Customizing a keyfob in Embrilliance Essentials

welcome everyone to some lunchtime learning here on the in brilliance facebook page i've taken some time this afternoon to record today's session because here in colorado we're having some crazy weather and i'm not sure my internet connection's up to par so i thought i'd record this upload it and i will keep track in the comments as it plays to see if there's any questions on how it goes so today we'll work on a customizing project using a design from the in brilliance project blog did you know there's so many free designs that are available for you and with instructions and and information on them this one that i have here shown is one of the key fobs now one part one way to to check out the brilliance project blog and we'll let's pop on into the website and let me show you a couple neat tricks about the website so here i have i am logged in to on the brilliance page and you will notice that in the left column we have a whole bunch of information including information links on our programs and there is the start here for those that are looking to get into machine embroidery or get more information on the in brilliance programs links to our videos as well as our project blog also available here at the top is a search function so that will search our entire and brilliance website if i click on this it brings up a little search topic and i can type in anything that i'm interested in seeing if they have designs available for example i can type in mylar to find mylar designs or for today's project i'd like to type in key fob because i want to see if there's any key fob designs available on the brilliance website if i click typing key far up and click on the search topic it will bring up all the instances of where key fob will will be and you'll see that there's quite a few key fobs here in the in on the brilliance project blog let's go to this first one which is a customizing because it's a nice simple one there is information on in the project blog on this including a link to stitching instructions if you've never stitched out a design like this before so we're gonna this is where you would click on to download the design and once it's on your computer you can open the design into your brilliant software if you are not familiar with how to open designs into your brilliant software be sure to check the in brilliance youtube page our youtube channel and go to our quick tip videos i will include that link in the original description here so we have an empty design page and i'd want to open that design so i'm going to click on the open button here navigate to where it is on my computer to where i have downloaded and unzipped it to and click open when it opens the design you'll notice that it's at a 45 degree angle because it's set to stitch in a 4x4 hoop one thing to do is i wanted one thing i wanted to do with this project was to put multiples in one hoop so the first thing i will do is go to my preferences here choose the hoop that i want to stitch it in which will be the 130 by or the 5x7 hoop i'm going to click on apply and click ok the hoop will show up on my screen if the hoop is not showing on your screen be sure to go to your view menu this is what controls what is showing so my grid is turned off my hoop is turned on this is also where if you are missing your lettering properties or coloring properties which is the one right here this this color tab box if you go to the views you can choose to reset and that will put all of your views back to the way they normally are so my hoop is selected so i am fine in quick tip video number one it shows you that if you put your mouse cursor on the word hoop and double click it rotates your hoop super duper simple you want to make sure you check out that quick tip videos playlist on the brilliance youtube channel now if you notice our key fob is caddy wampus it's actually 45 degrees if i select all the stitches so if i go to the edit menu and choose select all you'll notice here that there's a 45 degrees and that's because this is a be file that was rotated before it was saved so i'm going to simply select this and type in zero hit the enter key and that rotates all the stitches so that they're going up and down and i can move this all around my hoop to play see where it is that i want to place this now i'm going to want to put multiple ones in the hoop so i'll move this one over to the left hand side one shortcut for selecting all stitches you can go to the edit menu and choose select all however at the very top of our object pane here you will see that there is a shortcut button when you put your mouse cursor on it says select all when you click on it that selects all the stitches on your design page now if i want to make a copy of this and paste it so that i actually have more than one in my hoop while it's selected so i select it all i will go up here to the copy button what that does let me click off of this is that it takes all of those stitches and it copies it to the mac clipboard or the windows clipboard so it's kind of hanging out here in your memory computer memory it's there so that if you hit the paste button it actually pastes a copy and keeps it selected right on top of the original so that you can put your mouse cursor on it and move it over to the right hand side it's still copied in the clipboard so if i i'm going to click off of it so that nothing's selected and i click on paste again it pastes another copy right on top of the original so i can put my mouse cursor on the selection left click hold and drag it over to the right hand side so i now have three copies of the exact same key fob in my hoop couple things to notice here though is that first of all they aren't lined up so i want to make sure that i do line up and i'm going to show you a trick on how to do that but if you've ever done key fobs and you do have done multiples in a hoop you want to be able to trim or if you're going to use your cutter that's fine but one thing i want to do is i want to take this center one and i want to flip it around so that when i cut in between the two of them i don't have to be really that perfect i can't i'll have extra space it gives me a little bit more wiggle room or cutting room on my key fob area so i'm gonna grab my mouse cursor and left click up here above the hoop drag so that that little box that dash box is going to encompass all that center one and release my mouse button so that center one is selected the reason i can't just click on it is because it's not grouped together and all i did was i clicked on the letter a so i didn't get all the stitches and an easy way for me to just get all the stitches is put my mouse cursor up here at the top left click drag release my mouse button and everything that is in that selection box gets selected now i can use this shortcut button here and click on it twice because once we'll go 90 degrees and one more time goes 90 degrees up and down click off of it and you'll see that all of my items are nice and lined up properly now i want to align these now the reason if you notice they are individual designs so i'm going to hit the command or control e on my keyboard which will squish up all the designs here in my design in my object pane so you'll see that i have a whole bunch of designs in fact the computer or the program says i have nine design objects some of them are placements some of them are letters and some of them are the finishing stitches okay because it's all these three designs actually make up one so i want to align each one of these the first thing and what i probably should have done from the beginning was group the first one and copied and pasted it but i didn't so what i need to do is i need to select one and then i'm going to go the edit key and i'm going to choose the group that means when i click on this i select the entire one key fob on its own this is step is necessary to do for each one of them because i want to align all the designs and if i don't group them or group all these components together it's going to try and align the nine pieces as opposed to three groups so i'm grouping all three of these together or i'm grouping each one of these separate so that if i click on this first one i get the firmware on the left click on the next one here i get the middle one and no matter where i click on stitches i get each individual one because now they're groups so if i select all of these at one time together and i go to align and distribute which is this button here on my top menu bar this brings up a dialog box that says i want to align each of these together because if you notice this box it has them all selected and there's a space up here at the top space here and a space here and i'd rather use as little i'm frugal i'm going to use as little marine value marine vinyl as possible or cork or whatever my material is so i want them all to be aligned in the center so that i use a small piece as possible so i'm looking across i want them to be centered going in this horizontal direction so i'm going to click this button and i'm going to click on apply and watch what happens to the center one and the two ones on the sides see how they all squinched up now that dashed box is all close together all nice and easy even the distribute function will make sure that the space in between each one of these from left to right is even so i'm only going to worry about the spacing in this direction so i'm going to click on the space button and i'm going to click on apply and oh it just moved over just a tiny bit because i was pretty good with my distribution you didn't notice it unless you were watching that first one if you didn't catch it you'll have to rewind the video and you'll see that it happens once i've aligned and then distributed them i'm going to click close click off of it and i should save my work so i'm going to click on file the file menu and i'm going to choose save as and i'm going to type in key fobs and click on ok so that all of my work is now saved one thing i want to do now is i want to change those individual letters and you can do they're centered properly so i don't have to worry about moving them but because i grouped them if i click on that letter a i get the entire key fob so i need to click on the i i don't want to ungroup this why would i want to do that i might as well keep it all together but in my object list here i want to click on the lettering object here at the top so that just the letters are selected and that lets me choose a different letter by typing it on my keyboard so i change the a and my first one i will change to the letter k and i'll hit the enter key and it will use the block font this one here at the top here uh i forgot i have to go through my object list here and choose the lettering object from my object pane i want to change this to say oh let's do the letter r but i'd like to use a different font so i can go through anywhere on my font list and i'm going to choose how about christmas curl which is from the christmas collection and it places that r upside down automatically i don't have to rotate it but because i had already rotated it it does it automatically now this font happens to be a little bit smaller than what it was before so if i hold down the shift key and put my mouse cursor on one of the bounding boxes on the right or up here at the top whichever one you want but the key is holding down my shift key if i hold the shift key as i drag that it resizes from center out and that keeps it in the center but it makes the letter just a little bit larger so that it fits the hoop and because this is a native font i don't have to worry about making sure that i chose the correct size for this it will automatically recalculate and repopulate the stitches another way if you don't have the ability to hold the shift key as you resize is simply going up here and typing in the size from where um where your design is so using your menu bar to type your numbers you can also use ah keep forgetting that i have grouped it so i need to make sure i click on my lettering object and this one i'm going to type in the oh the letter g and hit the enter key not only can you use built-in fonts or native fonts but you can also use bx files such as this one from jolson's this one looks kind of nice it is the two-inch font that i selected number 425 and again i can resize this just a little bit so that it fits in here and it automatically allows me to change the letters into whatever letter that i want to use for this i prefer to set up all of my design layout page first and then go through and change my lettering objects so that i can i have an idea of what it is that i'm working with one thing to note that the letters came in and they're not all the same letters of same colors this letter k for example at the beginning that we had here this was in block font if i go to my color chip here it's the madeira lilac if i wanted to say change this to a different color i click on the color chip go to the thread palette that i want to use and how about if i change it to a pretty blue color and click ok now i'd like to change that r to the same color blue because i'm going to run a color sort so i'm going to scroll down click on the letter r click on the color chip select palettes so that it goes to my current page and i can select the same exact color that's already being used do the same thing for the g color chip blue click ok and that has now made all the letters the exact same color and as i scroll through my color list here and i run through my sew simulator just to see how this is going to stitch out i can see that it's going to stitch the placement the letter and then the finishing stitches placement letter finishing stitches if i was going to stitch this on different colors of marine vinyl and i want to do each one separate then of course i would just save the stitch file as it is right now if i'm going to put in one larger piece of marine vinyl and stitch and i want to stitch all of the placements and all the tack downs and all the cutlets letters together i would um want to do a color sort so the first thing that i'm going to do is so that i know the size of the marine vinyl that i'm going to use for this so i can place it properly whether it does its position stitches i'm going to go to the utility menu and choose to base design that's going to put a basting box all the way around the areas of where the stitches are and i'm going to select that basting box and i'm going to grab hold down the shift key again grab this center or this little the center sizer and resize it just a little bit so that it is going as large as it can in my hoop if i have enthusiast i can go to utility menu and choose to base tube and that will do it the correct size automatically but i was using essentials and this is shown in quick tip video number three on the basting box so much information on those quick tip videos on the inbrilliance youtube channel now that i put my basting box in i'm gonna do my color sort to do a color sort i've already verified that all the colors are unique and individual because i will need the machine to stop so i've already done that i'm gonna go to my utility menu and choose the color sort function this brings up the dialog box that says i'm going to reduce your color changes i don't have any overlapping designs because i didn't merge files that were going to cause stitches to be removed so i don't need to worry about any of these options here i'm going to go to new view and that automatically sorts the file and puts it in my default tube my hoop's going in the different orientation so i'm going to put my mouse cursor on the word hoop double click now it my design is fit in the hoop and i'm going to click on the plus sign or the disclosure triangle here in my object pane just to run through and verify how this design is going to stitch color number one is the basting box color number two are the placement or the tack down stitches holding that marine vinyl in place color number three are the three letters that are going to stitch inside those fobs color number four is a little decorative inset frame for this design and at this point based on the instructions i got from the original design this is where i slide my marine vinyl under my hoop with the right side down and stitch the finishing stitch so that all of these previous stitches are hidden inside the two layers so i walk through my design by clicking on each color to verify exactly what the design what's going to happen at the embroidery machine this design has not been saved yet so i'm ready to go back to my machine so i will go to file save stitch file as this is where i would put my usb into my drive choose my usb location from either the pull the menu here on this on the left side or from windows i think it's at the top i choose my usb location save the stitch file eject my drive and go stitch my design at my embroidery machine so there you have a quick little project on how to find designs in the in brilliance project blog free ones that are available to you how to open and bring them into the essential software customize them line them up sort them and get them sending off to your embroidery machine hopefully you enjoyed today's lunchtime learning i look forward to seeing you online take care

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Length: 21min 22sec (1282 seconds)

Published: Tue Apr 20 2021