Files

Import a bought design

SummaryPlace a PES, DST, JEF, or other machine file on this hoop and recolor it.

Import adds a bought design to this hoop. It does not replace the project. The stitches stay stitches. You can move, even-scale, rotate, and recolor. There are no nodes, and no outline or fill from paths.

Import the file

Import sits in the top bar, after Text.

Import menu, Import machine file

  1. Click Import.
  2. Click Import machine file (PES, DST, JEF, EXP, VP3, XXX, PEC).
  3. Choose one file, or several. Several files arrive together as one group.

If the design is larger than the hoop, the hoop grows to fit, and the status line says so.

Library Add to hoop does the same job. Tick Include machine files in Library first, so PES, DST, and other machine files show: Library.

On the hoop

The right panel says Machine design. The hint: Bought stitches on this hoop. Move, scale, or rotate. Recolor a thread below. This is not a path, you cannot edit nodes.

Placed design, Machine design and Colours

Grab it on the hoop to move, scale, or rotate. Scaling always keeps its proportions, even with Free resize on. Delete at the bottom of the panel takes this design off the hoop. The file on disk stays.

A new import lands at the top of Objects, so it sews after everything already on the hoop and covers what it overlaps. To sew it first, underneath, drag its row to the bottom of Objects. While a machine design is on the hoop, every piece sews in exactly the Objects order, bottom first.

Several machine files on one hoop is normal.

Recolor

Colours lists each thread in the design.

  1. Click a colour in Colours.
  2. Pick a thread to recolor it.
  3. Hide color leaves that colour out, so its stitches don't sew. Colours marks it Hidden. Show color brings it back.
  4. Delete color removes that colour’s stitches.

The hint: Recolor, hide, or delete it. These stitches stay a bought design, not a shape you can node-edit.

Add a name on top

  1. Click Text, then Add text. Type a short name.
  2. Place it above the design.
  3. In Objects, keep the name on top so it sews last.

Lettering is in Lettering.

On iPad and Android

The app keeps a copy of each file you choose in its own folder, so the design also shows in Library when Include machine files is ticked.