[amayausers] Re: New Amaya questions

Wendy
It helps a ton to have some experience before taking the training. If you
have any computer skills at all, load the OS and DS and start playing. Read
the manual and watch to the videos. Start with something that interests you
and will keep your attention. For me, finding one  interesting aspect of the
process and staying with it until I feel comfortable with my undrstanding of
it seems to work. Try downloading a design and sewing it on broadcloth,
twill, pique and Jersey using the recommended backings and different sew
settings. Then try sewing text with and without Solvy and with different
backings and different stitch settings.

You can load the OS and DS on the same PC, but be careful about doing
anything else. You will quickly run out of resources. Design Shop is a CADD
program and gobbles resources. That means that every stitch is created
mathmatically and is independantly editable. This takes a huge amount of
processing power. The literature recommends a separate PC for the OS and I
can see why. I have a 1 ghz PC w/ 512 meg of RAM and split time between the
two. I can run both together but DS slows noticeably so I do development
work on a laptop and editing on the PC. I will eventually get a stand alone
for the OS just to be safe.

In my situation the office is separate from the work room. I have my laptop,
server, my wife's PC and two other PC's networked and run Win2K Pro OS and
NOS. I will have the work room editing PC networked too but will leave the
OS PC as a stand-alone. You might want to consider buying some yard goods or
salvage shirts, cut them into 8x8 and work on your sewing and editing
skills. I found that sewing on broadcloth did not do much for my
understanding of how different fabrics behave under differing conditions.
Get a feel for how and why one uses tear away, sticky-back and cut-away.
Play with solvy and text. It helps if you have a good understanding of how
fabric backing and hoop tension affects the sewout. That way, you can focus
more on the operating system and Design Shop while in training. Learn to do
it right the first time. Because if you don't have time to do it right now
when are you going to have to time to fix it? But by all means, practice,
practice, practice. And there are no stupid questions.
Jack

-----Original Message-----
From: wl solomonson [mailto:wlsolomonson@xxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2003 7:57 PM
To: Amayausers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [amayausers] New Amaya questions


I received my new Amaya a few days ago and have some questions for all
willing to help. Keep in mind that I am totally green, this is my first ever
embroidery machine! My biggest question is about the OS and Design Shop,
does anyone run them on the same computer they do other things on like MS
apps., QuickBooks, etc.? I have to wait for some financing to go through
before I feel financially comfortable making another computer purchase but
am anxious to load the OS and Design Shop to see what it's like before I
head to training in a few weeks. OK, now here is the really crazy question
but I can't keep myself from asking it....is it possible to cable the
machine, load the software, read the manuals and actually do a sew out of a
design without any training? I know, quit laughing but I'm a dabbler and I
like to play around with stuff to see if I can figure it out. Can't wait to
see the responses to that one.
Thanks for any input.
Wendy
Itchin' To Stitch
MN

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