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If you enjoyed this post and want more ScanNCut content, check out ScanNCut Club. Just as you have fabric scissors and paper scissors, you should have a blade that you dedicate to cutting only fabric.

Heavier fabric or fabric with fusible on it should be cut using a fabric-dedicated Auto Blade.

Description, The PES format is a machine embroidery file format for.

Cotton weight quilting fabric should be cut using the Thin Fabric Auto Blade. Free online PES converter An圜onv - convert files from and to PES in seconds.

Use a strong spray starch on your fabric to ensure both good cutting and less raveling.

Use a brayer to smooth down your fabric and ensure there are no bumps or wrinkles.

Either a ScanNCut Fabric Mat or a Standard ScanNCut Mat with a High Tack Fabric Support sheet is best.

Always use the stickiest mat possible.

Here are some tips on cutting fabric with your ScanNCut: Watch the video for the start-to-finish instructions: It sounds complicated, but it's actually pretty easy.

Files of the type PES or files with the file. (The key is to use the Process Overlap tools in CanvasWorkspace, and delete the parts that aren't useful to you.)īut there's even more! I also show you how to take that newly created FCM file and run it back through Simply Applique to create a PES applique file. What you need to convert a PES file to a PDF file or how you can create a PDF version from your PES file.

I even show you how to clean up the FCM cutting file so that it cuts the way you want it to. and transform it into an FCM cutting file. In the video in this post I share how to take a PES embroidery file. I like to use a program called Simply Applique in order to help my ScanNCut and my Brother embroidery machine 'talk' to each other in order to make projects like this:

PES - This is a machine embroidery file extension.

FCM - This is the proprietary file extension that the ScanNCut uses for cutting data.

Don't let the alphabet soup title of this post scare you! It's important to understand file extensions so that you can create all of the magical projects you dream up.

Pes file extension