5D™ Videos
All of he videos listed here are FREE for for you to watch and download. If you click on the link to download a video, a special Portable Document File (PDF) will be downloaded to your computer. You can open this file using the FREE Adobe Acrobat Reader program available at the Adobe website. As soon as you download the PDF you can save it on your computer's hard drive or on a CD ROM or DVD for viewing later on another computer. The videos are grouped by the software modules listed beneath this paragraph. Click on a topic name to view the videos in that section...
These videos present instruction on a variety of tools and techniques you can use when working on your projects in various modules in the 5D™ Embroidery software. You can view these videos online by clicking on the link that begins with the words "View the ...". You can download the same video in Adobe PDF format and save it on your computer by clicking on the link beginning with the words "Download the ...". These videos may be freely shared with your friends. UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES may anyone charge for the viewing or downloading of these videos.
5D™ Embroidery Extra
Using The Frames Control in 5D™ Embroidery
Have you ever had problems sizing your graphics in 5D™ Design Creator so that you achieve the exact size of the graphic in your digitizing project? This video will explain how the software works with both raster and vector graphics and how you can accurately size your graphics to get the results you are looking for.
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Embossing Removal Problem Solution
Recently I received a question from a customer who purchased a design containing an embossed area that she wanted to change. The goal was to place some lettering into an area of the design and remove the overlapping stitches so that the nap of a towel would show through. For some reason, the removal of the overlapping stitches was far from normal and I had to develop a special technique to solve this problem. Watch this video to learn about the problem and its solution along with some editing tips along the way.
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Adding A New Background
Did you know that you can add new background photos to your software? This short video will demonstrate the method used to add booth fabrics and garment to your software so that you can preview what your embroidery designs will look like when stitched out on your personal projects. Watch this video to learn how to do it.
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Creating a personalized snowflake with Encore
Just in time for Christmas, learn how to make a personalized snowflake for the holiday season. This project is suitable for a free-standing design to hang on the Christmas tree or to embroider on any holiday project. And best of all, you can personalize it for the recipient.
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Setting MiniDesign Properties in 5D™Embroidery
With the release of the Free Update for 2011, there were changes made to the way that you can change the properties of the Curved Satin parts of MiniDesigns and the properties of the Pattern Fill parts of MiniDesigns. This video describes how to gain access to and change the properties of these design components.
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Creating a Wedding Frame with Encore
This video will teach you how to use the Encore feature or 5D™ Embroidery Extra to create a nice frame to go around a project for a wedding or an engagement announcement. You will also learn how to use the Insert Stitches tool to correct an error that happens when using Motifs in a project as well as how to correct a common error that happens when you try to use the Selective Combine tool.
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Super Font Introduction
A new kind of font became available with the Free Update for 20111. SuperFonts, and the way that you change them, will further enhance your ability to add beautiful lettering to your projects. This short video contains an introduction on how to use these new fonts.
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5D™ Design Creator
Creating a chain bookmark graphic in 5D™ Design Creator
A newsletter subscriber, Mary Lou Staley, asked me if I could demonstrate how to create a bookmark design which has simple embroideries at both ends of a "chain" of embroidery stitches. This video describes how to create the vector graphic part of the project. In part 2 of this project below we will describe how to digitize the vector graphic created in this video.
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Digitizing a chain bookmark graphic in 5D™ Design Creator
Here in part 2 of the chain bookmark project, we will see how to digitize the graphic created in the previous video and learn about some common mistakes and error that may occur when creating this project.
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Going to School with the Pros
Are you looking for a technique that will demonstrate how to improve your digitizing skills? This video will show you how I examine embroidery designs to learn the techniques of the Pros and then apply them to my design creation projects.
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Understanding Graphic Resizing in 5D™ Design Creator
Have you ever had problems sizing your graphics in 5D™ Design Creator so that you achieve the exact size of the graphic in your digitizing project? This video will explain how the software works with both raster and vector graphics and how you can accurately size your graphics to get the results you are looking for.
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Enlarged Motif Quilt Label in 5D Design Creator
Have you ever wished that you could enlarge a motif more than the size permitted in the Motif Properties dialog? Watch this video and learn how to do that in 5D™ Design Creator. Then we will use the enlarged motif to create a frame for a quilt label.
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Vector Drawing Tips
Are you confused when it comes to creating vector drawing to use as subjects for your projects in 5D™ Design Creator? This short video will explain how to set the drawing order of the graphic components that you add to your project.
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Create an applique with a blanket stitch border with 5D™ Design Creator
Do you know how to create an applique stitch object that uses blanket stitches rather than a satin stitch border? That task is easy now in 5D™ Design Creator. Learn how to do it in this video.
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5D™ Design Creator Basics
The new 5D™ Design Creator software is easier to use that it's predecessors...once you have some basic information. This video will give you all of the information you need to begin working with this fantastic software. You will learn how to create a simple vector graphic image and then create a stitch object using that inage. We will then look at the various properties available to change the look of the stitch object. Finally, and most important, you will learn how to save both the CAN file and a machine-ready stitch file.
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How to use the Background Tracing option with 5D™ Design Creator
Several people asked how to use the new option in the ExpressDesign Wizard in 5D™ Design Creator that allows you to bring in a photograph or other scanned image for use as a background when creating a new design. This video will demonstrate how to use this new option.
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Applique Trace with ExpressDesign Wizard
It's an applique! No, it's a trace! Actually, it is both and applique and a trace. Learn how to create an applique that also has internal satin trace lines in the ExpressDesign Wizard. You will learn how to create this unique form of design using a few tricks and techniques while using the ExpressDesign Wizard. Although this project is created in the newsoftware, you can also use the same tools and techniques to create the same design in 4D Embroidery Extra.
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5D™ Stitch Editor Plus
Changing Letter Properties with 5D™ Stitch Editor Plus
You can make many changes to the Properties of fonts in 5D™ Embroidery and 5D™ Embroidery Extra. Some fonts, however, were created in such a way that the Properties of their various stitch objects cannot be changed...until NOW. If you have 5D™ Stitch Editor Plus, then there is almost NOTHING that you cannot change in an embroidery design and this includes fonts. This short video will review the process of changing font properties in 5D™ Embroidery and 5D™ Embroidery Extra, then we will step up to 5D™ Stitch Editor Plus to complete what was once an impossible task.
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Aligning Fill Patterns with 5D™ Stitch Editor Plus
Many people are asking, "Should I upgrade to 5D™ Stitch Editor Plus?" This short video will demonstrate the use of just one of the many new tools that are available in this fantastic new module. With the Align Origin Handles tool on the new Object Page in 5D™ Stitch Editor Plus you will be able to do instantly and effortlessly align Pattern FIll objects (something that cannont be done at all in 5D Stitch Editor.)
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5D™ Organizer
Using 5D Organizer Part 1
What can 5D Organizer really do for you? The short answer is...a lot more than you think it can. So much so that it takes 3 videos to demonstrate all of 5D Organizer's features. Watch this video to begin to learn all that 5D Organizer can do for you.
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Using 5D Organizer Part 2
We continue looking at 5D Organizer's features in this second video. Watch this video to learn about more of 5D Organizer's features.
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Using 5D Organizer Part 3
We finish looking at 5D Organizer's features in this third video. Watch this video to learn about still more of 5D Organizer's features.
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5D™ Organizer Features
There are a number of features that are available in both 4D™ Organizer and 5D™ Orgainzer that many people do not know about. This video will teach you how to Create ZIP files, Convert a stitch file to a different format, Create a graphic image from a stitch file, and more. The instructions in this video are applicable to both versions of Organizer.
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5D™ Other Modules
5D PortraitStitch Basics 1
Do you want to create an embroidery from a photograph? Then you need to learn how to use 5D™ PortraitStitch. This video is part 1 of a 2 part lesson on how to use this fantastic software.
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5D PortraitStitch Basics 2
There are several different types of embroidery stitch files you can create with 5D™ PortraitStitch. This video is part 2 of a 2 part lesson on how to create embroidery stitch files with this module.
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