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Wilcom Upgrade from EmbStudio Lettering Digital Edition to EmbStudio Digital Edition Designing (HL)
The ultimate embroidery & multi-decoration software for professional digitizers, embroidery shops, industry trainers, educators, and apparel decorators.
Export Files as You Keep Working: Keep your workflow uninterrupted! Export machine stitch files in the background while you continue digitizing. With the new Export Docker, you can easily track your export progress and history.
Reporting Capabilities: Built-in reporting provides flexible reporting options for both customers and teams, including Approval Forms, Production Worksheets, Summaries, and Colour Films. Worksheets feature barcodes, and reports can be easily customized to include the exact details needed.
Name Drop with Ease: Easily import and manage your list of names directly within the logo embroidery file, then save it as a reusable template*. Use the Matrix feature to automatically generate and sequence designs for optimal production, all within one ready-to-use file. Perfect for sports teams and uniform orders.
Wilcom lettering just got better!: Every product level now delivers professional-quality lettering with automatic expert resequencing. Overlaps and key stitches are precisely managed and neatly tucked beneath embroidery strokes, creating a sharp result that feels as if it were manually digitized by a skilled expert.
Single Click Functions: Instantly remove overlaps, fill holes, centre all, and access many other time-saving tools with just one click!
Reduce Costly Trims and Jumps: Branching will automatically sequence your selected objects and create travel runs for you to eliminate unnecessary and costly trims.
Powerful Transformation and Shaping Tools: With a single click you can weld, flatten and removing excessive overlaps in your embroidery using Shaping Tools.
Outlines and Offsets: Easily create precise outlines and multiple offset borders with independent stitch types, sizes, and thread colours for any design.
Stitch Angles: Easily edit and control stitch angles. Even draw stich angles directly onto vector art for instant embroidery.
Full Control of Stitch Properties: Dock your tools anywhere for quick access to stitch angles, density, underlay, and pull compensation, ensuring optimal results.
Travel Tools and Sequence Tools: Travel through your embroidery design by Object, Segment, Colour, Function, Trim or Stitch-By-Stitch. Use the Sequence tool to quickly add, cut, copy, paste and branch objects in the colour-object list.
Mirror Merge: Quickly duplicate objects in circular patterns or rows—perfect for creating precise badges. Specify rows and columns for efficient colour resequencing.
Save Time with Auto-Digitizing!: The enhanced feature replicates bitmap designs with automatic object sequencing and colour reduction options. Auto-digitize entire designs or specific sections, which can be combined with traditional digitizing for greater efficiency.
Easily Add Smooth, Rounded Corners: Easily control the curve of each rectangle corner, adjusting one or all four corners independently. Perfect for creating badges.
Create a Smooth Base for Perfect Embroidery: Laydown Stitch creates an open-stitch background to control fabric nap, making it ideal for high-nap fabrics like Terry towelling, knits, and microfiber fleece—no solvy needed. The flexible fill stitch can be applied to any embroidery object, opening many creative possibilities.
Custom Splits: Create dimension and definition by strategically placing stitch penetrations.
Accordion Spacing: Enhance designs with 8 gradient presets, adjusting stitch densities for smooth shading.
Motifs Advanced: Create motif runs or fill shapes with gradient and variable-size motifs.
Reef PhotoStitch: Create captivating coral reef-like stitch pattern that concentrates on darker areas of the image for an artistic style.
Colour Blending: Create seamless embroidery gradients with 8 colour presets, perfectly blending two colours.
Keyboard Design Collection (KDC): Simplifies mapping the alphabet and other embroidery designs to keyboard characters, making them instantly accessible with lettering and monogramming tools.
Alphabet Creator: Create and save your own fonts for repeated use, repeatedly.
Contour Effect: The stitch follows the outlines of any object to create an open fill that adds a sense of movement.