HQ Pro-sTitcher Manual de usuario
HQ
Pro-Stitcher
®
The Future of Quilting Possibilities is Here!
© 2013 Handi Quilter, Inc. All rights reserved. Printed in the USA. 09/01/13
USER MANUAL
HQ
Pro-Stitcher
®USER MANUAL
September
2013
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Table of Contents
1. Table of Conents ..................................................................................1.2
2. Important Safety Instrucons .............................................................2.1
3. Installaon Instrucons ......................................................................3.1
Congratulaons on your HQ Pro-Stcher® purchase .................................................................. 3.1
Grounding ............................................................................................................................... 3.2
Parts List.................................................................................................................................. 3.2
Installaon (HQ24 Fusion & HQ18 Avanté)..................................................................................... 3.5
Installaon of the X-Rack and Y-Rack .......................................................................................... 3.5
To install the X-Rack............................................................................................................ 3.5
To install the Y-Rack............................................................................................................ 3.7
Y-encoder circuit board replacement.......................................................................................... 3.8
To replace the Y-encoder.................................................................................................... 3.9
To set up the HQ Pro-Stcher carriage ............................................................................. 3.10
To aach the tablet computer.......................................................................................... 3.13
Installaon (HQ Sixteen and HQ18 Avanté with 4-wheel carriage)............................................. 3.16
Set frame height........................................................................................................................ 3.16
If you have a Portable Professional Frame ....................................................................... 3.16
If you have an HQ Studio Frame....................................................................................... 3.17
Installaon of the X-Rack and Y-Rack ........................................................................................ 3.17
To install the X-Rack.......................................................................................................... 3.17
To install the Y-Rack.......................................................................................................... 3.19
Y-Encoder Assembly Installaon (HQ Sixteen only)................................................................... 3.20
Install the power cord retaining clamp (HQ Sixteen only)......................................................... 3.21
C-Pod Replacement (HQ Sixteen only) ...................................................................................... 3.22
Set Up the New Carriage ........................................................................................................... 3.23
To turn on and shut down HQ Pro-Stcher ...................................................................... 3.30
To turn on HQ Pro-Stcher ............................................................................................... 3.30
To shut down HQ Pro-Stcher .......................................................................................... 3.30
Geng started with HQ Pro-Stcher ........................................................................................ 3.30
To move the quilng machine aer the soware has been loaded ................................. 3.31
To use the USB ash drive ................................................................................................ 3.31
To use an external keyboard ............................................................................................ 3.31
4. HQ Pro-Stcher® Overview..................................................................4.1
Handlebar control ....................................................................................................................... 4.1
Enable or disable the carriage motors .................................................................................... 4.2
Overview of the HQ Pro-Stcher screen ..................................................................................... 4.2
Menu opons.......................................................................................................................... 4.2
Panel buons .......................................................................................................................... 4.3
Work Area.................................................................................................................................... 4.3
Selected vs. non-selected buons .......................................................................................... 4.4
Gray buons ........................................................................................................................... 4.4
Top toolbar buons..................................................................................................................... 4.4
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To get on-screen help ......................................................................................................... 4.5
To cycle the needle up or down to form a half stch ......................................................... 4.5
To cycle the needle to the up posion ............................................................................... 4.5
To display the on-screen grid.............................................................................................. 4.5
To quickly posion the design and crosshairs on the screen.............................................. 4.6
To move the on-screen view............................................................................................... 4.6
To view the design larger or smaller................................................................................... 4.6
To move the design on the screen...................................................................................... 4.6
To select one or more designs............................................................................................ 4.7
To select a single design ..................................................................................................... 4.7
To choose and group mulple designs ............................................................................... 4.7
To name a group................................................................................................................. 4.8
To change the stch order of mulple designs................................................................... 4.8
To measure distances in a design or on the quilt ............................................................... 4.8
Crosshairs................................................................................................................................ 4.9
5. Design Menu .......................................................................................5.1
Design history.............................................................................................................................. 5.1
Baseline ....................................................................................................................................... 5.2
To baseline a design............................................................................................................ 5.2
To work with design les .................................................................................................... 5.4
Open, close, save, and duplicate design les .............................................................................. 5.4
To access recently used designs ......................................................................................... 5.4
To load a design from the design library ............................................................................ 5.4
To save a design.................................................................................................................. 5.5
To save a group as a design or a project............................................................................. 5.5
To save designs or projects to a new folder........................................................................ 5.6
To duplicate a design .......................................................................................................... 5.6
To view design informaon ................................................................................................ 5.6
To load a Pro-Stcher soware update .............................................................................. 5.7
To return a design to its original sengs............................................................................ 5.7
Create and use areas ................................................................................................................... 5.8
To clear an area .................................................................................................................. 5.8
To create a rectangular area using 2 Corner....................................................................... 5.8
To override the width or height of an area......................................................................... 5.9
Mul-Point............................................................................................................................ 5.10
To create an area with mulple points............................................................................. 5.10
To keep track of how many points you have marked ....................................................... 5.10
Rotate designs ........................................................................................................................... 5.11
2-Point Rotaon.................................................................................................................... 5.12
To rotate a design according to an angle on the quilt ...................................................... 5.12
To ne tune the angle of rotaon..................................................................................... 5.13
Rotaon of repeated designs................................................................................................ 5.14
To rotate repeated designs individually............................................................................ 5.14
To rotate repeated designs as a group ............................................................................. 5.14
Crop Menu................................................................................................................................. 5.15
Treatment of loose ends ....................................................................................................... 5.15
To perform a eo at jump points ................................................................................... 5.15
To stch between jump points ......................................................................................... 5.15
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Crop designs based on areas or start and end points........................................................... 5.16
To crop everything outside the dened area.................................................................... 5.16
To crop everything inside the dened area ...................................................................... 5.16
To isolate and crop a poron of a design.......................................................................... 5.16
Repeat Menu............................................................................................................................. 5.18
Repeat Main.......................................................................................................................... 5.18
To repeat a design ............................................................................................................ 5.18
To change the size of the gap between repeated designs................................................ 5.18
To stretch a design to ll an area...................................................................................... 5.19
To calculate the opmal number of repeats for an area .................................................. 5.19
Point 2 Point ......................................................................................................................... 5.19
To join horizontally repeated designs............................................................................... 5.19
To join vercally repeated designs ................................................................................... 5.20
Repeat Wrapping .................................................................................................................. 5.20
To wrap rows .................................................................................................................... 5.21
To wrap columns............................................................................................................... 5.21
To horizontally wrap the design window.......................................................................... 5.22
To vercally wrap the design window .............................................................................. 5.22
To manually wrap the design window .............................................................................. 5.23
Treatment of jump points ..................................................................................................... 5.23
Resize Menu .............................................................................................................................. 5.24
To resize a design.............................................................................................................. 5.24
Skew / Align Menu .................................................................................................................... 5.26
To horizontally align blocks within an area...................................................................... 5.26
To align a triangle design .................................................................................................. 5.27
To skew a design to t an area ......................................................................................... 5.28
Freehand Menu......................................................................................................................... 5.29
If you have the Quick Release Carriage:................................................................................ 5.29
To switch to free-moon quilng ..................................................................................... 5.29
If you have the carriage with manual levers ......................................................................... 5.29
To switch to free-moon quilng ..................................................................................... 5.30
Record the movements of your freehand quilng................................................................ 5.30
To record freehand moon............................................................................................... 5.30
To mark and record straight lines ..................................................................................... 5.31
To add jumps to your recorded design ............................................................................. 5.31
Reposion Menu ....................................................................................................................... 5.32
To posion a design to the intersecon of the crosshairs ................................................ 5.32
To reposion a design based on the Home locaon ........................................................ 5.34
To posion a design based on the center point................................................................ 5.34
To posion a design’s start point on the quilt .................................................................. 5.34
To posion a design’s end point on the quilt.................................................................... 5.34
To reposion a design up, down, le, or right.................................................................. 5.35
6. Art & Stch..........................................................................................6.1
To pass a design to Art & Stch .......................................................................................... 6.1
Licensing...................................................................................................................................... 6.2
Using a mouse or keyboard ....................................................................................................... 6.2
Updang Art & Stch .................................................................................................................. 6.2
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7. Quilt Menu ..........................................................................................7.1
To choose between stching or tracing the design, bounding box, or area perimeter...... 7.1
To immediately stop the machine from quilng................................................................. 7.1
Before you stch the design on the quilt .................................................................................... 7.1
To verify the posion of the design’s bounding box on the quilt ....................................... 7.2
To verify the posion of the dened area on the quilt....................................................... 7.2
Move the quilng machine with Pro-Stcher ............................................................................. 7.3
To change the speed at which the machine moves............................................................ 7.3
To move the quilng machine from within Pro-Stcher .................................................... 7.3
To stch a straight line using the Move buons................................................................. 7.3
Pro-Stcher as a horizontal or vercal channel lock ................................................................... 7.4
To stch a horizontal or vercal line with the channel lock ............................................... 7.4
Adjust sengs while quilng ...................................................................................................... 7.4
To adjust commonly used stch sengs............................................................................ 7.5
To adjust the quilng speed while quilng......................................................................... 7.5
To adjust the auto jump threshold while quilng............................................................... 7.5
To adjust stches per inch while quilng ........................................................................... 7.6
To manage the eo sengs while quilng....................................................................... 7.6
To change the thread pullup sengs while quilng........................................................... 7.7
To change the pause delay sengs while quilng ............................................................. 7.7
Adjust sengs while quilng is paused ...................................................................................... 7.8
To pause quilng ................................................................................................................ 7.8
To see how far into a design the machine has stched...................................................... 7.9
Change the start or end point of a design................................................................................... 7.9
To begin quilng from a point other than the design’s start point................................... 7.10
To end quilng at a point other than the design’s end point ........................................... 7.10
To adjust start and end points with the scroll bars........................................................... 7.10
To set a start or end point to a jump point in the design ................................................. 7.10
8. Sengs Menu......................................................................................8.1
Control how fast Pro-Stcher operates ....................................................................................... 8.1
To set the default speed ..................................................................................................... 8.1
Control how Pro-Stcher handles jumps..................................................................................... 8.1
To set the Auto Jump threshold.......................................................................................... 8.2
Control the number of stches per inch ..................................................................................... 8.2
To set the stches per inch................................................................................................. 8.2
Control how Pro-Stcher performs e-os................................................................................. 8.3
To have Pro-Stcher perform a e-o at the beginning of stching .................................. 8.3
To have Pro-Stcher perform a e-o at the end of stching............................................ 8.3
To indicate how many e-o stches Pro-Stcher will perform ........................................ 8.3
To set the length of each e-o stch................................................................................ 8.3
To select the method of e-o stch: Micro or Tack.......................................................... 8.4
Control how Pro-Stcher handles bobbin-thread pullups........................................................... 8.4
To turn on bobbin-thread pullups ...................................................................................... 8.4
To turn on automac bobbin-thread pullups ..................................................................... 8.5
Control the delay following a bobbin-thread pullup ................................................................... 8.5
To set the Pause Delay........................................................................................................ 8.5
To set Pause Delay in seconds ............................................................................................ 8.5
To set Pause Delay in inches ............................................................................................... 8.5
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Advanced Menu .......................................................................................................................... 8.6
General opons ...................................................................................................................... 8.6
To turn on or o the Thread Break Sensor (HQ24 Fusion machines only) ........................... 8.6
To verify sengs before quilng ....................................................................................... 8.6
Communicaons opons ........................................................................................................ 8.6
To stop communicaons between Pro-Stcher and the quilng machine ........................ 8.6
To reconnect motors........................................................................................................... 8.7
To reconnect the machine.................................................................................................. 8.7
Calibrate opons..................................................................................................................... 8.8
To calibrate the Pro-Stcher computer screen................................................................... 8.8
Speed prole ............................................................................................................................... 8.8
To set your speed prole .................................................................................................... 8.8
Logging opons ........................................................................................................................... 8.9
About........................................................................................................................................... 8.9
Shut Down .................................................................................................................................. 8.9
To shutdown all soware and power down the computer ................................................ 8.9
To shutdown the soware and computer, and then start up again ................................... 8.9
To exit Pro-Stcher but keep the computer running .......................................................... 8.9
To restart the Pro-Stcher soware from Windows........................................................... 8.9
9. Troubleshoong ..................................................................................9.1
10. Warranty ........................................................................................10.1
HQ Pro-Stcher Limited Warranty ............................................................................................ 10.1
Warranty Exclusions ................................................................................................................ 10.1
Specic Exclusions .................................................................................................................... 10.2
Exclusive Remedy .................................................................................................................... 10.2
Warranty Claims ....................................................................................................................... 10.3
Shipping Cost ........................................................................................................................... 10.3
Product Service and Maintenance ........................................................................................... 10.3
Warranty Registraon Card ..................................................................................................... 10.4
Training Checklist ..................................................................................................................... 10.5
11. Handi Quilter Printouts ..................................................................11.1
12. Tutorials ..........................................................................................12.1
13. Designs ...........................................................................................13.1
14. My Ideas .........................................................................................14.1
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Save these instrucons
This machine is intended for household use.
Disclaimer
Handi Quilter and its Representaves are in no way legally responsible or liable for damage to the HQ Pro-
Stcher when used improperly or not in accordance with the guidelines stated in this manual or when used
on machine quilng frames not recommended by Handi Quilter.
Read all instrucons before using
When using any machine, basic safety precauons should always be taken, including the following: Read all
instrucons before using.
DANGER - To reduce the risk of electric shock:
The HQ Pro-Stcher quilng machine should never be le unaended when plugged in.
Always unplug the machine from the electric outlet immediately aer using and before cleaning.
WARNING - To reduce the risk of burns, re, electric shock, or injury
to persons:
• Do not allow to be used as a toy. Close aenon is necessary when this quilng machine is used by
or near children.
• Use this quilng machine only for its intended use as described in this manual. Use only
aachments recommended by the manufacturer as contained in this manual.
• Never operate this quilng machine if it has a damaged cord or plug, if it is not working properly, if
it has been dropped or damaged, or dropped into water. Return the quilng machine to the nearest
authorized dealer or service center for examinaon, repair, electrical or mechanical adjustment.
• Never operate the machine with any air openings blocked. Keep venlaon openings of the
machine free from the accumulaon of lint, dust, and loose cloth.
• Never drop or insert any object into any opening.
• Do not use outdoors.
• Do not operate where aerosol (spray) products are being used or where oxygen is being
administered.
• To disconnect, shut down the computer, then disconnect all cables.
• Do not unplug by pulling on cord. To unplug, grasp the plug, not the cord.
• Keep ngers away from all moving parts.
• Always unplug the machine from the electrical outlet when removing covers, lubricang, or when
making any other user servicing adjustments menoned in the instrucon manual.
2. Important Safety Instrucons
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Read these instrucons before using the machine.
To use the machine safely
1. Keep hands and loose clothing away from wheels, gears or other moving parts.
2. Turn the machine o and unplug the cord in the following cases:
• when you have stopped using the machine
• when you replace or remove the quilng machine needle or any other part
• in case of failure when you use the machine
• when you check or clean the machine
• when you leave the machine unaended
3. Connect the machine directly to the wall outlet. Do not use extension cords.
To increase the life of your machine
1. Do not store this machine in areas exposed to direct sunlight or high humidity. Never use or store the
machine near a heater, an iron, a halogen lamp or other hot things.
2. Clean the computer monitor with a so, lint-free rag. If necessary, dampen the rag with a small amount
of isopropyl alcohol. Do not use any other cleaners on the computer monitor.
3. Use only neutral soaps or detergents to clean the carriage. Benzene, solvents and scouring powders can
damage the machine and therefore should never be used.
4. Do not drop or bump the machine.
5. Always consult the manual to replace or x any other part of the machine.
To repair or adjust the machine
• If the machine breaks down or needs adjustment, rst check the troubleshoong chart in the
appendix to inspect and adjust the machine yourself.
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