The Complete Guide To Embroidery Machines And Embroidery Digitizing Software

Embroidereddigitizing is an important part of the process of making our products. Well like everything even in the embroidery business we have different types of machines which are used for making embroidered logos, patches, designs, badges etc. Now each machine has its own unique way of embroidery and they have its own way of sewing out. 

Some of the famous embroidery machines are: 

Brother PE540D

Brother PE770

Brother SE400

Brother DZ820E

Janome 12000 Memory Craft

Singer Futura XL-400

Janome Memory Craft 200E

Singer SE300 

Since there are different machines it means there will be different digitizing software’s also as one single software will not be compatible on all the machines. Each machine will have its own loops and stitch method so as per that one has to choose the digitizing software or vice versa. 

Some of the commonly used embroidery digitizing software are: 

SewWhat-Pro (SWP}

Thread

Size It! By Amazing Designs

Punto Embroidery Digitiser

PE-Design by Brother

Millennium III by Proel TSI

MasterWorks Lite by Designer’s Gallery

Monogram It! By Amazing Designs

Letter It! By Amazing Designs

Hatch Embroidery by Wilcom

Generations Automatic Digitizing Software by Notcina Corporation

Floriani Embroidery Suite by G7 Solutions & RNK LLC

FontWorks by Designer’s Gallery

EQStitch by The Electric Quilt Company

EmbroideryWare by JimmySoft LLC

EmbroideryStudio by Wilcom

Embroidermodder

Embrilliance StitchArtist, Briton Leap, Inc.

Embird

Elna DigitizerEX by Elna, Inc.

Elna CustomizerEX by Elna, Inc.

Digitizer MB by Janome

DG/ML by Pulse Microsystems

Digitize ‘N Stitch by Amazing Designs

Creative Drawings by Drawstitch Ltd.

Creative 4D Design Creator by Pfaff

BuzzEdit v3 by Buzz Tools Inc

Buzz-2-Stitches by Buzz Tools Inc

Brother BES4 Dream Edition Embroidery Lettering Software

Bernina Embroidery Software Version 7 by Wilcom

AutoPunch by Singer

Applique It! by Amazing Designs 

Each embroidery digitizing software will give its unique format which a particular machine can run to make it into a patch. The file formats fall under two categories one is the source format which is the primary file format of the embroidery digitizing software and the second file format is the machine formats that are specific to a particular brand of embroidery machine. The major difference between the source file format and the machine file formats is that primary file formats are easily editable; that is they can be easily resized, edited, and scaled whereas the same is not possible with machine file formats.

Here are some embroidery machines and the source file formats which run on them:- 

PES – Babylock/Brother

SEW – Elna/New Home, Janome 8000/9000

HUS – Viking 1+/Rose/Iris/Scandinavia

SHV – Viking Designer 1

ART – Bernina Artista

JEF – Janome 10,000/11,000/300E/350E

XXX – Singer

PCS – Pfaff

EMD – Elna/Singer

VIP – Viking/Pfaff

VP3 – Viking/Pfaff

DST – Tajima

CSD – Singer

PSW – Singer 

Usually, embroidery machines have one or two machine formats that are particular to their brand. But we have seen that some formats like .dst of Tajima’s, exp/cnd format of Melco’s and,fdr source format of Barundan’s have become so popular and effective that they have become industry standard formats and very often these formats are supported by all the embroidery machines be it even of a rival company. So we can say these are the universal digitizing formats and will run on most of the embroidery machines the world over. 

This post is going to be about the combination of a embroidery digitizing software and embroidery machines. I hope this post helps you understand some of your options when it comes to getting the perfect embroidered patch.