<title>How To Use The IntelliQuilter Help System
The user manual is at your fingertips at all times.
Extensive help messages will explain what to do on each screen.
If a help message does not fit fully in the window, a scrollbar
will appear to help you in browsing through the message.

Use the             and            buttons on the right to go line by line,
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or move the slider bar in the middle for a quick scanning.

When you are done, touch the            button to return to the original 
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screen.

<title>Main Menu Help
<b>Edit/Sew Quilt  
You can start a new quilt or load an existing one from the computer's
memory. The program offers a wide range of transformations (scaling, 
rotation, stretching, etc.) as well as copying, repeating and combining 
patterns.
In addition to patterns, you can add and modify blocks, to serve as
guides for aligning patterns.
You can compile the whole quilt, using block, border and pantograph 
patterns, then you can start quilting, or save the design for later use.

<b>Load Patterns
You can download patterns and complete quilts from the designers' 
web sites using any computer connected to the Internet. During the 
download you need to select the removable USB drive to which the
data will be downloaded. The patterns should be downloaded into the
"/patterns" directory, the quilts into the "/quilts" directory of
the USB drive.
The patterns/quilts can then be loaded in the IntelliQuilter's memory 
by selecting the Load Patterns mode and plugging in the USB drive.
 
<b>Pattern Designer
In this version of the software you can design patterns by turning on
recording while you sew your own pattern. The recorded pattern can 
then be edited and saved for later use.
You can also trace paper patterns by putting the paper pattern on the 
top of the quilt and moving the needle along the pattern's lines. 

<b>Manual Mode
With its unique motor mounting design the IntelliQuilter switches from
computer-controlled to manual mode fully automatically. By the touch 
of a button the motors will disengage, in about 5 seconds, and you will
be able to use the machine in manual mode without any drag from the 
driving mechanism.
By selectively engaging each motor you can activate horizontal or ver-
tical channel locks.

<b>Utilities
This version of the software provides quilt/pattern catalog maintenance,
pattern/quilt archiving, drive roller cleaning, a measurement tool, by 
which you can measure distances and areas on the quilt, and screen
image capture utilities. 

<b>System
The System menu contains powerful system utilities to help our techni-
cal support in checking out your system. 
For those customers who have an Internet connection via Ethernet, an 
on-line troubleshooting service is available. 
Also, you can load software updates using an USB drive.
Another item of the System menu will display the unique password for
your computer, which will enable you to load copy protected patterns
and program updates into your system.
The "Interface Setup/Test" utility can be used to adapt the system 
to the various quilting machines and to calibrate the touch screen.

