How to Correct Mistakes in Digital Embroidery Machine Patterns

Correcting mistakes on a digital embroidery pattern is critical to create a flawless accent to a garment.  As with any graphic design image, correction of color, adjustment of lines is a necessary skill.  Correcting digitized lines is similar to correcting lines in a vector graphic. Perfection is only a matter of grasping a few concepts.

1. Open file to be edited. Evaluate what section needs to be corrected. Go to True View.


2. Shift off of preview so you can clearly see stitches to be edited. Select the layer to be edited. Click on section within to highlight the stitches.


3. Focus on the squares or handles on the vector line to be moved.


4. Move the handle of the vector line into place.


5. Remove extra nodes that may be interfering with line edit.


6. Add nodes if necessary to create the proper effect. Click "Enter" to commit changes. Review project for further edits. To change color of thread--Go to True View. Go out of preview so you can clearly see section that needs correction.


7. Click on layer to be edited. Click on selection within layer to highlight stitches. Select vector line. Choose color from color palette. 


8. Click "Enter" to commit change. The colors on the screen has nothing to do with the end design.  

The final product depends on the thread colors chosen to do the project. The software tells the embroidery machine where to place the stitches and which needles will sew the stitches on which location on the project. Correction of errors and modifying stitches is necessary to effect smooth transition between colors without showing unnecessary background.