Feature overview

How to cut your digitizing time in half!

October 24, 2019

Often, a digitizer will choose to do a more basic design because of limited time instead of creating something a little more special.With EmbroideryStudio e4 Elements, you no longer need to make this sacrifice! These add-on Elements automate many complex embroidery techniques, which means you can bring your visions to life and still meet tight business […]

The Dockers

August 26, 2019

Control Center The Dockers could be thought of as part of the control system of the software.The place where you can set up your thread chart and working palette or view and control an objects properties, select clipart and other features.My preference is to have the Color Object, and Object Property Dockers displayed at all […]

Reversing the Direction and Orientation of a Motif on a Line

May 14, 2019

Reversing the direction and or orientation of an open ended motif run can be changed with the Transform Tools.The Transform tools can also be found in the Edit Menu.Or if you are a Shortcut person CTRL 1 for mirror horizontally and ALT 1 for Mirror vertically. For closed objects to change the orientation use the […]

Digitizing for bling with Wilcom’s EmbroideryStudio

May 8, 2019

Bling refers to decorative objects placed on garments or templates, either on their own or in combination with other design elements. Bling is supplied in varying sizes, shapes, colors and materials. Wilcom EmbroideryStudio provides a dedicated Bling toolset to add bling to multi-decoration designs. This allows you to create and visualize bling embellishments in combination […]

Lettering improvements in EmbroideryStudio e4.2

April 16, 2019

In our most recent major release, EmbroideryStudio e4.2, we introduced a number of improvements to the way you select and use fonts.Solid font previewsThe font previews in e4.2 are now solid, meaning you can quickly and easily see how the fonts will sew in embroidery.Font preview sizeYou can now control the size of your font […]

Creating a Predefined Baseline

April 3, 2019

Actually the process of creating a Predefined Baseline creates 3 separate baselines that can be treated individually once they have been created.The feature is particularly useful for circular and elliptical designs that have lettering around the logo and possibly through the middle. The procedure is exactly the same as for a circular baseline but involves […]

Color Object List

February 12, 2019

When creating anything it pays to have a plan. Understand the the list of components, the tools required and the construction sequence is imperative to good design. This is particularly so in embroidery where the correct sequence of a design is critical to quality embroidery.The Color Object List shows the color blocks, individual objects, tool […]

Colorways and Splitting a Color

January 18, 2019

Creating a colorwaySaving several versions of the same design simply because of a color change is unnecessary and poor practice. The danger is that you make an edit to one of the color combinations and forget to make it to the others.The best solution is to apply different colorways to the single design.I will show […]

The Transform Toolbar

December 21, 2018

The Transform Toolbar contains icons (functions) to resize, reflect, rotate and slant images and or embroidery objects in a precise and accurate manner. The Transform by reference line function removes the guesswork from resizing and rotating a design image.Simply select the tool, plot a line with two points and make the setting to rotate or […]

Auto Kerning

November 12, 2018

Kerning is the term used to describe the space between letters.Even in print different letters have different kerning values. Two O’s are usually spaced closer together than two I’s. This is particularly important in embroidery. Two I’s, if too close together will look like a single very wide letter while two O’s can be closer […]

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