Bling production processes

The Bling feature allows digitizers to create patterns of bling runs or fills with editing capabilities similar to those of the Sequin toolset. The single biggest difference between Sequin and Bling is that individual rhinestones are not allowed to overlap or be too close together. Another difference is that there is no stitching associated with bling.

Bling, rhinestones, crystals, and glitz are interchangeable terms referring to decorative objects placed on garments or templates. They are supplied in various sizes, shapes, colors and materials.

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There are two basic processes for creating bling designs:

Hot-fix template production

Hot-fix templates can be produced in two ways:

Direct-to-garment bling production

Direct-to-garment bling production is supported by many machines. Automatic rhinestone transfer machines are designed for high speed, high volume production. They enable users to fix any type of rhinestones, studs, and so forth directly to any type of fabric.

Tip: If you have neither CAMS automatic rhinestone placement machine nor a direct-connect cutting machine, you can use the Convert Bling for Production command to convert bling objects to vector shapes. These can be then output to vector file for use by third-party applications. See Cutting data for details.

Cutting data

Cutting data sent to machine consists solely of vectors which describe the location, size, and shape of the bling in the template. There are no connecting lines or data that do not relate directly to the placement of the bling. For example:

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Bling templates

Bling templates must have holes cut to suit the bling size to be used. Below is a table of stone size to hole size. ‘SS’ stands for ‘Stone Size’.

Stone size

Hole size (mm)

SS04

1.7

SS05

1.9

SS06

2

SS07

2.3

SS08

2.5

SS09

2.7

SS10

2.9

SS12

3.2

SS16

4

SS20

5

SS30

6.5

SS34

7.3

SS40

8.7

SS48

11.4

SS60

14.3

Bling toolset

The Bling toolbar contains the following tools:

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Bling objects have properties like normal embroidery objects. The Object Properties docker contains two tabs called Bling Fill and Bling Run to handle these properties. Editable properties include bling type – size, shape color, facets – patterns, fill density, angle and layout. Bling features include: