A Schiffli punching system that can be interfaced with Tape Readers, Tape Punchers, Digitizers and with our incomparable FCR100Card Readers and HPC200Card Punchers. It is a "user friendly" software that provide all the required tools to create, modify, convert SCHIFFLI and MULTIHEAD embroidery patterns.
Designed for:

Technical features
The program "speaks" English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish.
The software is divided into three major parts:
Multiheads: Input, Output, Editing and stitch processing, ....
Schiffli: Input, Output, Editing and stitch processing, ....
Common utilities: File management, Modem transmit /receive,
Printing and plotting, ...

FANTASY carries out every operation that is necessary to manage embroideries for Schiffli and Multiheads embroidery machines.:
It reads PLAUEN and SAURER cards.
It reads Comerio, Lässer, Saurer and Hiraoka embroidery diskettes.
It reads 8 channel tapes in all the Multiheads codes.
It produces cards, tapes and 3,5" embroidery diskettes in all most popular Multiheads and Schiffli codes.
It produces working sheets and catalogue documents.
It performs the editing of an embroidery with partial or total stitch processing.

Peripherals units connectable to the system
Digitizer table or magnetic board
Card readers
Card punchers
8 channel tape readers
8 channel tape punchers
Printers
HPGL plotters
Modems
Multiheads embroidery machine
HP Scanners

Punching operations
On screen display of every punching stage, including automatic zooming and pan utilities, and immediate correction of eventual mistakes.
Manual stitches, free length seams on straight lines, curves, circles or circle arcs. - Triples-stitch, Slant stitch, E stitch and Cross-stitch.
Satins can be generated with many different methods of description.
Areas can be filled in infinite different ways:
Editing of the figure chose by the puncher. This new function enables to partially and/or totally reprocess, to replace and correct any portion of the figure.
Circles or ellipses shaped tacking, filling of circles or ellipses by detecting the center of the figure and just some basic points of the figure itself.
Filling of surfaces (including those where the inclination of the stitch change), with satin stitches with several plausibilities of effect (2800 basic variations), and with the combination of stitches among the different figure sections.
Variation of the filling modes, for an excellent result in the filling with thin and tick stitches.
Automatic shortening of stitches if too thick (corners).
Automatic density compensation on the grounds of the stitch length.
Possibility to introduce an automatic compensation value in the jump-stitch filling.
Memorization of "Motifs", even those containing perforations, and which can be retrieved, rotation and mirror.
Repetition of "Motifs" along lines of any shape whatsoever.
Filling of areas with the repetition of the same "Motif" or two different motifs.
Filling of areas with the repetition of a background previously created on screen.
Automatic centering and alignment of the figure on the punching table, without having to respect the axes of that table.

Input
The system can read: Cards, Tapes and Disks:

Schiffli & Multiheads cards
Plauen (Comerio, Zangs, Hiraoka), Saurer, Jaquard 68 mm

Schiffli disks
Comerio, Saurer, Lässer, Hiraoka

Multiheads Tapes and/or Disks
Barudan FMC, Barudan FDR, Happy, Marco, Tajima, Toyota, Pfaff, Zangs, ZSK, Melco Expanded and Condensed, Mitsubishi, Juki

Output
The system can produce: Cards, Tapes, Disks and printed or plotted documents:

Schiffli & Multiheads cards
Plauen (Comerio, Zangs, Hiraoka), Saurer, Jaquard 68 mm

Schiffli disks
Comerio, Saurer, Lässer, Hiraoka

Multiheads Tapes and/or Disks
Barudan FMC, Barudan FDR, Happy, Marco, Tajima, Toyota, Pfaff, Zangs, ZSK, Melco Expanded and Condensed, Mitsubishi, Juki

Various
Tape duplication
Tape check
Card Check
Thread length calculation

PC-PC Connection
Allows the connection with more PROEL systems and is managed by a dedicated software for the transmission and/or reception of embroidery files at a speed of 38.400 stitches/minute.

Diskette duplication
Allows to obtain the copy of a single embroidery into another diskette, or the copy of the entire 3,5" diskette.

Patterns Conversions
It automatically converts embroideries into other codes:

MULTIHEADS means any multiheads code.

Services
The features supplies services concerning hard disk or 3,5" diskettes.

Embroideries list on disk or diskette with names or graphics
Inform on free space on disk or diskette
Embroideries copy from disk to diskette and vice-versa
Embroideries duplication with different name
Embroideries erasure
Change of embroidery name
Variation of embroidery data

Utility
Format function
System configuration
Message management for operation list
Automatic alphabets filing and managing
Description of the customer sheet for plotter

Editing
It operates on embroideries graphically to change or correct them. It has the following possibilities:

Color
To see and choose up to 11 colors for embroidery plus one screen
color in a range of 37 different ones

Display
Display all
Display at a chosen scale
Manual and automatic Pan of the embroidery into any direction
Zoom IN, zoom OUT, back to previous view
Show needle penetrations
It permits the display of SCHIFFLI repeats

Stitches
It is possible to perform the following operations:
To correct, erase, or add, single stitches
To double stitches in cording
To correct errors, taking stitch by stitch
To correct cordings on one or both sides

Utility
Move the starting and ending points
Measure distances on the embroidery
Show the embroidery dimension
Merge more embroideries together
Add lettering to the embroidery
To show all the basic parameters of a SCHIFFLI embroidery

Searching
Any or selected machine functions
Begin of new search
Search drawing at selectable speed or stitch by stitch
Move to the starting or to the ending points
Search stitches greater or smaller of a specified stitch length

Special functions
Replace, delete or insert machine functions
List all machine functions
List only the selected machine functions
Change COLOR sequence

Processing
Process the embroidery:
         All or parts of the embroidery
         Independent scaling on X and Y axes
         Rotation in steps of hundredth of degrees
         Vertical and/or horizontal mirror
         Erase all short stitches
         Change satin width (-50% to +100%)

Change any area into:
         Satin stitches
         Irregular fill
         Regular fill (ceeding)
         Change thread density of satin and fill.
         Punch running stitches (lines, curves, arcs or circles).

Activation
Groups of stitches can be hidden or activated (by color or selections).
Manipulation of selected stitches:
Manipulate blocks or groups of selected stitches.
Move one group which is maintained connected to the embroidery.
Move one group from embroidery, and to attach it to another point of the same; the embroidery will maintain the connection with the starting point.
Double one group exactly as the original, and to attach it to another point of the embroidery.
Execute the three above manipulations, you can manage the selected group as follows:
You can move the group to rotate it, to reduce or enlarge it, to make mirrors on vertical or horizontal axes.
You can erase blocks or groups of selected stitches.
When you delete a group, the embroidery closes automatically.