Wilcom Help Needed

Three ways.

- Draw around the character iteself. I gave up on automatic digitizing picture a long time agaio. They are too much work to fix up after.

- Use a hollow font supplied with Wilcom

- Use a thick font. Turn off or do not sew the main layer. Use an edge underlayment modified to suit your needs.

John,

Thanks for the input, just got back from the holidays. Too bad Wilcom can't do this natively. At only a couple hundred bucks it's a GREAT feature of Embrid. Seems so simple for a package like wilcom to be able to handle natively.

Thanks, Marc

Maybe it can. I haven't ever looked for it.

Another quick Wilcom question....

When you draw an object and want it outlined, is there any way to delete a portion of the outline so that it's not all the way round the object?

For example., if I drew a face, and wanted the outline only to extend from "ear to ear" so that it wasn't stitched around the portion of the head where the hair will go.

Gosh, I hope that made SOME sense....

Thanks, Marc

Start with an object to be outlined. Use offset at distance 0 to make the outline on your object. (I usually use input C type for outlines) Draw a cutting line across your object and its outline where you want the outline to start and stop. Select the outline and cutting line. Use the divide function. Delete the cutting line (it will probably be in three parts now) and the half of the outline you don't want. Done.

It's late to answer this, but yes, any vector object can be converted to appliqué. There are built in appliqué fonts, or if you want to use your own, I'd just convert the letter to a vector object, weld it into a single object (so that each letter is a single object, not one object per stroke) and then convert the vector letter to an appliqué.