Just shop from reputable digitizers and you should be fine.īecause Embrilliance only works with stitch files, all letters should be digitized with tie-ins and tie-outs because who knows where trims will occur and satin stitch objects are more susceptible to raveling. The trick here is that you won’t really know the difference between good and bad fonts. Of course, there are a lot of well-digitized fonts created by digitizers who really know what they’re doing but there are limitations to creating font sets that are mapped from stitch files. I rather suspect quite a few of those are never test sewn. Also, I suspect some of them were created from fonts that were already installed in the program and not digitized at all by the provider.
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The disadvantage is because it’s relatively easy and doesn’t cost much, that means there are a lot of horribly digitized fonts out there that were quickly auto-digitized in other software by people of questionable skill and then made available.
That means there are thousands and thousands of fonts available. The advantage of BX fonts is that it’s easy to create a font (using any suitable software), save the characters out as a individual design files (not hard but definitely tedious), and then map it in Embrilliance. They are also “frozen” in the sense that the start and end points of each letter can’t be changed so connections between letters cannot be optimized for shortest jumps, known as closest joins nor can they be shaped by adjusting a node (because there aren’t any). Technically, they don’t even have to be an alphabet, they could be a set of images like dingbats. Note: A BX file is actually an installer file for dragging and dropping onto Embrilliance Essentials or Embroidery Works to add a formatted set of characters to the font menu. EMBRILLIANCE FONTSĮmbrilliance BX fonts are “stitch file” fonts and are therefore limited as far as controls. While it’s possible to save a stitch file into a working file format, it doesn’t make it a true object file. Such controls are seldom possible with a stitch file on an object level although some programs have “fabric recipes” for global changes. With an object file in the right software, you can change the shape by moving “nodes” or “points” on the outline as well as adjust the stitch attributes such as stitch types, stitch angle, underlay, compensation, density, lock stitches. Object files are more scalable and more adjustable. To sew, the file must be exported to a stitch file.Įmbroidery object files are similar to vector graphics, which are composed of mathematically defined shapes. Object files can’t be read or sewn on an embroidery machine. Native files can usually only be read by the program that created them whereas most embroidery programs these days can import and export most any stitch file. This is the master file and can only be manipulated in the program where it was created.įor Hatch, this is EMB for Embrilliance, it’s BE. You may also hear them called “native” or “all-in-one” or “working” or “creator” files. Object files are composed of shapes that have stitches applied to them. You can do basic things similar to an embroidery customizing program: mirror, rotate, resize, skew. But you can’t just click on the nose or the eye because they aren’t discrete objects. It’s pretty much one big blob of lots of colored pixels. Imagine you’ve taken a photo of your cat and you want to modify it.
Stitch files can be likened to bitmap graphics, which are a collection of little colored blocks called pixels.
Other programs will instead just separate the design by colors, even if that color is composed of multiple “units.” (Embrilliance works this way.) This can be less confusing to work with, especially with basic customizing. Only you can decide which one is best for how you work.īut first, we need to understand the difference between stitch files and object files. Hatch and Embrilliance handle fonts very differently and of course, each one does something the other can’t. One question I get asked a lot is about fonts. Instead, I’ll modify my designs in the program where they were created. However, if you purchase designs, it’s rare to get a true stitch file and even if you can, you must have the software it was created with to even open it. Note: Because I’m a digitizer and generally only work with designs I create, I seldom actually work with stitch files. Generally, I like Embrilliance better for editing stitch files and Hatch for digitizing. Well, the answer is each one has something it does better than the other and if you’re serious about embroidery, you may need both! Because I use both Hatch and Embrilliance, I often get questions along the lines of “which one is best?” Recently that question has popped up about fonts so here’s what you need to know!
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