JPH0938363A - Embroidery data creation device - Google Patents

Abstract

It is an object of the present invention to provide an embroidery data creation device that can easily and quickly perform a work of copying data related to embroidery. SOLUTION: The character or line of the copy source displayed on the display 22 is selected by the cursor (S10).
2). Next, character copy or line copy is selected by operating the keys of the keyboard 23 (S103). Next, the cursor is moved to the copy destination character position or line position by the mouse 25 (S106). Then, the character (pattern) or the edited value is copied to the character position or line position (S10).
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Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an embroidery data creation device, and more particularly to an embroidery data creation device capable of selectively copying characters, patterns, or notations and edit values thereof. .

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, in this type of embroidery data creating apparatus, as a method of copying a character or a pattern or an edited value or the like, a method of selecting and copying only the character or the pattern, a style memory, etc. As described above, there are two types: a method of copying only the edited value group. The operator selected one of the methods as required to perform copying. The object to be copied had the same size and the same range as the copy side. And when copying to a wide range, it was repeated several times.

[0003]

However, according to the method as described above, when copying the same data in a wide range, many repetitions are required,
Further, in particular, when copying an edit value (group), it was necessary to consider which edit value (group) it was before copying. Therefore, normally, in the embroidery in which the trial sewing is performed and the edited value is confirmed, the embroidery cannot be quickly executed, which is inefficient.

The present invention has been made to solve the above-mentioned problems, and an object of the present invention is to provide an embroidery data creation device which can easily and quickly perform a work of copying data relating to embroidery.

[0005]

In order to achieve this object, an embroidery data creation device according to a first aspect of the present invention comprises:
Targeting at creating embroidery data to be sewn by a sewing machine capable of embroidery sewing, display means for displaying characters and patterns or notations and edit values relating to them, and the characters and patterns or the notations. A selection unit for selecting an edit value or the like, and a copy unit for copying one or more selected from the characters or patterns, the notation, the edit value or the like by the selection unit, One or a plurality of the characters or patterns selected by the selection means or the notation or edited value is copied by the copy means.

The embroidery data creation apparatus according to a second aspect of the present invention includes a copy target designating unit for designating a copy target to be copied from among the characters, patterns, the notation, edit values and the like, and the copy unit. Is configured to copy the copy target designated by the copy target designating means. Therefore, if the copy target designating means designates, for example, only the character, or both the pattern and the edit value, the copying means copies as specified.

Further, in the embroidery data creation device according to a third aspect of the present invention, a copy range designation for designating a copy destination range for copying the character or pattern selected by the selecting means or the notation or edit value. Means for copying, and the copying means is configured to copy to the copy destination range designated by the copy range designating means. Therefore, if, for example, one character or one line is designated by the copy range designation means, the copy means copies as specified.

[0008]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

First, the overall schematic structure of the embroidery data creation apparatus of this embodiment will be described with reference to FIG.

The embroidery data creation device 20 is a device for creating embroidery data used in an embroidery sewing machine that is equipped with needles and an embroidery frame (not shown), and as shown in FIG. A display 22, which is a display unit including a CRT, a keyboard 23, a floppy disk device (FDD) 24, and a mouse 25 are provided. The keyboard 23 and the mouse 25 constitute the selecting means of the present invention.

The control device 21 is, as shown in FIG.
A CPU 31 that handles various types of data and performs arithmetic processing, a ROM 32 that stores a control program, a RAM 33 that temporarily stores various types of data, and a large amount of various types of data that are stored and exchanged with the RAM 33. Do F
The DD 24, an input / output interface 35 for inputting / outputting various data, and a bus 34 for connecting the CPU 31 and the like to the input / output interface 35. In the input / output interface 35, an external storage device 26 for storing data and programs, the keyboard 23 having various keys for giving instructions by an operator, and a cursor moving operation on the screen of the display device. A mouse 25 for inputting data and the like is connected to the display 22.

The RAM 33 of the control device 21 has a structure shown in FIG.
As shown in, character data storage area 33A for storing a lot of embroidery character data, one-point data storage area 33B for storing one-point data, and character (row) data to be sewn together with their positional relationship are stored. Character string data storage area 33C and each character (string)
Edit value data storage area 3 for storing edit values for
3D, a character string data storage area 33C, a stitch data storage area 33E for storing stitch data calculated from the edit value data storage area 33D, and a counter storage area 33F are provided.

Here, the character string data in the character string data storage area 33C includes not only the character data symbols in the character data storage area 33A but also the one-point data storage area 3
It is assumed that a 3B one-point data symbol may also be included.

The present embodiment is constructed as described above.

An example of the processing procedure of the embroidery data creation device based on the above configuration will be described below with reference to the drawings. First, in the embroidery data creation device, as shown in FIGS. 5 and 6, by moving the reversely displayed cursor with the mouse 25 on the character input screen, the character can be input from that position, and the cursor position is changed. Edited values are displayed in the column below. It is possible to set the edit value for each character. Also, the assignment of commands to the function keys is displayed at the bottom (the function keys are F.1, F.2 from the left, and the rightmost is F.6). In addition, here, for example, “Tanaka” in the first row has the same size, and “Taka” has a half size. Usually, in name embroidery, an individual's name is added to a school name or a company name, and there is a person with the same surname as an individual's name. In that case, one letter of the name is often added in small letters.

The copying operation will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG.

First, either "character copy" or "line copy" displayed on the lower side of the screens of FIGS. 5 and 6 is selected by the key operation of the keyboard 23 (S10).
1 and S indicate steps. The same applies below). Then, the copy source character or line displayed on the display 22 is selected by the cursor (S102). An example in which characters are selected is shown in FIG. 7, and an example in which lines are selected is shown in FIG. next,
Character copy or line copy is selected by a key operation of the keyboard 23 (S103). If the character copy is selected, the CPU 31 updates the function display as shown in FIG. 8 upon the selection (S104). On the other hand, if the line copy is selected, the selection is triggered by the CPU 31.
Updates the function display as shown in Fig. 11 (S1
05).

Then, the cursor is moved to the copy destination character position or line position by the mouse 25 (S10).
6). FIG. 8 shows an example of the character position of the copy destination. Then, of the function keys, the item in this example is selected (S107). In the case of the character copy in FIG. 8, since the subscript of the name is copied, the function F ・ 3 (character “character +
Edit ”) (the result is that the edited value is copied together with the character as shown in FIG. 9). In the case of line copy in FIG. 11, the company name is copied, so select function F6 (“letter + edit” in all lines) (the result is that all the edited values are also copied together with the character string as shown in FIG. 12). ). Then, the character (pattern) or the edited value is copied according to the selected function key item (S108).

The processing step of S106 functions as the copy range designating means of the present invention. Also, the above S1
The processing step 07 functions as the copy target designating means of the present invention.

In the examples of FIGS. 7 to 12, there are displayed "letter", "row", "1 line" and "all lines" on the left side of the function key. For example, from F.1 of FIG. F.3 makes a copy of "letter", F.4 to F.6 makes a copy of "row", and F.1 to F. of FIG.
3 makes a copy of "1 line", and F-4 to F-6
Makes a copy of "all lines". That is, the copy target is performed after the copy source is selected.

As described above, the embroidery data creation device of the present invention selects the copy source of the embroidery data,
Items to be copied after that (text only, edit value only, text +
Edited value) and range (character unit, line, all lines) are specified, so the copy work can be done very efficiently, and the edited value is connected to the position where the character or pattern symbol is input. Therefore, the above-mentioned copying operation can be performed extremely easily and quickly, and the number of mistakes is reduced.

In the present embodiment, in order to show the sewing data simply and clearly, one embroidery data is constructed in units of one line, but one embroidery data is constructed in multiple lines. May be.

Further, in the present embodiment, the embroidery data to be output is stitch data, but other types of data such as block data may be used.

Further, in this embodiment, when the character copy is selected, only one character is selected, but the same process can be performed by selecting a plurality of characters.

In the present embodiment, the handling of the one-point data was not particularly described, but for example, a symbol (for example, "☆") is input and displayed in the same place as one character, and the The file name may be displayed in the one-point number field in the edit value field.

Besides, various modes can be applied without departing from the gist of the present invention.

[0027]

As is apparent from the above description,
According to the embroidery data creation device of the first aspect of the present invention, since the desired copy work can be performed with a simple operation,
The work can be performed easily and efficiently, and errors are reduced.

According to the embroidery data creation apparatus of the present invention, if the copy target designating means designates, for example, only the character or both the pattern and the edit value, the designation is made. Since it is possible to perform the copy as it is, it is possible to perform the copy work more efficiently.

Further, according to the embroidery data creation apparatus of the present invention, the copy range designating means may be used, for example,
If one character or one line is specified, the copy can be performed as specified, and thus the copy destination area can be copied more accurately.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a flowchart showing a copy processing operation.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a schematic configuration of an entire embroidery data creation device.

FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing an electrical control configuration of the present apparatus.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a storage area of a RAM.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing a character input screen.

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing a character input screen.

FIG. 7 is a diagram for designating a copy source character.

FIG. 8 is a diagram for setting a copy destination position.

FIG. 9 is a diagram in which characters are input as a copy destination.

FIG. 10 is a diagram for designating a copy source line.

FIG. 11 is a diagram for setting a copy destination position.

FIG. 12 is a diagram in which characters are input as a copy destination.

[Explanation of symbols]

 20 Embroidery data creation device 21 Control device 22 Display 23 Keyboard 25 Mouse 31 CPU

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. An embroidery data creation device for creating embroidery data for sewing with a sewing machine capable of embroidery sewing, display means for displaying characters, patterns, notations related to them, edited values, etc. Selection means for selecting a pattern or the notation or edit value, and copy means for copying one or more selected from the characters or patterns or the notation, edit value or the like by the selection means An embroidery data creation device comprising: 2. A copy target designating unit for designating a copy target to be copied from among the characters and patterns, the notation, the edited value, etc., wherein the copying unit is designated by the copy target designating unit. The embroidery data creation apparatus according to claim 1, wherein a copy target is copied. 3. A copy range designating unit for designating a range of a copy destination for copying the character or pattern selected by the selecting unit, the notation, the edited value, or the like, the copy unit including the copy range. 2. The embroidery data creation device according to claim 1, wherein the embroidery data is copied within a range of a copy destination designated by the designation means.