New features of Version 2.0
General
• Additional Region sew type
• Pattern regions can be filled with stitch patterns created by the new Programmable Stitch Creator
application.
• Color-adjustable display (Design Page and background)
• Additional Design Page size (180
×
130 mm)
• Content previewing in color before opening files
• Preview windows for settings added to some dialog boxes (e.g., Sewing Attribute Setting)
• Pattern rotation by 1˚ increments, or 15˚ increments with the SHIFT key
• Selecting and editing several points at the same time
• Zooming function added in the Preview window
Design Center
“Cut out to Line Image” dialog box (moving from stage 1 to stage 2):
• Additional selectable color (5 in total) to recreate the outlines of a color bitmap image
• Zooming function
Line Image stage (stage 2):
• Zooming function
Figure Handle stage (stage 3):
• Additional editing functions (image rotation, horizontal and vertical mirror, and line drawing)
Layout & Editing
• Additional file formats supported (from Husqvarna, Melco and Pfaff)
• 12 additional text transformation types (24 in total)
• Sewing information (colors, order, pattern dimensions, and stitch number) available on-screen
• Reorientation of patterns imported from Design Center
• Print preview of the pattern and the sewing information on one or two pages
• Text editing
• 6 additional fonts (35 in total)
• Stitch to Block function, allowing you to keep the stitching quality when scaling imported patterns as
well as to change sewing attribute settings.
• Content browsing in color before opening files
Programmable Stitch Creator
• New application for creating and editing fill stitch patterns, which can be applied to regions of pat-
terns both in Design Center and Layout & Editing
File Utility
• Selectable COM port
