The goal of multi-hooping is to accommodate a design within a minimum number of hoopings. Each successive hooping should overlap a previously stitched hooping. Hoopings should be placed as near as possible to the stitching sequence. This will minimize the number of eventual hoopings.
In EmbroideryStudio you can specify multiple hoopings manually or automatically. Manual hooping is generally better than automatic, except for simple designs. Each hoop position contains an object or group of objects that can be stitched out in a single hooping. These are stitched consecutively to form the whole design.
Note: ‘Hooping’ is not the same thing as ‘hoop position’ – you can have more hoopings than hoop positions but you can never have less. In other words, a single hoop position may involve more than one hooping in order to preserve the stitching sequence.