You can hold down the Shift key or the Ctrl key on your keyboard to select more than one shape, or drag a box around shapes to select more than one.ġ4. You can also hide and unhide and select them by name. You can rename them if you’d like so they make more sense to you. You can click the Selection Pane button and it will show you a list of all of your shapes. Now you can click on any of the shapes to move them within the selection pane. Arrange them however you’d like to form visuals for piecing directions. Holding your mouse key down, drag out the selection pane to make it larger.ġ3. Right click on the block and choose Group > Ungroupġ2. Holding your mouse button down, drag to resize your block.ġ0. Your cursor will turn into a double arrow cursor.ĩ. To resize the block grab one of the corner circles by clicking on it. If fabric is used in the block, the fabric will be converted to the average color of the fabric.Ĩ. You can choose your Quality and Options then click Copy to Windows clipboardħ. You can download the project here, or of course, feel free to use one of your own projects.Įxport to Metafile is only available from the Block Worktable so, that is where we will start.ĥ. Lastly, we have an article on our support site about this too.įor this example I will be using Microsoft Word and the Outstanding Orchards project.
We also have a lesson (with video) for exploding blocks using a free software called Inkscape that can be used on Mac or PC. However, here are Mac and PC instructions for exploding blocks using Adobe Illustrator.
The technology in Windows that build the Windows Metafile format are copyrighted by Microsoft and unfortunately there is no equivalent for OS X for us to keep this feature. The only feature difference between using EQ8 on the Mac versus using EQ8 on a PC is that there is no way to export Metafiles on a Mac. This month we will be taking a EQ project and using Metafiles and Microsoft Word to show how you could make a pattern, or write instructions.
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