Acute sign app
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Colleen
Hi Jim Could you please explain to me what the acu design app does. It must be good for $50.CB Never having been good enough to command a $50 price, Jim says: We've been so busy finishing up the videos that we haven't done much with AcuDesign, but I do have some opinions based on playing with it. Janome dealers are being told that it's essentially Digitizer Jr. for the iPad. That's not completely wrong, but it's not completely accurate either. Perhaps because it is based on DRAWings Snap, the first thing you notice is designs - a LOT of designs, all free with the app. Sadly they are all auto-digitized using DRAWings software and few, if any, would be even close to the quality of even the original Janome 8000 Memory Cards. Don't buy the app for the designs! The app does give you the ability to get designs into the iPad without the clunky route through iTunes. It will read designs from Dropbox, AirStash, and a number of wireless USB products. It will also download designs from the machine, but I have not had much luck with downloading from the machine using any app. I'm hoping the V2 update will improve that. Once you have a design in the app you can do a fair bit of editing on it. You can make it larger or smaller, without changing density. (At least that's what we're told - we have not tested this!) You can change colors, remove parts, insert other designs and generally do whatever you want short of actual digitizing. When you finish you can send the design to Dropbox, all the various wireless USB devices or the machine itself. This last one is interesting, for as hard as it is to READ designs from the machine, they WRITE almost instantly and reliably. Even better, you don't have to don't have to go through the agony of finding the machine and waiting forever while it locates and connects to it, as the Janome apps do. It just finds the machine by itself. Overall, again just playing with it for a few minutes, I've found it to be kind of buggy with documentation that doesn't quite match up to the app. This is definitely a version 1 product that could have used a bit more time in the oven. If you have already bought it, do not despair - I'm sure it will be updated and the updates are free. But if you haven't taken the plunge just yet, I would hold off just a bit for the first update. |
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Colleen
Hi Jim. That is a wonderful explanation but I think I might wait a while before purchasing but a hundred million thank you. CB Sent from my iPad On 31/08/2014, at 8:48 am, "newfiddler@... [janome12000]" <janome12000@...> wrote:
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Sue Raabe <susies.stitches@...>
I follow the posts, but rarely comment or ask questions! My 12000 is about a year old now. I sold my Elissimo and bought the floor model from a very reliable Janome only dealer. I didn't have any problems with the Babylock, but a good friend swears by the Janome, so I decided to give it a whirl. Although this is a machine group, I have a question about resizing designs. Recently I was told that even if the software has the ability to adjust density when resizingm it still isn't wise to change it by more than 20%. If that's true. how do you change the size of lettering for monograms? I have Wilcom, and it seems to have an uper and lower limit for sizing. The software is way over my head, and way more than I need, but unfortunately, I'm a such a sucker for sales pitches! Software aside, is there any definitive answer for the resizing question? I don't recall ever seeing commercially didgitized lettering large for monogramming things like towels. Right now,my primary goal is to figure out how to use the 12000 more fully. I bought the DVD, but of course never got around to watching it! If this question isn't appropriate for this group, I'll understand. After reading the comments of the software, it just popped into my head :-) Waiting for an answer to pop into his head, Jim decides to wing it: When a designer creates an embroidery design, she builds it with a particular size in mind. In addition to just filling areas with stitches, she must consider the pulling effect the stitches will have on the fabric. Even resizing software that maintains the stitch density cannot maintain the structure of the design past a certain point. Consider satin stitches for example. Layers of satin stitches that follow the contours of an object can be used to create lifelike fur. However if the design is enlarged too much, those satin stitches must be changed to weave stitches, which have a completely different look. This is also true for monograms, where curves and angles are critically important for lettering integrity. When you need lettering of a certain size it's a good idea to experiment with different fonts to see what works best. Wilcom software is excellent, but the sheer number of tools and options can be daunting. There are many resources on the web for learning how to use them. A good place to start is Trevor Conquergood's digitizer workshops. Trevor learned digitizing when it was really difficult - each stitch had to be manually placed. There are some exquisite monogram packages available from EmbroideryArts.com. The letters in each set are digitized to be a large size (2" - 5") so resizing is not necessary. We sold their designs in our store and they were very well done.
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ceilsews <no_reply@...>
Sue, when you say "I don't recall ever seeing
commercially didgitized lettering large for monogramming things like towels," do you mean that you need websites where such monogramming lettering is available? There are a bunch of good sites out there and you don't have to do it yourself.
Just in case, here's one such site: http://www.embroiderydesigns.com/fonts/monograms.aspx Ceil |
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