You only need to specify height and width overall, like the Rose picture. This is my design, a distressed flag with lettering, I am thinking it would need quite a bit of work to make it usable for a stitching machineĪctually your design 'as is' would work for a skilled digitizer. Below is an example of a design we recently sent out for professional digitizing.

The DST file itself is not very editable, equivalent to a visual G-code file so reverse engineering is not possible. Embroidery designs are size dependent in that a design may be re-sized by the user +- 25% or so, any more than that and it needs to be re-digitized. We have the software to digitize our own designs but we regularly send out anything except simple designs. Digitizing embroidery files is a big business and finding a good digitizer is important if you want to supply your customers with a quality product. hats, shirts) will influence the order of how a design stitches. It gets more complicated than that because the type of garment (e.g. which can vary depending on fabric type and how you want the light to reflect off of the threads. The similarity ends there because thread colors need to be assigned along with stitch type and density, pull compensations, inclinations, etc. 'Digitizing' an embroidery file is similar to creating vectors using standard Vectric drawing tools and node editing Bezier curves. There are several specialized software packages the generate DST files but none that I know of can use a DXF file as a starting point.

My wife has an embroidery business and I get involved with DST file creation.

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