With satin stitch type you can add a punching
object of satin stitches. In this case, a smooth curve connects the
nodes that you are adding. The most important thing in using satin
is that you have to add the node points in pairs. The program automatically
adds the direction of stitches which connect a pair of nodes. The
direction of the stitches can be edited independently of the node
placements.
The parameters that you can change in
this type of punching are:
Random Width of satin.
Side selection of the Random Width.
Half pitch compensation.
Short/Long On/Off switch.
Random width:
In this parameter you can specify the
random width percentage of satin. Using this parameter,
the length of satin stitches will be between the width of the
outline and the width of the outline minus the percentage that you
have specified.
Direction of the random:
With these three options you can specify
whether the random stitches will be from both sides or which side
they will be from. The choices that you have for random are:
Random only on the
first side
Random only on the second side
Random on both sides
Half pitch compensation:
In case that this logical parameter is
set as Yes the program will start placing the stitches after a half
of thread thickness.
Short/Long:
In this logical parameter you can activate
or disable sort/long stitches to the current object. The sort/long
stitches are needed in case that there is steep change of the satin
direction and there are not curve-break nodes on the outline.