REQ: Embroidery Software

[Alex Pirozek]

I believe there is a copy of Wilcom on the bay at the moment but it’s pricey.
The other option which is cheaper is a copy of Drawings 5 Pro Special Edition.
I use it as it integrates with coreldraw very well.
It’s on sale there and if you make a good offer you might get a bargain even with the postage and import duty. Well worth it, not as accurate as Wilcom for auto digitizing (small stuff less than 5mm lettering etc) but normal everyday stuff it’s excellent. You have total control (as in Wilcom ES65) with compensation, direction, underlay etc and you can edit the stitches for fine tuning in the extra modular program.

Alex.

[Denise Goodfellow]

Hi John

I use Pulse, but as we are planning to semi retire soon, I bought coreldrawings for my stepson. As he already uses corel, it seem to make sense, there is still some learning to do, but not as much as a brand new program.

I bought 2nd hand, I think its about £600 new

[John Wilson]

Pulse? is that the mac based one?

[Denise Goodfellow]

Hi John

I have PM`d you, but i will repeat here for others reading it.

Pulse is PC based, but you might be able to get a mac version.

I think YES Ltd sell pulse. A with most embroidery software its offer in various modules, from very lite to all singing all dancing.

I have no other experience of embroidery software, but i believe Wilcom is the best, followed by Pulse and wings.

Top end software is approx £10,000.

Coreldrawings is based on corel and wings, you do all your design work in corel and then change to embroidery formats with a couple of extra clicks.

[John Wilson]

I wouldn’t buy a thing from YES Ltd even if it was 95% off, despise them

Going with Wilcom software now, although its PC based I’ll manage lol

[Davison]

Don’t know if you’re still looking but you might check out Pulse’s Embroidery i2

http://www.embroideryi2.com/

Been using it about a year on MAC and it seem to work fine