FTC-UniverseExploring Floriani’s FTCU cloud software
with Marilyn York Reames
National Educator-RNK Distributing-Floriani
Welcome to the cloud.
• What is it? Floriani Total Control Universe is our new addition to the already
amazing FTCU software program. This allows us to go out on the internet
and have access to hundreds of additional designs, fonts and remarkable
editing functions.
• The following exercise will acquaint you with how to create an exciting new
design while ‘in the cloud’, save it to your computer and prepare it for
stitching.
SIGN in using your email and password.
This looks exciting!!!! Let’s click on load more designs
Show up to 50 new designs at a time!!!
Here’s a sweet
design to use.
I’d like to change
the color of the
lettering on both
Tea and Time.
Just click the
small arrow to
the right of the
color chip and
you can choose a
color of your
choice!
I would also
like to change
the font type.
Now click the
small arrows
to the left of
the color
chips to open
the font
selections
available.
Notice the
slider bar
on the
right. That
means there
is lots
more!!! Just
keep
scrolling
until you
find a style
you think
you will
like. Select
it and take a
look. If you
don’t like it
choose
another.
Love this!
Now it is
time to save
it to my
computer.
Click on the Save as WAF which is our
special FTCU file we will bring into
our software.
Be sure to save your design with a new name and to a
location that you will easily be able to locate . You can
see I have FLORIANI folder on my C drive with a
FTCU subfolder, then Designs and finally MARILYN.
That is where I like to keep all the designs I create
myself.
Now it is time to bring the design into my FTCU
software so I can save it to be stitched on my
favorite embroidery machine. Left click on
BROWSER and navigate to the folder where your
design is.
Click on Design to see
all the designs in the
folder you have
chosen.
Yikes-Look at all the color
changes!
We want to select color sort to
reduce them.
Left click on the COLOR SORT
tool
The Color Sort tool
Now I want to choose a fabric
to stitch my design on and have
Walt’s recipes for perfect
embroidery results make
adjustments for me
AUTOMATICALLY!
Click on SAVE TO SEW.
Pick your fabric type. I’ve
chosen Cotton Percale and I
Didn’t Digitize options.
I’ve picked Solid and Dense
since the flower portions have
some dense fill areas.
Click NEXT
We have choices here. You can
de-select any options you don’t
want changed. In this example, I
am leaving them all checked and
letting Walt’s expertise handle it
all!
Click , NEXT
LIFE is good!! Tells me exactly
which of our Floriani stabilizers to
use and even tells me the correct
needle to select for precision
perfect results!
Can it get any easier???
Click FINISH
Now it’s time to save the file so
we can stitch it on our machine.
Left click on
FILE and then
Save As
This box appears and you can
now select your machines file
type to stich it out.
I like to save it twice.
Once as a WAF file (This is our
FTCU native file format which is
always completely changeable)
and also as my embroidery
machine(s)format.
You can save your machine file in
your computer or onto a USB
stick or other media that your
machine is capable of using.
CONGRATULATIONS!!!
HappyStitching