Unit 1: Getting Started with Generations

The Learn to Digitize Series is the ultimate digitizing course taught by a master digitizer.

Would you like to digitize your own designs? Step into the mind of an experienced digitizer and discover not only how to use your software but how to think like a digitizer! Written in an easy-to-understand conversational tone, Lindee explains how to navigate through the Generations™ interface and create your own designs like a pro in this first of eight units in this series.

Unit Objectives (Partial)

• Insert artwork and auto-digitize a design
• Understand and operate menus & tool bars
• Set up your workspace & program preferences
• Modify & delete parts of a design
• Change stitch types, stitch angles, & stitch patterns
• Create your own custom patterns
• Combine and change design colors
• Resequence a design for better efficiency
• How to verify a design before sewing

This CD-based training product includes:

• 5 Illustrated, full color, e-books—over 175 total pages
  including a 38 page Quick Reference Guide to Generations™
• 2 QuickTime video lessons
• 2 original images
• Exclusive custom program for tracking your results
  & submitting your projects
• Option to have your work personally evaluated

Requirements

• Generations embroidery software version 1.6 to perform the exercses
• Adobe Acrobat Reader to view the PDF files (free, installed on most computers)
• Apple Quicktime to view the supplementary training videos (free, download from apple.com)
• While Generations requires Windows, this training product works on Macintosh or Windows
• Anatomy of A Design: How to Think Like a Digitizer & Become a Better Embroiderer (ebook by Lindee Goodall)