Create outlines

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Use Create Layouts > Create Outlines & Offsets to create outlines and offsets for selected embroidery object(s).

The Outlines & Offsets feature allows you to quickly create outline stitching around selected objects or entire designs with a variety of outline styles.

To create outlines...

1Select the source object or objects.

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2Click the Outlines & Offsets icon. The dialog opens. This dialog allows you to add outlines and offsets in a single process.

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3Tick Object outlines.

4Choose your outline type. The Type droplist includes the full range – Single Run, Triple Run, etc.

5Choose your outline color. The Color droplist defaults to the current color in the design palette.

6Choose an overlap option:

Outline type

Notes

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Individual

All generated outlines are full outlines.

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Common

Intersecting outlines are combined into a single outline.

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Trimmed

Overlapped portions are trimmed by overlapping objects.

7Click OK to apply. Hatch Embroidery generates an outline around the source object/s and inserts them immediately afterwards in the stitching sequence.

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8Generated outlines are independent objects and can be further modified as desired.

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