• 12 Fonts for multi-line text, monogramming and circle text.
• Sample designs, which are scalable and recalculate their stitches as you interactively transform them.
• Unlimited lines of letters or monograms and embroidery designs can be combined.
• You can mix and match fonts and sizes.
• Merge existing embroidery files into your design.
• Browse and Merge designs in folders and from inside .ZIP files.
• Resize existing embroidery files with stitch recalculation. You can resize embroidery designs up to 250% and down to 50%.
• Colorize any embroidery design. You can change the colors one at a time, or convert the entire design or any selected part of it to your preferred thread brand with just a few mouse clicks.
• Simulate the sewing of any design. The simulator can play in 3D, play forward and backward, and has variable speed. The simulator also has a slider so that you can manually scroll forward and backward through the design to any point without waiting. You can even insert a color stop in the sewing process.
• Convert any design from one format to any of the supported types, which include:
• Read: ART, CND, CSD, DST, DSZ, EMD, EXP, EXP+, GNC, HUS, JAN, JEF, JEF+, PCM, PCS, PEC, PES, PHC, SEW, SHV, TAP, VIP, VP3, XXX, EMB.
• Write: CSD, DST, DSZ, EXP, EXP+, HUS, JEF, PCS, PES (v1-9), PCM, SEW, SHV, TAP, VIP, VP3, XXX.
• Designer 1 Disk Utility for floppy and USB machines.
• Split designs for several multi-position hoops, including the Brother/Baby Lock 100x100 machines, and the 14” x 14” Jumbo Hoop.
• Project Advisor, a patented expert system with guidance to help successful embroidery on all your projects.
• Create a working file (.BE extension) to save your design as an editable and merge-able file. Your working file is saved for you automatically when you save a stitch file so you don’t have to ‘Save’ twice every time you make some changes—once for the stitch file and once for the working file.
• Embrilliance has an advanced program interface that’s super easy to use yet offers features normally reserved for very expensive programs.
• Real Scale zooming allows you to view your designs on screen at the actual size that they will stitch out.
• Navigation Window that provides instant control over the zoom and scroll in the program’s view.
• Sewing Order control allows you to re-sequence the designs to sew in the order you want them to sew.
• Color Sorting control to intelligently reduce the number of extra color changes.
• Some
fixed-point multiposition hoops are included. Essentials will automatically
split your design
layout upon the Save.
• Adjustable Mouse Wheel attribute for Zoom or Scroll.
• Simple centering in the hoop plus advanced alignment.
• Thread Palette creation and thread inventory system.
• Basting designs.
• Automatically check for updates.
• Digital Rights Management (DRM) so that you can preview embroidery designs before you purchase them!