Embird Embroidery and Digitizing Software Bundle

Embird is software for embroidery designs digitizing, editing, customization, conversion, lettering and cross stitch. It allows to scale and resize designs, separate, edit, display, print and convert photos and other images into machine embroidery designs. It is designed for both professionals and hobbyists. Embird is independent on any particular embroidery machine. It supports for more than 70 embroidery file formats for home and industrial embroidery machine brands.

Main Features

Embird Designs Manager

• Preview, organise and process embroidery files
• Embroidery file converter. Convert designs – whole batch to multiple formats, including Quilting
• Supports 70+ file formats for home and industrial embroidery machines
• View designs – either single or thumbnails – in 1:1, Normal, 3D, Density Map, X-ray
• Print designs – detail documentation, thread list, colour layers, thumbnails
• Copy/Paste/Create shortcuts to organise embroidery designs
• Modify colours, choose threads from thread catalogs
• Zip/Unzip embroidery files
• Export to machine embroidery cards, USB, floppy disks, via serial link
• Export various types of design documentation in .BMP, .JPG, .PNG
• Browse through folders
• Search designs
• Send designs in e-mail
• Simple embroidery file manager included
• Slide Show of designs in Viewer mode
• Works also with images – view/convert/rotate/mirror/re-size

Embird Designs Editor

• Customise embroidery designs
• Split, Combine designs
• Delete part of designs – selected areas, colours, stitch codes
• Re-size with stitch density adjustment
• Center, Mirror, Rotate, Set Position in hoop, Auto-Repeat, Corner
• Edit/Add/Remove single stitch points
• Smart sort colours, Reduce number of colours
• Change embroidery hoop size
• Print design documentation to multiple sheets of paper
• Insert Basting stitches, Cross reference lines
• Insert Fabric Flattening Stitches
• 1:1, Normal, 3D, Density Map and X-ray view mode
• Recognise contours in “clipart-alike” images and fill them with chosen pattern
• Fill empty design area with chosen pattern
• Modify colours, choose threads from thread catalogs
• Check design embroidery in Sew Simulator

Digitizing Tools – Embroidery Digitizer Module

• Digitise your own machine embroidery designs
• Digitising vector objects, stitches generated automatically
• Save finished design in 70+ file formats for home and industrial embroidery machines
• Optional underlaying raster picture as a template for digitising
• Adjustable creative and technical parameters of digitised objects
• Node-by-node editing mode
• Object inspector
• Tools to transform and align objects
• Embroidery Thread catalog
• 3D, X-ray, density map view modes to preview design
• Editors for custom fill patterns, outline samples, border samples and fill motifs
• Trace digitiser tool to convert jpg or png to embroidery design
• Import vector graphic files (Font Engine required)
• Lettering and Monogram Tool for Embird Alphabets and Font Engine (TrueType and OpenType fonts)
• Automatic Outlines digitiser tool
• Fills with multiple motifs
• Check design embroidery in Sew Simulator
• Freehand digitiser tool
• Corner mirror tool
• Auto-repeat tool
• Stitch analysis tool

Font Engine

• Embroidery lettering and monograms digitiser
• Create embroidery lettering from TrueType and OpenType fonts
• Plain fill, Auto column, Motif fills and various outlines are available
• Nearest-point connections to remove the need for jumps between characters
• Adjust gaps, rotation, size, angle of individual characters
• Various baselines supported: line, circle, wave, spiral, slash, custom baseline
• Insert clock/calendar/multi-line text
• Unlocks Ready-made Alphabet mode, which allows to map 3rd party “char-per-design” alphabets to keyboard and use them easily in Embird
• Unlocks import of 3rd party vector files in Digitizing Tools

Sfumato Stitch

• Photorealistic embroidery digitiser from jpg or png images
• Convert photos into machine embroidery designs
• Save finished design in 70+ file formats for home and industrial embroidery machines
• Suitable for digitising portraits, still-lives, landscapes or animal designs
• Multi-coloured, monochrome or sepia designs

Cross Stitch

• Machine Cross Stitch digitiser application
• Crosses, Pixels, Back stitch lines and French knots are supported
• Create cross stitch designs manually, or auto-digitise from imported “clipart-alike” bitmap
• Save finished design in 70+ file formats for home and industrial embroidery machines
• Import charts, align them and use as background for placing crosses
• Insert text using TrueType fonts, or Simple outline text
• Fill empty area with chosen pattern from library
• Create your own fill patterns
• Create cross stitch design from normal machine embroidery design
• Print charts, either in colour or as B&W
• Normal, 3D, Density Map and X-ray view mode

Iconizer

• See embroidery design file content instead of universal icon in Windows File Explorer (WFE)
• See Preview of design file with colour list and dimensions in WFE
• The design file content is shown also in all Open/Save dialogs in Windows
• Design preview in popup menu in WFE
• Great for organising embroidery designs in WFE