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Re: MBX Software Dilemma
Check you have all your tool bars showing, to do that go to View, it's on the top tool bar, scroll down the list to toolbars, and see if the tool bar for Auto digitizing is ticked or not. If it is ticked it may be time to do a Revert. Close the program, go Start, All Programs, Janome, click it once and select Revert. That reinstates the factory default settings. Reopen the program and check the toolbars via View, and tick any not showing. Maggie Cooper UK |
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Re: Trip to dealer 15000
Jim Stutsman
Apparently your dealer doesn't know much about the 15000. The machine will always stop needle down if you set it that way. If you tap the icon on the screen you are telling the machine to raise the presser foot. Don't do that and it should work like you expect it to.
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Thread colours
Monika <monika.murnane@...>
I am working on a cross stitch that I have made twice before. For some reason the thread colours the sewing machine is telling me to use are all wrong. The other times I followed Sulky threads numbers, this time I thought I was too. The name on the Thread Selection on my 15000 now says Gutermann Sulky...did it always say that or was it just Sulky? Are the colours it is giving me Gutermann colours? Sent from my iPad |
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Trip to dealer 15000
cas@...
Hi
all, I
took my 15000 to the dealer because the threader wouldn’t work. He
couldn’t get it to work and eventually said the wire was bent and he would order
a new one. I told him I was disappointed it is so fragile as I’ve
barely used the machine (30 hrs) and he advised me to quit breaking it. I
said I didn’t feel I had, using it as taught and as the book instructs. He
tried to bend it into place so I could use it in the meantime although he said
it shouldn’t be done because it weakens the wire. He could not get it into
place. They
said all the other stuff, the weird noise and the presser foot rising by itself
every time I eased off the pedal were settings. There is a setting in the
set menu (folder icon on the bottom) that will do needle down and presser foot
up every time you stop – and it overrides the needle down icon on the main
screen. The other weird noise is just the machine getting ready to do
whatever it is set to do. I wondered why it would change in the middle of
a process when NO settings have been changed, and they said it is normal.
In other words, in the middle of sewing my shirt the machine started acting
differently although I had not been in the set menu. They said that is all
normal and that the settings were changed. I asked how they were changed
and they didn’t seem to understand that I was in the middle of sewing and had no
reason to go change all the settings. I
did not change the main settings in any way since we adjusted them in class and
wondered why they were changed in the middle of what I was doing. The only
change I made was clicking the icon on the main screen to keep the needle down
when stopping. Oh
well, hopefully the new needle threader will work and that other stuff was just
a glitch of some sort. Cas |
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Re: Software question - Elna 900
Cheryl Paul
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Cheryl, MBX Easy Edit only deals with stitch formats, that's the only thing it can deal with. Thanks, Maggie, Once again you rescued me - I do know the difference but got the 2 mixed up. Cheryl - Saskatoon - visiting where it is warm in Arizona and cold at home. |
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Re: Best Digitizing Software for Mac
Kay Allen
I have TruEmbroidry that I purchased about a year ago. It is comparable to Digitizer MBX, which I also have for my PC. The new version TruEmbroidery3 program has some very cool new features but I’m not willing to pay another $1100 to upgrade. They both work excellent with my Horizon 15000.
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Re: Software question Glynis
Glynis if you create your own designs in MBX or any of the previous Janome digitisind programs, you save as JAN. That's your design recipe format. Every object (shape or line) has a list of parameters Easy design uses when it is sent either to the machine or an external media device, It converts those parameters to a JEF or a JPX depending on what machine is chosen. The Jan format does NOT contain any stitches, if you use the S key on your keyboard you will see what the program sees, an outline of a shape which has no fill. Hit the S key again, and your monitor will display all the stitches that in reality don't exist, the program tells your computer to display stitches based on the information you put in when you set your stitch length, stitch type, stitch spacing (density) stretchiness (pull compensation) parallel fill (angle
of fill) in object details. When you are ready to do a stitch conversion all those details are used to inform the format you have chosen exactly where to place the hoop and drop or raise the needle. MBX or any object based software for that matter, does not send the individual recipes for each object created when it converts from objects to stitches. If you open a stitch file in Easy design, add lettering, save it as a stitch format not a JAN. As long as you don't alter the stitch file or try inserting a second stitch file to merge them, you are OK. Just don't save it as a JAN, save it in it's stitch format. When you open a stitch design then insert a second one with a view to merge them into one design, you will experience changes in the design, the stitch recognition function can and does cause gaps, change fills often in a large shape so an embossed fill can become a satin
fill in one part, a weave fill in another part, and an embossed fill in another part. If you save that as a Jan, you have set the mistakes. Wilcom are aware of the problem and are addressing it, until they have a solution, bearing in mind Easy Design was never seen or intended to be a stitch file program, use Easy Edit for simple rescales, don't exceed the 20% either way you'll just increase or decrease stitch lengths. If you want more editing power use a third party program such as Sew What Pro, Buzz edit, Embird Editor. However if you own MBX, you should really learn how to use it, I haven't edited any of my designs now since Digitiser Pro version 2, any changes I need to make are done in Easy Design using the Jan format. I've just finished a design that I've saved to fit a 140 x 200 mm hoop and rescaled it to 250% for my big hoops on my multi needle machine. It rescaled perfectly because it used the recipe format
JAN. Please don't say you can't learn to digitise, it's nowhere near as difficult as people think, and once you do learn, you can create just about any style of design you wish. No more searching for designs that never quite fit what you wanted, then experience the wonderful sense of ownership you feel when you watch your OWN design stitch out sweetly. Believe me learning to digitise is totally empowering. Maggie Cooper UK |
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Re: Best Digitizing Software for Mac
pble2000@...
There is a lot of buzz on the Embrilliance boards about an upcoming release of digitizing software, StitchArtist. Here’s a link to a posting from Brian about it <http://embrilliance.com/archives/1201#more-1201> I just purchased Embrilliance Essentials yesterday and am finding it very easy to use. I’ve never wanted to dive into digitizing because it seems like such a time sucking venture but I do like editing and this will work well for me. If the digitizing software is as intuitive as Embrilliance, this could be a winner. Patti |
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MBX Software Dilemma
Meryl Margolies
I'm having trouble with my MBX software. The "Click to Stitch" option is no longer there, and I'm not getting any kind of quality with the now present function. It doesn't matter whether the file/photo is .jpg or .bmp. Am I missing a step? Or is it more serious? I'm frustrated :( |
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Re: Software question - Elna 900
Glynnis Ballou
So, Maggie, how should the design be saved?? Glynnis in KY On Wednesday, November 5, 2014 5:27 PM, "maggie cooper maggiecoops@... [janome12000]" wrote: Cheryl, MBX Easy Edit only deals with stitch formats, that's the only thing it can deal with. It differs enormously from the Easy Design part of the program which was written for objects not stitches. Wilcom 'improved' the stitch recognition function in Easy Design, to try and identify stitch types, tools, density settings, but it can only guess what they are. Easy Edit just knows a design is a stitch format, it can identify the format from it's format bank, it does a better job of converting formats than Easy design, simply because it reads the machine instructions needle up, needle down travel to co-ordinates xy??. It doesn't try to guess what tool was used, which stitch type, what the density is because it's only interested in stitches. Easy Design is for creating
designs, not format
conversions from one stitch format to another. When you open a stitch file in Easy Design the stitch recognition function kicks in and hundreds of stitch blocks appear in the objects bar, how do you think Trevor and I are able to tell when someone has saved a stitch file as a default Jan when we review designs. It's the biggest mistake new MBX owners make, opening a stitch file in Easy Design then saving it as a Jan file. So often that jiggers up the original stitch file as they've rescaled, altered elements, then unwittingly hit save and accepted the incorrect guesses the stitch recognition function offered. In short, Easy Edit does know what format a stitch file is, Easy design doesn't. Maggie Cooper in UK. |
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Best Digitizing Software for Mac
Creative Juice
Hello, I have Horizon 15000 and want a good digitizing software to create my own embroidery designs. Any advice? Must be MAC compatible. Thanks! Fully Mac compatible, Jim says: The only true digitizing software for Mac is Punto. This is a commercial package and likely to be quite pricey. I have not used it, but I'm sure it would not be as Janome-friendly as Digitizer MBX. You can get design editing software from Embrilliance, but they don't have digitizing software. My choice would be to use MBX in a Windows virtual machine using Parallels, VMware or Virtual Box. I don't say that lightly, given my recent battles with Windows and Office 365 for a client. |
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Re: Software question - Elna 900
cmgazerro@...
Maggie,
This info is very informative. I will be sure to use easy edit more frequently! Carolyn |
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Re: Re colour sequence
cdnquilter5@...
if you group them (in settings) on the Janome 15000 then select colour sort then you can do all 1 colour then the next. I have learned that in order to group them all designs have to be the same; can't be different ones.
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Re: UK owners
Contessa@...
What will it entail? Never heard of this but everything I can learn about my beloved 12000 will be gratefully received. |
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Re: Info requested/possibly purchasing 15000
Terry Carter
Patti that was an excellent review that you did for Pattern Review. Really enjoyed it.
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I love my machine and wish that I had more time with it. Terry On 2014-11-05, at 1:35 PM, pble2000@... [janome12000] wrote:
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Re: Raise the Needle Bar Slowly error on 15000
Barb Engvall
I had that really awful message come up and my machine won’t sew at all (it is at the dealer at this point) and this did all occur after the upgrade to version 2…I wonder if they will fix it or replace it…time will tell! I sure miss it even though I only had it a few weeks!
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Marking Points/
Janice Mawhiney
Hi
I am taking a class and our next session will be to embroider a 48 inch border. I have never lined up embroidery and re-hooped, so I looked in the MC 12000 manual to see if there was something to learn. The manual refers to marking points. Is this what I use to ensure perfect alignment? Is there anything on Diane's video that will help me? Thanks, as always, for your suggestions. Janice |
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Re: Raise the Needle Bar Slowly error on 15000
cas <cas@...>
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Mine makes a scary noise too. I thought it was just the feeddogs
rising when the needle goes down the first time, but wondered why I never
noticed it before. It only does it once, then seems to run normal.
I've had the machine for a couple of months, but haven't sewn on it much
(remodeling the sewing room to make a home for it) It's like a
grinding noise sort of. Is that what you noticed?
All the information I can get before I bring it in tomorrow will be
appreciated.
I thought I had a temporary glitch or I would have taken notes when I had
an issue.
Cas
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Re: Raise the Needle Bar Slowly error on 15000
Glad to know this. I won't be so skittish if I get the message. :)
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Re: Raise the Needle Bar Slowly error on 15000
cas <cas@...>
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Ok, thanks. She said it shouldn't happen, but that is exactly when it
happened, when I turned the machine off with the needle down (as told) while we
were working on something. When I turned it back on the msg was
there.
Yesterday it came on while I was trying to thread the machine, but I
probably did turn the machine off, trying to get the threader to reset or
something. I couldn't remember, I had been at it a while.
:-)
Cas
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