Assistant Operation

The user can carry out these functions and perform some normal assistant operation by clicking the keys on the Assistant Operation interface.

Click  to have access to the Assistant Operation interface.

Because there are too many assistant functions to list in one interface, you need press page key to turn the page.
The interfaces of the Assistant Operation share the same structure. User only needs to press the corresponding keys to perform the operations. Some functions may be unavailable in some statuses. In this case those keys will be attached with the icon 

1. Save Design Start Point

If the origin of the frame has been set, the machine will save the start position of the current design at the embroidery preparation status or before embroidery. The start position will be kept in machine memory.

1. Move the frame to start position.
2. Click  to have access to the Assistant Operation interface.
3. Click “Save Design Start Position”. System will ask user to confirm action.
4. Click 

Click  to save the current frame position as the design’s start point. Click  to cancel the above operation.

2. Restore Design Start Point

If you have saved the start position of current design, you can use this function to locate the frame to that saved start point.

1. Click  to have access to the Assistant Operation interface.
2. Click the “Restore Design Start Position”.
3. Click  to restore start position
4. Frame moves to the saved start position.

3. Locate Design to Center

This function is to move frame to position and locate the center of the design to the center of frame software protection that is set by the system, so as to embroider the design at the center of the frame when user presses the start key.

1. Click   to have access to the Assistant Operation interface.
2. Click the key of “Locate Design to Center”.
3. System asks users to confirm.

Click  to confirm and the system will calculate the center and move the frame to start position. Click  to cancel the above operations.

  4. System returns to the main interface.

4. Check Border Information of Current Design

With this function, users can check the border information of currently embroidered design.

1. Click    to have access to the Assistant Operation interface.
2. Click the key of “Check Border Info of Current Design”.System will show the border information of current design on the interface.
3. System will display design border information.

Click  to turn off the window.

5. Move Frame along Design Border

This function is to move the frame along the design range to check if the design exceeds the limits. When the frame meets the limits during this process, system will make adjustment itself, so as to avoid the damage to the machine frame during the embroidery.

1. Click  to have access to the Assistant Operation interface.
2. Click the key of “Move Frame along Design Border”.
3. System will ask to select move inspection methods?

Border Check:

1. Click the key of “Border Check”.
2. System will ask users to confirm.

Click  to confirm and the system will move the frame along the design border. Click  to cancel the operation.

Outline Check:

1. Click the key of “Outline Check”.
2. System will ask users to confirm.

System will generate a temporary data according to the boundary design data and ask user to confirm. Click  to cancel the operation. Press   to confirm and then system will return to the main screen.

Now system displays  on the main screen. Pull bar to embroider border, after that, system returns to the embroidery preparing status.

Frame work modes:

Click  to shift the frame work mode and improve the embroidery quality (only available for certain machine types)

Frame work modes include: Hat Mode, Big Frame Mode, Clothing Mode.

6. Embroider along Design Border

The function enables system to calculate the design’s peripheral data and generate the temporary data for embroidery. This function should be used at embroidery preparation status.

1. Click  to have access to the Assistant Operation interface
2. Click “Emb along Design Border”.
3. System will ask users to confirm operation.

Click  to confirm or click  to cancel the operation.

4. System will  calculate  the  design’s  temporary  data,  enter  the  embroidery confirmation status and return to the main interface.

System will show  on the interface. The user press Start to embroider the design range. After finishing it, the system will automatically come back to embroidery preparation status.

7. Embroider Cross

System can embroider a cross at the current position. The size of the cross is adjustable.

1. Click  to have access to the Assistant Operation interface.
2. Click the key of “Emb Cross”
3. System will enter into parameter setting interface for embroidering cross.

Users can set the X/Y length.

4. Click 

System will generate the required data, have access to the embroidery confirmation status and return to main interface. Then the main interface will show  . When user presses the start, the machine will embroider the cross. After finishing it, the machine will returns to preparation status.

8. Embroider Line

The system can embroider lines basing on the user’s needs.

1. Click  to have access to the Assistant Operation interface.
2. Click “Emb Line”.
3. Input the coordinates of the first point in the line.

The system will ask the user to input that coordinates in the window.

You can use the manual frame-moving key on the panel to move the frame to the start point of the line, and clicks  to input the coordinates of the first point.

4. Input the coordinates of the second point in the line.

The user uses the manual frame-moving key on the panel to move the frame to the end point of the line, and clicks  to input the coordinates of the second point.

5. The system will create the temporary data of the line, enter the embroidery confirmation status and return to the main interface.

The main interface will display the  . And the user can press the Start to embroider the line. After finishing it, the machine will return to the preparation status.

9. Embroider Design Outline

System will generate temporary outline data according to the current design. Users can press the Start to embroider.

1. Click  to have access to the Assistant Operation interface.
2. Click the key of “Emb Design Outline”.
3. System will calculate and wait for the confirmation from user.

The system will calculate the outline data, generate the temporary data and ask the user to confirm the above operations. Click  to confirm or click  to cancel the operation.

4. The system will return to the main interface and have access to embroidery confirmation status.

The main interface will display  . And the user can press the Start to embroider the outline. After finishing it, the machine will return to preparation status.

10. Set Offset Point

The offset point can be set at any point other than the start point. When the machine starts embroidering after the settings, the frame will firstly move from the offset point to the start point and start normal embroidery. After embroidery, the frame will move back to the offset point. Moreover, the offset point is also the standard for frame to move out at appliqué embroidery. The function can only be used under the embroidery confirmation status and before embroidery.

1. In Embroidery Status, click to have access to the Assistant Operation interface.
2. Click the key for setting the offset point.
3. Move the frame to the offset point.

The system will ask the user to move the frame to the offset point and then display the coordinates of X and Y. Press the frame-moving key to move the frame to the offset point, and then click  to confirm. Or click  to cancel the operation.

4. System will save the position of the offset point and return to the main interface.

11. Needle Down

This function is designed for whole cloth embroidery (quilt embroidery). After part of the embroidery is finished, the needle will stop and prick into the embroidery cloth to fix it. After user releases the cloth, the machine will move the frame to the designated position. When the cloth is fixed on the frame again, next operation for the embroidery can be performed. This function can only be used under the embroidery confirmation status.

1. Click  to have access to the Assistant Operation interface.
2. Click the key of “Needle Down”.
3. Confirm needle down action

You can click  to confirm operation, and then the needle will prick into the cloth. Click  to cancel.

4. Release cloth, move frame, and then press Enter.

Users need to release the cloth and move frame to designated point, then click  to confirm.

5. After user confirms the frame-moving, system will returns to the main interface. Customers need to fix the cloth, and then press the Start to continue embroidering.

12. Reset X/Y Displacement

This is to clear the X and Y displacements.

1. Click  to have access to the Assistant Operation interface.
2. Click Reset X/Y Displacement key.
3. System will set current X/Y value to 0.

Customers can check the current X/Y value on the main interface.

13. Reset Total Stitch

Clear the total stitch number.

1. Click to have access to the Assistant Operation interface.
2. Click reset total stitch key.
3. System set the current embroidered stitch number to 0.

User can see total stitch number in the machine statistics.

14. Positioning Idling

Operations about positioning idling should be under the status of “”.
According to customers’ requirements, the function can move the frame to certain position without embroidering. Customers can select stitch counts, color-changing stitch code or stop stitch code to idle forward (backward).

14.1. Forward Idling

1. Click  to have access to the Assistant Operation interface.
2. Click “Shift Frame Forward ……. stitches”
3. Input the stitch number

System will have access to the interface for inputting the forward stitch number.

Customers need to click  to confirm the operation, or click  to cancel the operation.

4. System returns to the main interface, press  to have the frame float the pointed position.

14.2. Backward Idling

The operations are similar to “Forward Idling”. The only difference lies in is to “press ”. 

14.3. Go to Next Color

1. Click  to have access to the Assistant Operation interface.
2. Click “Go to Next Color Change”.
3. Confirm operation.

4. System will return to the main menu. Pressing  will have frame to go to next color-changing code.

15 Cording Embroidery

Beneath the “Positioning Idling”, the operations are for the cording embroidery. For the machine equipping the cording devices, user can operate the relating devices.

1. Click  to have access to the Assistant Operation interface.
2. Click page keys to search the parameters so as to operate the cording embroidery.
3. Select the wanted operation according to the hint.

Attention: The valves V1~V4 are for the operations of quilt embroidery; for the operations of sequin embroidery and cording embroidery, please refer to the corresponding chapters.