Pre-Design Studio II:

Art and Stitch:

Spiral Maker

Magic Circle

Border Maker / Panto maker

Echo quilting

Grid Maker

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Advanced

Advanced

Advanced (horiz. Plus vert. Repeat)

Yes

Yes (Repeat function)

Repeat / Sashiko

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Yes (view how a design looks when it is repeated or actually create the repeats)

Power Copy (select an object and automatically keep pasting in various sizes)

-

Yes

Lock / Show/Hide designs

-

Yes

Group design parts

-

Yes

Change sequence

-

Yes

Pre-Design Studio II:

Art and Stitch:

Open

Paste

From scanner

Auto Trace

Magic Wand: vectorize Lines

Magic Wand: vectorize shapes (Autodigitizing)

Yes (limited file size)

Yes

-

Yes

-

-

Yes, no limitations

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Pre-Design Studio II:

Art and Stitch:

Edit embroidery format files

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Open / stitch-edit all embroidery formats

See separate list of supported formats below.

Edit quilt format files

Import CQP

Open/edit quilt formats, convert to outlines. See separate list of supported formats.

Open zipped embroidery or quilt files

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Yes

Setup a full quilt layout

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Yes

Pre-Design Studio II:

Art and Stitch:

Export / Save as

Export as DXF, CQP, HQ, PCQ, SSD,

DST (embr. Machines)

Save in all quilt and/or embroidery formats. See separate list of supported file formats.

Pre-Design Studio II:

Art and Stitch:

Motif Fills

Creative fills

Autostipple

Hatch fills

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-

-

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More than 50 Motif fills, standard and pattern fills for embroidery, various Creative Fills, multiple types of Cross Hatching, line hatching, curved hatching, wave fills, Autostippling in various densities

Fill around a shape, leaving the shape open

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Yes, result will be jumpfree, one start, one stop.

Outline stitch types

Run, Bean, Satin (for embroidery machines only)

Run, Bean, Satin, over 50 motifs, including Candlewicking. Great to create sashing borders with a few clicks.

Turn artwork into Applique

Yes (blanket stitch)

Yes (various stitch types, including Motifs)

Change stitch length, density and other properties

-

Yes

Multiple thread charts for embroidery digitizing

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Yes, all major brands included

Pre-Design Studio II:

Art and Stitch:

Sew simulator

-

Yes

View stitches as 3D realistic preview

-

Yes

View (your own) fabric inside Applique shapes

-

Yes

View / Edit Sewing sequence

-

Yes

Change Grid settings.

Metric and Inches

Yes

Yes

Yes, more options, change grid color, grid line style, set extra grid lines in different color

User Guide inside program

Yes

Yes

Tutorial movies on CD and on website

Yes

Yes

Pre-Design Studio II:

Art and Stitch:

Vector drawing Tools

Pen, Line, Curve, 3 pt Arc

Yes

Yes + Bezier Curve

Auto Shapes

Circle, Rectangle. Plus Shapes folder with various shapes

Circle, Rectangle, Pentagon, Triangle, Hexagon, plus a Library of over 100 Custom Shapes

Create, save your own Custom Shapes

Yes, manually save in Shapes folder

Yes, automatically via Save Custom Shape

Transform into various shapes

Limited to skew

Transform: 10 Envelope shapes

Edit vector artwork

Yes, select, move, delete points

Yes, select, move, delete points, plus advanced editing by changing node property and editing anchors

Copy vectors from Adobe Illustrator, Corel Draw into design page

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Yes

Import vector artwork

Import WMF/EMF

Import Ai, WMF, EMF (for example EMF’s exported from Pre-Design Studio II or from EQ6)

Export artwork:

Export Color Bitmap, WMF, EMF, PEM.

Export vector artwork Adobe Illustrator, WMF, EMF

Open / Edit / Merge

Save as

Longarm quilt formats

Longarm quilt formats

Art and Stitch (ANS)                 

AutoCAD DXF (DXF)                   

ABM Innova (PAT)                    

CompuQuilter (CQP)                  

HQ Pro-Stitcher (HQF)

IntelliQuilter (IQP)                       

PC Quilter (TXT)                    

QBot HPGL Plotter Files (PLT)         

SideSaddle (SSD)                    

Statler Stitcher (QLI)           

Art and Stitch (ANS)              

AutoCAD DXF (DXF)                 

ABM Innova (PAT)                  

CompuQuilter (CQP)                

HQ Pro-Stitcher (HQF)             

IntelliQuilter (IQP)

PC Quilter (TXT)                              

QBot HPGL Plotter Files (PLT)              

SideSaddle (SSD)                  

Statler Stitcher (QLI)            

Windows Metafile (WMF)            

Embroidery machine formats

Embroidery machine formats

Baby Lock/Brother/Bernina (PES, PEC)

Elna/Janome/Kenmore (SEW)           

Janome/Elna (JEF)                   

Melco/Bernina (EXP)                  

Pfaff (PCS)                         

Singer (XXX)                        

Tajima (DST)                        

Viking D1 (SHV)                     

Viking (HUS)                        

Viking/Pfaff (VIP)                  

Viking/Pfaff (VP3)                  

Bernina (ART) 

Baby Lock/Brother/Bernina (PES v8)

Baby Lock/Brother/Bernina (PES v7)

Baby Lock/Brother/Bernina (PES v6)

Baby Lock/Brother/Bernina (PES)   

Elna/Janome/Kenmore (SEW)         

Janome/Elna (JEF)                 

Melco/Bernina (EXP)               

Pfaff (PCS)                        

Singer (XXX)                      

Tajima (DST)                      

Viking D1 (SHV)                   

Viking (HUS)                      

Viking/Pfaff (VIP)                

Viking/Pfaff (VP3)

Pre-Design Studio II:

Art and Stitch:

Print Preview

Yes

Yes, advanced

Print panto’s at actual size

Yes

Yes

Print on large size paper if such a printer is installed

Yes

Yes

Print Catalog

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A powerful function to show and print all designs of all formats on paper. This function will print thumbnails and file names of all designs in a folder. Great to let your customer choose a design.

Pre-Design Studio II:

Art and Stitch:

Design Browser

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Browser is a powerful function to find, and view all quilt and embroidery designs, all formats  on your computer, and open one or more for editing.

Notes

Copyright information

Yes, on design page

Yes, attached to design

Change copyright information

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Existing DXF formats can be opened and edited. If the DXF contains copyright information, this cannot be changed or removed from the file.