[amayausers] Re: Hello & hooping

Susan,
Not Ron, but in answer to your question. I would avoid sewing anything
that says out of hoop limits.  You can turn them off, but until you sew
for a few months I wouldn't recommend it. Your machine will not sew a
design with the limits turned on if the hoop limit is sensed. It might
start, but it will stop when the design gets to the area of the hoop
limit. I would check and see if you could move just a small amount on
the opposite side of the hoop to alleviate the hoop limit on that side.
Most of the time a small move like that won't make your design off
center to notice.

The laser is off a small amount on flats maybe 1/16 inch. But on hats
because of the curve of the hat it's just under 1/4 inch. So when I line
up hats the laser points less than 1/4 inch to the right of the middle
hat seam. (That's as you look at the hat on the machine) It's my
experience that the laser is only off in the horizontal direction.

I use the laser trace for a lot of things. When I have a pocket on the
garment, I observe the laser as it goes around, and if the design is
flat on the bottom you can see if the laser moves parallel to the
pocket. That's another way that I check to see if my hoop arms are
straight. Pockets make it tricky, because the pocket will make any
crooked hooping really obvious.

Just some of my observations.
cr

Cheryl Rotter
Team Sports Ink
5111 Grumann Dr. Ste #1B
Carson City, NV 89706
775-884-3550


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Thanks Ron,
I did what you said.  Not only was it easy but worked
like a charm.  Previously I was told that the laser
dot was only to be used for tracing because it shines
a litte to the right.  Does anyone know how far to the
right it shines.  And is the light only shifted in the
horizontal direction.  I don't think this little shift
will affect most hooping and aligning jobs but I'm
thinking that I might need to align something up
exactly sometime--split design or something.  Maybe
this might not happen now that I have some really
large hoops to choose from but I have had to do that
in the past.

Also, I had a design set up in a 15cm hoop.  The
design on screen showed that it was barely touching
the inner hoop limit line (is that what you call it?).
 I traced it on the machine and didn't see any
problems.  But as the machine came to the one spot it
stopped and said it was out of the hoop limits.  Would
it have been O.K. to go ahead and stitch it??  Luckily
it was just a test stitchout so I fudged it to finish
the stitching.

Susan Riedlinger
Embroidery Station
Columbus, OH


--- Body Cover <info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> This is by far the easiest question posted here in a
> while!
> Hoop a close as you can with the hoop and you can
> mark your garment first 
> where you want the design to sew. either pin it or
> mark it with tape or fabric marker, chalk
> what have you...
> 
> Then the only real trick is to eyeball the side
> wings (clamping metal edges)
> to make sure they are at a right angle otherwise
> your design won't be level.
> 
> Put it into the machine and use the trace function,
> (hoop button and Star button at the same time)
> the laser will show you where the design will sew.
> then you hold down the hoop button and use the
> directional
> arrows to align the laser dot to the center point of
> the design
> and trace again to make sure its right,
> I usually align first then trace (not sure why I
> wrote it backwards)
> you can keep going through this process over and
> over again
> until your happy with the  results and hit start.
> on the next garment of the same design, you can't
> trace
> anymore without resetting the design but you can
> move the hoop
> with the hoop button and arrows until it hits you
> predetermined mark
> and hit start. this can also be repeated until your
> happy, just no tracing.
> 
> Try it, and you'll see how cool this laser tracing
> is,
> no more crashing hoops with the needle!!
> 
> P.S. Welcome Aboard!
> 
> Ron Vinyard
> Body Cover / Magic Stitches
> 1-888-435-0176
> 541-471-1504
> fax 471-0427
> 
> 420 SW H street
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> 
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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: <suried@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: "users amaya" <amayausers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2005 1:29 PM
> Subject: [amayausers] Hello & hooping 
> 
> 
> > Hello,
> > I just got my AMAYA XT and Design Shop Pro Plus
> right
> > before Thanksgiving.  I have been monitoring the
> amaya
> > users group since the beginning of summer.  I have
> > already learned a ton of information and I have
> > printed out lots of hints that have been posted in
> > this group.  Thank you all!!  Sharon and Rod have
> also
> > been a great help to me.
> > 
> > I have been test stitching different designs and
> > playing with MT, bobbin tension etc.  I am finally
> > happy with my stitch outs and I am ready to
> actually
> > do some shirts and a bag.  I do not yet have the
> > HoopMaster--it is on my list to get.  My question
> is,
> > how do I get things lined up properly so it
> stitches
> > in the right spot. Previously, I have used a D1
> > machine and I had a template and center marks on
> all
> > side of the hoop.  I don't see any templates for
> my
> > hoop or any markings on the hoops to help me align
> > things.  I figure I can use my old templates to
> mark
> > on the garment where I want center and then the x
> and
> > y middle points. I'm guessing I will have to
> measure
> > and mark on the hoops myself where the center of
> the
> > sides of my hoop are.??  On my D1 I could line the
> > needle up with the center mark on my garment if my
> > hooping job wasn't perfect. That way I would
> > definitely start stitching from the center point. 
> Is
> > there any way to do this on the AMAYA??
> > 
> > Hope my questions are not silly.  Its a big change
> > going from the D1 to the AMAYA.
> > 
> > Again, Thanks for all the help I've already gotten
> and
> > for all the future help.  This user group is
> > definitely a GREAT SUPPORT SYSTEM!!!
> > 
> > Susan Riedlinger
> > Embroidery Station
> > Columbus, OH
> > 
> > 
> > 
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