Embrilliance Platform Preferences

hello everyone hopefully this goes through today welcome to lunchtime learning on the in brilliance channel okay microphone check video check everything's good on my end um these are all being recorded in case you didn't know but if the video is choppy just refresh your browser and it should be coming in clear i have put the link for our brilliance this playlist on our brilliance youtube channel so if you ever want to catch the short mini lessons that i've been doing um on a weekly basis during lunch time they're already available up on our youtube channel so what are we going to talk about today i thought it would be nice if i went into our in brilliance platform and talked about how to add your siri add serial numbers because if you get a new program a lot of people download the program again and say hey i don't have any new i didn't get my enthusiast or i didn't get my density repair kit and then i thought we'd go into some of the preferences so customizing your display as far as the background color and things like that so let's pop on into the software and see what it where we're going i have it set up as express mode which means there are no serial numbers added to this program at this time so now if you also notice i am in the demo so that means i i can my program looks like express mode but you cannot add serial numbers to the demonstration version you must always if you have a pro if you've purchased a serial number you need to download the current version of the real program off the inbrilliance website and install it because if it yours is in brilliance demo at the top that means you can't add serial numbers however pretend mine doesn't say demo and you have express which is what this is right here and you want to add a your essentials program or you already have essentials and you want to add enthusiasts to do that go to your help menu and choose serial numbers this is going to open up the the dialog where you can copy and paste or type in depending on how you get your serial number if you purchase a dvd from amazon you need to end enter in your serial numbers here type it in click set and the program will prompt you to once you click set or continue it's going to tell you please restart it and once you restart it your new buttons or your new functions will be available to you so but i'm going to stay in the demo version i want to open up another program when you first get your program as a default a couple things to pay attention to is that our hoop is displayed on our screen as well as this yellow background and a grid the grid that is shown is either in metric or in inches here at the top and if you switch between the two that will change what is displayed your grid settings now these settings are adjusted under your preferences which is the folder at the top of your screen that when you put your mouse cursor on it it says preferences the first option under our environment is the hoops and you can find out a in-depth video on chick checking your hoops but this these are for your formats if you go to our in brilliance youtube channel and go to quick tip video number one that talks about changing your hoops but i wanted to start with the grid settings because this is where the first thing that i always go and change on my software is the background color now on windows it may look a little different i but you're going to read the information on this screen and where it says background you're going to click on the little color chip that will bring up some sort of dialogue depending on windows or mac it's going to look a little different but you can choose whatever color you want to have for your background click apply and you can actually see it show up in your background my that yellow is gone so when i'm doing demonstrations here on facebook i don't want to have a odd color showing so i change mine to white you may want to change yours to a light blue or whatever color it is that you want for your background now right next to the background is a snap to grid and that if you have a grid showing this allows your whatever you have selected to actually snap to a specific grid line left or right so whether if you want to use that for accurate placement that's always a good option to check now our grid lines are shown by default as little tiny dashed lines if you wanted to have a less intrusive look for your grids you can always change it to dots just remember that you won't notice the difference until you click apply and that will change the display from dots to lines back and forth i prefer to have dashes whatever you prefer to have on your screen is what you want to use now the spacing for your grid is set up here under your your greater display settings and there is a setting for both metric and inches so for some reason you wanted to change to be a two inch grid so that you're you're using a large hoop and you don't want to have tiny squares you want them to be two inches apart you can choose that and click apply and when you have inches selected here you will see a larger group a larger grid set up and you have one set for each option so for inches i have set up for two inches and for metric i have a different setting which means when i click on metric i get this one or inches this one so you have capabilities of sharing of um setting up the grid however it is that you want it to be next under the grid settings is calibration a lot of times on your screen you want to see 100 or if you zoom to 100 you want it to actually be a hundred percent and this could be either done in either metric or in inches so whatever it is that you're most likely working on notice if you switch to inch to when i uncheck metric the ruler kind of changes each one of these is one inch or it is telling you what one inch is going to be displayed as on your monitor now if you want a hundred percent to look like a hundred percent you have to get a ruler and i mean a real ruler you can't use a tape measurer because if you've seen the internet um pictures on using a tape measure and i have a one here that my one inch or even between these two little spots is actually almost i'm looking at it here it's 7 8 of an inch so this is not accurate but my ruler is so what i would do is hold this up to my screen and you can't see me doing that here but where this is and i'd put my little one inch here and check where this one is this little um notch here that should be at the two inch mark if it's not use your slider to make it be at the two inch mark now this is you if that's for ex exact okay so if you make it to be larger if you say this is what my two inches looks like that gonna that's gonna change your zoom level on your on your monitor so what i recommend doing is uh getting out your ruler and and measuring this on your screen so that is exactly two inches the handle size has to do more with nodes and display in stitch artist if you have a high resolution monitor the little dots that you see when you're in stitch art is for your notes are very tiny so changing this to a higher number clicking apply and okay and getting out and looking at it that will change your handles since i don't have stitch artists installed it's not going to make a difference to me but changing your handle size can't clicking apply and okay will change how things are viewed on the screen so if someone says oh i can't see those little nodes in stitch artist check your handle size to see if that's something that you can work with now the next option is mouse wheel if you don't have a wheel on your mouse you don't need to worry about this setting but the wheel can do different things right now i have mine set to zoom and pan what that means is when i am in here and i move my wheel it actually zooms in closer or further away from my screen well if i would rather have my mouse when away my mouse wheel to scroll my window up and down or i don't know if you can do it across my maybe if your mouse goes side to side but it does at least up and down if i choose scroll the window and click apply and okay that's just going to move this little slider bar up and down which sometimes it's easier if that's something that you're used to that's how you want it to be set so those will adjust for your mouse wheel of course if you're not using a mouse with a wheel it doesn't really have to do anything check for updates if you are traveling and you aren't having an internet connection you may want to uncheck this option sometimes all it does is it will automatically log into the system to see if you are running a really old version and the new one has been pushed and you need to go into it this is it only checks once a day it's not annoying what will happen if you don't have an internet connection is that the dialog box comes up and says something about a zero zero zero message it basically says i can't check for an update because you have no internet so i usually like to keep this on because it's one way for me to know that my internet is down during the winter time for whatever reason now ghost mode is actually kind of interesting because let me get a design out here so i'm going to click ok and i i didn't find a design that was here so let's go see if i can find one um oh that's something i'm working on oh we'll work on let me see if i can find one here uh lightning bolt there we go here is a design a patch design that i'm working on on my screen now when you have something selected for example i'm going to um click on this one object do you see how everything kind of sort of grays out on the screen except for that selection if you're not seeing that under your view menu there's an option that says ghost mode you don't have that checked when you have something selected all you see is that you can't really tell it's kind of hard to see what the selection is so when you have ghost mode it allows you to click on something in your object pane or click on something here in our display like this i have the center part here this yellow gold and everything else is ghosted out this kind of gray on some monitors it may be a little bit difficult to see that so there's an intensity slider under ghost mode so if i move my slider down to a lower value click apply click ok you have to click off and then back on again you can you see that the stitches are all are more gray more recessed into the background so your ghost mode allows you to it depends on your monitor resolution when i'm teaching i have to really crank it down to a very low setting because otherwise no one can see the the difference but on your monitor it may be perfectly fine but that's what the ghost mode setting is all about the final setting here in our environment is auto recover now this is in case your software crashes if you notice on mine i have it set to zero and that is because i i don't need the software to save anything for me i am saving so often that it's all this does is it uses up resources on my my computer and sometimes if you have auto auto antivirus software that checks every single file as it's being saved on your computer having your automatically saved function set could slow the process down get you a lot of spinning wheels and stuff so if you have the spinning wheel thing one of uh the uh suggestions that tech support will give you is checking to see if automatically save is set to zero try that click apply and okay and that simply says hey i'm taking control of my software and i'm going to be using this save button on a pretty regular basis so that whenever i make a change i'm going to make my save so that i never have to do that again and it uses less resources in your software so there you have it i thought i would just go through and run it through a few of the preferences they are all explained in detail in our user's manual that is available on the in brilliance website under downloads there's a pdf for both mac and windows and if you go to the preferences you will find each one of these explained hopefully that helped out some of you giving you a little bit of inspiration on what you can check out in your software this is applicable to all platforms please um don't be afraid to push buttons in your software and i hope that you have a great day thanks take care bye [Music] you

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Keywords: Embrilliance, BriTon Leap, Machine Embroidery, Mac Software, Customizing, Digitizing, Essentials, Enthusiast, StitchArtist, AlphaTricks, BX fonts, Lisa Shaw, SewBubbles, Brian Bailie, How-to Digitize, calibrate screen, changing background color, preferences, machine embroidery software, grid settings

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Length: 15min 16sec (916 seconds)

Published: Fri Apr 30 2021