The second Magic Wand is for line drawings and line areas in a cartoon-style image. The color you click on has all of its pixels gathered and thinned to make a running-stitch object. The line drawing may be very complex, and the Line Wand will create as many objects as it needs to in order to stitch around the entire design doubly. This is useful for automatic outline or redwork designs. The Line Wand will set all the Entry and Exits and create a double-run design ready to sew.
The objects that are created also have Styles used. You can adjust these styles, thus adjusting the style of the result. Please refer to the Styles section for details.
To further explain; let’s examine a simple ‘T’ shape that might represent any ordinary outline drawing. The Line Wand will find a starting point, run to the ‘T’. Now it has to go both directions in order to sew the entire shape. To do this, it will run out on one side first. Then run back. This process repeats for the second side. Now that this part of the path is complete, it can return to where it started. In this way, the entire design has been stitched over twice.
If you don’t want the entire design branched in this fashion, the objects created are editable – you can do what you like. Also, the objects have styles named for what they are doing within the path. By changing objects labeled ‘Run’ you are changing the run out – not anything with topstitches. Change the ‘Double’ for branches that are open-ended – they run out and back. Change the ‘Return’ for topstitching as the stitching comes back over itself.