Use Digitize > Open Freehand to draw embroidery outlines onscreen in the current stitch type.
Use Digitize > Closed Freehand to draw closed embroidery objects onscreen in the current stitch type – outline or fill.
The Freehand Embroidery tools have a special cursor. This is designed to provide a spacing guide as you use the tools. The number and spacing of the concentric circles is controlled by the Freehand Settings toolbar. This toolbar can be docked or floating.
Create a freehand design using outline and/or filled objects.
Adjust the ‘smoothness’ of your freehand lines by means of the Smoothing controls.
The toolbar contains a Smoothing control which lets you specify, as a percentage, how closely the smoothed outline follows the original. By adjusting the percentage, you increase or decrease the number of control points BERNINA V9 uses to define an embroidery shape.
Toggle display of the freehand cursor guide as required:
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Use Show Guide to toggle freehand digitizing guide cursor – provides more control over ‘freehand’ drawing than the default pointer. |
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Use the Guide Inner Circle Radius control to define the size of the center circle of the freehand digitizing guide. |
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Use the Number of Guide Circles control to set the number of circles in the freehand cursor – if the inner circle radius is 2mm, each additional guide circle is offset by 2mm. |
You can view and edit the control points generated by Freehand Embroidery tools in Reshape mode.
If you want to erase a portion of a line, press and hold the Shift key while dragging backward over the line before releasing the mouse. On releasing the Shift key, the edited path is joined with a straight line to the mouse position.
Alternatively, press the Backspace key. The last point digitized is removed.
Release the mouse to finish the outline at the last point digitized. Or press Esc to cancel input of the object.
Objects created using the Freehand Embroidery tools can be reshaped in the same way as objects created via conventional methods by selecting the object and clicking the Reshape Object tool in the Transform toolbar.
