There is only one type of stitch in machine embroidery. It's the same interlocking stitch that was invented in the earliest form of a sewing machine. All stitches, in modern machine embroidery are series and patterns of this simple running stitch. All embroidery can been seen as graphs of straight connected lines, between various points. Since sets of colored lines are the core medium of all embroidery.
The tool selector is the Tool Menu button and the 5 quick selection tools, of the last five tools you used.
Share/Save allows main methods:
Changing the color of the selected layers with the colored circle in the lower left.
These are usually fully formed objects that occupy scene space, most and create various stitches.
The tools are line manipulation and generation tools. You can change large number of points in specific ways directly modifying the design, by these tools. As well as several that create new lines either simply or in patterns.
Tools work on the currently selected layers. Layers are selected in the layer view or by default when they are created.
Touch Embroidery has a Layer View which can be toggled by pressing the layer button.
Touch Embroidery includes a few specialty items of interest. These are admittedly a bit cryptic. They are modeled after drawing machines. Namely Cyclocycloid, Harmonograph, and Pintograph.
The best and most robust way currently is:
This clearly does involve several steps that one could imagine should not be needed. You could also,
The fractal system in Touch Embroidery are lsystem fractals. It uses a set of turtle graphic commands. Then, in turn, turns these patterns into sewable items.
The commands are as follows:
Imagine you want to add a good zigzig stitch better than the z-pattern sort of thing in the draw tool. You could make one with much better control it would simply require defining a ribbon program. You ask the community and are told that an easy way to do that would be: o2,3,90,20ns-1kB4,10B4,5f0
Hoops, in embroidery, are used to hold fabric in place during the embroidery process. These hoops come in different sizes and depend on the machine and differ greatly. So it is essential to know whether you can draw the desired image in the given space. Which is why you would need hoops for any software to make embroidery. Keeping in mind that the presser foot of the machine may still reduce the effective range within that hoop. Machines will almost always allow you to measure the size of the design and it is essential that you do this.