I'll be the first to admit my files aren't well-crafted. I'm really leaning on the automation and many of my lines are fill stitches because I don't know how to manually specify the stitches.
One place this really is a problem is the jump stitches. I need to turn these into trim stitches. I try using the "Auto Route Running Stitch" tool to select "Trim jump stitches" and I get this error:
Please select at least one stroke element.
I don't know if I'm going the right route here. I want my sewing machine to cut these threads between elements in the design. See this section at t he top? That's a nightmare to hand-trim afterwards. Any help appreciated!!!!
Wow. Ok, I think I solved this. I had tried using Google and also this forum search and couldn't really find the directions I needed. Out of desperation, I tried asking an AI GPT tool and it gave me the answer!!!
For others finding this thread, you select an object in the Layers and Objects pane. Then you navigate Extensions > Ink/Stitch > Commands > Object Commands. Then select "Trim thread after sewing this object" and apply. You repeat this step for each object. Oh, and the embroidery machine must support trim commands. I am using a Brother SE400 and it does support these commands.
The AI tool I used was referencing this forum post for the information, btw.
Thanks for any other advice you can give me to improve the file I attached here.
Your issue is a huge deal for those like yourself with an embroidery machine that does not automatically handle thread trims... But thread trims and jumps are also important in a production environment on a machine that does support thread trims as well.Thread trims take time... Often times we are better off with a thread jump we trim later than taking up machine time with excessive thread trims.
I would love to have your file and make a video on how to actually control the thread jumps in a complex design like yours...
I have this video on the subject here that might help?....
Embroidery and InkStitch trim jump stitches
Inkscape.org
I'll be the first to admit my files aren't well-crafted. I'm really leaning on the automation and many of my lines are fill stitches because I don't know how to manually specify the stitches.
One place this really is a problem is the jump stitches. I need to turn these into trim stitches. I try using the "Auto Route Running Stitch" tool to select "Trim jump stitches" and I get this error:
I don't know if I'm going the right route here. I want my sewing machine to cut these threads between elements in the design. See this section at t he top? That's a nightmare to hand-trim afterwards. Any help appreciated!!!!
mtf
Wow. Ok, I think I solved this. I had tried using Google and also this forum search and couldn't really find the directions I needed. Out of desperation, I tried asking an AI GPT tool and it gave me the answer!!!
For others finding this thread, you select an object in the Layers and Objects pane. Then you navigate Extensions > Ink/Stitch > Commands > Object Commands. Then select "Trim thread after sewing this object" and apply. You repeat this step for each object. Oh, and the embroidery machine must support trim commands. I am using a Brother SE400 and it does support these commands.
The AI tool I used was referencing this forum post for the information, btw.
Thanks for any other advice you can give me to improve the file I attached here.
mtf
Ok. Nevermind the part where I said my machine supports trim commands in .pes files. The Brother SE-400 does not obey trim commands. Oh, well.
Your issue is a huge deal for those like yourself with an embroidery machine that does not automatically handle thread trims... But thread trims and jumps are also important in a production environment on a machine that does support thread trims as well.Thread trims take time... Often times we are better off with a thread jump we trim later than taking up machine time with excessive thread trims.
I would love to have your file and make a video on how to actually control the thread jumps in a complex design like yours...
I have this video on the subject here that might help?....
https://youtu.be/xihflNe1jtE?si=aC7hArqe-lQVLIeo