can anyone suggest supplier for embroidery digitizing?

[Robert Lambie]

im not clued up on embroidery… but are you just talking vectorising an image?

[David_Evans]

It is sort of vectorizing but not as we know it jim (rob), its not just an outline as for cutting vinyl and needs to be done by someone who knows what they are doing, and at the mo that aint me.

Dave

[Byron Villegas]

What embroidery format are you using? (.dst good enough) What embroidery machine are you using?

[Steve Holden]

Hi Dave, there are loads of embroidery punching companies about.
Try here: http://www.punchlines.co.uk
I don’t deal with them myself but it may be a starting point.

Steve

[Steve Holden]

Sorry Byron, you must have posted while I was posting my reply.
You sound like you know what Dave wants.

Steve

[Freddy.Tait]

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[Alex Pirozek]

David,
I use a ebayer for most of my digitizing requirements, when i haven’t the time to mess with it using Drawings X3. Search for Embroidery Digitizing Service, it’s very reasonably priced at £1.49 per 1000 stitches and very quick turnaround and will save in most formats. They are registered in Bulgaria.
I’ve have no trouble with it and the finished design stitches out great.

Alex.

[Vivienne Hennessy]

hey alex i find that most logos can be bought online from emblibrary.com or one of them they are very reasonably priced and ya just charge the digitizing fee for yourself if you just add the text. 😀 .Just out of curiosity what kind of a machine have you, i have a brother PII 600 only just got it myself there is a large learning curve with embroidery its not as easy as press print and go unfortunately.

Viv.

[Alex Pirozek]

Hi Vivienne,
Thanks for the info, it’s greatly appreciated and I’m sure it will save me time on some jobs in the very near future.
I’ve a Brother PR600II at the moment, the work seems to have gone mad for personalised gear at the moment which is great for business. I agreed that its a steep learning process but worth it when mastered. Once you have the cleaned graphic file (eps etc) its another tedious stage on top of that converting the file to stitches.

Alex.

[Vivienne Hennessy]

yeah ale and PE design doesnt help the situation either. Have you thought about getting corel drawings ? I am looking into buying it at the moment read some really good reviews for it … supposedly it has a click to stitch basis.

[Alex Pirozek]

Yes Drawings is Ok if you are used to using CorelDraw, Once you have your CMX file you just flick over to the stitch part of corel and it converts the file to stitches. If the stitches are not quite right you adjust the vector file so that it recalculates the stitches until you are happy with it.
The basic version of drawings comes with a stitch editing program (wings modular) and also a dongle.
I use Drawings most of the time, but for really complicated stuff i sub the design out for digitizing.
I looked at all the other software in the £700-£1000 price range that was out there but drawings did it for me as i’m used to using corel so it was fairly easy to understand. Unless you are running loads of machines then i think there’s no point in getting the pro version or even the more powerful Widcom ES software.
By the way i think PE design is overrated and overpriced as well.

Alex.

[Byron Villegas]

In most reviews that I read, a lot of Corel Drawings users are saying that the PRO version should be a minimum requirement so that you can edit/specify some important stitch properties. They also say that you’re getting too high stitch counts in Drawings.

[Alex Pirozek]

Byron,
I wish Drawings Pro was the min requirement as it would save a bit of time in editing stitch file regarding the stitch widths/ compensation settings etc. Sometimes i find that it sets it with too many stitches so i set a slightly smaller vector file, convert to stitches and then resize it to the required dimensions but keep the same amount of stitches. Drawings is good if you are used to corel as it makes the step into embroidery digitizing that bit easier, I would like to try the others like widcom etc but cant justify the £3000 price tag or so for it. Drawings is well worth it if you can get it cheap (from USA), you also get the coreldraw x3 graphics suite
with it and with all the CD’s and books.
Alex.

[David_Evans]

Thanks for all the replies.
I also have the brother PR600II.
Alex could you PM me the details of your man in bulgaria.
I have also used someone of ebay and some designs were spot on and others not so good, as he cannot remove trim threads so with text it looks pretty awful.

Dave

[Alex Pirozek]

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[David_Evans]

Thanks Alex,
The bloke ive been using reckons his software wont let him add trims! Which doesnt seem right.

Dave

[Alex Pirozek]

Probably,
Corel Drawings STD wont add trims (or at least i cant find how to do it!),
In wings modular (part of drawings) i save a design in .DST and select normal tajima .DST format and setting 3 or 4 on the jump stitch bar and it trims between letters on text no problems. (just like using the built in fonts for text)

hope this helps,

Alex.

[Byron Villegas]

[quote="alexp"]Byron,
I wish Drawings Pro was the min requirement as it would save a bit of time in editing stitch file regarding the stitch widths/ compensation settings etc. Sometimes i find that it sets it with too many stitches so i set a slightly smaller vector file, convert to stitches and then resize it to the required dimensions but keep the same amount of stitches. Drawings is good if you are used to corel as it makes the step into embroidery digitizing that bit easier, I would like to try the others like widcom etc but cant justify the £3000 price tag or so for it. Drawings is well worth it if you can get it cheap (from USA), you also get the coreldraw x3 graphics suite
with it and with all the CD’s and books.
Alex.[/quote]
Alex,
I agree, Wilcom and the others (I’m using a lower level of Pulse) are too pricey, (even though they are much powerful and have many features) so Drawings is really a welcome change for the industry. I noted that with the advent of Drawings, the other softwares have lowered their prices somewhat. Competition really do good things for the consumers. Lastly, that is a good tip for Drawings Basic users.

[Ian Bingham]

we use wings xp and have pulse too, looked to change to drawings as use draw all the time, but the supplier said to stick with wings as its is a better pack and more flexible, but going to have a go with drawings to see what its like next month
Ian

[Alex Pirozek]

I must admit I’m impressed with the auto settings in drawings std as the only main adjustments you need to make is to choose the fabric from the list and it calculates all the settings for you. I find that on small text (5mm high letters etc) it sometimes struggles to convert to stitches cleanly but normally you can add some extra nodes to the design and it recalculates the stitches well.
For a beginner that hasn’t the time to mess around digitizing it has to be a winner.
I’ll post some pics to show the finished stitched logo from a vector file.

£450 odd on eBay and that includes the full Corel X3 graphics suite, all CD’s/ Books and dongle.

Can’t be bad.
Alex.

[Dan Osterbery]

Hi we use macrographics. http://www.macrograhics.co.uk and they are awesome we run melcos and tajihimas and they do designs for both mostly same day service and they charge by time not stitches which can save a fortune on some of the bigger designs..
get a quote and see what you think, the designs run beautifully

regards

Dan