Anand We use a 70/10 needle for virtually all our work and as standard practice, I will try to remove all stitches shorter than 1mm. The exceptions to this will be lock stitches, small lettering, small details, etc. I believe removing the short stitches improves the quality of the stitchout, decreases the chance of putting a hole in delicate materials, helps reduce chance of thread looping and/or breakage plus reduces stitch count.. Bob Kesavan wrote: >Don, > >I delete stiches between 0.4 and 0.6 mm wide. 0.6 is very very rare >because you dramatically reduce stich quality. > >Id consider deleting stiches upto 1mm bordering on ridiculous. > >Anand > > > > >That's how I read it. Using 75/11 needles a 1mm stitch would have .25mm >between needle penetrations, which is a pretty good minimum for trouble >free stitching on any machine. Of course, you still have density >settings that could still bring the needle down onto previous stitches. > >I'm well versed in Design Shop, but I not familiar at all with AOS. I'm >not a fan of having the machine filter stitches. I'd much rather do the >filtering in DS where I can look at the actual stitches and make sure >that the filtering isn't causing unexpected problems. Sometimes, less >than 1mm or 10pts, is not only ok, but necessary for some elements. A #9 >needle and 60wt thread. Tiny lettering on top of a fill, etc. That's >where the skill of the digitizer and their knowledge comes into play. > >Don > > > =========================================================== The AmayaUsers Mailing List Website: http://www.amayausers.com Discussion Board: http://www.amayausers.com/boards Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://www.amayausers.com/list ===========================================================