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by pldc 11 Jun 2012 ( edited Jun 11'12 22:06 )
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what does it mean when a site says that their designs are maunally punched

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by eastwitch2 11 Jun 2012
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The designs are not made with an auto digitzing program.
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by mary51 11 Jun 2012
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That is a very good question, but I do not understand auto digitizin program, I thought all programs are autodidgitize,?????????????????
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by mops 11 Jun 2012
Oh no, they aren't!

Autodigitizing means clicking a picture as a whole or its separate parts and let the programme convert it into a design. You can almost always see the difference with one that's done manually: the stitch angles are all the same, the choice of satin stitch / column stitch or fill stitch is made according to the rule: narrow is column stitch wide is fill stitch and there often are unnecessary thread changes.

Manual digitizing involves defining the areas yourself; thinking about the pathing: what to stitch first, what comes later; setting points or nodes to define the different shapes; choosing the sort of stitch; setting the angles, the density, and so on; choosing globaal underlay or underlay for each part; making connection stitches to avoid jumps, etc etc.
by mops 11 Jun 2012
the same and there are lots of unnecessary thread changes.

Manual digitizing means the digitiser has to define all parts of the design by setting points or nodes; has to think about pathing: what first, what later; define the stitch: column or fill; set the density, fill angles, push/pull compensation; make connection stitches; decode about global underlay or underlay for each part separately; and a couple of things more.
by mops 11 Jun 2012
set the density, fill angles, push/pull compensation; make connection stitches; decide about global underlay or underlay for each part separately; and a couple of things more.
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by danababes 11 Jun 2012
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Manually punching is where you decide where each and every stitch will be placed in a design, involves loads of clicking etc and it takes much longer than auto punching, where with just a few clicks the program will turn an image into a design your machine will sew. So yes, manually punched designs are usually nicer to stitch out because lots of thinking has gone into which parts will stitch, how & when. hth :) xXx
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by mary51 11 Jun 2012
Thank you!
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by pldc 11 Jun 2012
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is this why auto-digitzing is sew dense a design
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by pldc 11 Jun 2012
thanks for the information ladies
by rescuer 11 Jun 2012
I don't know if they are all dense but the ones with weird jumps are usually auto-digitized
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by rescuer 11 Jun 2012
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Manual punching allows the beauty of the design to shine. The subtle shades can be done via a change in the direction of the stitching. With Auto-digitizing the computer cannot "see" the same way a human can. The human sees art. The computer sees pixels -- tiny dots of color on the screen. It disregards any it finds unimportant.