16. Wildcard Week¶

Grupp assignment - [ ]
- Therer was no group assignment this week
Induvidual assignment
- ADesign and produce something with a digital process (incorporating computer aided design and manufacturing) not covered in another assignmen.
- documenting the requirements that your assignment meets, and including everything necessary to reproduce it.

Research¶

One of the machine in my lab that has been staring ate me is the embroidery machine. I have never used that kind of machine but always wanted to test one. so i did some research on embroidery this week.
I started by google the embroidery machine we have that is Brother PR-670E

Main Features

6 Needle Embroidery with Customizable Needle Settings
Large embroidery area of 8” x 12”
Large 10.1” built-in high definition LCD display with large icons and scrolling menu
16 built-in video tutorials so you can learn as you go
High-Speed Acceleration means projects will be completed faster
60 built-in embroidery designs, 12 monogramming font styles, 140 frame pattern combinations, 37 lettering fonts, 50 built-in utility stitch designs and 10 buttonhole styles in 3 sizes
On-screen letter input and editing
Smart stitch management with progress bar and direct entry to pin-point the exact stitch
Intuitive Color Management for easy design customization
Color Grouping allows multiple regions to be selected at a time for editing color
Color Sort feature to cut down on thread changes when combining designs
Droplight LED Positioning Marker to see where the needle will drop
Engineered to be used at home with minimal noise

Then i google how to use the Brother machine, i found few videos on youtube that i did watch, but the best instruction i found was in Brother homepag trough this instruction and videos i learnd that this machine is remarkble and very powerfull madchine.

After all this research i jump into doing the assignment.

Assignment¶

Hero shot
In this assignment i am going to designa ohms triangle and saeing it to my working west.
I will use inkscape to design, then i will use Pe design 11 from Brother to set up the file for the machine, after that i had to make the machine ready. The embroidery machine has not been coverd in any other assignments so the proccess ogf setting up and doing the embroidery is not coverd before.

PE design
Here we see whtat progaram i used.

import image
Then i had to import the .png that i made in Inkscape.

Designesettings
Setting the working area.

image modify
Thi picture shows the modify of the picture.

Pe final
And this is how the project look when ready for the machine.

And a small video of the path the machine will go.

Machine it self¶

Here is the famous machine Brother PR-670E¶

Pe final

Setting up the machine

The twin in the machine on the first picture it´s possible to se the color number of the twin.

On this picture, we see how to treat the thread and how the color is chosen on the machine. I needed to tell the machine which color was in every needle.