File sources

While embroidery files are broadly classified as ‘design’ (outline) or ‘machine’ (stitch), EmbroideryStudio internally tags files as belonging to one of four types – native design (A), imported outlines (B), processed stitches (C), or imported stitches (D).

Grade

Description

A

Pure embroidery file created in EmbroideryStudio or similar software. These files contain objects, outlines and stitches.

B

Designs read from an outline format such as GNC and saved in ART / EMB / JAN format. Such designs cannot be read directly by EmbroideryStudio but once converted, they are treated as Grade B designs.

C

Designs read from machine files – EXP, DST, PES, etc – where stitches have been converted to objects.

D

Designs read from machine files where stitches have NOT been converted to objects.

Native EMB designs as well as ART and JAN files are all ‘Grade A’ embroidery formats read and written by EmbroideryStudio. They are called ‘Grade A’ because they contain a complete set of design information in a single file – object outlines, properties, stitches, thread colors, thumbnail image, and comments. There are three other grades of embroidery file. It goes without saying that only Grade A files provide 100% perfect scaling and transformation.

Note: For information about the source of a design file, refer to the Design Information docker.

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