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Just bring them straight to your embroidery machine for embroidery without editing, if the extension is suitable for your machine. If you trust the designer/company, and have details about formats, extension and/or other important information about height, width, stitch count, used threads etc. It helps understanding the way they are designed, by opening them in V8, trying to edit them, and save them on your hard drive. So not all designs – purchased via (professional) Embroidery design websites – are suitable for editing, with or without converting. But with or without object conversion, machine files can still be saved in V8 in ART format, once they are opened in the BERNINA Embroidery Software. There is also the possibility to choose to open machine files without conversion: but in that case not all can be changed, like stitch count, density( increase or decrease) etc, just scaling (limited: not more than 10%, because some areas may be too thickly or too thinly covered), edit stitches or add new elements. Once opening non-native designs in V8, it has converted the data into stichtes and outlines, to an ART Grade C file, and saved as such. It is important though to understand that different embroidery machines understand different languages, just like us people, from different countries. With the BERNINA Embroidery Software, you can open and save more: native as well as non-native machine file formats. This the least reliable.ĭifferent embroidery machines understand different languages.

ART Grace D – Designs read from machine files – SEW, PCS, PEC etc – where stitches have NOT been converted to objects.

Reasonable reliable, not as good as ART Grade B

ART Grade C – Designs read from machine files – SEW, PCS, PEC etc – where stitches have been converted to objects.

More reliable than ART Grade C, but not as good as ART Grade A. Such designs cannot be read directly in BERNINA Embroidery Software, but once converted to ART in other software, BERNIN Embroidery Software reads them as Grade B designs.

ART Grade B – Designs read from outline format such as GNC and saved in ART format.

Only ART Grade A designs provide 100% perfect scaling and transformation. These files contain pure ART objects, outlines and stitches.

ART Grade A – Pure Art file created in BERNINA Embroidery Software-based software.

ART files are automatically compressed when saving, and decompressed after opening: this is done to prevent usage of too much space on your hard drive, or USB stick, and is helpful too when sending files via e-mail. ART files: A, B, C and D, of which Art Grade A contains pure ART objects, outlines and stitches. They contain a complete set of design information in a single file: object outlines and their properties, actual stitches, thread colors, a picture and information. ART extensions are called ‘ ART Grade A‘. But the BERNINA Embroidery Software V8 can also open and save designs which are non-native: V8 will convert them so they can be modified, using the editing features. ART80. (Users of the BERNINA Embroidery Software V7 – if you are still working with this) will find files opened and saved with.

#Bernina Artlink Software Manual full#

These abbreviations are more practical to use comparing using the full name (which is often long).īy default, extensions from designs, opening and saving via the BERNINA Embroidery Software V8, are named. BAK ( used with Auto Save), design templates as. There are some other extensions too: files for BERNINA Quilter are saved as. In the BERNINA Library however, the Software V8 files can be found under. Many filenames contain three characters, like. The extension identifies the file as a certain type, readable by certain applications.

#Bernina Artlink Software Manual manual#

The BERNINA Manual tells us: ‘A file extension is indicated with a dot and three letter at the end of a filename, such as. A file extension is typically delimited from the filename with a full stop (period), but in some systems it is separated with spaces’. The extension indicates a characteristic of the file contents or its intended use. Wikipedia tells us: ‘A filename extension is an identifier specified as a suffix to the name of a computer file. It is important to know what you are doing when downloading clipart, pictures or embroidery designs, loading them into V8 and/or use them via your USB stick to be embroidered. There were many users V8, asking me to explain more about files and their formats/extensions etc.