Help With TTF

[Carolyn]

Hello all, I really need some help. I have been testing a true type font called jacoba. My issues is that this font has some very narrow parts and when stitched out the look terrible not smooth like the other portions of the letter. I need to know what I could do to fix this or perhaps to make the narrow portion wider so that the stitches will stitch properly. I tried using center walk underlay with no results. Please Help.

THanks, Carolyn

[Juli in Kona]

What setting are you currently using.

Juli in Kona

[TinaK]

Carolyn:

I use the TT Jacoba all the time and love that font. I never have a problem using it. If I think the thin parts are going to give me a problem as say I am doing a 1" letter instead of a monogram 3-4" letter then I will adjust the thin parts a hair bigger and it sews out perfect every time.

Good Luck!

[Carolyn]

Please pardon my ignorance here but Julia when you say setting what do you mean? I have no clue. All I know is that I changed the underlay and that is about it. Tina what setting do you use and could you all give me like a mini tutorial about the whole settings things? I am sorry am just so lost when it come to this machine.

Carolyn

[Steve I]

Carolyn,

What size are you attempting to sew the lettering? If you can't increase the pull comp enough to get the narrow parts wide enough you may need to edit the thin parts. Highlight the object you want to edit, right click and go to edit wireframe all, you will see triangles and circles along the borders of the objects, click and drag those points to where you need them then hit save.

Steve I.

[Barbara Bunker]

Re thin lettering: I don't have my program open but I'm pretty sure the setting referred to is on the Column tab. Down at the bottom there's a box for minimum stitch width. The default is 8mm. Change that to 1.2mm.

Barb

[Carolyn]

Hey guys thanks a bunch, I am at work now but will try and run home during lunch to give this a try. Hopefully I can report something good. Keep your fingers crossed!!!

Carolyn

[Rod or Sharon]

Uuuuuhh....I think Barb meant to say, "change that to 12 points as the default is set to 8 points.

The "Minimun Column Width" , found in the lettering properties window under the "Column" tab, is the correct tool to be using in this case along with adjusting the "Pull Comp" if it is needed also.

Adjusting the "Minimum Column Width" will only affect the "narrow" or skinny portions of the lettering. Pull Comp affects all portions of the lettering, both thin and fat....you can either increase "Pull Comp" by using the pecentage or by adding points to the column. Using percentage does not always give us the look we want even tho the lettering is being adjusted proportionally. It will make the "fat" areas look like they grow in width faster than the skinny areas. Adding "points", allows you to better control the expansion by adding the same width on both sides of the entire lettering columns. Lets say, you add 2 points to your lettering. Using this tool, it will add 2 points to each side of every column thru-out the lettering unless, that is, you are only dealing with one letter in the word or words.....

Rod Springer
Amaya Tech & Trainer

[Barbara Bunker]

Thanks, Rod, for correcting me; you are absolutely right. My head is so wrapped around millimeters I forget about the points.

Barb

[Beckie]

I have a question regarding a TT font. I had a client request a specific font. The letters were 1.3" tall. The first three words that I had placed on an arc embroidered fine, however the 4th word that was to embroider in a straight line made the width of the letter to wide and the machine jerked really bad, if I do the reverse of what you are talking about, lowering the column width to .6 instead of .8 would that make the width of the letters smaller?

[Aaron]

The Min Column width which is defaulted at 8 if set to 6 would just allow thinner lines but would not fix your problem. You are using large letters which makes your column width too wide not too thin. The fix for this is to use the Auto-Split feature found under the column tab in your properties assuming your software is new enough to have this feature. The other way is to change it to a fill stitch and you can make the settings look like a split column by making the number of partitions 2 with the right stitch length. This lettering will look a little different then the rest so you might consider spliting the column on the whole design and whenever its a certain stitch length (you can set this and I set mine at 50-60 with a min length of 8). Let me know if you are completely confused now [img]smile.gif[/img]

[Beckie]

I'm trying to figure out why the letters that are embroidered on the arc are done in a fill stitch, but the letters that are embroidered in a straight line are embroidered as a column, I would like the letters to all be a fill stitch.