Embird Tip – Aligning Designs in Editor

Have you ever merged two or more designs into a hoop and wanted to have them align perfectly or have you ever tried to align a row of text with a design? There is an align tool in Embird that is very easy to use but quite often overlooked.

With the align tool, you have the ability to “perfectly” align two or more designs vertically, horizontally or in both directions with several sub-commands as to the alignment. The most important thing to remember, though, is that the align tool will be grayed out until two or more designs are selected.

• Open Embird Editor.
• Open or merge two or more designs or add text to a design in the workspace.
• Select all design objects.
• Click on the align tool, fifth tool from the bottom on the left toolbar.
• A new pop-up screen will give you several options to align the designs, as shown below.

• Choose the horizontal and/or vertical alignment for the designs that you wish to use.  Click on ok and you have “perfectly” aligned your designs.
• Click on file/save as, saving the design with a new name.   You are now ready for embroidery.

Hint:  Remember that if you want to change the alignment you can click on edit/undo or Control/Z to eliminate the change you have made to the design.  In Embird you have fifteen “undoes”.

Enjoy Embird!