Sewart Digital Embroidery Software Basics: Using digital embroidery software can seem intimidating and frustrating at first, but with some practice and patience and this SUPER handy guide, you’ll be a master in no time. This guide will focus on using the software, SewArt Embroidery Digitize. SewArt (SA) is an embroidery digitizer for converting raster image files (.jpg/.png, etc), vector images (.svg,.emf), and clipart into embroidery file formats. Image processing tools and a step-by-step wizard are provided to produce an image suitable for yielding a high-quality embroidery stitch-out. SewArt saves a TIF and SAF file first, essentially your digitized image, but the most important screen is this one: At this save point you can select your file type, make sure your file is the correct size, whether or not to have the machine cut the thread in between blocks of color, and if you’re very particular, what brand of thread you.
SewArt is digitizing software for converting raster image files (*.jpg/*.png/*.tif/*.bmp) and vector images (*.svg, *.emf, *.wmf) into embroidery file formats. Image processing tools and a step-by-step wizard are provided to render images that are suitable for yielding high-quality embroidery stitch-outs. Automated pattern fills and a manual satin fill stitch tool are available.
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Use the Download button to install both the free 30-day Demo (no purchase necessary) and the retail version, as well as to update the software. Do not update during the DEMO period, as this will cause immediate expiration of the trial. Download the user manual for more details about the many features available in SewArt. Google Chrome© users may have to right-click the appropriate download button.
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Once the product is purchased, you will be emailed the license information to register the software.
SewArt offers support for some languages other than English. These include Danish, French, German, Dutch, Portuguese, and Spanish. The required software ships with the product. To use this language support, open SewArt and click the Options menu item Language Support and choose the desired language there.
- Reads raster or vector format images (supported input formats include *.bmp, *.png, *.jpg, *.gif, *.svg, *.wmf, and *.emf)
- Allows images in other (unsupported) file formats to be pasted into the SewArt workspace
- Converts images to high-quality embroidery files for sewing
- Supports output embroidery file formats including Brother (c) *.pes, Tajima (c) *.dst, Janome (c) *.jef, Melco (c) *.exp, Viking(c) *.hus New Pfaff (c) *.vip, Viking SE (c) *.vp3, and Singer (c) *.xxx (these may be converted by SewWhat-Pro, or other embroidery editors, to a larger variety of embroidery file formats compatible with most home and commercial machines)
- Contains image-processing tools for converting images into color-reduced, smoothed images suitable for digitizing
- Includes a variety of pattern fills which can be applied to sew individual regions of the image
- Supports both auto-digitizing and manualdigitizing options to give substantial user control over the digitizing process
Getting Started
The help that accompanies SewArt contains a mini-tutorial that describes the steps necessary to load input image files and convert them to embroidery files. After opening SewArt by double-clicking the desktop icon, click the Help/Help Topics menu item. This will open the Getting Started main help page which presents a step-by-step tutorial for using the various features of SewArt.
Several image-processing tools are available in SewArt. In many cases, these will be necessary to use in order to reduce the color content and smooth the image file before it can be sewn. Usually, clipart images are already smooth enough to be sewn immediately, so these constitute a good set of images for starting to use the digitizing features of SewArt.
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Once a suitable image has been obtained the auto-digitizing Sewing mode is entered by clicking the Convert toolbar button (the sewing-machine icon). This presents a stitching toolbar from which choices for pattern fills, stitch angles, etc., can be made. Options for auto-digitizing the entire image or just a single color, or manually sewing each color in the image, are available on this toolbar.
Below is a clipart image that was sewn with SewArt using the default pattern fill. The textured fill appears after the image has been converted (sewn) to stitches. In this case, the conversion process took less than 5 minutes to complete. More complicated images will take longer and require use of the image conversion tools prior to producing the embroidery file.
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