I haven't done newsgroups or embroidery in years--back to school for two degrees. I had just gotten the machine when I started school. Now I'm ready to start using this Brother embroidery machine and I've forgotten what little I knew. I can used the cards for set designs but don't know how to put the letters together to make a name. I can use the ones on my machine, but I have cards with really nice fonts I would love to use. I can't find instructions for doing this. I have an Ultimate Box and Embird. I have all the stuff and now need to know what to do with it. Is there a FAQ section with basic like this here?
What you're looking for is much too specific - How to use specific software and a specific sewing machine - for it to be included in a FAQ, even if it DID exist. For instance, like most software, there are many versions of Embird, and it has many optional modules. There are even more different Brother embroidery machines than there are Embird variations!
Embird has free tutorials and manuals available on their site. For lettering using your alphabet cards, you need to combine multiple letters into a single design (or else stitch each letter separately, carefully aligning as you go - this can be done without any software at all).
Your Brother manual should have some information; manuals are also available on-line.
There are lots of other embroidery tutorials available on the web, both fee and free. Use your favorite search engine to find them (Google, Bing, etc.)
A little nomenclature:
Alphabet - a set of designs, each one containing a single letter, number, or special character. May be in design sets or built-in to a sewing machine.
Font - Any of the following; characterized by the ability to press a keyboard key include that letter:
a) A computer font such as Arial that some embroidery software can use directly (usually only truetype fonts - and Embird can't use them). PEDesign and Artista are examples of software that CAN.
b) A proprietary form usable only with the associated software. Embird has a couple of dozen available. Others that use this approach include Viking/Pfaff software.
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