The mySewnet™ Digitizing toolbar gives one-click access to many of the features you will use as you work in mySewnet™ Digitizing. You can add, remove, or rearrange toolbar buttons as desired.
The default set of toolbar buttons is shown below.
To Customize the Toolbar
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Choose View > Customize Toolbar. Alternatively, Control–click in the toolbar and choose Customize Toolbar.
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Make changes as desired: drag items to add or remove them, to return to the defaults drag the default set, choose an icon/text type from the Show menu, and select the size.
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Click Done.
The Create Toolbars
Use the Create toolbars (Quick Create, Freehand Create and Point Create) to create embroidery designs on the work area, selecting fill and line types. The Quick Create toolbar is shown below.
See Quick Create, Freehand Create and Point Create.
Control Panel
Use the Control Panel to use the color worksheet and Filters to select parts of the design to be edited.
To Open the Control Panel
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Click the Control Panel button
in the toolbar.
Menu Bar
The mySewnet™ Digitizing menu bar is visible if mySewnet™ Digitizing is the active window. Each open embroidery or design outline also has its own document window showing its name.
There are seven menus in addition to the Apple (
) menu and the application menu: File, Edit, View, Create, Object, Window and Help.
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To access the menu options, use the mouse to pull them down from the menu bar.
Insert Design
Use the Insert Design dialog to insert embroidery design outline files to edit. The design outline files appear with a colored representation of their filled areas.
Note: Use Insert Design to edit a design as part of a new project. Use Open to change the original design. See Open. To load and convert an embroidery file, use Insert Embroidery.
To Insert a Design
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Click Actions
on the toolbar and choose Insert Design.
Alternatively, choose Edit > Insert > Insert Design. -
Browse to the desired folder in the Insert Design dialog.
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Click a .edo design file to highlight it.
Files other than .edo design files are dimmed in the Insert Design dialog. -
Click the Open button to load the design.
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The design is placed in the work area.
FilmStrip
In the FilmStrip you can view the numbered sequence of objects, select an object, change the sequence of objects, select objects to display, delete objects, insert Color Changes and Stops, view the properties of the selected object and change the properties of objects globally or in a selected group. See FilmStrip.
Work Area
The work area is the area where embroidery design outline files are loaded. The work area includes the area surrounding the selected hoop. It is where you make changes to an embroidery. The stitch area is the available area inside the selected hoop.
Stitches are drawn in the appropriate colors. The embroidery design is shown in object view, 3D or 2D. The background color and texture can be changed using mySewnet™ Configure. You can also load a background image.
In Object view 
an outline of the objects in the design is shown.
In 3D view 
the embroidery design, background and hoop are shown, with blue corners showing the stitch area within the hoop.
In 2D view 
, stitches are shown as lines, together with the object outlines.
Background Grid
The work area has a grid. Zooming in or out makes the grid squares look bigger or smaller.
Select the Grid and its Size
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To turn the Grid on or off, choose View > Grid (or ⌘.).
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To change the size of the grid squares, choose mySewnet™ Digitizing > Preferences (or ⌘,) and set the size.
Hoop
By default, the hoop is shown at a size so that the hoop fills the window, as if you had clicked Zoom To Fit 
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To Select a Hoop
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Click Hoop
in the toolbar, or choose Edit > Hoop to open the Hoop dialog. See Hoop Selection.
Color Select
The Color Select area of the Control Panel shows the colors used in the selected embroidery. See Use the Color Worksheet.
Zooming In or Out
You can enlarge (zoom in) or reduce (zoom out) your view of the work area.
Zoom To Fit shows the hoop so that it fills the window. This is the default size. Click the center marker on the zoom slider to see the embroidery at 100% or real size. See Zooming In or Out.
Using Text and Number Boxes
To view changes made in a text or number box, click in another text/number box, or press the Return key.