Cording designs are made up of running stitch outlines. Other outline stitch types may be used such as contour, spiral, offset or stipple. Create the design with outline stitching to define the cording pattern.
1Digitize a cording design by digitizing a run with Cording turned on. Any suitable input method can be used together with Run stitch.
2Alternatively, select a run stitch object and apply the Cording effect. The cord is displayed as a graphic line. It takes the color of the run stitching. This allows designers to check technical correctness and better visualize a corded design.
3Turn on needle points. Adjust display colors as necessary.
3Avoid or minimize jumps/connectors between different cording objects in the design. Don’t use jumps for automatic connectors.
3It is possible to use some fill stitch methods for cording if you set object properties for open density with no underlay. You can then break apart the object and apply Run together with Cording.
3Avoid sharp corners.
3Avoid or minimize cording crossing over itself.
3Cording should be, as much as possible, continuous, as the cord cannot be trimmed by machine trimmer, only by hand.
3Any disconnected cording sections should be digitized in different colors so the machine will stop to allow for manual trimming.
3It is possible to combine regular embroidery and cording in the same design.
3Conversely, it is possible to create cording-only designs with no other embroidery stitching.
3Some machines have a specific cording function which is output when saving to machine file – e.g. Barudan FDR-3 file format or Schiffli machines that support cording. For machines that don’t have an explicit Cording function, the software outputs a Stop code.
