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Can you explain to me what is punch and autopunch? By the answer of Meganne, I think that itis something about digitizing, but I do not understand what
by meganne
08 Feb 2010
Hi Claude, "punching" is the word for making each stitch when you digitise an embroidery design, (sort of like using a pen to draw a line).
When a person manually "punches" it means they create each stitch themselves.
Sometimes they may do an outline of a drawing and the program creates the stitches for the outline, the same with the stitches (filling) in the middle. The person punches around each segment (section) of a design and tells the program what kind of stitches he/she wants to fill each segment.
Auto-punching is when you bring a picture into a program and the program creates the whole design with the person doing no "punching" themselves.
These designs rarely turn out very good. And you can tell if a design has been auto (punched/digitised) by the amount of heavy underlay stitches and lots of jump stitches and it doesn't stitch out as nicely.
I hope you can understand this, it is very difficult to explain without being able to show you.
Hugs n love, Meganne
25533Most auto digitising is more trouble than it is worth as you need to do so much editing to fix the designs you could have manually punched the design in less time.
But more importantly, when you manual punch you get to choose all the important controls, such as density, underlay, stitch style, push/pull compensation, segment sequencing, outline, etc.
Rarely will you be happy with an auto-digitised design, especially when you compare it to one that has been manually punched.
Just my opinion, hope it helps.
Hugs n roses, Meganne
by gayle950
08 Feb 2010
thanks, I was just a bit curious as to how things work. I think I will leave the digitising for a while.
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