The most common home embroidery machine formats are also listed so you can use your BERNINA Embroidery Software 8 with other machine brands. This format works best for all BERNINA embroidery machine. In the following screen sample, you can see that the BERNINA USB Stick (*.EXP) file type is selected. Typically, nowadays we save such files to a USB stick and take the stick to the machine. This means that an exported file will be significantly limited in terms of future editing ability. NOTE: This file will be smaller than a SAVED file and will not contain any of the underlying design info. Starting position of the design in the hoop (if supported by the machine type)īasically, the Export a Machine File command takes a snapshot of the stitching sequence from the current design and packages it for the selected machine (format).X-Y coordinates for stitches for each color in the sequence.Color names (if supported by the machine format).The File > Export Machine File command will extract the current stitching information only:

This is where the next command comes in handy. All it needs is the stitching information. These are the files you will want to reopen when you want to edit a design, as they contain all the information needed to manage the design elements and properties. However, when it’s time to stitch out your design, your embroidery machine doesn’t need all that info. So, when using the File > Save or File > Save As commands, the software will offer to save files in ‘All-in-One’ formats, as seen in the screen sample below. These files are referred to as All-in-One files for that reason. The Color film to the right of the screen gives a preview of that color sequence.īasically, all the work that yielded the current embroidery design is stored in a file that is SAVED.

NOTE: The current state of a design results in a stitch “snapshot”, listing all the colors used in the design in a sequence, as well as the stitch (X-Y) coordinates needed to stitch out each color.

Artwork used to create the design (when applicable).

Includes stitch types, densities, angles, etc.flower petals and center, lettering, lacework, monograms, outlines, etc. They can include the following elements and information (as applicable for any particular design): These files contain all the work that went into creating the embroidery design. In this article, we will review the key difference between files that are SAVED on your computer by BERNINA Embroidery Software 8 versus stitch files that are EXPORTED for your machine.

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