Patent ID: 6600966
Filing Date: 2003-07-29
Classification: D05B

Abstract:
A software program for dividing an embroidery design which is larger than a hoop of an embroidery machine for sewing the embroidery design having a plurality of stitches represented by embroidery stitch data, wherein the software program divides the embroidery stitch data, the program comprising instructions for:defining two or more regions based on a size of the hoop and/or based on a location of attachment points of the hoop to the embroidery machine; positioning the defined regions onto the embroidery design as a function of the stitches of the embroidery design to create overlaid regions; and creating a file of embroidery stitch data that corresponds to at least one of the overlaid regions, the file comprising an executable set of instructions used by the embroidery machine to sew a regional design that corresponds to at least a portion of the embroidery design.