I have owned DraWings X3 for about a year. I have a Brother PR-600 embroidery machine. Being new to embroidery, I have only played around with the program. I have a pretty good command of Corel becuse I love to create graphics. I am into T-shirt design and I have recently opened a graphics design business. I wanted to include embroidery but I can't seem to figure out how to do this because it takes so much time to create an embroidery (hooping, setup sewing) at least one that contains any color. The DraWings program is pretty straight forward but I do have one question: How do I get the Corel program to import an Adobe CS2 vector graphic? If I reduce the file to a Adobe 9 version and press CTRL-I it imports but it will not do CS2. Also, Corel DraWings does not recognize the Brother PR-600 machine. I read some where that I could export the finished embroidery into a .dst file and then use my PE Design Pro software to convert it to a .pes file. This works but it adds steps to the process and the colors need to be adjusted before you can save the file in the .pes format. Can anyone help me with these issues?
I'm not sure about CS2 format, but I think its a raster file format. U might be able to save the file in *.tiff or *.esp file format, the imort it into Drawings (DW). With DW, U can export the file to Modular Basic and the save the file as *.pes file format.
U can go to http://www.emblibrary.com , they do have some help ful tips on different embroidery projects...
Hope this helps....
Doug
Doug,
CS2 is the next to the latest version of Adobe Illustrator. I use it to create .ai vector files which I then import into DraWings. Since the files are already vector they convert without problem when you select the stitch tab in DraWings. I resigned myself to just saving the files created in Drawings to a .dts format and running them through the Brother program designed for creating patterns ( PE Design). I could create .PES files in PE Design but it is not as powerful graphic wise as DraWings. Also emblibrary.com is a very good web site. Have you tried www.windstarembroidery.com? They are also super and Deb is a super smart person who is always willing to help. What kind of projects are you interested in? Are you mainly into embroidery or do you also do other graphic design? I do T-Shirts and other personalized gifts such as mugs and photos. I also do wide fromat printing like posters and signs with vinyl on my Roland SPV-300 printer. I also have the newest T-Jet 3 digital garment printer for printing directly on to textiles. I have recently started a graphics business here in Germany. Hopefully, things will go well and it will work. I am really interested in exchanging ideas with people who have the same interest. This started as a hobby many years ago and I finally have it together enough to try to earn some money with it. I don't want to get rich I just want to make a meger living doing something I love. I have not given up my day job. I am a US Army Civilian working in Aviation Logistics in Germany. I am the number two person for helicopter maintenance in Europe. I love my day job but I also love the creative side of working with graphics.
Thanks for your input.
Lenny