Most of the time, casual users and even commercial operators of embroidery machines merely need to see the design in order to select it and run it on the machine. This is done by having the software imagine a blank piece of fabric, and then it draws thread, following the commands which the machine would follow. Imaging, or rendering a picture, of a design allows you to select the design you want to send to the machine. So that leads us to the first type of embroidery software, imaging. For example, if the commands happen to fill a heart-shape with stitches, the machine has no idea, but you, seeing a result of the commands being drawn on your screen, can recognize it for what it is. What is it and why do I need embroidery software?Įmbroidery software works to help you, a human, understand what the commands to the machine will create. A printer hooked to your computer can print a blue dot. All of that processing is done at higher levels by people using software. An embroidery machine is not a ‘thread printer.’ The machine cannot ‘see’ pixels (colored dots) or even vectors. No, the machine gets commands to move and sew, that is it. There is no ‘picture’ or ‘image’ involved?
An example of commands it can handle: Go left, up, sew a stitch, go down, right, sew a stitch, stop. It only understands commands to move, sew, and stop. The machine, at its most basic level, is very, very dumb. Knowing these basics will help you communicate with embroidery professionals, and understand more as they try to help you achieve your goals. You don’t need to be an expert, but you should know the basics of what’s involved in making your hat, shirt, bag or whatsits.
If you are here because you want goods embroidered, but don’t understand the expense and fuss, this should help you get a handle on it. In that spirit, I beg you to allow my intentional omissions, which you understand might require further explanation. There is so much basic information to get across, and we want beginners to feel welcome and not be overwhelmed. If you’re a pro reading this, try to remember a time when you first saw embroidery and fell in love with it, but knew nothing about it. There are many variations of this, but they all result in the two-dimensional motion of the fabric while the machine is sewing. The fabric is attached to the pantograph using a hoop or frame. Embroidery machines are sewing machines that use a robot arm (known as a pantograph) to move the fabric under the needle as it sews.
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