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6DEmbroiderySystem.com
The powerful new 6D™ Embroidery software will inspire you to create exquisite, custom embroideries. Advanced features give you more precision, more capabilities, and more control.
PART OF THE 6D™ EMBROIDERY SYSTEM The most technically advanced, sophisticated, easy-to-use embroidery software system available • Create, edit, and display designs in true three-dimensional reality with Life View, and watch your designs “stitching” on screen with the Design Player • Preview your projects on textured backgrounds or real-life fabrics and garments
• Quick and easy to send an embroidery to your connected PFAFF® machine • Easily load and save most popular embroidery formats; Export is optimized for sewing
• View your threads including metallic, multicolor and varying thicknesses in your preferred real-life hoop
• Friendly, helpful tooltips and extensive program help built right in, plus Comprehensive User’s Guides and an Online Learning Center
• Adjust color tone, brightness and contrast to automatically select new threads
• Automatically receive the latest tools and improvements with Smart Update
• Multi-Part Design Saving – design parts stay separate when you save, open and copy, allowing individual parts of a design to be modified after saving
LIFE VIEW
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At Your Fingertips TOUCH GESTURES
Use gradient and specialty fills in 6D™ Design Creator to create the flower design. Edit your design in 6D™ Stitch Editor Plus.
Supported on Windows® 8 touchscreens — Pinch, Zoom, Autoscroll, and Select and Move
6D™ WINDOWS® EXPLORER PLUG-IN Managing your designs is easier than ever with the new 6D™ Embroidery System Windows® Explorer Plug-In • Native support for Windows® 7 and Windows® 8 • Sort by name, width, height, stitch count, number of colors, date modified, and more • Convert embroideries to other file formats and images • Print three-dimensional design worksheets
WINDOWS® EXPLORER PLUG-IN
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™ PREMIER 6D6D™ PREMIER ™ 6D™ Embroidery software, wizards, fonts and The™ Premier 6D™ Premier package contains the complete The 6D package contains the complete rangerange of 6Dof Embroidery software, wizards, fonts and embroideries, embroideries, including five exclusive modules and 100 special bonus designs. including five exclusive modules and 100 very special bonus very designs.
What’s in the Box HARDWARE: • Dongle • Lanyard Product Code • Product Sheet
SOFTWARE MODULES: • 6D™ Windows® Explorer Plug-In • 6D™ Embroidery Extra • 6D™ Card Shop • 6D™ Stitch Editor Plus* • 6D™ Design Aligner* • 6D™ Cross Stitcher* • 6D™ PhotoStitch** • 6D™ Family Tree** • 6D™ Sketch** • 6D™ Design Creator** • 6D™ Font Digitizing**
USER’S GUIDES: • 6D™ Getting Started • 6D™ Embroidery • 6D™ Embroidery Extra • 6D™ Card Shop • 6D™ Stitch Editor Plus & Design Aligner • 6D™ Cross Stitcher • 6D™ PhotoStitch • 6D™ Family Tree • 6D™ Sketch • 6D™ Design Creator
*Additional modules are available in the 6D™ Premier package or via add-on purchase on the Internet ** Exclusive modules are available in the 6D™ Premier package or as part of an upgrade to 6D™ Premier
6D™ PREMIER
Extensive Design Elements
Personalize your projects with Puffy Foam lettering 3
Embroideries Including SuperDesigns and 100 Bonus Designs
1,300+
Frames and Flourishes Including 36 Foam Frames
550+
Embroidery Fonts Including 6 Puffy Foam Fonts
145+
Motifs
700+
Backgrounds
2,400+
Clipart Images
375+
™ 6D™ EMBROIDERY EXTRA 6D EMBROIDERY EXTRA
6D™ EMBROIDERY
Create designs, PhotoStitch and quilt blocks Create designs, PhotoStitch and quilt blocks automatically your personalized project and automatically forfor your personalized project and audition onon real garments, quilt blocks and fabrics. audition real garments, quilt blocks and fabrics.
Adjust, monogram, personalize and combine your embroideries with an unlimited number of designs and lettering options.
What’s in the Box
What’s in the Box
HARDWARE: • Dongle Product Code • Product Sheet
HARDWARE: • Dongle Product Code • Product Sheet
SOFTWARE MODULES: Windows® Explorer Plug-In • Windows® 6D™ Embroidery Extra • 6D™ 6D™ Card Shop • 6D™
SOFTWARE MODULES: Windows® Explorer Plug-In • Windows® 6D™ Embroidery • 6D™
USER’S GUIDES: 6D™ Getting Started • 6D™ 6D™ Embroidery • 6D™ 6D™ Embroidery Extra • 6D™ 6D™ Card Shop • 6D™
USER’S GUIDES: 6D™ Getting Started • 6D™ 6D™ Embroidery • 6D™
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Including
16,000 THREADS From 33 different manufacturers
6D™ EMBROIDERY Adjust, monogram, and combine your embroideries with an unlimited number of designs and lettering options • Select multiple designs and move them as a group • Rotate and mirror designs • Move designs into the hoop automatically • Change a design’s stitchout order by moving it forward or backward • Resize any design with the option to keep stitch density constant or simply rescale • Automatically repeat and reflect your design with the Encore and Endless features
• Resize letters individually, and adjust spacing between letters • Check spelling as you type • Automatically create lettering below the selected design • Lettering is not fixed as an embroidery until you rotate or mirror • Choose from a huge range of designs and SuperDesigns to adjust and personalize
• Make any embroidery “endless” — repeat your favorite • Surround lettering or a design with beautiful decorative flourishes, frames, corners and side pieces embroideries across your hoop • Encore multiple designs along 8 different line types, in a circle, in one of 28 shapes or to border your hoop
• Four types of alignment stitches for easy re-hooping and perfect results • Personalize your projects with unlimited lettering choices including puffy foam • Create lettering from most TrueType® and OpenType® fonts with the 6D™ QuickFont Wizard and ExpressMonogram Wizard • Use the ExpressMonogram Wizard to create elegant monograms Add a flourish to lettering
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6D™ EMBROIDERY EXTRA Includes all of the great features of 6D™ Embroidery, plus: Create designs automatically for your personalized project to audition on real garments, quilt blocks, and fabrics • Enhance the important areas of your photo and adjust density for different effects
• Generate designs automatically from a picture with the ExpressDesign Wizard
• Change any single stitch or group of stitches with custom edit features
• Quickly and easily create satin and fill areas with Express Embroidery • Express Trace captures your images in an outline for redwork or blackwork projects
• Move, add, or delete stitches
• Create running stitch, motif, satin border or appliqué with Express Border
• Simply click on the desired stitch to insert colors or stitches
• Rotate, mirror, scale, resize, and more
• Create a filled or outline quilt block automatically with the QuiltBlock Wizard • Choose from 9 quilt block shapes that can be placed at any angle; surround an embroidery or select one of 75 internal shapes • Unlimited designs can be created from the wide variety of quilting fills provided • Echo fill feature automatically generates a shadow effect with perfect, adjustable lines • Create unique embroidery portraits with the PhotoStitch Wizard • Use your own family pictures to automatically create portraits of any size
• Preview your project with the audition feature • Audition your design on real garments, quilt blocks and fabrics • Choose from more than 2,400 included backgrounds or add your own • View and reposition an unlimited number of appliqués • Use any size hoop with the split project feature • Create designs without worrying about having the “right hoop” • Automatically fit any design to your preferred hoop • Add alignment stitches automatically for re-hooping
• Choose from 6 monochrome linear or artistic effects
Complete Control THE RIBBON BAR Makes 6D™ Embroidery Extra so easy to use — all related features are grouped together intuitively
Surround a monogram PUFFY FOAM with crosshatch fill in the QuiltBlock Wizard 6
6D™ CARD SHOP Create one-of-a-kind, personalized embroidered greeting cards and more automatically with over 600 themed templates • Celebrate any occasion, from birthdays and wedding birthdays and wedding anniversaries to graduation and holidays and holidays • Select from five different sizes, and more than 14,000 Select from five different sizes, and more than 14,000 theme variations—including postcards theme variations—including postcards • Quickly and easily embroider a whole card in Quickly and easily embroider a whole card in one hooping one hooping • Adjust design colors and lettering properties to create the Adjust design colors and lettering properties to create the perfect card perfect card • Create a PhotoStitch embroidery or printed appliqué Create a PhotoStitch embroidery or printed appliqué
Select from 9 external and 75 internal shapes in the QuiltBlock Wizard
6D™ STITCH EDITOR PLUS* Reshape, restyle and improve your embroideries with ease • Select a group of stitches and the objects will be recognized • Increase or decrease the density of an area with one click • Convert to different fill patterns and specialty fills, or add embossed patterns • Easily select stitches in your embroideries to analyze and modify • Add trim commands and tiea-on/tie-off stitches • Jump stitches are added automatically — simplifying the creation process • Add a basting line around embroidery to secure fabric and stabilizer 7
6D™ Card Shop
6D™ DESIGN ALIGNER* It’s easier than ever to lay out large designs for your own hoop • Split large designs into multiple sections automatically or specify your chosen split lines • Adjust the overlap areas between hoops and add alignment stitches automatically • Print templates help you complete projects with ease • Automatically minimize the number of cuts required • Split embroideries automatically for your preferred turnable hoop* *Compatible with HUSQVARNA VIKING® DESIGNER™ MAJESTIC, PFAFF® creative™ GRAND DREAM or Brother Jumbo and Janome Giga hoops.
• Make stitches bolder to improve stitch out on woolen fabrics or fleece • Transform your embroideries — Instantly rotate, resize, mirror, skew or scale designs or areas • Vary your design with 12 fantastic point and global morphing effects • Add beautiful embossed patterns to your embroideries — includes 126 resizable system stamps, or create your own from .4qb files • Personalize your embroideries with embossed text from most TrueType® and OpenType® fonts on your computer
6D™ Stitch Editor Plus
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6D™ CROSS STITCHER*
6D™ PHOTOSTITCH**
Design attractive cross stitch embroideries with traditional quality and the speed of a machine
Create wonderful family quilts, framed pictures and much more, all automatically from your own photos and images
• Create your own cross stitch patterns or use the Cross Stitcher Wizard to create designs automatically
• Step-by-step wizard helps you create portraits of any size
• Extensive selection of traditional and modern stitches
• Make it perfect with a selection of 396 decorative frames, corners and sidepieces, and 75 border shapes
• Instantly reflect your design up to 8 times with the multiply feature
• Includes six monochrome linear and linear artistic effects to create single-color embroidery, as well as color, heritage sepia, grayscale, and color tile stitch effects
• Draw shapes with crosses, outlines and fill patterns — over 150 patterns included • Choose from 27 elegant backstitch and cross stitch fonts, including multi-color fonts • You can also select from most TrueType® or OpenType® fonts on your computer
• Improve your photos by removing background areas and red-eye, Use image effects and painting tools to adjust your pictures for perfect results
6D™ FAMILY TREE** Create embroidery charts, quilt blocks and album pages automatically from your own family history • Enter your own family details or import gedcom files (.ged) from other genealogy software • Embroider information and pictures for each person or family • Embellish your portraits and lettering with beautiful decorative frames and flourishes
6D™ Cross Stitcher 9
6D™ PhotoStitch
6D™ Design Creator
6D™ Sketch
6D™ DESIGN CREATOR**
6D™ SKETCH**
Create the perfect embroidery with unlimited design possibilities
Release your inner artist and “draw” your own stitch paintings
• A streamlined creation process still gives you total control; trims, movement and tie stretches are added automatically
• Create embroidery stitches as if you are using a pencil or paintbrush
• Embroider your imagination with lace features, flowing layers of MultiWave fill and so much more • Create designs automatically from your own pictures with ExpressDesign wizards, then transform them into masterpieces • View your designs in real world dimensions in your specific hoop • Full editing and digitizing capabilities — create designs from vector or raster files
• Add free motion embroidery highlights and texture to your favorite pictures, fabrics and designs • Sketch straight or curved lines with the “Standard” stitch creation tools: running, triple and motif line plus satin lines of varying width • Print and embroider your masterpiece at the touch of a button • 165 picture backgrounds and 52 calligraphy backgrounds included
• Choose from one of 75 shapes to use any way you want: fill, line, and appliqué • Echo fill feature automatically generates a shadow effect with perfect, adjustable lines • 250 specialty fill patterns including contour, radial, spiral, shape, QuiltStipple and more — or make your own
6D™ FONT DIGITIZING** Create your own fonts and SuperDesigns to use in the 6D™ Embroidery System 10
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS • Windows® 8 or Windows® 7 • PC with Intel 32-bit or 64-bit processor or equivalent (1 GHz or higher) • 1GB RAM (32-bit) or 2GB RAM (64-bit) • 2GB hard disk space • Screen resolution 1024 x 768, 16 million colors (1280 x 768 recommended) • Mouse or drawing tablet • USB port • Internet activation required
SUPPORTED FILE TYPES • Bernina ART (.art version 1-3)#, Brother/Babylock/Bernina PEC (.pec), Brother/Babylock/Bernina PES (.pes version 2-9), Compucon/Singer PSW (.xxx), Husqvarna Viking / Pfaff (.vp3 single and multipart, .vip), Husqvarna (.hus, .shv), Janome (.jef, .sew), Melco (.exp), Pfaff (.pcs), Tajima (.dst), and Toyota (.10*). #Bernina ART (.art version 1, 2 and 3) can only be loaded.
*Additional modules are available in the 6D™ Premier package or via add-on purchase on the Internet ** Exclusive modules are available in the 6D™ Premier package or as part of an upgrade to 6D™ Premier
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