Repeating colors

[Juli in Kona]

I have a design that has 8 sets of 2 color changes (16 color changes of just 2 colors). On an XT V9 OS, if I set the first 2 colors, Gray, Blue, will it cycle as many color changes as necessary to get the job finished?

Juli

[Greenwing]

In a word

YES!!

it is rare that an answer is this simple!!

[Juli in Kona]

Yeah, well I wish the job ran as smoothly! There were 10 letters of 2 colors ea. I finally just put in 4,1,4,1 etc to make a total of 20. BUT the last two letters had the opposite colors which I didn't notice until it was half way through the last color. So, I "moved" to color 18 and that was supposed to be needle 1, but started sewing with needle 4. I changed it manually and did that letter. Then - I don't know what I did - can't seem to hold a thought too long. Anyway I finished it. Had to use a colored pen to color some edges that were peeking out, but only I would know that. Looked good. What a relief! It was the customers material.

This was manually digitized Goudy Stout letters that I then used the Shadow tool on. I think it has to do with that. Something screwed up. And at first it was giving me 30 colors before I did a lot of fooling around with it. If it was just my material that I could replace, I would have just gone ahead and tried it with 30 color changes. Never could figure out what it thought it was doing. But I am pretty sure it has to do with the Shadow tool.

Juli

[The Embroidery Authority - OLD]

Juli,
Times like this, you should definitely sew out this design once on scrap material to make sure you have all your color changes set correctly.

Ed

[Juli in Kona]

Sorry, I am NOT going to sew out a 30 thou stitch design with only two colors, but 20 color changes just to see if the color changes are working. I can count - 1,2,1,2,1,2 etc. What happen, I think, is that it did not do color change #17, That would make it sewing out the wrong color and all colors after that are wrong also. I did have the correct number of color changes- right there in black and white the changes listed as 1 thru 20 with needles only 1 and 2 alternating. No mistakes.

The reason that I think that it has something to do with the Shadow function is that the Blend function also has troubles. If I want the colors to to out correctly with a blend, as in a sky bleeding from orange to blue, I have to do it as 2 separate objects and not use the automatic blend function. So, if Melco did get that right, it is not a big stretch to think that the Shadow function also has similar troubles - especially since it did have trouble.

In writing this down and thinking about it and how I CAN check it without actually sewing it - which I won't ever do - I can Move to the next color and see if it changes correctly.

I just did check and everything seems OK. So I don't know what happened. But I am getting these jobs frequently enough to want to avoid the problem. I don't like going back and fixing things like that.

Juli