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Live From PFAFF Convention: 5D Embroidery Part 3

Thursday, August 5th, 2010

Today was a very fun 5D Suite day for sure!  In the 3rd in the series of my software Certification classes, I got to focus quite a bit on Design Creator.

I am not even sure that I can pinpoint one thing that is my favorite.  Everything I learned has been so great and these new features just blow me away!  Surely I will forget something, so I will just tell you about a couple of things that jumped out at me today;

Gradient Fills—the 5D Suite now allows us, in Design Creator, to fill an area with multiple colors of thread and they all blend together.  This is a great effect if you are wanting to have a shaded effect or very different colors in one area.  The thing that amazes me is how easy it is.  I have worked with several different brands of embroidery software. that can create a multi colored fill. but none have been this easy or turn out as nice.  With 5D you can even use as many colors as you like.  How cool is that?

Cutwork and Free Standing Lace—oh my, where do I start?  I never even imagined that creating your own free standing embroidery and cut work with Richelieu bars could be so easy!  This is one type of embroidery that I had just assumed that I would not make on my own.  Just to much to have to think about—that was then.  In reality, these features are just as easy and telling the software to fill in an area with a click of the mouse.

Another thing that I am truly appreciating about the new 5D Suite is that everything is just so much easier to use. It seems like the programmers have really listened to what we have asked for.  Even better yet, they have gone beyond and anticipated what we may want—even before we know that we do.  Simple things can make using the software so much more friendly and fun; such as, having the zoom bar accessible all of the time, being able to group selected designs together and move them all at once, being able to easily change your mind about a choice you have made in Design Creator, or just having the tools organized in a logical and easy to understand way.

It has been such a fun day full of great new things learned in 5D.  I can hardly wait until tomorrow when I get to take a class that is beyond the certification classes.  Then I will get to see so much more of what the program can do.  I can only imagine what the day will hold.

Reva


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Live from PFAFF Convention: 5D Embroidery Software Part 2

Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010

Now that I have had a chance to play with the 5D Suite—I am even more impressed!

One of my favorite features of the 4D Suite is Encore. This feature is even better in the 5D Suite.  You might be wondering what Encore is; This is a feature in the software that allows you to take an embroidery design and automatically repeat as many times as you like in a line or a circle.  You can also have it make a frame around the perimeter of your hoop using your embroidery design.

5D Suite gives us so many more options and can do so much more than previously imagined.  In addition to the basic line, circle, and hoop 5D Suite has added an additional 31 shapes and shaped lines that your embroidery designs can follow.

Another thing that I like about Encore in 5D is the ability to use more than one embroidery design in your new Encore design.  In the “Kendall’s Stuff” design that I created here, I chose a scallop and a daisy (both are built into the software).  Then in Encore I chose a star shape for the daisy and scallop to follow.  The software automatically added enough repeats to fill in the shape.

In the floral example, you can see the simple floral scallop that I used to create the beautiful frame to the right.

There are so many applications for the new features of Encore.  I can hardly wait to use them all. I just know you will have as much fun with this new software as I am! For a complete preview of this great new software, be sure to sign up for one of my free 5D Preview Classes that I am teaching next week at many Quality Sewing locations.

I get more hands-on time with this software tomorrow. Stay tuned for more!

Reva


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Live from PFAFF Convention: 5D Embroidery Software Part 1

Monday, August 2nd, 2010

Finally I am in Minneapolis, MN at the annual Pfaff convention! I have just seen some of the things that the NEW 5D Embroidery Software can do.  Boy am I excited!  Some of the exciting changes are:

5D Embroidery

  • The screen appearance is fresh and large. It seems like the icons are easier to see.
  • There are new wizards that will assist in making planning and designing so much easier.
  • Measurements are given in both inches and millimeters without having to change any settings.
  • Fonts styles are easy to see and quicker to get to.
  • If you want text to arc over your design it will automatically do that for you.
  • Background images up to 72” (that’s quilt size) can be used for planning right in the basic screen of 5D.  Then those large embroidery plans can be split into sewable chunks without leaving the screen and going to a different program.

5D Design Creator

  • Multi Color Gradient—fill an area with a blending of different colors.
  • Real Time Editing—see the changes to your design as you make them.

5D Portrait Stitch  !!NEW!!

  • Create wonderful full color designs from photographs.
  • Even has a tapestry feature that will make your photo look like needlework.

The NEW 5D Embroidery Software looks so easy and fun to use and yet it has so much more than imagined!  Later today I will be able to get my hands on it and play. I will keep you posted.

Stay tuned!
Reva


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