6D™ Embroidery Extra Comprehensive Training Course

This class covers every tool and technique available in the 6D™ Embroidery Extra software module.

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Welcome 6m 19s
Welcome to 6D™ Embroidery Extra 55s

What is 6D™ Embroidery Extra? 1m 0s

Overview of the 6D™ User Interface 4m 24s

Starting 6D™ Embroidery Extra and Basic Terminology 19m 20s
Starting 6D™ Embroidery Extra 1m 17s

Understanding the Title Bar 2m 31s

Understanding the Ribbon Bar 3m 0s

Understanding the Design Panel 1m 47s

Defining the Work Area 1m 0s

Defining the Stitch Area 55s

What is the QuickLink Tool Bar? 1m 6s

Using the Zoom Controls 4m 16s

Defining Enabled Tools 3m 28s

Loading an Embroidery Design 38m 28s
Windows Explorer Plugin Overview 1m 33s

Windows Explorer Plugin - Changing Views 2m 53s

Windows Explorer Plugin - Choosing Details 2m 26s

Windows Explorer Plugin - Applying Details 4m 33s

Windows Explorer Plugin - Column Sorting 2m 50s

Windows Explorer Plugin - Viewing Designs 5m 29s

Windows Explorer Plugin - Filtering by Number of Colors 4m 36s

Filtering by a single size 2m 57s

Filtering by Number of Colors and Stitch Count 1m 31s

Using the Open Tool 3m 6s

Using the Insert Tool 2m 29s

Using the View Tool 2m 23s

More about the View Tool 1m 42s

Selecting and working with designs 14m 33s
What is the Selection Box? 3m 40s

Significance of being in Selection Mode 2m 19s

What is Stitch Order? 5m 7s

Tools to move designs around the hoop 3m 27s

View Options 18m 37s
Configuring the Grid 1m 22s

Choosing a View Mode 4m 5s

Selecting a Hoop 2m 54s

Zooming In/Out in the Work Area 3m 36s

Viewing your design with Life View 6m 40s

Using the Color Select Dialog 19m 29s
Selecting a Thread Color 1m 41s

Changing a Thread Color 3m 31s

Understanding Thread Ranges 2m 12s

Selecting MyThreadRanges 5m 57s

Creating/Editing Themes 6m 8s

Undo and Redo Commands 2m 47s
Understanding the Undo/Redo stack 2m 47s

Copy, Paste, Cut, Delete, Duplicate 8m 23s
Understanding the Clipboard 1m 31s

Importance of selecting design components 3m 5s

Difference between Cut and Delete tools 3m 47s

Saving your work 10m 44s
Definition of the non-flattened file 1m 48s

Definition of the Stitch file 1m 22s

Saving non-flattened file and stitch fIles 7m 34s

Understanding the 6D Configure module 37m 22s
How to open 6D Configure 1m 48s

Using Check Installation 2m 9s

How to Register your software 3m 20s

When to use Activate Dongle 53s

How to use Smart Update 55s

Understanding Start Machine Communication 3m 57s

Additional Thread Manager tools 4m 51s

Understanding Backup MySettings 2m 36s

Understanding Restore MySettings 2m 7s

Understanding Reset All Modules 2m 12s

Setting Appearance Options 4m 29s

Understanding the Import Thread Range 55s

Overview of the Export Page Settings 1m 49s

Understanding Optimize Stitch Length 2m 32s

Understanding Design Split Settings 2m 49s

Working with the Clipboard 7m 59s
Using the Copy Tool 2m 16s

Using the Paste Tool 1m 36s

Understanding the Cut Tool 1m 30s

Understanding the Duplicate Tool 1m 12s

Understanding the Delete Tool 1m 25s

Working with Multiple Designs 19m 16s
Defining the concept of Stitch Order 2m 4s

Moving designs around the Work Area 1m 46s

Selecting designs in the Work Area 2m 30s

Using the Move Into Hoop Tool 2m 52s

Using the Box Select tool 2m 45s

Using the Freehand Select Tool 2m 5s

Using the Freehand Point Select Tool 2m 51s

Using the Select All tool 1m 7s

Using the Select None tool 1m 16s

Changing the Size of embroidery designs 10m 28s
Understanding ReSize versus Scale Modes 3m 19s

Understanding ReSize limitations 3m 13s

How to change design size by exactly 20% 3m 56s

Combining Designs 6m 17s
What does Combine do? 1m 4s

When should you Combine? 1m 31s

Combine All versus Combine Selected 3m 42s

Color Sort 7m 34s
Understanding Color Sort 4m 51s

When Color Sort does not work 2m 43s

Working with the Color Tone Dialog 14m 50s
Overview of the ColorTone dialog 1m 24s

Changing the Thread Range 3m 7s

Using the Brightness Control 2m 16s

Using the Contrast Control 2m 24s

Using the Gamma Control 3m 13s

Undoing work done in Color Tone 2m 26s

Notes and Settings 14m 41s
What are Notes? 3m 30s

What are Settings? 2m 38s

Displaying the contents of Notes or Settings 2m 43s

Editing Notes 2m 23s

Editing Settings 3m 27s

Life View 22m 25s
Overview of Life View 1m 10s

What Life View Shows 1m 27s

Using the Rotation Tool 56s

Using the Position Tool 1m 26s

Using the Zoom Tool 2m 22s

Applying the Puffy Foam Effect 4m 8s

Applying the Twin Needle Effect 1m 36s

Applying the Dual Thread Effect 1m 32s

Understanding the Glow in the Dark Tool 1m 30s

Understanding the Solar Reactive Tool 2m 47s

Using the Play Demo Tool 1m 9s

Using the Play My Demo Tool 2m 22s

Design Player 7m 13s
Design Player Overview 1m 7s

Using Play/Pause 2m 0s

Using Forward and Reverse Stitch tools 2m 7s

Using the Stitch Pointer 1m 59s

Encore 60m 57s
Encore Overview 2m 12s

Circle Encore Layout 9m 30s

CIrcle Encore Rules 4m 10s

Shape Encore Layout 5m 7s

Line Encore Layout 3m 39s

Hoop Encore Layout 2m 48s

Creating a Frame with Hoop Encore Layout 3m 27s

Checking your design with Preview 2m 32s

Selecting an object to use with Encore 2m 20s

Effect of using the Combine option 2m 57s

Setting the Layout Order for Encore 3m 23s

Using Color Sort within Encore 3m 15s

Group Similar uses 5m 8s

Encore using multiple designs 4m 57s

Special considerations when using Hoop Layout 5m 32s

Lettering 186m 24s
Lettering Overview 54s

The Letter Toolbar 2m 40s

Selecting a Font 3m 14s

Understanding Font Names 4m 7s

Entering Letters 4m 36s

Entering Special Characters 6m 22s

Shaping Lettering by size 2m 18s

Line Type Overview 4m 0s

Understanding Reverse 1m 0s

Understanding Individual 5m 44s

Understanding Individual related to Line Type 1m 53s

The Horizontal Line Type 3m 57s

The Vertical Line Type 7m 3s

Understanding the Circle Clockwise Line Type 5m 18s

Understanding the Circle Counter-Clockwise Line Type 3m 22s

Understanding the Full Circle Line TYpe 3m 30s

Circular Line Type Wrapup 3m 22s

The Double Arch Line TYpe 2m 41s

Understanding the Diamond Line Type 3m 40s

The Pennant Right and Pennant Left Line Types 2m 42s

The Fish Line Type 1m 50s

The Perspective Line Type 3m 58s

The Italic Line Type 1m 18s

Understanding the Fit to Straight Line 3m 6s

Using the Step Option with Fit to Straight Line 2m 9s

Understanding Fit to Wavy Line 2m 9s

Using the Step option with Fit to Wavy Line 1m 16s

The Bridge Convex Down Line TYpe 2m 11s

The Bridge Concave Down Line TYpe 1m 27s

The Bridge Convex Up Line TYpe 1m 17s

The Bridge Concave Up Line TYpe 1m 45s

The Arch Over Line Type 1m 49s

The Arch Under Line Type 1m 27s

The Fit to Shape Line TYpe 2m 0s

Understanding the Connection Type 4m 34s

Understanding Stitch Type Settings 6m 8s

Understanding the Letter Properties DIalog 5m 26s

What do the Control Handle colors mean? 4m 25s

Control Handle colors part 2 2m 16s

How to use the Individual Feature 5m 42s

Using the Reverse Feature 1m 22s

Understanding the Spell Check Feature 4m 29s

6D QuickFont Overview 47s

Selecting a Font and Style 4m 0s

Setting the font stitch options 1m 13s

Understanding Font Structure 2m 43s

Satin Font Options 4m 21s

Pattern Fill Options 4m 52s

Pattern Fill with Satin Outline Options 1m 28s

Satin Border Options 1m 8s

Applique Options 2m 45s

Outline Font Options 45s

Machine Resident Font size options 2m 36s

Software Font Size Options 3m 39s

Selecting a Joining Point 1m 54s

Setting Thread Colors 2m 2s

Selecting a Software Font Name 3m 50s

Deleting a font from MyFonts 5m 21s

Saving a Machine Font Location and Name 3m 49s

Printing a Font Catalog 1m 26s

Finalization Options 2m 8s

Viewing Font Characters 1m 10s

Super Designs 11m 24s
Overview of Super Designs 2m 1s

Choosing a Super Design Category 3m 0s

Selecting and Sizing Super Designs 1m 46s

Working with Super Design Stitch Types 4m 37s

Frames, Corners, Side Pieces, and Flourishes 46m 55s
Overview of the Frames Tab 1m 53s

Understanding the Frame Ribbon Bar 2m 55s

Selecting the Frame Group 1m 38s

Frame types and their names 3m 27s

Understanding Frame Orientation 3m 21s

Using Frame Surround Options 5m 37s

Understanding Frame Stitch Types 7m 23s

Understanding Side Pieces 2m 3s

Understanding Corners 3m 23s

Flourish Overview 39s

Setting the Flourish location 1m 35s

Setting the Size of the Flourish 1m 45s

Using Margin and Combine 3m 15s

Understanding the Size setting 2m 36s

Understanding the Stitch Type settings 5m 25s

Borders 18m 15s
Overview of the Border Tab 53s

Understanding Border Options 3m 51s

Creating a Satin Line border 2m 45s

Creating a Running Stitch border 2m 52s

Creating a Motif Line border 3m 46s

Creating a Triple Stitch border 43s

Using the Motif Underline Length option 1m 11s

Using the Motif Underline Number of Repeats 2m 14s

Edit Tab 29m 34s
Overview of the Edit tab 1m 41s

Understanding Ghost Mode 1m 39s

Selecting stitches with Box select 2m 31s

Selecting stitches with the Freehand Draw tool 2m 14s

Selecting stitches with the Freehand Point tool 3m 1s

Understanding the Select Stitches tool 3m 15s

Using Make Block From Visible Area tool 1m 8s

Overview of the Draw Stitches family of tools 1m 12s

Understanding the Draw Range tools 5m 3s

How to insert a Color Change Command Object 4m 25s

Using the Insert Stitches tool 3m 25s

View Tab 40m 22s
Overview of the View Tab 1m 13s

Setting the Grid Size 1m 42s

Background Wizard Overview 2m 16s

Choosing a Background 4m 3s

Setting the Background Intensity 1m 12s

Moving the Background 1m 55s

Working with the Background on 2m 53s

Using View Mode Options 3m 46s

Adding a new Background 7m 54s

Using the Select Applique tool 4m 57s

Changing Hoop Size 4m 32s

Showing and hiding the Design Panel 3m 59s

Using the Wizards 1m 48s
What is a Wizard? 1m 48s

Express Monogram Wizard 1m 55s
Express Monogram Wizard Overview 1m 55s