Correcting A "Bow Tie - Brother BES-100E Workbook

Correcting a "bow tie"

Regions are digitized as pairs of punchpoints (a point and a counterpoint, which appear with a gray line con-
necting them). When deleting punchpoints from a region, either the punchpoint pair or two punchpoints that
are in sequence should be deleted; otherwise, the region will "bow tie", as shown below.
A "bow tie" also occurs when a punchpoint in a region is moved to the other side of the other punchpoint in
the pair.
To correct a "bow tie", do any of the following:
Delete the remaining point of the pair.
Click the
Reshape
on the
Punchpoints
newly inserted points to correctly shape the satin stitch.
On the drop-down menu, click
Edit
NOTE: The last operation performed can also be undone by clicking the
bar.
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tool ( ), click the punchpoint before the deleted one, and then click
drop-down menu to insert a new punchpoint and correct the "bow tie". Then, move the
Undo Delete Points
Figure 17
.
Insert Point After
button ( ) in the
Undo Ribbon