The Tool Behavior tab contains controls for setting the behavior of the mouse and input tools on the screen.

Guideline Max Snap Distance

When creating outlines, the tool can be made to "snap" to a guideline or grid lines. The sensitivity of this feature is controlled by this parameterWhen creating outlines, the tool can be made to "snap" to a guideline or grid lines. The sensitivity of this feature is controlled by this parameter

Extended Click time for corner type transition

When creating , curves are created with a short clik of the left mouse button. An extended click of the left mouse button will produce a corner point. This parameter sets the length of time the left mouse button must be held to achieve a corner.

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Show Control Points on Curves

The Version 3 uses Bezier curves to create shapes. These types of curves can be adjusted by 2 control points on both sides of the input. This setting will either show or hide these control points based upon your preference. To read more about Bezier controls, check the Block Outline Editing Section

Enable editing of curves during creation of new objects

While creating new objects, it is possible to edit the input points that have been previously placed. This feature can be a real time saver but if you need to make multiple passes over the outline (running stitch outline for instance) the system will pick up the previous points for editing instead of placing your new points. Disable editing of the curves turns this feature off to allow placement of points on top of previously placed points.

Enable Autoscroll during creation of new objects

With this option enabled, when creating new objects, if the mouse cursor should touch any of the canvas edges the canvas will scroll in that direction automatically

Enable Autocenter when editing objects

This option will bring whatever object is selected to the center of the canvas. This feature is helpful when editing a long string of text where the zoom factor is quite high. Instead of panning the screen to each letter, the letters can be selected from the object list where they will be auto centered in the workspace.

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Stitch Edit

Gray out all stitches after the current

With this option enabled, the stitches after a selected stitch in stitch edit mode will be gray, the stitches before the selected stitch will be in the normal color. This is helpful in complex designs with stitches that overlap. The following steps apply to Stitch Edit functions. Review Stitch edit functions in the Stitch Editing section

Keyboard Steps

Left-Right

This setting determines the number of stitches to progress while traveling through a design in Stitch Edit mode utilizing the Left and Right arrow keys on the keyboard.

Delete   Left-Right

This setting determines the number of stitches to delete while deleting stitches in a design in Stitch Edit mode utilizing the Left and Right arrow keys on the keyboard.

Page Up-Down

This setting determines the number of stitches to progress while traveling through a design in Stitch Edit mode utilizing the Page Up and Page Down arrow keys on the keyboard.

Delete   Page Up-Down

This setting determines the number of stitches to delete while deleting stitches in a design in Stitch Edit mode utilizing the Page Up and Page Down arrow keys on the keyboard

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