold embroidered fabric to the light or tilt it in your hands. Use Rotation to tilt the embroidery preview as if holding the fabric, so you can visualize how stitches will catch and reflect the light at different angles. Rotation is very helpful for viewing how metallic or other specialty threads will appear when stitched out!

Reset returns the preview back to its default position.

When the thread color has been changed to a solar reactive thread, such as the SolarActive Ultra Violet 40, 0008 Peach/Wine pictured, the preview will change to the color visible in sunlight when you click the Solar Reactive icon , and back to the alternate color when you click the icon again.

When the thread is changed to a glow in the dark, such as Superior Nite Lite 40, color 2 Yellow ExtraGlow, click Glow In the Dark to see how the thread would appear in a dark room. Click the icon again to toggle back to the daylight view.

Use Help to access more information on Life View, or on how to create your own personal demos, so you can watch the design as it Zooms, Rotates and Positions across the Life View display.

Tips and Techniques

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Tips and Techniques

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Let's explore how to preview the difference between Twin Needle embroidery and Dual Thread embroidery in Life View with a star made from Shapes 1 (Appliqué ) SuperDesign, shape 4 - Star with Twin Needle and Dual Thread .

The illustration shows Twin Needle above, and Dual Thread below.

• In Select Style , select Satin Border
• Select Stitch Type and Satin Line to change the satin width to 5mm.
• Select Apply to make a star.
• Hold down the CTRL and SHIFT keyboard keys, and drag a corner of the star’s select box to resize the star larger to fit your selected Hoop .
• Open Life View and study the stitches by adjusting the Zoom slider, the Position , and the Rotation .
• Click Reset to go back to the default view.
• Click Cancel to exit Life View.
• Double-click the thread in Color Select box in the Design Panel, and select Twin Needle in the Effects column. Change the Size to 2.0 mm (which is the spacing between the two needles). Use the alternate thread Color Change to select a contrasting thread. Click OK to close Color Selection so you can open Life View.
  
• Use Life View to Zoom and Rotate to see how the look of embroidery with twin needle changes.
• Cancel to close Life View.
• Double-click the thread color again in Color Select, and select Dual Threads . Change the alternate thread Color Change to select a contrasting thread. Click OK to close Color Selection.
  
• Use Life View to see how two threads in the same needle create a different texture and appearance than Twin Needle embroidery.
• Cancel to close Life View.

Note: Selecting a special effect with the thread color change simply creates a preview of how that technique would look. Stitches are not changed in the Exported embroidery. To make a felted needle design, you must use the Felted Needle option in the PREMIER+™ Create module. The stitches will change upon Export from PREMIER+™ Create.