This message was posted by Body Cover on AmayaUsers.com. PLEASE DO NOT REPLY VIA EMAIL. Instead, respond to the thread on the WEBSITE by clicking here: http://www.amayausers.com/boards/ultimatebb.php?/topic/1/364/3.html#000034 One thing I learned in a hurry about digitizing, is that I couldn't treat it like I do my everyday art work (I am a graphic designer) so I tend to be very detail oriented and I used to digitize with the stitches zoomed way in, thinking I could get all this detail and make my work look great, instead like you I built bullet proof designs with an excess of stitches and detail that wouldn't sew well and had many thread breaks from short stitches. work at a smaller level and don't zoom in as much and make sure you take breaks and change the view to actual size to see how the parts your working on corralate to the design. I used to try to get all the detail in ad realized the part I just spent 5 minutes on was only the size of 2 or three threads but zoomed in it seemed significant and needed to be there. Hope that makes sense. Ron =========================================================== The AmayaUsers Mailing List Website: http://www.amayausers.com Discussion Board: http://www.amayausers.com/boards Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://www.amayausers.com/list ===========================================================