It's important to know what kind of machine your embroiderer is going to use. This helps you ask for the right file format for your embroidery. There are many different types of embroidery files, but the most common one is.DST, which most machines can read.
The DST file may not have the exact colours of the artwork, but you can get a colour sheet from the digitizer along with the DST to use when you embroider on a machine.
Babylock embroidery machines can also read PES files. This is another standard format for them.
The. The Janome Machine uses the JEF file format to store files.
Also, other formats can be used as well.
- Wilcom (*.EMB)
- Wilcom ESS (*.ESS)
- Wilcom ESL (*.ESL)
- Wilcom Plauen(*.T10)
- Wilcom Saurer(*.T15)
- Tajima (*.DST)
- Hiraoka DAT(*.DAT)
- Hiraoka VEP(*.VEP)
- Saurer SLC(*.SAS)
- Time and Space MJD(*.MJD)
- Melco (*.CND)
- Melco (*.EXP)
- Barudan (*.DSB)
- ZSK (*.DSZ)
- ZSK TC(*.Z??)
- Toyota (*.10O)
- Barudan (*.U??)
- Pfaff (*.KSM)
- Happy (*.TAP)
- Tajima (*.T01)
- Barudan (*.T03)
- Zangs (*.T04)
- ZSK (*.T05)
- Compucon (*.XXX)
- Artista Design V4.0 (*.ART)
- Artista Design V3.0 (*.ART)
- Artista Design V2.0 (*.ART)
- Artista Design V1.0 (*.ART)
- Explorations Projects (*.ART42)
- Explorations Templates (*.AMT42)
- Janome/Elna/Kenmore (*.SEW)
- Janome/Elna/Kenmore (*.JEF)
- Husqvarna/Viking (*.HUS)
- Deco, Brother, Babylock (*.PES)
- Deco, Brother, Babylock (*.PEC)
- Pfaff (*.PCS)
- Pfaff (*.PCD)
- Pfaff (*.PCQ)
- Poem, Huskygram, Singer (*.CSD)
- Pulse (*.PXF) [Converted] (NEW!)