advancing the design

[Shuffletown Embroidery]

Hi all and Happy Holiday!
I have been doing a lot of multiple-hoop designs and have found an annoying problem.
Once I have loaded the design and traced it, I would like to advance the design one stitch at a time to assure it is properly lined up with the previous stitching. I want to use the forward step button on my console. Well, sometimes it will let me and sometimes I have to go to the computer and go into settings and move to the first stitch. After that, I can step through the design at the console.
I am running a 2004 Amaya; OS 7.00.018; RSA revision 20.03; CSA revision 01.81.
Any advice?
Thanks,
Mary

[signman]

We run into very similar problem all the time (OS 6 something) where we can't move the hoop around to center a new design, or sometimes can't run a trace, etc. from the keypad...until we go
to the computer and do anything from the menu there-even if it is just 'center hoop'...then the keypad will respond. It's like a new design puts the keypad to sleep? Haven't gone as far as going into settings to move to first stitch-we just trace or center hoop from the Amaya OS commands...then no problem after that, no matter how many times we do the same design over. Always the first one!

[Rod or Sharon]

I have found that the Amaya is usually waiting for an intermediate trim command. Try using the "Adustment button and the "select needle/(color change button)" on the keypad for an intermediate trim and then see if it will let you jog.......
Rod Springer
Cert. Melco Tech

[Shuffletown Embroidery]

Rod,
I tried that and it didn't work.

Yesterday, I was doing a restart after a thread break. The upper thread pulled out, so I tried to reposition from the console. Of course, it wanted to do a thread trim, and I replied "no" to bypass it. It wouldn't let me do that, even from the computer. I had to push the start button, then stop it, then do the re-positioning.