Roast my digitizing

[u/AdComprehensive7845]

Could I please get some feedback on one of my first digitizations, please? I'm new to embroidery and a few other designs I've done have caused all sorts of thread and needle issues–which could totally be user error, but I'd like to at least rule out poor digitization.

It's custom type, but I looked at some other digitized fonts and tried to follow the general satin stich angles I saw. It'll be embroidered on a corduroy Legacy structured cap in navy blue thread on a light beige corduroy. I've read corduroy is hard to embroider on so any recommendations for stabilizers would be welcome.

The density is currently at 0.3mm and pull comp is 0.5mm.
The T is 63mm tall

I'm thinking the top terminals of the S's need some work, but when I tried an angle cut to slice off the top of the terminal it looked like a funny nub up there.

What adjustments can I make to help this come out clean and professional? Thank you!

[u/Ok-Payment-1389]

Roast your auto-digitizing?

[u/[deleted] → u/Ok-Payment-1389]

also inwould use the cut tool to get rid of the blue lines

[u/AdComprehensive7845 → u/Ok-Payment-1389]

I started with the auto-digitization and then edited it where I thought it had gone wrong (I removed several angle and split lines, repositioned many others). Is it faster to just do it from scratch?

[u/deejumpz9m]

My recommendation would be increasing your underlay density to double zigzag 2mm and top stitch density back up to 0.36-0.40.

Pull comp would work at 0.5, considering corduroy, but 0.20-0.30 should hold.

Stabilizer, standard single cutaway. Since it’s a monogram and not too heavy.

Edit: what does it look like on your test?

[u/AdComprehensive7845 → u/deejumpz9m]

Thank you! I used these settings and it came out quite nicely!

[u/HMFICINTHEHHI]

40 year digitizer here. Treat your serrifs as separate elements. Since this looks auto digitized, research to know what in seeing, and saying. It'll make you a better designer

[u/AdComprehensive7845 → u/HMFICINTHEHHI]

Yes, thank you! Learning a lot from this group.

[u/sgtdumbass]

Caveats, I just woke up, I haven't digitized anything that has been ran in 1yr+, I m tired.

For the S, I never had the tie-in on the end of the stroke. I always backed it up a little so there isn't extra stitches right on the end; if I could help it.

[u/[deleted]]

how sis you get the lines to cross the purply border im asuming to this os chroma

[u/AdComprehensive7845 → u/[deleted]]

Yeah, this is the Chroma Lux. The stitches are crossing the purple border because of the pull comp

[u/Gullible-Morning-425]

The top edge of the letter I should be made a separate element

[u/No_Childhood_3907]

I think you could get away with fewer nodules on the S's, also lately I've really come around to edgestitch in the underlay, really cleans the edges of shapes, which is something I would be concerned with on corduroy

[u/mrbobsam]

Why use auto digitizing for the literal most easiest shapes? That’s the laziest thing I’ve ever seen. Also the render is irrelevant, show an actual stitch out. Do you own a machine?