Convert It , Mac is your solution for embroidery design access, browsing, unzipping, conversion, and more on a Mac!

Free machine embroidery software This page contains links to free machine embroidery software and converters available on the web for Windows and Mac. These freeware downloads are tried and tested, and all of them work great with no issues. We highly recommend every link. Get the latest Embroidery Software from Singer to get the most out of your Embroidery Machine! Our PREMIER+ 2 Embroidery Software gives you creative freedom to design beautiful, one-of-a-kind garments, accessories, home furnishings, and more. It offers you a new level of creativity and ease of use and works on both Windows® and Mac® computers.

If you’ve been downloading or buying embroidery designs, you’re ready for Convert It, Mac.

It’s this simple; You can now view, unzip, colorize, print, thread convert and use those designs with your Mac!

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Even if you’re a digitizer, this is still the essential tool for you and all embroiderers: If you have designs on your Mac, then you need to be able to find them, view them, see their colors and stitch counts, design dimensions, etc. Imagine looking inside a zip file without opening it, viewing the design, it’s stitch count, it’s modification date, etc. and the thumbnail next to it shows the original art too! To use it, simply drag the design to your USB stick, or to a machine, or write a Designer 1 disk or USB. You’re ready to sew. Maybe you want to print a template? Colorize the design? Convert it to a particular machine format? These are jobs that every embroiderer does, no matter what their skill level.

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Design Conversion:

• Read and view all these embroidery formats (even in zips using Convert It, Mac!:
  PES, PHC, PHD, PHB, PEC, HUS, SHV, VIP, VP3, PCS, JEF, JEF+, SEW, DST, TAP, EXP, EXP+, ART, ART42, ART50, ART60, ART70, EMB, JAN, EMD, XXX, CSD, GNC, CND, PCM, PCSMAC
• Write these embroidery formats and do sew much more!
  PES, HUS, SHV, VIP, VP3, PCS, PCM, PSCMAC, JEF, SEW, DST, TAP, EXP, EXP+, XXX
• Owners of Viking Designer 1 machines can write both floppy and USB sticks using a built-in CIM utility similar to your Disk manager program!
• Baby Lock, Brother and Janome machines which usually do not like Mac-written USB sticks will work with Convert It, Mac! This works because CIM can remove the hidden Mac OS files from the stick which often confuses those machines. This process is completely automatic. You won’t even know it is happening. Things just work!
• Displays related images.

There is no such thing as “conversion” from an image or vector file into embroidery. They are unrelated things. The concept is called ‘Digitizing’ which requires a person and skill and a digitizing program like our StitchArtist. There are no good auto-digitizing programs for anything more than the simplest art, although it has been attempted by many. If you need a design to sew out, hire a person to digitize the design.

Key Features Include:

• • Browse embroidery designs, images, text files and even files in zips such as those you find on the internet!
  • View as thumbnails or table view with extended information such as file date, thread usage, stitch count and more.
  • Convert designs between different embroidery formats including most home embroidery machine types. Colorize designs in PES and VP3 with thread brands. Possibilities include ARC, Isacord, Hemingworth, RA, Madeira, Sulky and many more.
  • Includes the Embrilliance Thumbnailer for Mac which lets you see embroidery designs in Finder.

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• Auto Baste will baste the rectangular outline of a design.
• Automatically create design notes, including a thread shopping list.
• Estimate the thread usage for a design.
• Convert a design to an image for print, re-digitizing or the web. (It cannot go the other way.)

• Prints out both design thumbnails and actual size templates which can be used for design placement.
• Centers designs automatically.
• Drag and drop designs right to a floppy or USB stick for instant use in most machines.

Browse designs, images, text files and even zips!

When you want to embroider, one of the first steps is finding a design for use in your machine. Without Convert It, Mac your designs have only names. The Mac’s Finder can’t show you the stitch count, design size, thread colors or any other information about the design.

Designs are often released in .ZIP files, which reduce the size of a collection, making it easier to download and duplicate. The problem is that in order to use designs, you have to unzip them. This usually means one of two things; now you have two copies of the designs – somewhere – or you have the knowledge and time to decide whether to keep the unzipped versions, and keep them organized.

Of course, using those designs means unzipping them. But what about those times when you get a ‘Corrupt Zip Entry’? Well, Convert It can safely make use of those too, and you won’t even have to know.

Convert designs between most home embroidery machine formats

Convert It, Mac is a seriously good translator for embroidery designs. It understands virtually every design, and can write at least one format that every machine out there today can understand.

Auto Baste will baste the rectangular outline of a design

If you have ever wanted to embroider a towel, you probably floated a layer of water-soluble stabilizer over top of the hoop. The problem is that this could use some anchoring stitches before the embroidery starts – this prevents the stabilizer from moving around. There used to be kind digitzers who would put various versions of ‘basting files’ out for us on the internet. Later, some machines had the feature built-in. But have you noticed that if the baste is the same size as the design, you can trap some of the basted threads under the design. The Auto-Baste solves this by making the baste stitching ever-so-much-bigger than the design. And it is adjustable.

Automatically create design notes, including a shopping list for your thread

The design size, stitch count, thread usage per color, and more are wonderful information to have. You can also open the TXT file in your editor, such as TextEdit.

But also, it generates a shopping list for thread; Convert It examines the threads used by the digitizer and matches them in Sulky, RA, Madeira and Isacord. Then it also provides you with the nearest three matches in each of those four brands.

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Color Sort intelligently reduces the number of times you have to re-thread your machine

Unlike some other programs, the Color Sort feature is ‘intelligent’. It won’t mess up your design, but if any color is repeated, and that repetition can be avoided by sewing that color only once all at the same time, then the design sequence is changed to accomplish it. The result is the same design with fewer color changes. And you have full control over how ‘picky’ you want your color sort to be.

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Mac users have been left out of embroidery for a long time – dating back to the early nineties when Pfaff had a Mac version. Why?

Much of the core technology for embroidery formats is Microsoft Windows(tm) based. In order to create this product, we had to create those technologies on Mac first. That isn’t easy! It took our team over two years to make Convert it! Mac.

There are only a handful of people in the entire world who have the knowledge and skill to write software for these machines (We have two of them), so you can see why it hasn’t been common. In fact, some of the biggest players in the world use our technologies in their PC software!

At events with embroiderers we routinely ask who are our Mac users. The results are typically 2-5%. And half of those have already ‘broken-down’ and put Windows on their Mac. Naturally the bigger companies feel fine with this. But we thought you’d prefer to have it native on the operating system you feel at home with; OS X (Tiger and up, including Mavericks)

Why is Convert It, Mac so essential?

One of the most useful tools has always been conversion and cataloging software. Not everybody needs to edit, but they will need to see their designs so they can select the right one for their machines.Convert It, Mac is all about enabling embroiderers. This product makes it possible to use your embroidery designs with your Mac and not have to fire up Windows!

Designer 1 utility now included: There is even a complete utility for Viking Designer 1 and Designer USB users! Those users have been forced to use a PC with other expensive software. Not anymore!

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Is Convert It, Mac more expensive than a Windows program?

Parallels $79 + Windows $103 = $182

Embroidery on a Mac – priceless!

SewArt (SA) is an embroidery digitizer for converting raster image files (*.jpg/*.png, etc), vector images (*.svg, *.emf), and clipart into embroidery file formats. Image processing tools and a step-by-step wizard are provided to produce an image suitable for yielding a high-quality embroidery stitch-out.

Use the Download button below to install both the free 30-day Demo (no purchase necessary) and the retail version, as well as to update the software. Do not update during the DEMO period, as this will cause immediate expiration of the trial.Download the user manual for more details about the many features available in SewArt. MAC users should use the MAC Download button below and can refer to installation instructions for details.

SewArt offers support for some languages other than English. These include Danish, French, German, Dutch, Portuguese, and Spanish. The required software ships with the product. To use this language support, open SewArt and click the Options menu item Language Support and choose the desired language there.

• Reads raster or vector format images (supported input formats include *.bmp, *.png, *.jpg, *.gif, *.svg, *.wmf, and *.emf)
• Allows images in other (unsupported) file formats to be pasted into the SewArt workspace
• Converts images to high-quality embroidery files for sewing
• Supports output embroidery file formats including Brother (c) *.pes, Tajima (c) *.dst, Janome (c) *.jef, Melco (c) *.exp, Viking(c) *.hus New Pfaff (c) *.vip, Viking SE (c) *.vp3, and Singer (c) *.xxx (these may be converted by SewWhat-Pro, or other embroidery editors, to a larger variety of embroidery file formats compatible with most home and commercial machines)
• Contains image-processing tools for converting images into color-reduced, smoothed images suitable for digitizing
• Includes a variety of pattern fills which can be applied to sew individual regions of the image
• Supports both auto-digitizing and manualdigitizing options to give substantial user control over the digitizing process

Getting Started

The help that accompanies SewArt contains a mini-tutorial that describes the steps necessary to load input image files and convert them to embroidery files. After opening SewArt by double-clicking the desktop icon, click the Help/Help Topics menu item. This will open the Getting Started main help page which presents a step-by-step tutorial for using the various features of SewArt.

Several image-processing tools are available in SewArt. In many cases, these will be necessary to use in order to reduce the color content and smooth the image file before it can be sewn. Usually, clipart images are already smooth enough to be sewn immediately, so these constitute a good set of images for starting to use the digitizing features of SewArt.

Once a suitable image has been obtained the auto-digitizing Sewing mode is entered by clicking the Convert toolbar button (the sewing-machine icon). This presents a stitching toolbar from which choices for pattern fills, stitch angles, etc., can be made. Options for auto-digitizing the entire image or just a single color, or manually sewing each color in the image, are available on this toolbar.

Below is a clipart image that was sewn with SewArt using the default pattern fill. The textured fill appears after the image has been converted (sewn) to stitches. In this case, the conversion process took less than 5 minutes to complete. More complicated images will take longer and require use of the image conversion tools prior to producing the embroidery file.

Click on an icon below to begin playing the associated video. You may pause the selection carousel by moving your mouse over it. Note that the videos have been created over a span of several years, so the SewArt workspace appearance in the tutorial may be different from the current version of the software.

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