Adding connectors manually

You can add tie-offs and trims to a design manually using the Tie Off, Trim and Empty Stitch tools. While generally not recommended and less efficient than using automatic connectors, this method does give you more control over the final design. For example, some machine formats are unable to read functions that appear on a normal stitch. For these machines, you need to add trim, tie-off and other machine functions to an Empty Stitch or Empty Jump. You may also need to add one or more empty stitches or empty jumps to either side of a function for the machine to read it correctly.

Note: For Schiffli work, you are advised to add connectors manually rather than rely on the automatic settings. Automatic connectors are turned off by default in the Schiffli template.