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lennykuhn
over 16 years ago

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 am looking forward to exchanging ideas and meeting other DraWing users. The last post was correct. Only 13 posts for such a great product? Maybe it is because the program is so easy to use. It would be nice to get an exchange of ideas going and we could share some ideas that we can benifit from. Being new to embroidery I do not understand the concept of thigs like density, under lay and the differences between the different stitch patterns like satin and Piping. Maybe we can start there. I could offer some tips on vectorizing and working with the tools in X3. Let's get this thing off the ground! Lenny
  • over 16 years ago

    Hello Lenny - we just joined the forum today as a have read with interest through the pages whilst relaxing a bit from the pre-holiday stress. First a few thought to your question regarding embroidery - dst - pr 600. With Corel DRAWings pro you have a softwarepackage which can give you the full power of design as well as the professional output for your required end product. Consider the following. Printing your designs (laser, offset inkjet etc) from Corel DRAW is very easy as you work with a flat med or high resolution image (no matter bitmap or vector or mixed on a page). Embroidery in comparison is actually a very low resolution production (the embroidery maschine must physically put stitches on the materiall of your choice) and therefore you are limited to the stitch length and the density of the stitches next to each other. You could compare it with a low res bitmap of about 10 - 15 dpi. Therefore - not everything that could be printed on - for example - a t-schirt can be equally well embroidered. However - with Corel DRAW and DRAWings pro you have in your workflow everything inside one package - the power of the design - the output to all the production machinery (printers, cutters, plotters, sublimation etc) as well as embroidery - making it easy to combine the individual medias in a specific product. Just a few of our own thoughts - more to come - details and all - lets get the ideas rolling seasonal greeting to you and all the forum users from Vienna - Austria Peter & Monika
  • over 2 years ago

    Logo Embroidery digitizing is not an easy task when you are a beginner. Most of the time you have to go for the auto setting which does not work well with complex embroidery designs for that you have to do it manually. Manual digitizing does have a learning curve but the results are impeccable also it allows you to minimize or eliminate the unnecessary elements of the embroidery to make it more efficient. Well, there are many embroideries digitizing software on the market that works pretty well with the Brother PR-600 embroidery machine.

    my editor
    DRAWings PRO X
    BuzzEdit v3
    Embrilliance Essentials
    SewWhat-Pro
    Wilcom Embroidery Studio e3
    Ink/Sketch Embroidery Software
    Brother Embroidery Software
    TrueSizer
    Embird

    In my opinion, Wilcom Embroidery Studio is the best one out there. Although it isn't the easiest one but as you get the hang of it it will give you control and versatility over your embroidery designs

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