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#Nearest Isacord thread

Every colour in a design gets the nearest Isacord thread, matched with CIEDE2000, the colour-difference formula the print and textile trades use. The palette is Amann's published Isacord numbers, names and colours.

Thread colours on screen are approximations of the thread card. Check a real card for close calls.

#Needles and needle order

• Colours that come out as the same thread share a needle: red, white, blue, white sews on needles 1, 2, 3, 2.
• The report, the worksheet and the app list each needle's thread and the needle order to set on the machine.
• DST files carry stops, not colours. Load the needles from the report's needle order.
• More colour stops than the machine has needles gives a warning.

#Picking another thread

• In the app: click a thread under Threads, or a colour's swatch under Layers, and pick another. The hoop redraws in the new thread.

#Threads for placed stitch files

• DST stops have no colour: each shows in a stand-in colour until you pick its thread.
• PES, JEF and VP3 carry colours; their nearest Isacord threads are picked.

#Threads in other formats

#Bobbin

The worksheet gives the bobbin thread used: 0.8 of the stitch length, the rule Wilcom's sheets use.