Posts Tagged ‘embroidery software’
Friday, June 10th, 2011
A good tool is valuable; a great tool makes the job easier. A great tool always saves money in the long run because it saves time and frustration.
I bought my Brother PR 600 in 2004 and have always relied on its workhorse ethic. It has always been ready to tackle any job. In fact recently I was asked to complete an order for a shop that couldn’t complete in time to meet a deadline. The only issue occurred when the customer questioned why some hats were “cleaner and more precisely stitched” than others. The shop owner was quite distressed to find out that his customer preferred the hats that had been stitched on my machine!
The Brother PR1000
My machine has paid for itself a dozen times over. I have never seriously considered a different machine (even though I will confess to looking). New features became available, but I’ve never been seriously tempted to upgrade until now.
The new beauty that has caught my eye is the Brother PR 1000. It isn’t just the beauty of the design, the larger hoops, support table, new software integration features and new accessories that make it attractive. Isn’t that enough? Hooping an item consistently perfect is always a challenge, so I am confident the Innoveye™ camera will save me lots of rehooping time. The new hat hoop embroiders up to 14” wide – ear to ear without rehooping. This feature will also be a big time-saver for me. I can do the cap front and 2 side designs without rehooping!
Brother PE Design NEXT Software includes some amazing business features that are designed to save time:
Brother PE Design Next Software
- Link: lets one computer control up to 4 PR 1000 or PR 650 machines. Each machine can be working on a different task with up to 100 designs in queue.
- Name drop: names can be typed or imported from a spreadsheet. The software will place them in the proper position in the design and save them all in one quick process. I used to do this task manually and I had created a routine to be efficient – this tool has reduced my design prep time by 90%
- Database provides printing a catalog of designs for customer viewing and selection. (This is huge because different design color and font choices may be printed–to be viewed by group members prior to a decision.) It has a special page that can be printed with all the design and item information included for easy filing in your records.
- It also includes manual and auto digitizing, photo stitch, impressive resizing capabilities, editing and much more.
Time=Money. Saving time in my work process will create more income for my family. I will be taking a PR 1000 home to join its older “Brother” in my sewing room. I’m looking forward to using the exciting new features.
Stop by one of the Quality Sewing locations and see this beautiful machine in action – it truly is amazing!
Happy Stitching!
Carol
Tags: Brother, embroidery, embroidery software, multi needle embroidery, PE Design NEXT, PR1000, preparation, time savers, tools
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Wednesday, December 29th, 2010
A photo stitch created in PE Design NEXT
PE Design Next is an easy to use, complete software package that includes: Photo Stitch, Auto digitizing, Digitized fonts plus all the True Type fonts on your computer, Easy editing of existing designs, Resizing with recalculation of stitches, Full manual digitizing tools and much more. If you already own PE Design Version 5, 6, 7 or 8, the good news is you just need an PE Design Next upgrade to have all the new features of Next.
All these exciting features come in a new easy to use format. All the tools are quickly available at your fingertips through use of the “ribbon” style that is familiar from other software programs. The important editing windows stay open for easy access – unless you decide to close them for even greater work space. There are 10 full tutorials to make learning easy. An included design library provides 500+ designs and a template library includes 225 easy to use templates.
Brother’s Photo Stitch has always been the best in the industry for doing photos as embroidery. It is very simple to use and creates beautiful results with the click of a mouse. It also provides sophisticated editing tools for those who would like to use them.
The automatic resizing with accurate recalculation of stitches is a great tool that does a superb job even when adjusting
It is easy to “remove overlaps” when stippling around a design so the stitching does not cover your beautiful design
programmable fills or motif stitches. Motif and programmable fill stitches are built-in, but if you want one that is not available in the program it is a simple matter to create it yourself using the integrated program. My personal favorite stitch is the stippling stitch, because my stippling looks perfect when I do it in the embroidery hoop! The stippling can be varied to nearly any size. It is also possible to add a motif stitch spaced throughout the stippling for an exciting new look.
100 digitized Fonts. This includes 5 small text fonts that are digitized to stitch out perfectly at about 1/4”. All regular & true type fonts can be used in making monograms which work nicely with the included monogram decorations. There is even a special program (Font Creator) that will actually “digitize” a true type font the way you would if you were manually digitizing it. With this tool all of the true type can be made to stitch out perfectly. An outline may be added around any font with just one click on the keyboard. The outline can be one of many different types of stitches. The fill of the letter may also be changed to many different styles including motifs, programmable fills or even for use as an appliqué.
Auto-digitizing is a quick way to get a great design. The software digitizes it so you can see how it will look when finished and you still have full editing capabilities to make adjustments as desired. The powerful editing tools can also be used on designs that come from other sources. Just how many times have you thought “Oh I would love that design if …” well you can use the editing tools to make it be exactly the way you want it. Full manual digitizing tools are included in case you want to try your hand at that.
This complete program offers tools for all levels of embroiderers from beginner to advanced commercial digitizing. All the tools are available in one package. Stop by your Quality Sewing location for additional information about this excellent program.
Happy Stitching!
Carol
Tags: Brother, Brother Software, embroidery, embroidery software, PE Design, PE Design NEXT
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Thursday, August 5th, 2010
Today was a very fun 5D Suite day for sure! In the 3rd in the series of my software Certification classes, I got to focus quite a bit on Design Creator.
I am not even sure that I can pinpoint one thing that is my favorite. Everything I learned has been so great and these new features just blow me away! Surely I will forget something, so I will just tell you about a couple of things that jumped out at me today;
Gradient Fills—the 5D Suite now allows us, in Design Creator, to fill an area with multiple colors of thread and they all blend together. This is a great effect if you are wanting to have a shaded effect or very different colors in one area. The thing that amazes me is how easy it is. I have worked with several different brands of embroidery software. that can create a multi colored fill. but none have been this easy or turn out as nice. With 5D you can even use as many colors as you like. How cool is that?
Cutwork and Free Standing Lace—oh my, where do I start? I never even imagined that creating your own free standing embroidery and cut work with Richelieu bars could be so easy! This is one type of embroidery that I had just assumed that I would not make on my own. Just to much to have to think about—that was then. In reality, these features are just as easy and telling the software to fill in an area with a click of the mouse.
Another thing that I am truly appreciating about the new 5D Suite is that everything is just so much easier to use. It seems like the programmers have really listened to what we have asked for. Even better yet, they have gone beyond and anticipated what we may want—even before we know that we do. Simple things can make using the software so much more friendly and fun; such as, having the zoom bar accessible all of the time, being able to group selected designs together and move them all at once, being able to easily change your mind about a choice you have made in Design Creator, or just having the tools organized in a logical and easy to understand way.
It has been such a fun day full of great new things learned in 5D. I can hardly wait until tomorrow when I get to take a class that is beyond the certification classes. Then I will get to see so much more of what the program can do. I can only imagine what the day will hold.
Reva
Tags: 4D embroidery software, 5D embroidery software, digitizing software, embroidery software
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Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010
Now that I have had a chance to play with the 5D Suite—I am even more impressed!
One of my favorite features of the 4D Suite is Encore. This feature is even better in the 5D Suite. You might be wondering what Encore is; This is a feature in the software that allows you to take an embroidery design and automatically repeat as many times as 
you like in a line or a circle. You can also have it make a frame around the perimeter of your hoop using your embroidery design.
5D Suite gives us so many more options and can do so much more than previously imagined. In addition to the basic line, circle, and hoop 5D Suite has added an additional 31 shapes and shaped lines that your embroidery designs can follow.
Another thing that I like about Encore in 5D is the ability to use more than one embroidery design in your new Encore design. In the “Kendall’s Stuff” design that I created here, I chose a scallop and a daisy (both are built into the software). Then in Encore I chose a star shape for the daisy and scallop to follow. The software automatically added enough repeats to fill in the shape.
In the floral example, you can see the simple floral scallop that I used to create the beautiful frame to the right.
There are so many applications for the new features of Encore. I can hardly wait to use them all. I just know you will have as much fun with this new software as I am! For a complete preview of this great new software, be sure to sign up for one of my free 5D Preview Classes that I am teaching next week at many Quality Sewing locations.
I get more hands-on time with this software tomorrow. Stay tuned for more!
Reva
Tags: 4D embroidery software, 5D embroidery software, embroidery software, pfaff convention
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Monday, August 2nd, 2010
Finally I am in Minneapolis, MN at the annual Pfaff convention! I have just seen some of the things that the NEW 5D Embroidery Software can do. Boy am I excited! Some of the exciting changes are:
5D Embroidery
- The screen appearance is fresh and large. It seems like the icons are easier to see.
- There are new wizards that will assist in making planning and designing so much easier.
- Measurements are given in both inches and millimeters without having to change any settings.
- Fonts styles are easy to see and quicker to get to.
- If you want text to arc over your design it will automatically do that for you.
- Background images up to 72” (that’s quilt size) can be used for planning right in the basic screen of 5D. Then those large embroidery plans can be split into sewable chunks without leaving the screen and going to a different program.
5D Design Creator
- Multi Color Gradient—fill an area with a blending of different colors.
- Real Time Editing—see the changes to your design as you make them.
5D Portrait Stitch !!NEW!!
- Create wonderful full color designs from photographs.
- Even has a tapestry feature that will make your photo look like needlework.
The NEW 5D Embroidery Software looks so easy and fun to use and yet it has so much more than imagined! Later today I will be able to get my hands on it and play. I will keep you posted.
Stay tuned!
Reva
Tags: 4D embroidery software, 5D embroidery software, embroidery digitizing, embroidery software, pfaff convention
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