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[Guest]

I have a design of a logo which is pretty dense (about 12,000 stitches) and it sews out fine on everything except a cotton/poly mix dress shirt. I want to make the thread "lay" on the fabric, but it doesn't. It's just looks squeezed on the shirt instead of nicely embroidered. Any suggestions to helping this? I've had this issue on other designs as well . . . these dress shirts must be coated with something that changes the integrity of the fabric. Just wondering what others do when customer supplies these blended fabric shirts. They're not high quality, but maybe there is a setting adjustment to help it look a little better????

-geri

[Greenwing]

I just had an order of these shirts. they had stain release properties, I tried spray adhesive and it did not work and thicker backing, no luck still looked puckered.

Then I tried iorn on tearaway on the shirt and then a 2oz cutaway and they stitched out great.
I think for me the coating was causing the shirts to move no matter how tight it was hooped.

this is just what worked for me.

[Rod or Sharon]

Geri,

Two things you might try....In Design Shop. Use "Scale Factors" found under the "Tool" tab. This will allow you to reduce the number of overall stitches in your design. Read up on this in the "Help" tab in Design Shop. In most cases you can reduce the stitches in the design by 10 to 20% and not see any differenence in quality on the sewout. This wil help the " dense look" to the design.

Second, in AOS, after the design is loaded to the machine, click on "Settings" and select "Thread Feed". The "Column Width", deals with the width of the "Bobbin" column on the back side of the embroidery. The "Run/fill" will increase the amount of thread that is fed to each stitch without changing the stitch length. By adding a bit more thread to the stitch, it will allow it to set on top of the fabric and not try to pull it down too tight. This is something you have to experiment with as every design and fabric combination is/can/may be different.

Rod Springer
Amaya Tech & Trainer

[GF]

Thank you Rod. I'll try both of those suggestions.

~geri

[Terri H]

Originally posted by Rod or Sharon:
Geri,

Two things you might try....In Design Shop. Use "Scale Factors" found under the "Tool" tab. This will allow you to reduce the number of overall stitches in your design. Read up on this in the "Help" tab in Design Shop. In most cases you can reduce the stitches in the design by 10 to 20% and not see any differenence in quality on the sewout. This wil help the " dense look" to the design.

Second, in AOS, after the design is loaded to the machine, click on "Settings" and select "Thread Feed". The "Column Width", deals with the width of the "Bobbin" column on the back side of the embroidery. The "Run/fill" will increase the amount of thread that is fed to each stitch without changing the stitch length. By adding a bit more thread to the stitch, it will allow it to set on top of the fabric and not try to pull it down too tight. This is something you have to experiment with as every design and fabric combination is/can/may be different.

Rod Springer
Amaya Tech & Trainer

[Terri H]

Rod,

On the second item, could that also be done in DS?

Thanks,

Terri

Originally posted by Rod or Sharon:
Geri,

Two things you might try....In Design Shop. Use "Scale Factors" found under the "Tool" tab. This will allow you to reduce the number of overall stitches in your design. Read up on this in the "Help" tab in Design Shop. In most cases you can reduce the stitches in the design by 10 to 20% and not see any differenence in quality on the sewout. This wil help the " dense look" to the design.

Second, in AOS, after the design is loaded to the machine, click on "Settings" and select "Thread Feed". The "Column Width", deals with the width of the "Bobbin" column on the back side of the embroidery. The "Run/fill" will increase the amount of thread that is fed to each stitch without changing the stitch length. By adding a bit more thread to the stitch, it will allow it to set on top of the fabric and not try to pull it down too tight. This is something you have to experiment with as every design and fabric combination is/can/may be different.

Rod Springer
Amaya Tech & Trainer

[Rod or Sharon]

Terri,

The answer to your question is , no. Design Shop could be used to adjust for stitch length but not for adding/metering additional thread to the individual stitch. AOS is programmable for that job.

As to columns, Design Shop would be used to create whatever size column you want and then to add pull comp to expand the overall size of the thread on top of the column for adjusting or compensating for shrinkage of the column when it is sewn, but cannot do any adjusting to the width of the "bobbin column" on the backside of the embroidery.

It can be a bit confusing when we see , in Design Shop, in the Properties tab, then selecting "Column", something about "Min Column Width". This refers to controlling the rate of exspanion of the top thread on skinny areas of the columns such as some of the script fonts or some of the serrif block style fonts with skinny legs and wide legs in the same letter. The bottom line is, "Min Column Width", as referred to in DS, is not the same as "Column Feed", as referred to in AOS.

[Terri H]

Hi Rod,

In DS, I was looking at the Amaya tab at the project level properties window, it has Material Thickness, Column Feed, Rill/Run Thread Feed, etc parameters. What effect do these have on the design and sewing?

Thanks,

Terro

[Rod or Sharon]

Terri,

To answer your question.....this is a short cut to the Amaya Thread Feed settings tab. If you know ahead of time what setting you think you may need or want, then DS does allow you to set AOS settings that will be carried over to the machine.

These are still functions that are machine oriented and not actually anything that is being created by DS. A short cut, if you will.....

For those that are now confused about this....Project level, would be when you do a Select All and then RIGHT click inside of the properties box on the screen, then go to Properties. An Amaya tab is now displayed in the tab selection menu.

Good catch, by-the-way )

Rod Springer
Amaya Tech & Trainer

[Joy]

Terri,

To answer your question.....this is a short cut to the Amaya Thread Feed settings tab. If you know ahead of time what setting you think you may need or want, then DS does allow you to set AOS settings that will be carried over to the machine.

These are still functions that are machine oriented and not actually anything that is being created by DS. A short cut, if you will.....

For those that are now confused about this....Project level, would be when you do a Select All and then RIGHT click inside of the properties box on the screen, then go to Properties. An Amaya tab is now displayed in the tab selection menu.

Good catch, by-the-way )

Rod Springer
Amaya Tech & Trainer
If I adjust settings in DS will that save the settings when I save the design, so I wont have to make adjustments next time?