Tips & Techniques

Mega Hoop Single vs. Mega Hoop Multi

The Mega Hoop has a slider on the side to move from position 1 to 2 to 3.

MEGA SINGLE:
If the design is one big design, you only put that ONE design on your disk to stitch it out. When you stitch the design, if a color# appeared in the upper part of the design, in the middle and on the bottom of the design, then the machine would stitch out that color and then tell you to move to position 2 so it could stitch that same color in that position and then tell you to move to position 3 so it could finish stitching that color in that
position.

Then you would move it back to position 1 and stitch the next color in all position. So, it could mean lots of moving back and forth.

MEGA MULTI:
Many times we create our own combination of designs and lettering and shapes and save in the Mega Multi hoop. It will save in 2 or 3 parts and you must put all the parts of the design on your floppy or stick or card.

STITCHOUT:

When you stitch it out, you choose the design for Position 1 and change the hoop size to 150 X 360 Mega. Then attach the hoop and the machine will probably tell you to attach in P2. Then push the slider into Position 1 and stitch out the design.

When that design is completed, clear the screen and choose the Position 2 part of the Design and change the hoop size to 150 X 360 and push into Position 2 and stitch.

Then clear the screen choose the 3rd part of the design and change the hoop size to 150 X 360 and attach the hoop and move into Position 3 and stitch.

(Sometimes the program will save in only two parts depending how it sees the design.)
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Changing the designs from Mega Multi to Mega single.

You might want to have that Mega Multi designs saved as ONE design?

Open your program and in preferences, make sure you choose the Mega
Multi and the orientation you saved the designs in such as vertical or
horizontal.

Click on "file, open plus/mega" and choose P1 and find the P1 part of
that design and it should land it the proper place on the screen. Then
color sort that part of the design if it has the same color repeated.

Then click on "file, open plus/mega" and choose P2 or P3 if it only had
two parts and choose that part of the design. Color sort that if
necessary.

Click on "preferences" and change the hoop to Multi Single.

Click on "combine" and "center design" icon and then resave the design
and now it's one complete design. But, it will stitch out in an orderly
fashion.

It will stitch everything in P1 and then the machine will tell when to
move to p2 and then to p3.

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Printing out Mega Multi designs for placement on your project.

To make a print out of the Multi part design, you must click on “file, open Plus/Mega” and find that part of the design.

Bring up the second and 3rd parts the same way.

Click on “combine” and then you can do a printout as one design.